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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 113 136
Rank change year-on-year +18 +23 0
Contract jobs citing RESTful 25 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.51% 0.56% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.81% 3.44% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 4
10th Percentile £320 £435 -
25th Percentile £400 £563 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £581 £318
Median % change year-on-year -20.31% +82.99% -42.27%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £456
90th Percentile £600 £616 £556
South East median daily rate £457 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -19.20% +2.73% +9.45%

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 320 378 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.27% 16.20% 15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 264 322
10th Percentile £325 £363 £313
25th Percentile £400 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £624 £625
90th Percentile £625 £652 £706
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 11
10th Percentile £13.25 £53.76 £16.84
25th Percentile £17.05 - -
Median hourly rate £27.76 £61.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.94% +23.20% +42.86%
75th Percentile £32.53 - £74.60
90th Percentile £56.65 - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -

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 7 August 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 7 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
Berkshire +22 19 £525 -9.79% 17
Buckinghamshire - 5 £331 - 4
Oxfordshire -9 1 £438 +68.27% 2
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 3 (12.00%) CMS
2 2 (8.00%) Umbraco
3 1 (4.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) Drupal
3 1 (4.00%) Headless CMS
3 1 (4.00%) nginx
3 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) GitHub
3 8 (32.00%) GCP
4 7 (28.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (12.00%) Serverless
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.00%) Datadog
8 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
8 1 (4.00%) IaaS
8 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
8 1 (4.00%) PaaS
8 1 (4.00%) Route 53
8 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (4.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) MySQL
1 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.00%) Parquet
4 1 (4.00%) Redis
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) GitLab
3 3 (12.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (8.00%) JIRA
4 2 (8.00%) Maven
5 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (4.00%) DbUnit
5 1 (4.00%) Eclipse
5 1 (4.00%) Gradle
5 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.00%) jMock
5 1 (4.00%) JUnit
5 1 (4.00%) Mocha
5 1 (4.00%) Mockito
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (84.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Python Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Cloud Developer
4 4 (16.00%) .NET Developer
4 4 (16.00%) React Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Umbraco Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (4.00%) HTML CSS Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (4.00%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) FastAPI
2 6 (24.00%) .NET
2 6 (24.00%) HTML
2 6 (24.00%) React
3 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (16.00%) CSS
3 4 (16.00%) GraphQL
3 4 (16.00%) JSON
3 4 (16.00%) REST
4 3 (12.00%) Apollo GraphQL
4 3 (12.00%) Django
4 3 (12.00%) Entity Framework
4 3 (12.00%) Flask
4 3 (12.00%) jQuery
4 3 (12.00%) OAuth
4 3 (12.00%) SOAP
4 3 (12.00%) Spring
4 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (12.00%) Web Services
5 2 (8.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) DevOps
2 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (40.00%) Agile
4 9 (36.00%) Microservices
5 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.00%) Asynchronous Programming
6 5 (20.00%) Design Patterns
7 4 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (16.00%) CQRS
7 4 (16.00%) Data Management
7 4 (16.00%) Generative AI
8 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (12.00%) Multithreading
8 3 (12.00%) OO
8 3 (12.00%) User Experience
9 2 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (8.00%) End-to-End Testing
9 2 (8.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (28.00%) C#
4 5 (20.00%) SQL
5 4 (16.00%) Java
6 2 (8.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
7 1 (4.00%) Bicep
7 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.00%) SOQL
7 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Grafana
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Databricks
1 4 (16.00%) Virgin Media
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (4.00%) Pega
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk