RESTful Contract Job Trends in the South East

RESTful
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring RESTful skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 113 172
Rank change year-on-year -51 +59 -12
Contract jobs citing RESTful 41 42 42
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.76% 1.42% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.76% 8.33% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 28
10th Percentile £313 £380 £396
25th Percentile £396 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £409 £460
Median % change year-on-year +25.92% -11.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £561 £504 £560
90th Percentile £585 £550 £629
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £52.75 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.53
75th Percentile £56.88 - -
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
England median hourly rate £64.63 £39.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +63.62% -48.39% +7.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 861 504 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.97% 17.02% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 323 444
10th Percentile £330 £350 £318
25th Percentile £413 £411 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +2.50% -7.83%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £613
90th Percentile £684 £663 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 15 37
10th Percentile £40.00 £28.36 £44.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £44.43 £56.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +1.46% -5.23%
75th Percentile £67.50 - £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £71.81 £78.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in the South East

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RESTful.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RESTful

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the South East over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the South East

RESTful
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RESTful.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RESTful

RESTful
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 RESTful within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. 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 27 £525 +28.36% 14
Buckinghamshire -11 16 £555 +11.00% 3
Berkshire -41 10 £525 +28.36% 7
Hampshire -24 9 £313 -37.24% 4
West Sussex -13 2 £313 -43.18% 1
Surrey -18 2 £413 - 6
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 4
RESTful
England

RESTful
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (7.32%) Apache
1 3 (7.32%) Apache Spark
1 3 (7.32%) ArcGIS
2 2 (4.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (4.88%) CMS
2 2 (4.88%) IIS
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) Azure
2 10 (24.39%) AWS
3 9 (21.95%) GitHub
4 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (12.20%) Amazon S3
7 4 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (9.76%) GCP
7 4 (9.76%) Serverless
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (4.88%) Firebase
9 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.44%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.44%) Google Play
9 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
3 5 (12.20%) NoSQL
3 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.32%) GIS
4 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.32%) MySQL
5 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (36.59%) Git
2 6 (14.63%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.20%) Gradle
3 5 (12.20%) Visual Studio
4 4 (9.76%) Bitbucket
4 4 (9.76%) JUnit
4 4 (9.76%) Maven
5 3 (7.32%) JIRA
5 3 (7.32%) Storybook
6 2 (4.88%) fastlane
6 2 (4.88%) Postman
7 1 (2.44%) Android Studio
7 1 (2.44%) Crashlytics
7 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.44%) Selenium
7 1 (2.44%) Xcode
General
1 11 (26.83%) Public Sector
2 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Marketing
4 4 (9.76%) Finance
5 3 (7.32%) Banking
5 3 (7.32%) Electronics
5 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.32%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.88%) Billing
6 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.44%) Retail
7 1 (2.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (75.61%) Developer
2 12 (29.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (24.39%) Java Developer
4 8 (19.51%) Architect
5 7 (17.07%) Python Developer
5 7 (17.07%) Senior
6 6 (14.63%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (7.32%) GIS Architect
7 3 (7.32%) Integration Architect
8 2 (4.88%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Android Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (4.88%) iOS Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) React Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Python Developer
9 1 (2.44%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 1 (2.44%) Mobile Developer
9 1 (2.44%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (36.59%) Spring
1 15 (36.59%) Spring Boot
2 14 (34.15%) React
3 11 (26.83%) .NET
4 10 (24.39%) CSS
5 8 (19.51%) AngularJS
5 8 (19.51%) Swagger
6 7 (17.07%) Hibernate
7 6 (14.63%) .NET Framework
7 6 (14.63%) Entity Framework
7 6 (14.63%) OpenAPI
8 5 (12.20%) HTML
8 5 (12.20%) JSON
8 5 (12.20%) Material-UI
8 5 (12.20%) REST
9 4 (9.76%) Django
9 4 (9.76%) FastAPI
9 4 (9.76%) Flask
9 4 (9.76%) JPA
10 3 (7.32%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.20%) Data Structures
3 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.32%) Algorithms
4 3 (7.32%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.88%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.88%) TM Forum
6 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Android
1 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (68.29%) Microservices
2 23 (56.10%) CI/CD
3 20 (48.78%) Agile
4 17 (41.46%) DevOps
5 12 (29.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (24.39%) Containerisation
6 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (19.51%) OOP
7 8 (19.51%) Scrum
7 8 (19.51%) Unit Testing
8 7 (17.07%) API Development
8 7 (17.07%) User Experience
9 6 (14.63%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (14.63%) Secure Coding
10 5 (12.20%) AI
10 5 (12.20%) Analytics
10 5 (12.20%) Event-Driven
10 5 (12.20%) Software Engineering
10 5 (12.20%) TDD
10 5 (12.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Java
2 17 (41.46%) SQL
3 11 (26.83%) C#
4 9 (21.95%) Python
4 9 (21.95%) TypeScript
5 8 (19.51%) JavaScript
6 6 (14.63%) Go
7 2 (4.88%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.88%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.44%) Objective-C
8 1 (2.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (48.78%) Security Cleared
2 16 (39.02%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.88%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) WCAG
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (26.83%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.44%) Argo
5 1 (2.44%) Grafana
5 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) SAP
2 2 (4.88%) Adobe
2 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.44%) Apple
3 1 (2.44%) Google
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) Salesforce