REST Contracts in Surrey

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 34 43 53
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing REST 5 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.68% 2.21% 2.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.93% 16.05% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 13
10th Percentile £624 £429 £403
25th Percentile £633 £452 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £666 £619 £572
90th Percentile £671 £725 £664
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £549
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.27% -0.27%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 56 81 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 18.79% 13.80% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 63 82
10th Percentile £350 £251 £313
25th Percentile £416 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
75th Percentile £584 £619 £588
90th Percentile £663 £658 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £41.00 £50.50
25th Percentile £37.80 £55.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £40.59 £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.26% +45.45% +171.60%
75th Percentile £43.39 - £60.63
90th Percentile - - £62.50
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Surrey

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for REST in Surrey

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for REST in Surrey

REST
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Surrey 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
Leatherhead - 3 £650 - 1
REST
South East

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (80.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Solr
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (40.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (20.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) GitLab
2 4 (80.00%) Maven
3 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (20.00%) Git
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) JSON
1 4 (80.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) Ajax
2 2 (40.00%) Java EE
2 2 (40.00%) JAXB
2 2 (40.00%) JAX-RS
2 2 (40.00%) JAX-WS
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) XSD
2 2 (40.00%) XSL
2 2 (40.00%) XSLT
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) SOA
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) BPEL
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Situational Awareness
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) XPath
4 1 (20.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian