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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 147 178
Rank change year-on-year +44 +31 -59
Contract jobs citing RESTful 59 34 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.69% 0.74% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.87% 4.76% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 25 22
10th Percentile £335 £390 £411
25th Percentile £385 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £568
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -7.49% +3.18%
75th Percentile £550 £598 £644
90th Percentile £600 £678 £698
England median daily rate £476 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.43% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £47.75 - £61.31
25th Percentile £50.00 £36.75 £67.02
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.50 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -49.69% +15.64%
75th Percentile - £40.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -31.25% +4.53% +17.74%

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 598 714 855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.13% 15.49% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 477 571
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £375 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £625
90th Percentile £625 £663 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 44
10th Percentile £24.69 £27.00 £50.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £54.89
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.25%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £73.72
90th Percentile £58.75 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.60% +4.88% -5.40%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +17 27 £488 -7.14% 17
Hampshire +23 20 £390 -29.09% 7
Berkshire +16 19 £550 -0.45% 10
Buckinghamshire +13 7 £375 -28.57% 3
Surrey +10 7 £550 +2.33% 8
East Sussex - 4 £450 - 2
West Sussex -3 1 £340 +75.98% 3
Oxfordshire -5 1 £438 +68.27% 4
RESTful
England

RESTful
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (11.86%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) CMS
3 2 (3.39%) Anypoint
3 2 (3.39%) Documentum
3 2 (3.39%) Mule
4 1 (1.69%) Drupal
4 1 (1.69%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.69%) Mule ESB
4 1 (1.69%) nginx
4 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.69%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.69%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 19 (32.20%) Azure
2 16 (27.12%) AWS
3 11 (18.64%) GitHub
4 9 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (13.56%) GCP
5 8 (13.56%) Serverless
6 5 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Functions
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.39%) Azure API Management
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Storage
9 2 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (13.56%) MySQL
3 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.78%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (27.12%) Git
2 13 (22.03%) JIRA
3 6 (10.17%) GitLab
3 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.47%) Bitbucket
4 5 (8.47%) Cucumber
4 5 (8.47%) Selenium
5 4 (6.78%) REST Assured
6 3 (5.08%) Cypress.io
6 3 (5.08%) Postman
6 3 (5.08%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (3.39%) Maven
7 2 (3.39%) Vite
7 2 (3.39%) webpack
8 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.69%) DbUnit
8 1 (1.69%) Mocha
8 1 (1.69%) Mockito
8 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.69%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.56%) Finance
3 7 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.08%) Automotive
6 2 (3.39%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.69%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (71.19%) Developer
2 15 (25.42%) Senior
3 14 (23.73%) Senior Developer
4 8 (13.56%) Python Developer
5 6 (10.17%) .NET Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Cloud Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Automation Tester
7 4 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (6.78%) React Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Selenium Automation Tester
7 4 (6.78%) Selenium Tester
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Python Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Tester
8 3 (5.08%) Android Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Principal Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (33.90%) .NET
2 15 (25.42%) REST
3 10 (16.95%) .NET Core
3 10 (16.95%) SOAP
4 8 (13.56%) React
4 8 (13.56%) Web Services
5 7 (11.86%) FastAPI
5 7 (11.86%) Spring
5 7 (11.86%) Spring Boot
5 7 (11.86%) Swagger
6 6 (10.17%) .NET Framework
6 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
6 6 (10.17%) HTML
6 6 (10.17%) JSON
6 6 (10.17%) Node.js
7 5 (8.47%) GraphQL
7 5 (8.47%) Hibernate
8 4 (6.78%) ASP.NET
8 4 (6.78%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (6.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.08%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.69%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Windows
2 3 (5.08%) Android
2 3 (5.08%) Apple iOS
2 3 (5.08%) Linux
3 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (61.02%) Agile
2 29 (49.15%) CI/CD
3 27 (45.76%) DevOps
4 21 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (30.51%) Microservices
6 12 (20.34%) API Development
7 10 (16.95%) Test Automation
8 9 (15.25%) Asynchronous Programming
8 9 (15.25%) Design Patterns
9 8 (13.56%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (13.56%) Sprint Planning
10 7 (11.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (10.17%) Containerisation
11 6 (10.17%) Scrum
11 6 (10.17%) TDD
11 6 (10.17%) User Experience
12 5 (8.47%) API Design
12 5 (8.47%) Artificial Intelligence
12 5 (8.47%) UX Design
13 4 (6.78%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.59%) C#
2 18 (30.51%) Java
2 18 (30.51%) Python
3 14 (23.73%) JavaScript
4 11 (18.64%) SQL
5 5 (8.47%) Go
6 4 (6.78%) Ruby
7 3 (5.08%) Kotlin
7 3 (5.08%) Objective-C
7 3 (5.08%) Swift
8 2 (3.39%) Bash
8 2 (3.39%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.69%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.69%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.69%) Korn
9 1 (1.69%) SOQL
9 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.78%) Degree
3 4 (6.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.69%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) Terraform
2 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.08%) Ansible
4 2 (3.39%) Grafana
4 2 (3.39%) Proxmox
4 2 (3.39%) Rundeck
4 2 (3.39%) Salt
5 1 (1.69%) CloudHub
5 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (10.17%) Oracle
2 4 (6.78%) Databricks
2 4 (6.78%) Virgin Media
3 3 (5.08%) Apple
3 3 (5.08%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.08%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.39%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.39%) VMware
5 1 (1.69%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.69%) Pega
5 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) Splunk