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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 115 168
Rank change year-on-year -31 +53 -31
Contract jobs citing RESTful 35 44 38
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.75% 1.41% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.72% 8.59% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 27 21
10th Percentile £313 £390 -
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £409 £470
Median % change year-on-year +16.14% -12.98% -10.48%
75th Percentile £538 £453 £560
90th Percentile £575 £543 £580
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £65.11
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £64.63 £39.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +63.62% -48.39% +9.33%

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 741 512 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.81% 16.39% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 316 435
10th Percentile £306 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £587 £638 £610
90th Percentile £675 £675 £678
England median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 45
10th Percentile £40.00 £59.09 £52.55
25th Percentile £46.25 £61.56 £56.40
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.44 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.10 £77.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 10 February 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
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 10 February 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
Hampshire -9 18 £390 -13.33% 11
Thames Valley -32 15 £508 +24.08% 15
Buckinghamshire -5 8 £538 +2.38% 3
Berkshire -36 6 £475 +17.28% 8
West Sussex -14 2 £313 -43.18% 5
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 4
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 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (8.57%) Apache
2 3 (8.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.71%) CMS
3 2 (5.71%) Documentum
4 1 (2.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.86%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.86%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) AWS
3 7 (20.00%) GitHub
4 6 (17.14%) Serverless
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.43%) GCP
5 4 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.71%) Azure API Management
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) HTTP
1 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.57%) MySQL
3 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Bitbucket
1 8 (22.86%) JIRA
2 7 (20.00%) Git
2 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (14.29%) Selenium
4 4 (11.43%) Cucumber
4 4 (11.43%) Gradle
4 4 (11.43%) JUnit
4 4 (11.43%) Maven
4 4 (11.43%) REST Assured
5 3 (8.57%) Postman
5 3 (8.57%) Storybook
6 2 (5.71%) GitLab
6 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio
6 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Marketing
5 3 (8.57%) Automotive
5 3 (8.57%) Electronics
5 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.71%) Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Billing
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (62.86%) Developer
2 10 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 9 (25.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (20.00%) Architect
5 4 (11.43%) .NET Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Automation Tester
5 4 (11.43%) Selenium Automation Tester
5 4 (11.43%) Selenium Tester
5 4 (11.43%) Senior
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Tester
6 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Java Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 1 (2.86%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (37.14%) .NET
2 12 (34.29%) Spring
2 12 (34.29%) Spring Boot
3 11 (31.43%) Swagger
4 10 (28.57%) AngularJS
4 10 (28.57%) React
5 8 (22.86%) REST
6 7 (20.00%) CSS
7 6 (17.14%) SOAP
8 5 (14.29%) .NET Core
8 5 (14.29%) .NET Framework
8 5 (14.29%) Hibernate
8 5 (14.29%) HTML
8 5 (14.29%) JSON
8 5 (14.29%) OpenAPI
9 4 (11.43%) JPA
10 3 (8.57%) Spring MVC
10 3 (8.57%) Vitest
11 2 (5.71%) FastAPI
11 2 (5.71%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
1 3 (8.57%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) TM Forum
3 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Android
3 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Agile
2 18 (51.43%) Microservices
3 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
4 15 (42.86%) DevOps
5 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (25.71%) API Development
8 7 (20.00%) OOP
9 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
10 5 (14.29%) AI
10 5 (14.29%) TDD
10 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 5 (14.29%) User Experience
11 4 (11.43%) Front End Development
11 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (11.43%) Regression Testing
11 4 (11.43%) Scenario Testing
11 4 (11.43%) Scrum
12 3 (8.57%) Acceptance Criteria
12 3 (8.57%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) Java
1 18 (51.43%) SQL
2 13 (37.14%) C#
3 11 (31.43%) JavaScript
4 8 (22.86%) Python
5 6 (17.14%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.57%) Go
7 2 (5.71%) Bash
7 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.86%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.86%) Objective-C
8 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.14%) Terraform
3 5 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (5.71%) Proxmox
4 2 (5.71%) Rundeck
4 2 (5.71%) Salt
5 1 (2.86%) Argo
5 1 (2.86%) Grafana
5 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle
1 3 (8.57%) SAP
2 2 (5.71%) VMware
3 1 (2.86%) Adobe
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Salesforce