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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 94 104
Rank change year-on-year +34 +10 -33
Contract jobs citing REST 65 34 39
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 3.30% 1.58% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.36% 8.48% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 10 19
10th Percentile £363 £431 £455
25th Percentile £406 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% -7.95% +2.33%
75th Percentile £501 £555 £600
90th Percentile £545 £576 £651
South East median daily rate £438 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -18.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.75
Median hourly rate - - £88.50
75th Percentile - - £90.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year +78.57% -63.41% +27.55%

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 354 401 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.95% 18.63% 16.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 267 242
10th Percentile £325 £384 £308
25th Percentile £410 £425 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £524
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.91% -4.68%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £624 £666 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 11
10th Percentile £46.92 £36.42 -
25th Percentile £68.83 £49.43 £50.00
Median hourly rate £81.00 £59.95 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +35.11% +9.88% +22.26%
75th Percentile - £64.92 £80.13
90th Percentile - £70.89 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -6.00%

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 27 November 2025.

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

REST
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 27 November 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 +26 59 £475 - 21
Buckinghamshire +1 4 £431 -21.59% 5
Oxfordshire -8 2 £413 +58.65% 15
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 (9.23%) OpenStack
2 4 (6.15%) Camunda
3 3 (4.62%) Anypoint
3 3 (4.62%) WebLogic
4 2 (3.08%) nginx
5 1 (1.54%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.54%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.85%) Azure
2 20 (30.77%) AWS
3 11 (16.92%) GitHub
4 7 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (10.77%) GCP
4 7 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (10.77%) Serverless
5 6 (9.23%) SaaS
6 5 (7.69%) Azure Functions
7 4 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.62%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (4.62%) Azure API Management
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.62%) OCI
9 2 (3.08%) AtomSphere
9 2 (3.08%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.08%) Boomi
9 2 (3.08%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) BGP
1 7 (10.77%) MPLS
2 6 (9.23%) LAN
2 6 (9.23%) WAN
3 2 (3.08%) SSL
3 2 (3.08%) VoIP
4 1 (1.54%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (1.54%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.46%) Relational Database
2 7 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.23%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.62%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.62%) MySQL
5 3 (4.62%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.62%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (4.62%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (4.62%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (3.08%) GIS
6 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.54%) Parquet
7 1 (1.54%) Power BI
7 1 (1.54%) PowerCenter
7 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.54%) Redis
7 1 (1.54%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Git
2 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.08%) JIRA
4 1 (1.54%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) Gradle
4 1 (1.54%) Maven
4 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (43.08%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.23%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.69%) Retail
5 3 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Finance
6 2 (3.08%) Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Billing
7 1 (1.54%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (46.15%) Developer
2 15 (23.08%) Architect
3 8 (12.31%) Senior
4 7 (10.77%) Python Developer
4 7 (10.77%) Salesforce Developer
5 6 (9.23%) IP Architect
5 6 (9.23%) IP Specialist
5 6 (9.23%) Lead
5 6 (9.23%) ServiceNow Architect
6 5 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (6.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Active Directory Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) AWS Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Integration Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Oracle Specialist
8 3 (4.62%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (52.31%) SOAP
2 11 (16.92%) React
3 9 (13.85%) OAuth
4 8 (12.31%) .NET
4 8 (12.31%) GraphQL
5 7 (10.77%) JSON
5 7 (10.77%) Lightning Web Components
5 7 (10.77%) NETCONF
5 7 (10.77%) YANG
6 6 (9.23%) .NET Core
6 6 (9.23%) OAuth2
6 6 (9.23%) Visualforce
7 5 (7.69%) Node.js
7 5 (7.69%) Web Services
7 5 (7.69%) XML
8 4 (6.15%) AngularJS
8 4 (6.15%) HTML
8 4 (6.15%) OpenID
9 3 (4.62%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 3 (4.62%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Cloud Native
1 9 (13.85%) CMDB
2 6 (9.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.62%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.54%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.54%) IoT
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) CentOS
2 2 (3.08%) Windows
3 1 (1.54%) Unix
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (33.85%) CI/CD
2 22 (33.85%) DevOps
3 20 (30.77%) Agile
4 16 (24.62%) Data Modelling
5 14 (21.54%) Roadmaps
6 13 (20.00%) Microservices
6 13 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 12 (18.46%) Enterprise Architecture
8 10 (15.38%) API Management
8 10 (15.38%) Scrum
8 10 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
8 10 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
9 9 (13.85%) IT Asset Management
9 9 (13.85%) ITSM
9 9 (13.85%) Security Operations
10 8 (12.31%) AI
10 8 (12.31%) ITIL
11 7 (10.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.38%) JavaScript
2 22 (33.85%) Python
3 13 (20.00%) SQL
4 12 (18.46%) Java
5 10 (15.38%) C#
6 7 (10.77%) Apex Code
7 6 (9.23%) PHP
8 5 (7.69%) Bash
8 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.62%) DataWeave
9 3 (4.62%) Jython
9 3 (4.62%) PL/SQL
10 2 (3.08%) Groovy
10 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.54%) Delphi
11 1 (1.54%) Magik
11 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.54%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 6 (9.23%) CCIE
1 6 (9.23%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (9.23%) JNCIE
1 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.08%) Degree
3 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) GRC
2 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.62%) GDPR
2 3 (4.62%) QA
3 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) NIST
3 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (10.77%) Docker
2 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (9.23%) Ansible
2 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.15%) Terraform
4 3 (4.62%) CloudHub
5 1 (1.54%) Argo
5 1 (1.54%) Grafana
5 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) Salesforce
2 9 (13.85%) ServiceNow
3 6 (9.23%) Oracle
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.62%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.08%) Databricks
5 2 (3.08%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.54%) Cisco
6 1 (1.54%) IBM
6 1 (1.54%) Informatica
6 1 (1.54%) Pega
6 1 (1.54%) Snow