REST Contracts in Northamptonshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 32 31
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing REST 33 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 10.96% 1.12% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.28% 5.56% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 2 2
10th Percentile £268 £573 £405
25th Percentile £354 £574 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £581 £460
Median % change year-on-year -36.83% +26.30% -20.00%
75th Percentile £416 £592 £503
90th Percentile £450 £595 £524
East Midlands median daily rate £375 £577 £563
% change year-on-year -35.01% +2.58% +2.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 109 54 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 36.21% 20.22% 18.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 40 36
10th Percentile £256 £339 £310
25th Percentile £308 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £459 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.26% +1.94% -10.00%
75th Percentile £430 £598 £538
90th Percentile £492 £622 £580
East Midlands median daily rate £403 £450 £453
% change year-on-year -10.56% -0.60% -4.69%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Northamptonshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for REST in Northamptonshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Northamptonshire

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Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 13 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northampton +16 33 £367 -36.83% 1
REST
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (6.06%) JBoss
2 2 (6.06%) Mule
2 2 (6.06%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.03%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.03%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 6 (18.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 4 (12.12%) Azure
3 4 (12.12%) GCP
4 1 (3.03%) Apigee
4 1 (3.03%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (3.03%) Kong
4 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) HTTP
2 3 (9.09%) HTTPS
2 3 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.06%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.03%) DB2
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) Cucumber
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) REST Assured
2 5 (15.15%) Selenium
3 4 (12.12%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 3 (9.09%) LoadRunner
5 2 (6.06%) Jasmine
5 2 (6.06%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (6.06%) Mocha
5 2 (6.06%) Protractor
5 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.06%) Subversion
6 1 (3.03%) GitLab
6 1 (3.03%) Gradle
6 1 (3.03%) JIRA
6 1 (3.03%) JUnit
6 1 (3.03%) Maven
6 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Banking
2 6 (18.18%) Marketing
3 5 (15.15%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Developer
2 7 (21.21%) Java Developer
3 6 (18.18%) Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Analyst
4 5 (15.15%) Salesforce Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Angular Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Business Analyst
6 3 (9.09%) Test Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Automation Tester
7 2 (6.06%) Consultant
7 2 (6.06%) Performance Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Performance Test Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Test Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Tester
8 1 (3.03%) Automation Test Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) AWS Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Scrum Master
8 1 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) SOAP
1 8 (24.24%) Spring
2 7 (21.21%) AngularJS
2 7 (21.21%) CSS
2 7 (21.21%) HTML
2 7 (21.21%) RAML
2 7 (21.21%) Spring Boot
3 6 (18.18%) Lightning Web Components
3 6 (18.18%) Middleware
3 6 (18.18%) Visualforce
4 5 (15.15%) jQuery
4 5 (15.15%) RESTful
4 5 (15.15%) Spring Batch
5 4 (12.12%) HTML5
5 4 (12.12%) Kafka
5 4 (12.12%) LDAP
5 4 (12.12%) React
5 4 (12.12%) Web Services
6 3 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.09%) State Machine
3 1 (3.03%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (36.36%) Agile
2 12 (36.36%) Design Patterns
3 9 (27.27%) Integration Patterns
4 8 (24.24%) Microservices
4 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
5 6 (18.18%) API Testing
5 6 (18.18%) Architecture Roadmap
5 6 (18.18%) Data Flow Diagram
5 6 (18.18%) Data Governance
5 6 (18.18%) Data Migration
5 6 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 6 (18.18%) Data Security
5 6 (18.18%) Migration
5 6 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 6 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
5 6 (18.18%) Scrum
5 6 (18.18%) SDLC
5 6 (18.18%) Test Strategy
6 5 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) Java
2 14 (42.42%) SQL
3 6 (18.18%) Apex Code
4 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 4 (12.12%) TypeScript
6 3 (9.09%) PL/SQL
7 2 (6.06%) Python
8 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
1 4 (12.12%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (18.18%) Data Quality
1 6 (18.18%) GDPR
2 5 (15.15%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Kibana
1 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle
1 6 (18.18%) Salesforce
2 4 (12.12%) Splunk
3 3 (9.09%) AppDynamics
3 3 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.09%) New Relic
4 2 (6.06%) Checkmarx
5 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.03%) Solace