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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 112 167
Rank change year-on-year -38 +55 -13
Contract jobs citing RESTful 34 43 41
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.69% 1.42% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.12% 8.45% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 24
10th Percentile £313 £390 -
25th Percentile £377 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £409 £460
Median % change year-on-year +28.36% -11.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £572 £456 £553
90th Percentile £598 £550 £576
England median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £52.75 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.53
75th Percentile £56.88 - -
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £39.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +39.24% -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 826 509 818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.67% 16.77% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 323 454
10th Percentile £321 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £588 £629 £625
90th Percentile £678 £669 £678
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 42
10th Percentile £40.00 £55.38 £51.58
25th Percentile £46.25 £60.38 £56.43
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.13 £76.15
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.19 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -45 21 £525 +28.36% 41
Buckinghamshire -6 13 £555 +11.00% 9
Hampshire -23 10 £315 -28.11% 20
Berkshire -39 7 £525 +28.99% 24
West Sussex -14 2 £313 -43.18% 13
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 8
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 3 (8.82%) Apache
1 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (5.88%) ArcGIS
2 2 (5.88%) CMS
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) Documentum
3 1 (2.94%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) AWS
3 8 (23.53%) GitHub
4 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
4 5 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.76%) GCP
5 4 (11.76%) Serverless
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.82%) MySQL
3 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.88%) GIS
5 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (41.18%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) Bitbucket
2 4 (11.76%) Gradle
2 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) JUnit
2 4 (11.76%) Maven
3 3 (8.82%) JIRA
3 3 (8.82%) Storybook
3 3 (8.82%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.94%) Postman
4 1 (2.94%) Selenium
General
1 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Marketing
4 3 (8.82%) Electronics
4 3 (8.82%) Finance
4 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Billing
5 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 26 (76.47%) Developer
2 11 (32.35%) Java Developer
3 10 (29.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (20.59%) Architect
5 5 (14.71%) Python Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Senior
6 4 (11.76%) Senior Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (5.88%) GIS Architect
8 2 (5.88%) Integration Architect
8 2 (5.88%) Java Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) React Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Senior Python Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Android Developer
9 1 (2.94%) iOS Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Java Architect
9 1 (2.94%) Java Software Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Mobile Applications Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Mobile Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (44.12%) Spring
1 15 (44.12%) Spring Boot
2 12 (35.29%) React
3 9 (26.47%) .NET
4 8 (23.53%) AngularJS
4 8 (23.53%) CSS
5 7 (20.59%) Hibernate
6 5 (14.71%) HTML
6 5 (14.71%) REST
6 5 (14.71%) Swagger
7 4 (11.76%) .NET Framework
7 4 (11.76%) Entity Framework
7 4 (11.76%) JPA
7 4 (11.76%) JSON
7 4 (11.76%) OpenAPI
8 3 (8.82%) Material-UI
8 3 (8.82%) OAuth
8 3 (8.82%) Spring MVC
8 3 (8.82%) Vitest
9 2 (5.88%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.82%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.88%) TM Forum
5 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Android
1 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) Microservices
2 21 (61.76%) CI/CD
3 17 (50.00%) Agile
4 14 (41.18%) DevOps
5 10 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
8 6 (17.65%) OOP
8 6 (17.65%) Scrum
8 6 (17.65%) Unit Testing
9 5 (14.71%) AI
9 5 (14.71%) API Development
9 5 (14.71%) Design Patterns
9 5 (14.71%) User Experience
10 4 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (11.76%) Front End Development
10 4 (11.76%) SDLC
10 4 (11.76%) Secure Coding
10 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
10 4 (11.76%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) Java
2 15 (44.12%) SQL
3 9 (26.47%) C#
4 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
4 7 (20.59%) Python
4 7 (20.59%) TypeScript
5 6 (17.65%) Go
6 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.94%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 14 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
1 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.94%) NIST
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.76%) Terraform
3 3 (8.82%) Ansible
4 1 (2.94%) Argo
4 1 (2.94%) Grafana
4 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) SAP
2 2 (5.88%) Adobe
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Salesforce