REST Contracts in the Thames Valley

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 89 74
Rank change year-on-year +39 -15 +27
Contract jobs citing REST 50 46 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.43% 1.75% 2.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.12% 12.64% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 41
10th Percentile £344 £418 £425
25th Percentile £400 £553 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £527 £688 £600
90th Percentile £571 £715 £623
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 276 364 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.94% 13.85% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 250 338
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £650 £652 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 8
10th Percentile £13.25 £56.61 £52.90
25th Percentile £17.05 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £27.76 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -54.94% -21.78% +22.23%
75th Percentile £54.97 - £80.25
90th Percentile £83.31 £61.72 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £61.60 £67.50
% change year-on-year -10.82% -8.74% +50.00%

REST
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 29 May 2025.

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 29 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
Berkshire +34 47 £500 -23.08% 203
Buckinghamshire +13 3 £321 -26.63% 85
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 2 (4.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.00%) AWS
1 23 (46.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) SaaS
3 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.00%) OCI
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (6.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (6.00%) Azure App Service
4 3 (6.00%) PaaS
4 3 (6.00%) Serverless
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) HTTP
2 2 (4.00%) MQTT
2 2 (4.00%) SSL
2 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.00%) FTP
3 1 (2.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (14.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (12.00%) Data Lake
3 4 (8.00%) MySQL
3 4 (8.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.00%) DocumentDB
4 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.00%) Parquet
5 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (28.00%) JIRA
3 13 (26.00%) Cucumber
3 13 (26.00%) GitLab
3 13 (26.00%) REST Assured
3 13 (26.00%) Selenium
4 10 (20.00%) SonarQube
5 6 (12.00%) Git
6 3 (6.00%) JUnit
6 3 (6.00%) Mockito
7 2 (4.00%) JMeter
8 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (2.00%) DbUnit
8 1 (2.00%) jMock
8 1 (2.00%) Maven
8 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (34.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Law
3 8 (16.00%) Telecoms
4 5 (10.00%) Billing
5 4 (8.00%) Police
5 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Automotive
6 2 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (40.00%) Developer
2 9 (18.00%) Java Developer
2 9 (18.00%) Java Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Software Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Architect
4 6 (12.00%) SIEM Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Designer
5 5 (10.00%) Solutions Designer
6 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.00%) AWS Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Salesforce Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior
7 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Telecoms Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (32.00%) JSON
1 16 (32.00%) Web Services
2 15 (30.00%) SOAP
3 13 (26.00%) Java EE
4 10 (20.00%) ARM Templates
4 10 (20.00%) XML
5 7 (14.00%) HTML
6 6 (12.00%) .NET
7 5 (10.00%) OAuth
8 4 (8.00%) .NET Core
8 4 (8.00%) .NET Framework
8 4 (8.00%) Ajax
8 4 (8.00%) CSS
9 3 (6.00%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (6.00%) Entity Framework
9 3 (6.00%) GraphQL
9 3 (6.00%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (6.00%) Node.js
9 3 (6.00%) React
9 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) CSOC
1 6 (12.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (10.00%) Frameworx
2 5 (10.00%) TM Forum
3 4 (8.00%) CMDB
3 4 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Infotainment
4 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.00%) DevOps
2 21 (42.00%) Agile
3 20 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 17 (34.00%) Configuration Management
4 17 (34.00%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 14 (28.00%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (28.00%) Software Engineering
7 13 (26.00%) Software Architecture
8 12 (24.00%) Containerisation
9 11 (22.00%) CI/CD
9 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (20.00%) Decision-Making
10 10 (20.00%) Scrum
11 9 (18.00%) Process Improvement
12 8 (16.00%) Microservices
13 6 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
13 6 (12.00%) Incident Response
13 6 (12.00%) Security Operations
13 6 (12.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) Java
2 9 (18.00%) SQL
3 7 (14.00%) Python
4 5 (10.00%) C#
5 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.00%) Apex Code
6 3 (6.00%) Bicep
7 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.00%) ActionScript
8 1 (2.00%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (2.00%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) GIAC
4 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) HL7
2 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (32.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 15 (30.00%) Terraform
2 9 (18.00%) Ansible
2 9 (18.00%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (18.00%) Podman
3 2 (4.00%) Kibana
3 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.00%) Grafana
4 1 (2.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 8 (16.00%) Salesforce
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.00%) Oracle
5 3 (6.00%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.00%) Splunk
7 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.00%) IBM
7 1 (2.00%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (2.00%) SAP
7 1 (2.00%) Snow