REST Contracts in the South East

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 95 113 95
Rank change year-on-year +18 -18 +28
Contract jobs citing REST 65 93 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.16% 1.67% 2.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.00% 12.74% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 46 86
10th Percentile £350 £353 £425
25th Percentile £401 £429 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £549
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.27% -0.27%
75th Percentile £550 £659 £622
90th Percentile £636 £700 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £50.50 £23.18 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £23.81 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +103.88% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £27.81 -
90th Percentile £54.50 £28.53 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £74.44 £53.87
% change year-on-year -26.11% +38.18% +8.28%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 500 730 1,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.61% 13.13% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 462 737
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £411 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £591 £619 £638
90th Percentile £661 £661 £719
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 37
10th Percentile £28.99 £35.00 £40.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.13 £76.25 £79.61
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the South East.

Daily rate trend for REST in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for REST in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +33 44 £500 -21.57% 36
Berkshire +22 41 £500 -23.08% 17
Hampshire +34 13 £455 -13.33% 20
Surrey +9 5 £650 +26.83% 14
Buckinghamshire +17 3 £321 -26.63% 13
Kent +7 2 £475 +4.11% 9
West Sussex -2 1 £350 -7.28% 10
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (10.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (4.62%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (3.08%) Anypoint
3 2 (3.08%) Apache Solr
3 2 (3.08%) Confluence
3 2 (3.08%) Mule
3 2 (3.08%) Mule ESB
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (3.08%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.54%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.54%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 26 (40.00%) AWS
2 24 (36.92%) Azure
3 8 (12.31%) SaaS
4 5 (7.69%) OCI
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (4.62%) PaaS
5 3 (4.62%) Serverless
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.08%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.08%) Azure App Service
6 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.08%) GitHub
7 1 (1.54%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) HTTP
2 2 (3.08%) MQTT
2 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.54%) BGP
3 1 (1.54%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.54%) FTP
3 1 (1.54%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.54%) MPLS
3 1 (1.54%) SSL
3 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (13.85%) MySQL
3 7 (10.77%) Relational Database
4 6 (9.23%) Data Lake
4 6 (9.23%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.15%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.08%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.54%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.54%) Parquet
7 1 (1.54%) Redis
7 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (29.23%) GitLab
1 19 (29.23%) JIRA
2 18 (27.69%) Jenkins
3 16 (24.62%) Selenium
4 14 (21.54%) Cucumber
5 13 (20.00%) REST Assured
6 11 (16.92%) Git
7 10 (15.38%) SonarQube
8 5 (7.69%) Maven
9 3 (4.62%) JUnit
9 3 (4.62%) Mockito
10 2 (3.08%) Codeception
10 2 (3.08%) JMeter
10 2 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (3.08%) Subversion
11 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (1.54%) DbUnit
11 1 (1.54%) jMock
11 1 (1.54%) Postman
11 1 (1.54%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (29.23%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Law
3 8 (12.31%) Telecoms
4 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.69%) Billing
6 4 (6.15%) Police
7 3 (4.62%) Finance
8 2 (3.08%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 29 (44.62%) Developer
2 11 (16.92%) Java Engineer
2 11 (16.92%) Software Engineer
3 10 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 9 (13.85%) Java Software Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) Architect
6 6 (9.23%) SIEM Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Designer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior
7 5 (7.69%) Solutions Designer
8 4 (6.15%) .NET Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Oracle Developer
8 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.62%) AWS Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Lead
9 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow Architect
9 3 (4.62%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (38.46%) Web Services
2 22 (33.85%) JSON
3 18 (27.69%) SOAP
4 15 (23.08%) Java EE
5 14 (21.54%) XML
6 10 (15.38%) ARM Templates
7 9 (13.85%) .NET
7 9 (13.85%) React
8 8 (12.31%) HTML
9 6 (9.23%) Ajax
9 6 (9.23%) CSS
10 5 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (7.69%) Spring
10 5 (7.69%) Spring Boot
11 4 (6.15%) .NET Framework
11 4 (6.15%) Hibernate
11 4 (6.15%) Laravel
11 4 (6.15%) OAuth
11 4 (6.15%) RESTful
11 4 (6.15%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) CSOC
1 6 (9.23%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.69%) Frameworx
2 5 (7.69%) TM Forum
3 4 (6.15%) CMDB
4 3 (4.62%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.62%) Wiki
5 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.08%) Infotainment
5 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.54%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) CentOS
2 1 (1.54%) Unix
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (46.15%) Agile
2 21 (32.31%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
4 19 (29.23%) DevOps
5 18 (27.69%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (27.69%) Test Automation
6 17 (26.15%) CI/CD
6 17 (26.15%) Configuration Management
6 17 (26.15%) Software Engineering
7 15 (23.08%) Scrum
8 13 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 13 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (20.00%) Microservices
8 13 (20.00%) Software Architecture
9 10 (15.38%) Decision-Making
10 9 (13.85%) Process Improvement
11 7 (10.77%) Customer Experience
11 7 (10.77%) SOA
11 7 (10.77%) TDD
12 6 (9.23%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.00%) Java
2 18 (27.69%) SQL
3 9 (13.85%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.77%) C#
4 7 (10.77%) Python
5 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.15%) PHP
7 3 (4.62%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.08%) Bicep
8 2 (3.08%) DataWeave
8 2 (3.08%) Go
8 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.08%) XPath
9 1 (1.54%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.54%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.54%) Dart
9 1 (1.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 22 (33.85%) Security Cleared
2 19 (29.23%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) GIAC
4 3 (4.62%) Degree
5 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 22 (33.85%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.54%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 19 (29.23%) Kubernetes
2 15 (23.08%) Terraform
3 9 (13.85%) Ansible
3 9 (13.85%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (13.85%) Podman
4 2 (3.08%) CloudHub
4 2 (3.08%) Kibana
4 2 (3.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.54%) Grafana
5 1 (1.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) ServiceNow
2 9 (13.85%) Oracle
3 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.62%) Dynatrace
5 3 (4.62%) Zend
6 2 (3.08%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.08%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.08%) Splunk
7 1 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.54%) Cisco
7 1 (1.54%) IBM
7 1 (1.54%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (1.54%) SAP
7 1 (1.54%) Snow