REST Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing REST 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 3.41% - 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% - 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £625 £413 £350
% change year-on-year +51.52% +17.86% -41.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 18 3 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 20.45% 5.45% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 16
10th Percentile £451 £458 £394
25th Percentile £513 £469 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +13.31%
75th Percentile £638 £544 £581
90th Percentile £794 £563 £634
Oxfordshire median daily rate £550 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £20.85 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £21.90 -
Median % change year-on-year +242.47% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 £22.95 -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £52.50 £24.83 -
% change year-on-year +111.44% - -

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

REST job vacancy trend in Oxford

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing REST

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Storage
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Table
1 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Celery
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Next.js
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (33.33%) OpenID
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
2 1 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft