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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 120 170
Rank change year-on-year -26 +50 -3
Contract jobs citing RESTful 65 33 30
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.08% 1.13% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.39% 6.63% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 20 23
10th Percentile £349 £312 £368
25th Percentile £405 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.24% +6.72% -9.55%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £480
90th Percentile £650 £576 £655
England median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.72% -14.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £54.25 £51.00 -
25th Percentile £55.94 £52.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £68.75 £55.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +42.86% -
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% +6.67%

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 879 498 713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.64% 17.12% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 327 468
10th Percentile £324 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £619
90th Percentile £700 £658 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 20 41
10th Percentile £41.35 £20.09 £35.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £35.91 £56.65
Median hourly rate £60.00 £54.94 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% -10.82% -8.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.09 £70.00
90th Percentile - £65.09 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -24 37 £515 +12.20% 12
Buckinghamshire -24 21 £515 +14.44% 1
Berkshire -21 16 £500 - 8
Hampshire -25 13 £533 +13.90% 9
Surrey -20 8 £413 - 5
West Sussex -14 5 £363 -34.09% 1
Sussex - 1 £600 - 1
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 (4.62%) ArcGIS
1 3 (4.62%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) IIS
3 1 (1.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.54%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (7.69%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.69%) Azure
2 13 (20.00%) AWS
3 11 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (13.85%) GitHub
5 8 (12.31%) Serverless
6 7 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.62%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.62%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.62%) GCP
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon Macie
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (3.08%) Firebase
9 2 (3.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) HTTPS
2 2 (3.08%) HTTP
2 2 (3.08%) MQTT
2 2 (3.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 9 (13.85%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.23%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.62%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.62%) GIS
5 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.08%) Redis
7 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (32.31%) Git
2 11 (16.92%) Postman
3 8 (12.31%) Jenkins
4 6 (9.23%) JIRA
5 5 (7.69%) Visual Studio
6 4 (6.15%) GitLab
7 2 (3.08%) fastlane
7 2 (3.08%) Gradle
7 2 (3.08%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.54%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.54%) Crashlytics
8 1 (1.54%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.54%) JMeter
8 1 (1.54%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.54%) Maven
8 1 (1.54%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.54%) Xcode
General
1 10 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 6 (9.23%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Finance
4 4 (6.15%) Retail
5 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.08%) Automotive
6 2 (3.08%) Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Billing
6 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.08%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (61.54%) Developer
2 14 (21.54%) Senior
3 12 (18.46%) Python Developer
4 11 (16.92%) Senior Developer
5 10 (15.38%) Architect
6 9 (13.85%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (10.77%) Java Developer
8 5 (7.69%) Software Test Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Test Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) .NET Developer
9 4 (6.15%) Senior Python Developer
10 3 (4.62%) C# Developer
10 3 (4.62%) Data Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) GIS Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Integration Architect
11 2 (3.08%) Backend Developer
11 2 (3.08%) Blazor Developer
11 2 (3.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 2 (3.08%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 2 (3.08%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (33.85%) .NET
2 16 (24.62%) REST
3 10 (15.38%) JSON
3 10 (15.38%) React
4 9 (13.85%) CSS
4 9 (13.85%) Kafka
4 9 (13.85%) Swagger
5 8 (12.31%) .NET Framework
6 7 (10.77%) FastAPI
6 7 (10.77%) GraphQL
6 7 (10.77%) OpenAPI
6 7 (10.77%) Spring
6 7 (10.77%) Spring Boot
7 6 (9.23%) .NET Core
7 6 (9.23%) Django
7 6 (9.23%) Entity Framework
7 6 (9.23%) Flask
8 5 (7.69%) NumPy
8 5 (7.69%) OAuth
8 5 (7.69%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Product Ownership
2 14 (21.54%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (16.92%) Cloud Native
4 7 (10.77%) Data Structures
4 7 (10.77%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (7.69%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.62%) Mobile App
7 2 (3.08%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (3.08%) FMCG
7 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.08%) TM Forum
8 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.54%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Android
1 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (53.85%) Microservices
2 29 (44.62%) CI/CD
3 25 (38.46%) Agile
4 16 (24.62%) DevOps
5 14 (21.54%) Scrum
5 14 (21.54%) Test Automation
6 13 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 13 (20.00%) Event-Driven
7 12 (18.46%) Software Engineering
8 11 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (15.38%) SDLC
10 9 (13.85%) Code Quality
10 9 (13.85%) Design Patterns
10 9 (13.85%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (13.85%) OOP
11 8 (12.31%) Sprint Planning
11 8 (12.31%) Unit Testing
12 7 (10.77%) API Development
12 7 (10.77%) Performance Optimisation
12 7 (10.77%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (32.31%) C#
1 21 (32.31%) Python
2 17 (26.15%) SQL
3 14 (21.54%) Java
4 11 (16.92%) Go
4 11 (16.92%) TypeScript
5 8 (12.31%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.15%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.08%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.08%) Rust
7 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.54%) Groovy
8 1 (1.54%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (50.77%) Security Cleared
2 28 (43.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.62%) Degree
5 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) QA
2 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.08%) WCAG
4 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (21.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (24.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.69%) Grafana
2 5 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.08%) Ansible
3 2 (3.08%) Podman
3 2 (3.08%) Puppet
3 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (6.15%) Oracle
2 3 (4.62%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.08%) NVIDIA
3 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.08%) Tenable
4 1 (1.54%) Adobe
4 1 (1.54%) Apple
4 1 (1.54%) Google
4 1 (1.54%) Parasoft