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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 167 163
Rank change year-on-year +52 -4 -38
Contract jobs citing RESTful 38 28 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.26% 0.49% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.21% 3.71% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 37
10th Percentile £317 £363 £406
25th Percentile £409 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% -9.09% +1.54%
75th Percentile £550 £480 £575
90th Percentile £585 £663 £623
England median daily rate £475 £514 £600
% change year-on-year -7.59% -14.33% +9.09%
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% +18.58%

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 527 754 971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.47% 13.16% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 494 675
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £409 £409 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £622 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 45 41
10th Percentile £22.10 £35.00 £50.00
25th Percentile £35.05 £56.65 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -8.74% +45.95%
75th Percentile £58.72 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £62.03 £75.00 £79.19
England median hourly rate £61.25 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.36% -15.38% +23.22%

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 17 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 17 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 +50 17 £482 - 344
Hampshire +38 14 £468 -0.53% 164
Berkshire +31 11 £500 - 201
Buckinghamshire - 6 £450 - 84
Surrey +14 4 - - 109
West Sussex +5 2 £550 +69.23% 47
East Sussex +1 1 £450 +12.50% 64
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 (10.53%) Anypoint
1 4 (10.53%) Mule
2 3 (7.89%) Mule ESB
3 2 (5.26%) Confluence
4 1 (2.63%) CMS
4 1 (2.63%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.63%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 17 (44.74%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) AWS
3 6 (15.79%) GitHub
4 5 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) GCP
5 4 (10.53%) Serverless
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.89%) iPaaS
7 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.26%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.26%) Azure API Management
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Stack
7 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.26%) PaaS
7 2 (5.26%) SaaS
7 2 (5.26%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.95%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (21.05%) MySQL
3 5 (13.16%) Relational Database
4 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
4 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (5.26%) Redis
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.63%) ObjectStore
7 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.63%) Parquet
7 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (47.37%) Git
2 9 (23.68%) JIRA
3 4 (10.53%) Cypress.io
4 3 (7.89%) GitLab
4 3 (7.89%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.26%) Maven
5 2 (5.26%) Moq
5 2 (5.26%) Postman
5 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.63%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.63%) Gradle
6 1 (2.63%) jMock
6 1 (2.63%) JUnit
6 1 (2.63%) Mockito
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (2.63%) Selenium
6 1 (2.63%) Subversion
General
1 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Finance
2 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.26%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Retail
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (84.21%) Developer
2 6 (15.79%) Python Developer
2 6 (15.79%) Senior
2 6 (15.79%) Senior Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Java Developer
3 4 (10.53%) MuleSoft Developer
3 4 (10.53%) React Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Software Developer
5 2 (5.26%) .NET Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Ruby Developer
5 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Ruby Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
6 1 (2.63%) HTML CSS Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Integration Developer
6 1 (2.63%) Integration Specialist
6 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) Web Services
2 10 (26.32%) JSON
2 10 (26.32%) React
3 8 (21.05%) REST
3 8 (21.05%) XML
4 7 (18.42%) AngularJS
4 7 (18.42%) Spring
4 7 (18.42%) Spring Boot
5 6 (15.79%) .NET
5 6 (15.79%) FastAPI
5 6 (15.79%) Hibernate
5 6 (15.79%) HTML
5 6 (15.79%) SOAP
6 5 (13.16%) .NET Core
6 5 (13.16%) CSS
6 5 (13.16%) Django
6 5 (13.16%) Flask
6 5 (13.16%) Node.js
7 4 (10.53%) GraphQL
7 4 (10.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) Agile
2 20 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 16 (42.11%) DevOps
4 15 (39.47%) Microservices
5 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (26.32%) Scrum
7 9 (23.68%) Test Automation
8 8 (21.05%) API Development
8 8 (21.05%) Design Patterns
9 6 (15.79%) API Design
9 6 (15.79%) API Management
9 6 (15.79%) Front End Development
9 6 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (15.79%) Sprint Planning
9 6 (15.79%) User Experience
9 6 (15.79%) UX Design
10 5 (13.16%) API Integration
10 5 (13.16%) SDLC
10 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
11 4 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) JavaScript
2 12 (31.58%) Java
3 11 (28.95%) SQL
4 7 (18.42%) Python
5 6 (15.79%) C#
6 3 (7.89%) DataWeave
6 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.26%) Go
7 2 (5.26%) PL/SQL
7 2 (5.26%) Ruby
8 1 (2.63%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.63%) Bicep
8 1 (2.63%) PHP
8 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.63%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) OCP
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.63%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) WCAG
3 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) CloudHub
3 2 (5.26%) Terraform
4 1 (2.63%) Grafana
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) MuleSoft
3 3 (7.89%) Atlassian
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.63%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.63%) Zend