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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 103 156
Rank change year-on-year -46 +53 +15
Contract jobs citing RESTful 80 59 32
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.20% 1.67% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.71% 9.16% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 42 25
10th Percentile £332 £326 £389
25th Percentile £389 £386 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £457 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -13.05% -7.49%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £678
England median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 1
10th Percentile - £47.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £36.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +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% -3.39%

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 1,037 644 831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.52% 18.25% 17.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 439 567
10th Percentile £325 £300 £325
25th Percentile £431 £397 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £624
90th Percentile £725 £625 £672
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 21 34
10th Percentile £38.25 £20.85 £27.23
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.80 £54.85
Median hourly rate £69.11 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +38.22% -18.83% +3.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.24 £58.75 £73.41
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.79 £61.80
% change year-on-year +22.29% -11.35% -4.92%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -32 35 £460 -3.16% 9
Berkshire -29 20 £460 -16.36% 4
Hampshire -31 19 £533 +33.13% 6
Surrey -9 18 £475 -13.64% 4
Buckinghamshire -28 15 £500 +33.33% 3
West Sussex -19 5 £348 +2.21% 1
East Sussex -1 1 £625 +38.89% 3
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 7 (8.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.25%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (10.00%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (42.50%) Azure
2 27 (33.75%) AWS
3 17 (21.25%) GCP
4 16 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (17.50%) GitHub
6 12 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (12.50%) Serverless
8 7 (8.75%) Entra ID
9 6 (7.50%) Azure API Management
10 5 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
12 3 (3.75%) Apigee
12 3 (3.75%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (3.75%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.75%) Azure App Service
12 3 (3.75%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (2.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) HTTPS
1 4 (5.00%) MQTT
1 4 (5.00%) Network Security
2 2 (2.50%) HTTP
3 1 (1.25%) DNS
3 1 (1.25%) SNMP
3 1 (1.25%) SSH
3 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (17.50%) NoSQL
2 14 (17.50%) Relational Database
3 8 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.75%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.75%) MySQL
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.50%) Redis
8 1 (1.25%) GIS
8 1 (1.25%) Parquet
8 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (41.25%) Git
2 12 (15.00%) Postman
3 11 (13.75%) Jenkins
4 9 (11.25%) JIRA
5 6 (7.50%) GitLab
6 4 (5.00%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.75%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.75%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.50%) fastlane
8 2 (2.50%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.50%) Selenium
8 2 (2.50%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.25%) Android Studio
9 1 (1.25%) Crashlytics
9 1 (1.25%) Gradle
9 1 (1.25%) JMeter
9 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.25%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.25%) Xcode
General
1 18 (22.50%) Public Sector
2 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (10.00%) Finance
5 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.50%) Retail
5 6 (7.50%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.75%) Marketing
6 3 (3.75%) Publishing
7 2 (2.50%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.50%) Automotive
7 2 (2.50%) Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Legal
7 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (56.25%) Developer
2 13 (16.25%) Full-Stack Developer
2 13 (16.25%) Python Developer
3 12 (15.00%) Senior
4 9 (11.25%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.75%) Lead
5 7 (8.75%) Technical Leader
5 7 (8.75%) Test Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Architect
6 5 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Software Test Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) .NET Developer
7 4 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Apigee Developer
8 3 (3.75%) C# Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Python Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Software Developer
9 2 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.25%) .NET
1 21 (26.25%) REST
2 18 (22.50%) OAuth
3 16 (20.00%) Django
4 15 (18.75%) CSS
4 15 (18.75%) JSON
4 15 (18.75%) OAuth2
4 15 (18.75%) React
5 14 (17.50%) Kafka
5 14 (17.50%) Swagger
6 12 (15.00%) HTML
7 11 (13.75%) .NET Core
7 11 (13.75%) OpenAPI
7 11 (13.75%) OpenID
7 11 (13.75%) Terraform
8 10 (12.50%) FastAPI
8 10 (12.50%) pytest
9 9 (11.25%) .NET Framework
9 9 (11.25%) Flask
10 8 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 16 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 12 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 8 (10.00%) Data Structures
5 6 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.50%) FMCG
6 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.25%) Life Science
7 1 (1.25%) PKI
7 1 (1.25%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Android
2 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (52.50%) CI/CD
2 39 (48.75%) Agile
2 39 (48.75%) Microservices
3 34 (42.50%) DevOps
4 30 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 28 (35.00%) Containerisation
6 26 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (28.75%) Analytics
8 18 (22.50%) Scrum
9 17 (21.25%) Code Quality
9 17 (21.25%) Performance Optimisation
10 15 (18.75%) API Development
11 13 (16.25%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (15.00%) Software Engineering
13 11 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (13.75%) Event-Driven
13 11 (13.75%) SDLC
13 11 (13.75%) TDD
14 10 (12.50%) Design Patterns
14 10 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (46.25%) Python
2 22 (27.50%) C#
3 19 (23.75%) JavaScript
3 19 (23.75%) SQL
4 13 (16.25%) Java
5 11 (13.75%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.50%) PL/SQL
7 5 (6.25%) Go
8 4 (5.00%) Rust
8 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.75%) Bicep
9 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.25%) Groovy
10 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.25%) Ruby
10 1 (1.25%) Swift
10 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (36.25%) Security Cleared
2 24 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.50%) Degree
4 6 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.50%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.25%) Master's Degree
6 4 (5.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.25%) CCNA
8 1 (1.25%) CCNP
8 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (25.00%) QA
2 10 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) WCAG
4 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (31.25%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (33.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.75%) Grafana
2 7 (8.75%) Prometheus
3 5 (6.25%) Ansible
4 4 (5.00%) Podman
4 4 (5.00%) Puppet
5 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
1 7 (8.75%) Oracle
2 4 (5.00%) Google
2 4 (5.00%) NVIDIA
2 4 (5.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (5.00%) Tenable
3 3 (3.75%) Dynatrace
3 3 (3.75%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.25%) Apple
4 1 (1.25%) Cisco
4 1 (1.25%) Parasoft
4 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud