RESTful Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

RESTful
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring RESTful skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing RESTful 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.78% - 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.08% - 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £303 - £269
25th Percentile £306 - £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £413
75th Percentile £319 - £441
90th Percentile £323 - £446
South East median daily rate £475 £409 £470
% change year-on-year +16.14% -12.98% -12.15%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 65 37 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 25.39% 31.09% 23.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 26 37
10th Percentile £275 £350 £367
25th Percentile £332 £402 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +8.24% -29.17%
75th Percentile £605 £611 £678
90th Percentile £700 £632 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £50.25 - -
25th Percentile £50.63 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £55.63 - -
90th Percentile £56.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +0.81% -4.62%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RESTful relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

RESTful job vacancy trend in West Sussex

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing RESTful.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing RESTful

RESTful
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing RESTful.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing RESTful

RESTful
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. 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
Burgess Hill - 2 £313 - 2
RESTful
South East

RESTful
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) JPA
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes