RESTful Contracts in the Thames Valley

RESTful
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 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 85 137 124
Rank change year-on-year +52 -13 +7
Contract jobs citing RESTful 17 8 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.13% 0.30% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.18% 2.18% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 23
10th Percentile £294 - £450
25th Percentile £400 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -20.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £475 - £563
90th Percentile £500 - £616
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £478
% change year-on-year - -5.76% -4.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 275 367 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.20% 13.66% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 234 352
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £600 £617 £625
90th Percentile £650 £673 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 8
10th Percentile £23.35 £56.58 £52.90
25th Percentile £27.11 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £31.50 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.86% -21.78% +20.23%
75th Percentile £77.19 - £80.25
90th Percentile £86.38 £62.00 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the Thames Valley

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the Thames Valley

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the Thames Valley

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in the Thames Valley

RESTful
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 RESTful within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +34 11 £409 +2.25% 12
Buckinghamshire - 6 £450 - 15
RESTful
South East

RESTful
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 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Headless CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Azure AKS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure Functions
2 5 (29.41%) Serverless
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
4 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub
5 2 (11.76%) Azure API Management
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (11.76%) PaaS
5 2 (11.76%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (5.88%) AWS KMS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure App Service
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (23.53%) Redis
3 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
3 3 (17.65%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.88%) Parquet
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) GitLab
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (5.88%) DbUnit
4 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) jMock
4 1 (5.88%) JUnit
4 1 (5.88%) Maven
4 1 (5.88%) Mockito
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (5.88%) Postman
4 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Backend Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Python Developer
3 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) React Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) GraphQL
2 4 (23.53%) Node.js
2 4 (23.53%) Prisma
2 4 (23.53%) React
3 3 (17.65%) .NET
3 3 (17.65%) Django
3 3 (17.65%) FastAPI
3 3 (17.65%) Flask
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) CSS
4 2 (11.76%) HTML
4 2 (11.76%) Kafka
4 2 (11.76%) Parceljs
4 2 (11.76%) REST
4 2 (11.76%) SOAP
4 2 (11.76%) Web Services
5 1 (5.88%) Spring Batch
5 1 (5.88%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
1 8 (47.06%) Microservices
2 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven
2 6 (35.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (29.41%) API Design
3 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
3 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (29.41%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) API Integration
4 4 (23.53%) Code Quality
4 4 (23.53%) Cost Management
4 4 (23.53%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (23.53%) Data Management
4 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
4 4 (23.53%) Front End Development
5 3 (17.65%) Agile
5 3 (17.65%) Asynchronous Programming
5 3 (17.65%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 4 (23.53%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
3 3 (17.65%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.88%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle