REST Contracts in the Thames Valley

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 87 64
Rank change year-on-year +26 -23 +35
Contract jobs citing REST 43 54 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.85% 1.99% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.99% 14.03% 18.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 54
10th Percentile £330 £500 £425
25th Percentile £350 £538 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +3.55%
75th Percentile £517 £688 £600
90th Percentile £562 £713 £622
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £542
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.43% -1.41%

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 269 385 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.85% 14.20% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 236 353
10th Percentile £350 £325 £365
25th Percentile £413 £422 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £625
90th Percentile £650 £672 £693
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 8
10th Percentile £23.35 £56.56 £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% +51.35%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for REST in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in the Thames Valley

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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 25 April 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 +17 40 £500 -23.08% 36
Buckinghamshire +12 3 £321 -26.63% 8
REST
South East

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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 1 (2.33%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.33%) Confluence
1 1 (2.33%) IIS
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 23 (53.49%) AWS
2 20 (46.51%) Azure
3 6 (13.95%) SaaS
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (6.98%) PaaS
4 3 (6.98%) Serverless
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.65%) Azure AKS
5 2 (4.65%) Azure App Service
5 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.33%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.33%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) HTTP
2 2 (4.65%) MQTT
2 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.33%) BGP
3 1 (2.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.33%) FTP
3 1 (2.33%) MPLS
3 1 (2.33%) SSL
3 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (13.95%) Data Lake
2 6 (13.95%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.30%) MySQL
3 4 (9.30%) RDBMS
4 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.65%) DocumentDB
5 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.33%) Parquet
6 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (37.21%) Jenkins
2 15 (34.88%) JIRA
3 14 (32.56%) GitLab
4 13 (30.23%) Cucumber
4 13 (30.23%) REST Assured
4 13 (30.23%) Selenium
5 10 (23.26%) SonarQube
6 4 (9.30%) Git
7 3 (6.98%) JUnit
7 3 (6.98%) Mockito
8 2 (4.65%) JMeter
9 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (2.33%) DbUnit
9 1 (2.33%) jMock
9 1 (2.33%) Maven
General
1 18 (41.86%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
3 8 (18.60%) Law
3 8 (18.60%) Telecoms
4 5 (11.63%) Billing
5 4 (9.30%) Police
5 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.65%) Automotive
7 1 (2.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Developer
2 9 (20.93%) Java Developer
2 9 (20.93%) Java Engineer
2 9 (20.93%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (20.93%) Software Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Architect
4 6 (13.95%) SIEM Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Designer
5 5 (11.63%) Solutions Designer
6 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior
7 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Telecoms Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 2 (4.65%) React Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (37.21%) JSON
2 13 (30.23%) Java EE
2 13 (30.23%) Web Services
3 10 (23.26%) ARM Templates
3 10 (23.26%) SOAP
3 10 (23.26%) XML
4 6 (13.95%) .NET
4 6 (13.95%) HTML
5 4 (9.30%) .NET Core
5 4 (9.30%) .NET Framework
5 4 (9.30%) Ajax
5 4 (9.30%) CSS
5 4 (9.30%) OAuth
6 3 (6.98%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (6.98%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (6.98%) Entity Framework
6 3 (6.98%) Hibernate
6 3 (6.98%) Node.js
6 3 (6.98%) React
6 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) CSOC
1 6 (13.95%) Onboarding
2 5 (11.63%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (11.63%) Frameworx
2 5 (11.63%) TM Forum
3 4 (9.30%) CMDB
3 4 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.65%) Infotainment
4 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) CentOS
2 1 (2.33%) Unix
2 1 (2.33%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) Technical Leadership
2 19 (44.19%) DevOps
3 18 (41.86%) Agile
4 17 (39.53%) Configuration Management
5 16 (37.21%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (34.88%) Test Automation
7 14 (32.56%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (32.56%) Software Engineering
8 13 (30.23%) Software Architecture
9 12 (27.91%) Containerisation
10 10 (23.26%) Decision-Making
10 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
11 9 (20.93%) Process Improvement
12 8 (18.60%) Microservices
12 8 (18.60%) Scrum
13 6 (13.95%) Cybersecurity
13 6 (13.95%) Incident Response
13 6 (13.95%) Security Operations
13 6 (13.95%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 18 (41.86%) Java
2 9 (20.93%) SQL
3 6 (13.95%) Python
4 5 (11.63%) C#
5 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.65%) Bicep
6 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.33%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.33%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 14 (32.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) GIAC
4 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (37.21%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (34.88%) Kubernetes
2 14 (32.56%) Terraform
3 9 (20.93%) Ansible
3 9 (20.93%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (20.93%) Podman
4 2 (4.65%) Kibana
4 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) ServiceNow
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.98%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.65%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco
5 1 (2.33%) IBM
5 1 (2.33%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) SAP
5 1 (2.33%) Snow