REST Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 58 92
Rank change year-on-year -36 +34 +3
Contract jobs citing REST 71 56 41
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 2.18% 3.37% 1.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.67% 18.24% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 31 20
10th Percentile £361 £321 £359
25th Percentile £381 £372 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -21.57% +27.50%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £678
90th Percentile £596 £551 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £588
% change year-on-year +10.53% -19.15% +6.82%

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 453 307 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.93% 18.49% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 207 282
10th Percentile £358 £325 £360
25th Percentile £431 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £619
90th Percentile £670 £630 £652
South East median daily rate £525 £486 £525
% change year-on-year +7.97% -7.38% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 12
10th Percentile £29.07 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £43.83 £17.05 £56.65
Median hourly rate £73.17 £27.76 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +163.56% -54.94% +2.67%
75th Percentile £84.34 £32.53 -
90th Percentile £87.16 £56.65 -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +40.00% -18.83% -1.44%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

REST job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

REST
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the Thames Valley

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing REST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing REST

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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 22 July 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
Berkshire -43 35 £500 - 13
Buckinghamshire -8 33 £500 +55.76% 3
Oxfordshire -18 3 £625 +51.52% 6
REST
South East

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.45%) Confluence
1 6 (8.45%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.82%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.41%) Appian
3 1 (1.41%) CIMPLICITY
3 1 (1.41%) IIS
3 1 (1.41%) JBoss
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.41%) Predix
3 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (50.70%) Azure
2 23 (32.39%) AWS
3 19 (26.76%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (15.49%) GCP
5 10 (14.08%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (12.68%) Azure Key Vault
7 8 (11.27%) Azure AKS
7 8 (11.27%) Entra ID
8 7 (9.86%) Azure App Service
9 6 (8.45%) Azure Storage
9 6 (8.45%) GitHub
9 6 (8.45%) Google App Engine
10 5 (7.04%) Azure API Management
11 4 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (5.63%) Serverless
12 3 (4.23%) Apigee
12 3 (4.23%) Azure Functions
12 3 (4.23%) IaaS
12 3 (4.23%) PaaS
13 2 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) BGP
1 5 (7.04%) LAN
1 5 (7.04%) MPLS
1 5 (7.04%) WAN
2 2 (2.82%) DNS
2 2 (2.82%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (9.86%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.23%) DocumentDB
2 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.82%) GIS
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.41%) Big Data
4 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.41%) Metadata
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.41%) Parquet
4 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (29.58%) Git
2 7 (9.86%) GitLab
3 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.63%) NUnit
5 2 (2.82%) Maven
6 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.41%) Gradle
6 1 (1.41%) JIRA
6 1 (1.41%) JUnit
6 1 (1.41%) Mockito
General
1 19 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.45%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.23%) Publishing
5 2 (2.82%) Automotive
5 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Finance
5 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (52.11%) Developer
2 16 (22.54%) Architect
3 10 (14.08%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (12.68%) ServiceNow Developer
5 8 (11.27%) .NET Developer
6 7 (9.86%) Azure Developer
6 7 (9.86%) ServiceNow Architect
7 6 (8.45%) Consultant
8 5 (7.04%) IP Architect
8 5 (7.04%) Network Architect
8 5 (7.04%) Senior
8 5 (7.04%) ServiceNow Consultant
9 4 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.23%) Apigee Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Java Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Java Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) React Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (45.07%) SOAP
2 19 (26.76%) OAuth
3 16 (22.54%) .NET
4 14 (19.72%) React
5 13 (18.31%) JSON
6 12 (16.90%) .NET Core
7 11 (15.49%) .NET Framework
8 10 (14.08%) Entity Framework
8 10 (14.08%) RESTful
8 10 (14.08%) SAML
9 7 (9.86%) OAuth2
9 7 (9.86%) OpenID
9 7 (9.86%) Web Services
9 7 (9.86%) XML
10 6 (8.45%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (8.45%) JWT
10 6 (8.45%) Spring
11 5 (7.04%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 5 (7.04%) NETCONF
11 5 (7.04%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.86%) CMDB
2 7 (9.86%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.82%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.41%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.41%) IoT
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.41%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.41%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
1 2 (2.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (52.11%) Agile
2 32 (45.07%) DevOps
3 28 (39.44%) CI/CD
4 23 (32.39%) Scrum
5 18 (25.35%) ITSM
6 15 (21.13%) Microservices
6 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (19.72%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (16.90%) CAD
8 12 (16.90%) Enterprise Architecture
9 11 (15.49%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (14.08%) Analytics
10 10 (14.08%) Data Modelling
10 10 (14.08%) ITIL
11 9 (12.68%) RBAC
11 9 (12.68%) Roadmaps
12 8 (11.27%) TDD
13 7 (9.86%) TOGAF
13 7 (9.86%) User Acceptance Testing
13 7 (9.86%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.70%) JavaScript
2 24 (33.80%) SQL
3 17 (23.94%) Python
4 16 (22.54%) C#
5 11 (15.49%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.86%) Java
7 6 (8.45%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.23%) Bicep
9 2 (2.82%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.82%) Bash
9 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.82%) VB
10 1 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 18 (25.35%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) CCIE
3 5 (7.04%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (7.04%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) JNCIE
4 4 (5.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.68%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) GRC
3 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (21.13%) Docker
2 7 (9.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (19.72%) Terraform
2 13 (18.31%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.04%) Ansible
4 2 (2.82%) Grafana
4 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.41%) Argo
5 1 (1.41%) SCOM
5 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (35.21%) ServiceNow
2 12 (16.90%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.45%) Oracle
4 5 (7.04%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.23%) Google
5 3 (4.23%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.82%) ESRI
6 2 (2.82%) HP
6 2 (2.82%) VMware
7 1 (1.41%) BMC
7 1 (1.41%) Citrix
7 1 (1.41%) SAP
7 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.41%) Splunk