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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 111 144
Rank change year-on-year -45 +33 +26
Contract jobs citing RESTful 76 58 34
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.15% 1.66% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.74% 8.73% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 41 25
10th Percentile £325 £335 £344
25th Percentile £356 £385 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -19.73%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £582
90th Percentile £650 £600 £659
England median daily rate £488 £478 £520
% change year-on-year +1.99% -8.08% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 1
10th Percentile - £47.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £36.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +42.86% -49.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +4.53%

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 982 664 797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.84% 19.05% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 445 539
10th Percentile £320 £290 £325
25th Percentile £431 £375 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £557 £625
90th Percentile £725 £625 £675
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 17 29
10th Percentile £30.91 £24.69 £27.00
25th Percentile £54.68 - £56.65
Median hourly rate £67.50 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -18.83% +2.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.20 £58.75 £74.89
England median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +21.82% -12.60% +2.74%

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 24 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing RESTful in the South East over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for RESTful in the South East

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 24 September 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 -41 29 £460 -5.64% 8
Hampshire -31 20 £533 +36.54% 7
Berkshire -31 17 £460 -16.36% 4
Surrey -8 16 £475 -13.64% 4
Buckinghamshire -23 12 £475 +26.67% 2
West Sussex -20 8 £350 +2.94% 6
Sussex - 2 £463 - 1
East Sussex -1 1 £625 +38.89% 3
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 7 (9.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (7.89%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (38.16%) Azure
2 25 (32.89%) AWS
3 17 (22.37%) GCP
4 12 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (15.79%) GitHub
5 10 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (13.16%) Serverless
6 7 (9.21%) Entra ID
7 6 (7.89%) Azure API Management
8 4 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.95%) Apigee
9 3 (3.95%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.95%) Azure App Service
9 3 (3.95%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon Macie
10 2 (2.63%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) HTTPS
2 4 (5.26%) MQTT
2 4 (5.26%) Network Security
3 2 (2.63%) HTTP
4 1 (1.32%) DNS
4 1 (1.32%) SNMP
4 1 (1.32%) SSH
4 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.68%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (17.11%) Relational Database
3 12 (15.79%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.89%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.95%) MySQL
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.63%) Redis
8 1 (1.32%) Parquet
8 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (44.74%) Git
2 11 (14.47%) Postman
3 10 (13.16%) JIRA
4 8 (10.53%) Jenkins
5 6 (7.89%) GitLab
6 4 (5.26%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.63%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.63%) Selenium
7 2 (2.63%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.32%) JMeter
8 1 (1.32%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.32%) NeoLoad
General
1 16 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.16%) Finance
4 7 (9.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.89%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.58%) Retail
7 3 (3.95%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.95%) Marketing
7 3 (3.95%) Publishing
8 2 (2.63%) Automotive
8 2 (2.63%) Legal
8 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.32%) Banking
9 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (56.58%) Developer
2 11 (14.47%) Full-Stack Developer
2 11 (14.47%) Python Developer
3 9 (11.84%) Senior
4 7 (9.21%) Lead
4 7 (9.21%) Senior Developer
4 7 (9.21%) Technical Leader
4 7 (9.21%) Test Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Data Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Software Test Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Software Developer
7 3 (3.95%) .NET Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Apigee Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Architect
7 3 (3.95%) C# Developer
7 3 (3.95%) React Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Senior Python Developer
8 2 (2.63%) C Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (30.26%) REST
2 19 (25.00%) .NET
3 18 (23.68%) JSON
4 17 (22.37%) OAuth
5 16 (21.05%) CSS
5 16 (21.05%) HTML
5 16 (21.05%) React
6 14 (18.42%) Django
6 14 (18.42%) OAuth2
7 13 (17.11%) Kafka
8 12 (15.79%) .NET Core
9 11 (14.47%) OpenID
9 11 (14.47%) Swagger
9 11 (14.47%) Terraform
10 9 (11.84%) OpenAPI
10 9 (11.84%) pytest
10 9 (11.84%) Web Services
11 8 (10.53%) FastAPI
11 8 (10.53%) XML
12 7 (9.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 14 (18.42%) Cloud Native
3 11 (14.47%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (7.89%) Algorithms
4 6 (7.89%) Data Structures
4 6 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.63%) FMCG
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) Life Science
6 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) PKI
6 1 (1.32%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (53.95%) Agile
1 41 (53.95%) CI/CD
2 35 (46.05%) Microservices
3 31 (40.79%) Test Automation
4 29 (38.16%) DevOps
5 24 (31.58%) Containerisation
5 24 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (25.00%) Analytics
6 19 (25.00%) Code Quality
6 19 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 18 (23.68%) Scrum
8 14 (18.42%) Mentoring
8 14 (18.42%) Software Engineering
9 13 (17.11%) API Development
10 12 (15.79%) SDLC
11 11 (14.47%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (13.16%) Design Patterns
13 9 (11.84%) Event-Driven
13 9 (11.84%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.05%) Python
2 22 (28.95%) JavaScript
3 20 (26.32%) C#
4 16 (21.05%) SQL
5 14 (18.42%) Java
6 12 (15.79%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.89%) PL/SQL
8 5 (6.58%) Go
9 4 (5.26%) Rust
9 4 (5.26%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.95%) Bicep
10 3 (3.95%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.32%) Groovy
11 1 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (30.26%) Security Cleared
2 21 (27.63%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.16%) Degree
4 6 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.89%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.58%) Master's Degree
6 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.32%) CCNA
8 1 (1.32%) CCNP
8 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (25.00%) QA
2 7 (9.21%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (30.26%) Docker
2 3 (3.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (34.21%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.21%) Grafana
2 7 (9.21%) Prometheus
3 5 (6.58%) Ansible
4 4 (5.26%) Podman
4 4 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.21%) Oracle
3 4 (5.26%) NVIDIA
3 4 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.26%) Tenable
4 3 (3.95%) Google
4 3 (3.95%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.32%) Cisco
5 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.32%) Parasoft
5 1 (1.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud