RESTful Contracts in the South East

RESTful
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RESTful 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 123 170 171
Rank change year-on-year +47 +1 -45
Contract jobs citing RESTful 36 35 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.20% 0.63% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.20% 4.79% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 40
10th Percentile £315 £373 £406
25th Percentile £400 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £478
Median % change year-on-year - -5.76% -4.50%
75th Percentile £509 £480 £563
90th Percentile £550 £648 £609
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -31.25% +6.67% +25.00%

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 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%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful 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 RESTful in the South East.

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the South East

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful 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 RESTful 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 +52 17 £409 +2.25% 27
Berkshire +34 11 £409 +2.25% 6
Hampshire +25 10 £468 -0.53% 14
Surrey +16 7 - - 19
Buckinghamshire - 6 £450 - 9
West Sussex +7 2 £550 +37.50% 2
RESTful
England

RESTful
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 4 (11.11%) Anypoint
1 4 (11.11%) Mule
2 3 (8.33%) Mule ESB
3 2 (5.56%) Confluence
4 1 (2.78%) CMS
4 1 (2.78%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.78%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Azure AKS
3 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.89%) Azure Functions
3 5 (13.89%) Serverless
4 4 (11.11%) GitHub
4 4 (11.11%) SaaS
5 3 (8.33%) GCP
5 3 (8.33%) iPaaS
6 2 (5.56%) Azure API Management
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Stack
6 2 (5.56%) PaaS
6 2 (5.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (36.11%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (19.44%) MySQL
2 7 (19.44%) Redis
3 6 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 6 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 3 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.78%) ObjectStore
7 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.78%) Parquet
7 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (44.44%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) JIRA
3 4 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 4 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (8.33%) GitLab
4 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (8.33%) Subversion
5 2 (5.56%) Moq
5 2 (5.56%) Selenium
5 2 (5.56%) SpecFlow
5 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.78%) DbUnit
6 1 (2.78%) jMock
6 1 (2.78%) JUnit
6 1 (2.78%) Maven
6 1 (2.78%) Mockito
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (2.78%) Postman
6 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Finance
2 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Retail
3 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (77.78%) Developer
2 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Python Developer
4 4 (11.11%) MuleSoft Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
4 4 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Backend Developer
6 2 (5.56%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Lead Data Architect
6 2 (5.56%) React Developer
6 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) Web Services
2 10 (27.78%) React
3 8 (22.22%) JSON
4 7 (19.44%) AngularJS
4 7 (19.44%) XML
5 6 (16.67%) CSS
5 6 (16.67%) HTML
5 6 (16.67%) Vue
6 5 (13.89%) .NET
6 5 (13.89%) Django
6 5 (13.89%) FastAPI
6 5 (13.89%) Flask
6 5 (13.89%) GraphQL
6 5 (13.89%) Kafka
6 5 (13.89%) SOAP
7 4 (11.11%) .NET Core
7 4 (11.11%) Node.js
7 4 (11.11%) Prisma
7 4 (11.11%) REST
7 4 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.56%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.78%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 19 (52.78%) Agile
3 17 (47.22%) Microservices
4 14 (38.89%) DevOps
5 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (30.56%) Scrum
7 10 (27.78%) API Design
7 10 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (27.78%) Test Automation
8 9 (25.00%) Design Patterns
8 9 (25.00%) Front End Development
9 8 (22.22%) Code Quality
10 7 (19.44%) API Development
10 7 (19.44%) OO
11 6 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (16.67%) SDLC
11 6 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 6 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (16.67%) User Experience
11 6 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) JavaScript
2 11 (30.56%) SQL
3 8 (22.22%) Java
3 8 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 7 (19.44%) C#
5 6 (16.67%) Python
6 3 (8.33%) DataWeave
6 3 (8.33%) PHP
7 2 (5.56%) Go
7 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.78%) Bicep
8 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.78%) OCP
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) CloudHub
3 2 (5.56%) Terraform
4 1 (2.78%) Grafana
4 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) MuleSoft
2 4 (11.11%) SAP
3 3 (8.33%) Zend
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.78%) Jaspersoft