REST Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 34 44
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 +22
Contract jobs citing REST 16 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 3.08% 1.48% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.22% 11.54% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 4
10th Percentile £408 £304 £439
25th Percentile £436 £311 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £321 £574
Median % change year-on-year +55.76% -44.05% +20.79%
75th Percentile £596 £436 £706
90th Percentile £638 £504 £711
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £321 £574
% change year-on-year +55.76% -44.05% +20.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Milton Keynes

REST falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 72 26 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 13.85% 12.81% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 22 58
10th Percentile £405 £330 £399
25th Percentile £472 £425 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -5.65% +15.00%
75th Percentile £581 £639 £643
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +15.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

REST job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing REST

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Milton Keynes

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) WebLogic
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
1 4 (25.00%) GCP
2 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Google App Engine
2 3 (18.75%) OCI
2 3 (18.75%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
1 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database 11g
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database 12c
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle ODI
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) DocumentDB
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Mockito
3 1 (6.25%) NUnit
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Specialist
3 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Implementation Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Web Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (6.25%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) SOAP
2 4 (25.00%) OAuth
2 4 (25.00%) Web Services
3 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
3 3 (18.75%) JSON
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (18.75%) XML
4 1 (6.25%) .NET
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
4 1 (6.25%) JPA
4 1 (6.25%) Middleware
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
4 1 (6.25%) OpenID
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Scrum
2 6 (37.50%) Waterfall
3 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (25.00%) ETL
3 4 (25.00%) ITIL
3 4 (25.00%) ITSM
4 3 (18.75%) CAD
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
4 3 (18.75%) ERP
4 3 (18.75%) High Availability
4 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
4 3 (18.75%) Service Management
4 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (18.75%) User Experience
4 3 (18.75%) Workflow
4 3 (18.75%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) ServiceNow
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft