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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 111 171
Rank change year-on-year -46 +60 -5
Contract jobs citing RESTful 47 44 36
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.85% 1.47% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.38% 8.85% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 28 24
10th Percentile £313 £397 £370
25th Percentile £396 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £411 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.38% -8.72% -10.00%
75th Percentile £561 £502 £483
90th Percentile £585 £550 £608
England median daily rate £488 £500 £521
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.03% -13.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £54.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.63 - £36.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £38.50
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £39.50 £46.75
% change year-on-year +77.22% -15.51% -35.52%

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 874 497 773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.71% 16.66% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 325 468
10th Percentile £350 £350 £314
25th Percentile £415 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% +0.10% -6.85%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £619
90th Percentile £688 £663 £675
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 13 33
10th Percentile £40.00 £27.73 £35.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £37.80 £54.85
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% -5.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.50 £74.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -42 28 £525 +28.36% 13
Buckinghamshire -13 17 £555 +19.87% 2
Berkshire -36 11 £525 +28.36% 7
Hampshire -30 9 £313 -33.05% 4
Surrey -9 7 £413 - 6
West Sussex -13 2 £313 -43.18% 2
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 (6.38%) Apache
1 3 (6.38%) Apache Spark
1 3 (6.38%) ArcGIS
2 2 (4.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (4.26%) CMS
2 2 (4.26%) IIS
3 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.79%) Azure
2 9 (19.15%) AWS
2 9 (19.15%) GitHub
3 7 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (12.77%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (8.51%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (8.51%) GCP
5 4 (8.51%) Serverless
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.26%) Firebase
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.13%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.13%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (12.77%) Relational Database
3 5 (10.64%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.51%) MySQL
5 3 (6.38%) GIS
5 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (31.91%) Git
2 7 (14.89%) Postman
3 6 (12.77%) Jenkins
4 5 (10.64%) Gradle
4 5 (10.64%) Visual Studio
5 4 (8.51%) Bitbucket
5 4 (8.51%) JUnit
5 4 (8.51%) Maven
6 3 (6.38%) JIRA
6 3 (6.38%) Storybook
7 2 (4.26%) fastlane
8 1 (2.13%) Android Studio
8 1 (2.13%) Crashlytics
8 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.13%) GitLab
8 1 (2.13%) Selenium
8 1 (2.13%) Xcode
General
1 12 (25.53%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Marketing
4 4 (8.51%) Finance
5 3 (6.38%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Electronics
5 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.26%) Billing
6 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.13%) Retail
7 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (65.96%) Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (21.28%) Java Developer
4 8 (17.02%) Architect
5 7 (14.89%) Senior
6 6 (12.77%) Python Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Senior Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Software Test Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Test Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (6.38%) GIS Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Integration Architect
9 2 (4.26%) .NET Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Android Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 2 (4.26%) iOS Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Java Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) React Developer
10 1 (2.13%) Senior iOS Developer
10 1 (2.13%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.91%) Spring
1 15 (31.91%) Spring Boot
2 14 (29.79%) React
3 12 (25.53%) .NET
4 10 (21.28%) CSS
5 9 (19.15%) REST
6 8 (17.02%) AngularJS
7 7 (14.89%) Hibernate
7 7 (14.89%) Swagger
8 6 (12.77%) .NET Framework
8 6 (12.77%) Entity Framework
9 5 (10.64%) HTML
9 5 (10.64%) JSON
9 5 (10.64%) Material-UI
9 5 (10.64%) OpenAPI
10 4 (8.51%) FastAPI
10 4 (8.51%) Flask
10 4 (8.51%) JPA
11 3 (6.38%) Django
11 3 (6.38%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (19.15%) Product Ownership
2 6 (12.77%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.64%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.38%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.38%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.26%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.26%) TM Forum
6 1 (2.13%) Life Science
6 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Android
1 2 (4.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (61.70%) Microservices
2 26 (55.32%) Agile
3 24 (51.06%) CI/CD
4 17 (36.17%) DevOps
5 13 (27.66%) Scrum
6 12 (25.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (21.28%) Test Automation
8 9 (19.15%) Containerisation
8 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (17.02%) OOP
9 8 (17.02%) SDLC
9 8 (17.02%) Software Testing
9 8 (17.02%) Unit Testing
10 7 (14.89%) API Development
10 7 (14.89%) Sprint Planning
10 7 (14.89%) User Experience
11 6 (12.77%) Code Quality
11 6 (12.77%) Secure Coding
11 6 (12.77%) Software Engineering
12 5 (10.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (40.43%) Java
2 17 (36.17%) SQL
3 12 (25.53%) C#
4 10 (21.28%) Python
5 9 (19.15%) TypeScript
6 8 (17.02%) JavaScript
7 7 (14.89%) Go
8 2 (4.26%) Kotlin
8 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.13%) Objective-C
9 1 (2.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 25 (53.19%) Security Cleared
2 21 (44.68%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.26%) Degree
3 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.26%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.38%) Ansible
2 3 (6.38%) Terraform
3 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (6.38%) SAP
2 2 (4.26%) Adobe
2 2 (4.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.13%) Apple
3 1 (2.13%) Google
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.13%) Salesforce