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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 128 171
Rank change year-on-year -14 +43 -30
Contract jobs citing RESTful 40 39 35
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.91% 1.17% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.86% 7.33% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 27 19
10th Percentile £344 £390 £400
25th Percentile £385 £400 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £409 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.14% -25.64% -
75th Percentile £553 £450 £609
90th Percentile £600 £580 £674
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £65.11
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £64.63 £39.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +63.62% -48.39% +13.38%

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 683 532 788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.47% 15.89% 15.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 329 440
10th Percentile £293 £345 £315
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £582 £638 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £678
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 39
10th Percentile £40.00 £54.63 £53.85
25th Percentile £46.25 £57.44 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.13 £75.14
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.87 £78.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.56
% change year-on-year -4.00% +14.55% -16.06%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -12 17 £390 -30.67% 20
Thames Valley -28 16 £488 +19.19% 58
Berkshire -33 8 £475 +17.36% 33
Surrey +1 6 £550 - 20
Buckinghamshire -4 6 £550 +4.76% 11
Oxfordshire - 2 £438 - 14
East Sussex - 1 £450 - 14
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 (17.50%) Confluence
2 3 (7.50%) Apache
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.50%) CMS
3 2 (5.00%) Documentum
4 1 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.50%) Drupal
4 1 (2.50%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.50%) nginx
4 1 (2.50%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) AWS
2 10 (25.00%) GitHub
3 9 (22.50%) Azure
4 8 (20.00%) Serverless
5 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 5 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (12.50%) GCP
5 5 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (5.00%) Azure API Management
8 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Functions
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Storage
8 2 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.50%) prismic.io
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (10.00%) MySQL
3 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) JIRA
2 7 (17.50%) Bitbucket
2 7 (17.50%) Git
2 7 (17.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.50%) Selenium
4 4 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 4 (10.00%) JUnit
4 4 (10.00%) REST Assured
5 3 (7.50%) GitLab
5 3 (7.50%) Gradle
5 3 (7.50%) Maven
5 3 (7.50%) Storybook
6 2 (5.00%) Postman
6 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (5.00%) Vite
6 2 (5.00%) webpack
7 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.50%) Mocha
7 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Finance
3 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
4 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Marketing
5 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 3 (7.50%) Automotive
6 3 (7.50%) Electronics
6 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
7 2 (5.00%) Banking
7 2 (5.00%) Billing
7 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (57.50%) Developer
2 9 (22.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 7 (17.50%) Architect
5 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 6 (15.00%) Senior Developer
6 4 (10.00%) .NET Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Automation Tester
6 4 (10.00%) Selenium Automation Tester
6 4 (10.00%) Selenium Tester
6 4 (10.00%) Tester
7 3 (7.50%) Android Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Principal Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Java Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) .NET
2 10 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 10 (25.00%) React
2 10 (25.00%) Spring
2 10 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 10 (25.00%) Swagger
3 8 (20.00%) REST
4 7 (17.50%) SOAP
5 6 (15.00%) .NET Core
5 6 (15.00%) HTML
6 5 (12.50%) CSS
6 5 (12.50%) OpenAPI
7 4 (10.00%) JSON
7 4 (10.00%) Node.js
8 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
8 3 (7.50%) JPA
8 3 (7.50%) Material Design
8 3 (7.50%) OAuth
8 3 (7.50%) OAuth2
8 3 (7.50%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) TM Forum
4 1 (2.50%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Android
2 3 (7.50%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.00%) Linux
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) Agile
2 25 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 18 (45.00%) DevOps
4 17 (42.50%) Microservices
5 16 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (27.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (25.00%) API Development
8 7 (17.50%) Architectural Patterns
8 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
8 7 (17.50%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (17.50%) User Experience
9 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
10 5 (12.50%) AI
10 5 (12.50%) API Design
10 5 (12.50%) Asynchronous Programming
10 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
11 4 (10.00%) Regression Testing
11 4 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
11 4 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) Java
2 16 (40.00%) SQL
3 14 (35.00%) C#
4 12 (30.00%) Python
5 11 (27.50%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.00%) Go
6 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.50%) Kotlin
7 3 (7.50%) Objective-C
7 3 (7.50%) Swift
8 2 (5.00%) Bash
8 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (12.50%) Degree
3 5 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (22.50%) Terraform
2 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.00%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) Grafana
4 2 (5.00%) Proxmox
4 2 (5.00%) Rundeck
4 2 (5.00%) Salt
5 1 (2.50%) Argo
5 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Apple
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle
1 3 (7.50%) SAP
2 2 (5.00%) VMware
3 1 (2.50%) Adobe
3 1 (2.50%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.50%) Pega
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.50%) Splunk