REST Contracts in the South West

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 106 107
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 -10
Contract jobs citing REST 22 51 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.31% 1.59% 1.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.53% 11.89% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 44
10th Percentile £448 £300 £408
25th Percentile £498 £400 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £616 £575 £688
90th Percentile £651 £690 £725
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
Median hourly rate £82.96 £75.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.61% +50.00% +0.50%
England median hourly rate £55.00 £74.44 £53.87
% change year-on-year -26.11% +38.18% +8.28%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

REST 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 292 429 561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.40% 13.41% 15.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 286 445
10th Percentile £355 £313 £387
25th Percentile £445 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £625
90th Percentile £725 £703 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 50 18
10th Percentile £61.25 £43.75 £49.25
25th Percentile £64.38 £45.00 £50.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% -4.78% -9.52%
75th Percentile £68.00 £73.33 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the South West.

Daily rate trend for REST in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wiltshire +43 12 £575 - 3
Gloucestershire +15 4 £610 +22.00% 11
Bristol -2 3 £450 - 14
Dorset +1 2 £475 +18.75% 7
Devon +3 1 £425 -22.73% 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (36.36%) Confluence
2 2 (9.09%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) Google Analytics
1 2 (9.09%) Matillion
1 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.55%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.55%) Figma
2 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
2 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Power BI
1 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.55%) CockroachDB
2 1 (4.55%) Flink
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (68.18%) Git
2 13 (59.09%) Bitbucket
3 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 8 (36.36%) JIRA
5 2 (9.09%) GitLab
6 1 (4.55%) Ant
6 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
6 1 (4.55%) Storybook
6 1 (4.55%) Vite
6 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Django Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Python/Django Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (4.55%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (59.09%) SOAP
2 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
2 3 (13.64%) React
3 2 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (9.09%) CSS
3 2 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (9.09%) Spring
3 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.09%) Vue
4 1 (4.55%) Django
4 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.55%) JPA
4 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.55%) Redux
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Linux
2 11 (50.00%) Windows
3 10 (45.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Agile
2 15 (68.18%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (54.55%) Configuration Management
3 12 (54.55%) Deployment Automation
3 12 (54.55%) Validation
4 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 11 (50.00%) NsoIT
4 11 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
5 10 (45.45%) Service Management
5 10 (45.45%) System Testing
6 6 (27.27%) DevOps
6 6 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 3 (13.64%) User Experience
9 2 (9.09%) Analytics
9 2 (9.09%) Data Transformation
9 2 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
9 2 (9.09%) Microservices
9 2 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) Python
2 12 (54.55%) PowerShell
3 11 (50.00%) Bash
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Java
5 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
6 1 (4.55%) X++
Qualifications
1 15 (68.18%) Security Cleared
2 12 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 11 (50.00%) OCA
3 11 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
3 11 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 10 (45.45%) CCNP
4 10 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (45.45%) RHCA
4 10 (45.45%) RHCE
5 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
6 2 (9.09%) Degree
6 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (4.55%) MCSA
7 1 (4.55%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.55%) QA
1 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (68.18%) Ansible
2 11 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 11 (50.00%) Puppet
2 11 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.64%) Terraform
4 1 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) Oracle
2 11 (50.00%) VMware
3 10 (45.45%) Cisco
4 8 (36.36%) Atlassian
5 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 3 (13.64%) Salesforce
6 2 (9.09%) Google
7 1 (4.55%) Pardot
7 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.55%) Veeam