RESTful Contract Job Trends in Reading

RESTful
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring RESTful skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 80 83
Rank change year-on-year +26 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing RESTful 10 15 3
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.68% 1.37% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.52% 5.66% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 0
10th Percentile £411 £400 -
25th Percentile £436 £402 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £409 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.47% - -
75th Percentile £600 £582 -
90th Percentile £604 £600 -
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £407 -
% change year-on-year +35.14% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

RESTful 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 133 265 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.35% 24.27% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 183 102
10th Percentile £360 £389 £350
25th Percentile £472 £484 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £556
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.87% +1.14%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £650
90th Percentile £650 £669 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £578 £525
% change year-on-year -13.42% +10.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.84
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year - +255.25% -77.11%
75th Percentile - - £17.84
90th Percentile - £69.56 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £72.28
% change year-on-year -47.55% -14.78% +5.33%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in Reading

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing RESTful.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing RESTful

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in Reading over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in Reading

RESTful
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (10.00%) Drupal
2 1 (10.00%) nginx
2 1 (10.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (10.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) GitHub
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) GCP
4 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (20.00%) Serverless
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (10.00%) Datadog
6 1 (10.00%) Route 53
6 1 (10.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Redis
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (10.00%) DbUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) jMock
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
1 1 (10.00%) Mocha
1 1 (10.00%) Mockito
1 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Python Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) OAuth
2 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (20.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) SOAP
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) Jest
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Swagger
3 1 (10.00%) Vue
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) AI
3 4 (40.00%) CQRS
3 4 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 4 (40.00%) Generative AI
3 4 (40.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) TDD
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
6 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) User Experience
6 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Databricks
1 4 (40.00%) Virgin Media
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Pega
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk