REST Contracts in the Thames Valley

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 61 99
Rank change year-on-year -22 +38 -30
Contract jobs citing REST 54 89 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.02% 3.08% 1.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.47% 17.91% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 52 50
10th Percentile £500 £425 £375
25th Percentile £528 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £599
90th Percentile £710 £622 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 349 497 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.04% 17.18% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 360 441
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £432 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 5
10th Percentile £56.58 £52.90 £30.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +20.23% +69.03%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £68.25
90th Percentile £62.00 £80.48 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £64.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -4.50% +43.33% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for REST in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Berkshire -18 50 £650 +23.81% 9
Buckinghamshire +29 2 £438 - 4
Oxfordshire -7 2 £350 -41.67% 3
REST
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 11 (20.37%) Apache
1 11 (20.37%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (11.11%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.85%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) JBoss
3 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.74%) AWS
2 17 (31.48%) Azure
3 10 (18.52%) Serverless
4 7 (12.96%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (12.96%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (5.56%) Azure API Management
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.70%) GCP
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.85%) GitHub
7 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.85%) PaaS
7 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.37%) BGP
1 11 (20.37%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (20.37%) MPLS
1 11 (20.37%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (20.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.19%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (29.63%) NoSQL
3 11 (20.37%) MongoDB
4 7 (12.96%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (61.11%) Jenkins
2 26 (48.15%) Cucumber
2 26 (48.15%) Selenium
3 24 (44.44%) GitLab
3 24 (44.44%) JIRA
3 24 (44.44%) REST Assured
3 24 (44.44%) SonarQube
4 11 (20.37%) Robot Framework
4 11 (20.37%) TestRail
5 7 (12.96%) Git
6 6 (11.11%) JUnit
7 3 (5.56%) Visual Studio
8 2 (3.70%) JMeter
9 1 (1.85%) Appium
9 1 (1.85%) Mockito
9 1 (1.85%) NWDI
9 1 (1.85%) NWDS
9 1 (1.85%) TestNG
General
1 26 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 25 (46.30%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (37.04%) Law
4 13 (24.07%) Police
5 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.70%) Finance
6 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Developer
2 17 (31.48%) Java Engineer
3 14 (25.93%) Java Developer
4 10 (18.52%) Network Engineer
4 10 (18.52%) Test Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) Senior
6 6 (11.11%) Architect
6 6 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Full Stack Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Java Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Java Technical Architect
9 3 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (46.30%) Java EE
2 19 (35.19%) SOAP
3 15 (27.78%) ARM Templates
4 11 (20.37%) NETCONF
4 11 (20.37%) RESTCONF
4 11 (20.37%) YANG
5 10 (18.52%) Spring
5 10 (18.52%) Spring Boot
6 8 (14.81%) Web Services
7 6 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (11.11%) Node.js
8 5 (9.26%) .NET
8 5 (9.26%) AngularJS
8 5 (9.26%) JSON
9 4 (7.41%) RESTful
9 4 (7.41%) XML
10 3 (5.56%) J2EE
10 3 (5.56%) Kafka
10 3 (5.56%) OAuth
10 3 (5.56%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.85%) Educational Technology
2 1 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (68.52%) Test Automation
2 33 (61.11%) DevOps
3 26 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (48.15%) Technical Leadership
4 25 (46.30%) Continuous Integration
4 25 (46.30%) Decision-Making
4 25 (46.30%) Software Architecture
5 24 (44.44%) Containerisation
6 23 (42.59%) Software Engineering
7 19 (35.19%) Agile
7 19 (35.19%) Scrum
8 18 (33.33%) CI/CD
9 16 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (25.93%) Security Testing
11 13 (24.07%) Configuration Management
12 12 (22.22%) Workflow
13 11 (20.37%) Integration Testing
13 11 (20.37%) Performance Testing
13 11 (20.37%) Regression Testing
13 11 (20.37%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (68.52%) Java
2 17 (31.48%) SQL
3 12 (22.22%) Python
4 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.26%) C#
6 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.85%) Groovy
7 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (57.41%) SC Cleared
1 31 (57.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (57.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (51.85%) Ansible
2 19 (35.19%) Kubernetes
3 13 (24.07%) Terraform
4 12 (22.22%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (22.22%) Podman
5 1 (1.85%) Kibana
5 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle
3 1 (1.85%) SAP
3 1 (1.85%) Splunk