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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 120 156
Rank change year-on-year -32 +36 +13
Contract jobs citing RESTful 88 44 35
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.33% 1.27% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.11% 7.63% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 33 27
10th Percentile £349 £321 £395
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -13.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £613
90th Percentile £650 £598 £688
England median daily rate £500 £469 £525
% change year-on-year +6.61% -10.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 1
10th Percentile - £47.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £36.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +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 966 577 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.59% 16.69% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 403 521
10th Percentile £321 £303 £325
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +0.62%
75th Percentile £620 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £625 £672
England median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 21 37
10th Percentile £38.25 £20.85 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £32.31 £54.85
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.83% -1.44%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.39 £58.75 £76.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 46 £500 +6.61% 10
Berkshire -24 25 £460 -8.00% 2
Hampshire -32 22 £533 +13.90% 11
Buckinghamshire -22 21 £515 +55.82% 5
Surrey -10 13 £450 - 2
West Sussex -23 5 £363 -34.09% 2
Sussex - 1 £600 - 2
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 8 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (3.41%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.14%) CMS
3 1 (1.14%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (10.23%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (35.23%) Azure
2 21 (23.86%) AWS
3 18 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (15.91%) GitHub
5 12 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (12.50%) GCP
7 10 (11.36%) Serverless
8 8 (9.09%) Entra ID
9 6 (6.82%) Azure API Management
10 5 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.55%) Azure AKS
11 4 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (3.41%) Amazon S3
12 3 (3.41%) Apigee
12 3 (3.41%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (3.41%) Azure App Service
13 2 (2.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.95%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.55%) MQTT
2 4 (4.55%) Network Security
3 3 (3.41%) HTTP
4 1 (1.14%) DNS
4 1 (1.14%) SNMP
4 1 (1.14%) SSH
4 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.32%) NoSQL
1 17 (19.32%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.23%) MongoDB
2 9 (10.23%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.41%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.41%) GIS
5 3 (3.41%) MySQL
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.27%) Redis
7 1 (1.14%) Parquet
7 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (40.91%) Git
2 12 (13.64%) JIRA
2 12 (13.64%) Postman
3 11 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.82%) GitLab
5 4 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.55%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.41%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.27%) fastlane
7 2 (2.27%) Gradle
7 2 (2.27%) Selenium
7 2 (2.27%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.14%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.14%) Crashlytics
8 1 (1.14%) JMeter
8 1 (1.14%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.14%) Maven
8 1 (1.14%) NeoLoad
8 1 (1.14%) Xcode
General
1 15 (17.05%) Public Sector
2 13 (14.77%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.82%) Finance
3 6 (6.82%) Retail
3 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
4 5 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.41%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.41%) Marketing
5 3 (3.41%) Publishing
6 2 (2.27%) Automotive
6 2 (2.27%) Banking
6 2 (2.27%) Legal
6 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.27%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (62.50%) Developer
2 17 (19.32%) Python Developer
3 14 (15.91%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (15.91%) Senior
4 11 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 8 (9.09%) Architect
5 8 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.95%) Test Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Software Test Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Python Developer
8 4 (4.55%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.41%) Apigee Developer
9 3 (3.41%) C# Developer
9 3 (3.41%) GIS Architect
9 3 (3.41%) Integration Architect
9 3 (3.41%) Lead
9 3 (3.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.55%) .NET
2 25 (28.41%) REST
3 15 (17.05%) Kafka
3 15 (17.05%) OAuth
3 15 (17.05%) Swagger
4 14 (15.91%) React
5 13 (14.77%) Django
5 13 (14.77%) JSON
6 12 (13.64%) CSS
6 12 (13.64%) OpenAPI
7 11 (12.50%) .NET Framework
7 11 (12.50%) FastAPI
7 11 (12.50%) OAuth2
7 11 (12.50%) Spring
7 11 (12.50%) Spring Boot
8 10 (11.36%) .NET Core
8 10 (11.36%) Flask
9 9 (10.23%) Entity Framework
9 9 (10.23%) Pandas
9 9 (10.23%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.86%) Product Ownership
2 19 (21.59%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (15.91%) Cloud Native
4 11 (12.50%) Data Structures
5 9 (10.23%) Algorithms
6 8 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.41%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.27%) FMCG
8 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.14%) Life Science
9 1 (1.14%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Linux
2 2 (2.27%) Android
2 2 (2.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (52.27%) CI/CD
2 45 (51.14%) Microservices
3 38 (43.18%) Agile
4 31 (35.23%) DevOps
5 26 (29.55%) Test Automation
6 25 (28.41%) Containerisation
7 22 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (22.73%) Analytics
9 19 (21.59%) Scrum
10 15 (17.05%) Performance Optimisation
11 14 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (15.91%) Software Engineering
12 13 (14.77%) Event-Driven
12 13 (14.77%) OOP
12 13 (14.77%) SDLC
12 13 (14.77%) TDD
13 12 (13.64%) API Development
13 12 (13.64%) Code Quality
13 12 (13.64%) Design Patterns
14 11 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 37 (42.05%) Python
2 27 (30.68%) C#
3 23 (26.14%) SQL
4 18 (20.45%) Java
5 14 (15.91%) JavaScript
6 11 (12.50%) Go
6 11 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.82%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.55%) Rust
8 4 (4.55%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.41%) Bicep
9 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.14%) Groovy
11 1 (1.14%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.14%) Swift
11 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 31 (35.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.95%) Degree
5 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.14%) CCNA
8 1 (1.14%) CCNP
8 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.91%) QA
2 6 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.27%) WCAG
4 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (26.14%) Docker
2 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (28.41%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.50%) Terraform
3 7 (7.95%) Grafana
3 7 (7.95%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.68%) Ansible
5 4 (4.55%) Podman
5 4 (4.55%) Puppet
6 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (7.95%) Oracle
2 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.55%) Google
3 4 (4.55%) NVIDIA
3 4 (4.55%) Tenable
4 3 (3.41%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.41%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.41%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.14%) Adobe
5 1 (1.14%) Apple
5 1 (1.14%) Cisco
5 1 (1.14%) Parasoft