REST Contracts in Reading

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 40 46 33
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +48
Contract jobs citing REST 20 46 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.35% 3.86% 5.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.71% 23.00% 25.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 39
10th Percentile £320 £518 £452
25th Percentile - £570 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +23.81% -3.67%
75th Percentile - £688 £569
90th Percentile £440 £716 £623
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% -1.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 136 200 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.78% 16.78% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 131 173
10th Percentile £350 £325 £407
25th Percentile £409 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £680
90th Percentile £663 £675 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £72.76
25th Percentile - £56.65 £76.89
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -26.38% +143.66%
75th Percentile - £61.60 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
% change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for REST in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (5.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.00%) OCI
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS KMS
5 1 (5.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) BGP
1 1 (5.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (5.00%) MPLS
1 1 (5.00%) SSL
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (55.00%) GitLab
2 11 (55.00%) JIRA
3 10 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 10 (50.00%) REST Assured
3 10 (50.00%) Selenium
4 7 (35.00%) SonarQube
5 3 (15.00%) JUnit
5 3 (15.00%) Mockito
6 2 (10.00%) JMeter
7 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (5.00%) DbUnit
7 1 (5.00%) Git
7 1 (5.00%) jMock
7 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Law
3 4 (20.00%) Billing
3 4 (20.00%) Police
3 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Java Engineer
1 9 (45.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (45.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Designer
3 4 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Solutions Designer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) Java EE
2 9 (45.00%) Web Services
3 7 (35.00%) JSON
4 6 (30.00%) ARM Templates
5 4 (20.00%) SOAP
6 3 (15.00%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
6 3 (15.00%) Spring
6 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (15.00%) XML
7 2 (10.00%) Apache Camel
7 2 (10.00%) HTML
7 2 (10.00%) jQuery
7 2 (10.00%) WireMock
8 1 (5.00%) Bootstrap
8 1 (5.00%) JPA
8 1 (5.00%) OAuth
8 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
8 1 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
8 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Frameworx
1 4 (20.00%) TM Forum
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) CentOS
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Technical Leadership
2 11 (55.00%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (55.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) Test Automation
3 10 (50.00%) Agile
3 10 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 10 (50.00%) Software Architecture
3 10 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 8 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (35.00%) Decision-Making
5 7 (35.00%) Microservices
6 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (20.00%) Business Strategy
7 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (20.00%) CRM
7 4 (20.00%) Customer Experience
7 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
7 4 (20.00%) Service Delivery
7 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (30.00%) Ansible
2 6 (30.00%) Docker Swarm
2 6 (30.00%) Podman
2 6 (30.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Kibana
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Jaspersoft