RESTful Contracts in the South West

RESTful
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 128 139
Rank change year-on-year +26 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing RESTful 14 14 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.73% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.93% 3.15% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 8
10th Percentile £413 £320 £399
25th Percentile £422 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £460
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +19.57% -5.64%
75th Percentile £681 £575 £489
90th Percentile £700 £598 £519
England median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £78.91
% change year-on-year -31.25% +1.39% +24.39%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 284 445 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.90% 15.81% 16.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 259 418
10th Percentile £330 £350 £361
25th Percentile £413 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £516
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +6.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £707
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 76 27
10th Percentile £60.88 £43.75 £48.32
25th Percentile £64.38 £45.00 £51.88
Median hourly rate £67.75 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% +7.69% +2.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £76.75
90th Percentile £72.61 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful 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 RESTful in the South West.

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the South West over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful 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 RESTful in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for RESTful 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 RESTful within the South West region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Dorset - 6 £600 - 1
Bristol +3 3 - - 11
Gloucestershire +21 2 £700 +27.27% 10
Devon - 2 £425 - 2
Wiltshire - 1 £475 - 2
RESTful
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Figma
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) npm
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) webpack
3 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 2 (14.29%) Storybook
3 2 (14.29%) Vite
4 1 (7.14%) Code Climate
4 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.14%) GitLab
4 1 (7.14%) JUnit
4 1 (7.14%) Maven
4 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leader
4 2 (14.29%) UI Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) CSS
1 9 (64.29%) HTML
2 7 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 5 (35.71%) React
3 5 (35.71%) Web Services
4 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
5 3 (21.43%) jQuery
5 3 (21.43%) Spring
6 2 (14.29%) CSS3
6 2 (14.29%) HTML5
6 2 (14.29%) Middleware
6 2 (14.29%) Node.js
6 2 (14.29%) OAuth
6 2 (14.29%) OAuth2
6 2 (14.29%) Redux
6 2 (14.29%) REST
6 2 (14.29%) SOAP
6 2 (14.29%) Spring Security
6 2 (14.29%) Vue
7 1 (7.14%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Agile
2 11 (78.57%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) Scrum
5 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (28.57%) Design Patterns
6 4 (28.57%) DevOps
6 4 (28.57%) Front End Development
6 4 (28.57%) SDLC
6 4 (28.57%) User Experience
6 4 (28.57%) UX Design
7 3 (21.43%) API Design
7 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
7 3 (21.43%) ITSM
7 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 3 (21.43%) Responsive Web Design
7 3 (21.43%) User Stories
7 3 (21.43%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
3 4 (28.57%) Java
4 3 (21.43%) Python
4 3 (21.43%) SQL
5 2 (14.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 2 (14.29%) QA
1 2 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce