RESTful Contracts in the South East

RESTful
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RESTful over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 173 167
Rank change year-on-year +58 -6 -43
Contract jobs citing RESTful 39 34 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.25% 0.60% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.24% 4.34% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 27 37
10th Percentile £317 £320 £404
25th Percentile £409 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £588
90th Percentile £588 £640 £623
England median daily rate £475 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £47.75 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% - -
75th Percentile - £40.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -31.25% +6.67% +18.24%

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 539 784 966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.26% 13.81% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 521 675
10th Percentile £321 £325 £334
25th Percentile £407 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £623 £625
90th Percentile £638 £651 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 48 42
10th Percentile £22.10 £35.00 £50.00
25th Percentile £35.05 £56.65 £52.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -2.61% +40.56%
75th Percentile £58.72 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £62.03 £75.00 £79.19
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.18% -10.54% +23.81%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RESTful in the South East.

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the South East

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the South East over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the South East

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RESTful in the South East.

Hourly rate trend 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 30 June 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 +32 17 £500 -13.79% 110
Hampshire +35 14 £468 -0.53% 60
Berkshire +23 12 £525 -9.48% 65
Surrey +22 5 - - 37
Buckinghamshire - 5 £375 - 27
West Sussex +3 2 £550 +69.23% 19
East Sussex -3 1 £450 +12.50% 37
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 4 (10.26%) Anypoint
1 4 (10.26%) Mule
2 3 (7.69%) Mule ESB
3 2 (5.13%) Confluence
4 1 (2.56%) CMS
4 1 (2.56%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) Azure
2 12 (30.77%) AWS
3 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (17.95%) GitHub
4 5 (12.82%) GCP
5 4 (10.26%) Serverless
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.69%) iPaaS
7 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.13%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.13%) Azure API Management
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Stack
7 2 (5.13%) PaaS
7 2 (5.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.21%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (20.51%) MySQL
3 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
4 4 (10.26%) MongoDB
4 4 (10.26%) NoSQL
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (5.13%) Redis
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.56%) ObjectStore
7 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.56%) Parquet
7 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (46.15%) Git
2 9 (23.08%) JIRA
3 4 (10.26%) Cypress.io
4 3 (7.69%) GitLab
4 3 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.13%) Maven
5 2 (5.13%) Moq
5 2 (5.13%) Postman
5 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.56%) DbUnit
6 1 (2.56%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.56%) jMock
6 1 (2.56%) JUnit
6 1 (2.56%) Mockito
6 1 (2.56%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (2.56%) Selenium
6 1 (2.56%) Subversion
6 1 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Finance
2 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.13%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Retail
4 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (87.18%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Python Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Senior
2 7 (17.95%) Senior Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.26%) MuleSoft Developer
4 4 (10.26%) React Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Cloud Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.13%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Ruby Developer
6 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Ruby Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Java Web Developer
7 1 (2.56%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (2.56%) JSP Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) Web Services
2 10 (25.64%) JSON
2 10 (25.64%) React
3 8 (20.51%) REST
3 8 (20.51%) XML
4 7 (17.95%) .NET
4 7 (17.95%) AngularJS
4 7 (17.95%) FastAPI
4 7 (17.95%) Spring
4 7 (17.95%) Spring Boot
5 6 (15.38%) .NET Core
5 6 (15.38%) Hibernate
5 6 (15.38%) HTML
5 6 (15.38%) SOAP
6 5 (12.82%) CSS
6 5 (12.82%) Django
6 5 (12.82%) Flask
7 4 (10.26%) GraphQL
7 4 (10.26%) Node.js
7 4 (10.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) Agile
2 22 (56.41%) CI/CD
3 18 (46.15%) DevOps
4 15 (38.46%) Microservices
5 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (25.64%) Scrum
7 9 (23.08%) Design Patterns
7 9 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 8 (20.51%) API Development
9 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (15.38%) API Design
10 6 (15.38%) API Management
10 6 (15.38%) Front End Development
10 6 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
11 5 (12.82%) SDLC
11 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
11 5 (12.82%) User Experience
11 5 (12.82%) UX Design
12 4 (10.26%) SysML
12 4 (10.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) Java
1 12 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 11 (28.21%) SQL
3 8 (20.51%) Python
4 7 (17.95%) C#
5 3 (7.69%) DataWeave
5 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.13%) Go
6 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.13%) Ruby
7 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.56%) Bicep
7 1 (2.56%) Korn
7 1 (2.56%) PHP
7 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.56%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) OCP
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) CloudHub
3 2 (5.13%) Terraform
4 1 (2.56%) Grafana
4 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) MuleSoft
3 3 (7.69%) Atlassian
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle
4 2 (5.13%) Databricks
4 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.13%) SAP
4 2 (5.13%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.56%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.56%) Zend