REST Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 20 30
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing REST 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.69% 1.27% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.00% 12.50% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £262 -
25th Percentile £394 £273 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £305 £600
Median % change year-on-year +35.25% -49.17% +100.00%
75th Percentile £431 £348 £613
90th Percentile - £364 -
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +5.56% -18.18% -1.12%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5 16 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 3.47% 10.19% 14.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 17
10th Percentile £399 £333 £120
25th Percentile £406 £375 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £453 £513 £500
90th Percentile £455 £565 £605
South East median daily rate £463 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -11.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +270.37%
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -5.14%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Oxfordshire

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing REST

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Celery
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft