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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 140 167
Rank change year-on-year +21 +27 -50
Contract jobs citing RESTful 51 41 44
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.39% 0.97% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.23% 5.95% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 33 27
10th Percentile £363 £390 £433
25th Percentile £400 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £561
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -21.52% +1.93%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £631
90th Percentile £600 £600 £685
England median daily rate £488 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £47.38 - £65.11
25th Percentile £49.06 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £76.53
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £39.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +39.24% -48.39% +13.38%

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 620 689 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.90% 16.35% 15.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 448 558
10th Percentile £280 £325 £313
25th Percentile £378 £409 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £625
90th Percentile £625 £671 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 40
10th Percentile £17.06 £35.81 £50.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £60.58 £54.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £66.25 £58.55
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +13.16% -9.93%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £71.63
90th Percentile £73.00 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £54.85 £65.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -15.62% +17.12% -14.62%

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 26 October 2025.

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 26 October 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 +2 22 £504 +23.17% 64
Hampshire +19 17 £400 -34.69% 13
Berkshire -2 17 £563 +37.53% 44
Surrey +6 7 £550 +22.22% 7
East Sussex - 4 £450 - 6
Buckinghamshire +1 3 £375 -28.57% 17
Oxfordshire -8 2 £438 +68.27% 3
West Sussex - 1 £340 - 6
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 (13.73%) Confluence
2 3 (5.88%) CMS
3 2 (3.92%) Documentum
4 1 (1.96%) Drupal
4 1 (1.96%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.96%) nginx
4 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.96%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.96%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 15 (29.41%) Azure
2 12 (23.53%) AWS
3 9 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (17.65%) GitHub
4 8 (15.69%) Serverless
5 6 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (9.80%) GCP
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Functions
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.92%) Azure API Management
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Storage
9 2 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.80%) MySQL
4 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) JIRA
2 11 (21.57%) Git
3 5 (9.80%) Bitbucket
3 5 (9.80%) Cucumber
3 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.80%) Selenium
4 4 (7.84%) REST Assured
5 3 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.88%) GitLab
5 3 (5.88%) Postman
5 3 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (3.92%) Vite
6 2 (3.92%) webpack
7 1 (1.96%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.96%) Gradle
7 1 (1.96%) Maven
7 1 (1.96%) Mocha
7 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.96%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Finance
3 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.88%) Automotive
6 2 (3.92%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.96%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (66.67%) Developer
2 16 (31.37%) Senior
3 15 (29.41%) Senior Developer
4 6 (11.76%) .NET Developer
4 6 (11.76%) Python Developer
5 5 (9.80%) Cloud Developer
5 5 (9.80%) Senior Python Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Automation Tester
6 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Selenium Automation Tester
6 4 (7.84%) Selenium Tester
6 4 (7.84%) Tester
7 3 (5.88%) Android Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Principal Developer
7 3 (5.88%) React Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (39.22%) .NET
2 14 (27.45%) REST
3 10 (19.61%) .NET Core
4 8 (15.69%) SOAP
4 8 (15.69%) Swagger
5 7 (13.73%) React
6 6 (11.76%) .NET Framework
6 6 (11.76%) Node.js
7 5 (9.80%) AngularJS
7 5 (9.80%) FastAPI
7 5 (9.80%) HTML
7 5 (9.80%) Spring
7 5 (9.80%) Spring Boot
8 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET
8 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (7.84%) GraphQL
8 4 (7.84%) JSON
8 4 (7.84%) OAuth
8 4 (7.84%) Web Services
9 3 (5.88%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.96%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Windows
2 3 (5.88%) Android
2 3 (5.88%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.92%) Linux
4 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (60.78%) Agile
2 28 (54.90%) CI/CD
3 25 (49.02%) DevOps
4 16 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (25.49%) Microservices
6 11 (21.57%) API Development
7 9 (17.65%) Test Automation
8 8 (15.69%) Design Patterns
9 7 (13.73%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (13.73%) Sprint Planning
10 6 (11.76%) AI
10 6 (11.76%) Asynchronous Programming
10 6 (11.76%) Containerisation
10 6 (11.76%) User Experience
11 5 (9.80%) Generative AI
11 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
11 5 (9.80%) TDD
11 5 (9.80%) UX Design
12 4 (7.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (41.18%) C#
2 16 (31.37%) Python
3 15 (29.41%) Java
4 12 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 8 (15.69%) SQL
6 5 (9.80%) Go
7 4 (7.84%) Ruby
8 3 (5.88%) Kotlin
8 3 (5.88%) Objective-C
8 3 (5.88%) Swift
9 2 (3.92%) Bash
9 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.96%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.96%) Korn
10 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.96%) SOQL
10 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (7.84%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.92%) WCAG
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (15.69%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) Terraform
2 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.88%) Ansible
4 2 (3.92%) Grafana
4 2 (3.92%) Proxmox
4 2 (3.92%) Rundeck
4 2 (3.92%) Salt
5 1 (1.96%) Argo
5 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Oracle
2 4 (7.84%) Databricks
2 4 (7.84%) Virgin Media
3 3 (5.88%) Apple
4 2 (3.92%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.92%) VMware
5 1 (1.96%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) Pega
5 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.96%) SAP
5 1 (1.96%) Splunk