REST Contracts in Portsmouth

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 39
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing REST 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 2.44% - 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.04% - 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £455 £525 £700
% change year-on-year -13.33% -25.00% +19.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £50.50 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £54.50 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 23 23 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 18.70% 7.69% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 25
10th Percentile £468 £299 -
25th Percentile £507 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.44% +7.22%
75th Percentile £550 £616 £676
90th Percentile - £861 -
Hampshire median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +6.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 6
10th Percentile £52.25 £58.13 £59.63
25th Percentile £55.09 £61.56 £64.38
Median hourly rate £57.63 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% -10.71% +12.63%
75th Percentile £62.25 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £62.63 £70.00 £72.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -8.00% -10.71% +55.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Portsmouth

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for REST in Portsmouth

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in Portsmouth.

Hourly rate trend for REST in Portsmouth

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Symfony
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SysML
2 1 (33.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform