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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 55 88
Rank change year-on-year -44 +33 +15
Contract jobs citing REST 67 60 41
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 2.05% 3.60% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.23% 18.99% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 31 18
10th Percentile £337 £321 £351
25th Percentile £363 £372 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -21.57% +13.33%
75th Percentile £541 £519 £675
90th Percentile £597 £551 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%

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 440 316 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.44% 18.97% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 207 262
10th Percentile £358 £323 £363
25th Percentile £431 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -11.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £670 £630 £652
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 10
10th Percentile £29.07 £13.25 £53.76
25th Percentile £51.25 £17.05 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £27.76 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +155.76% -54.94% +23.20%
75th Percentile £79.93 £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% +5.14%

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 11 August 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

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 11 August 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
Buckinghamshire -8 34 £500 +55.76% 9
Berkshire -54 31 £500 - 18
Oxfordshire -24 2 £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 7 (10.45%) OpenStack
2 6 (8.96%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.49%) CIMPLICITY
3 1 (1.49%) Predix
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 36 (53.73%) Azure
2 22 (32.84%) AWS
3 19 (28.36%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (16.42%) Azure Monitor
4 11 (16.42%) GCP
5 9 (13.43%) Azure Key Vault
6 8 (11.94%) Azure AKS
6 8 (11.94%) Azure App Service
6 8 (11.94%) Entra ID
7 7 (10.45%) GitHub
8 6 (8.96%) Azure API Management
8 6 (8.96%) Azure Storage
8 6 (8.96%) Google App Engine
9 5 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.97%) IaaS
10 4 (5.97%) PaaS
10 4 (5.97%) Serverless
11 3 (4.48%) Apigee
11 3 (4.48%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) BGP
1 6 (8.96%) MPLS
2 5 (7.46%) LAN
2 5 (7.46%) WAN
3 2 (2.99%) DNS
3 2 (2.99%) HTTPS
3 2 (2.99%) Network Security
4 1 (1.49%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.49%) IPv4
4 1 (1.49%) IPv6
4 1 (1.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.97%) DocumentDB
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.99%) Parquet
4 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.49%) Big Data
5 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.49%) MySQL
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (32.84%) Git
2 7 (10.45%) GitLab
3 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.97%) NUnit
5 3 (4.48%) JIRA
6 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.49%) Gradle
6 1 (1.49%) Maven
General
1 17 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.46%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.48%) Finance
5 3 (4.48%) Publishing
6 2 (2.99%) Automotive
6 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (55.22%) Developer
2 11 (16.42%) Architect
3 10 (14.93%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (13.43%) ServiceNow Developer
5 8 (11.94%) .NET Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Azure Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Consultant
6 6 (8.96%) Network Architect
7 5 (7.46%) IP Architect
7 5 (7.46%) Senior
7 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow Architect
9 3 (4.48%) Apigee Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.48%) Technical Consultant
10 2 (2.99%) Applications Developer
10 2 (2.99%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (41.79%) SOAP
2 18 (26.87%) OAuth
3 17 (25.37%) .NET
4 15 (22.39%) React
5 14 (20.90%) JSON
6 12 (17.91%) .NET Core
6 12 (17.91%) .NET Framework
7 11 (16.42%) Entity Framework
8 10 (14.93%) RESTful
9 9 (13.43%) SAML
10 7 (10.45%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (10.45%) JWT
10 7 (10.45%) OAuth2
10 7 (10.45%) XML
11 6 (8.96%) ASP.NET
11 6 (8.96%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 6 (8.96%) Middleware
11 6 (8.96%) NETCONF
11 6 (8.96%) OpenID
11 6 (8.96%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.96%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.46%) CMDB
3 5 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.48%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.99%) SCADA
6 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.49%) IoT
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.49%) TM Forum
6 1 (1.49%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (56.72%) Agile
2 31 (46.27%) DevOps
3 28 (41.79%) CI/CD
4 23 (34.33%) Scrum
5 15 (22.39%) ITSM
6 14 (20.90%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (20.90%) Microservices
7 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (16.42%) Analytics
8 11 (16.42%) CAD
8 11 (16.42%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (14.93%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (13.43%) Data Modelling
10 9 (13.43%) ITIL
10 9 (13.43%) RBAC
11 8 (11.94%) Log Analytics
11 8 (11.94%) TDD
11 8 (11.94%) Test Automation
11 8 (11.94%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (11.94%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 35 (52.24%) JavaScript
2 23 (34.33%) SQL
3 18 (26.87%) Python
4 17 (25.37%) C#
5 11 (16.42%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.45%) PowerShell
7 6 (8.96%) Java
8 4 (5.97%) Bicep
9 2 (2.99%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.99%) Bash
9 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.99%) VB
10 1 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.96%) CCIE
3 6 (8.96%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (8.96%) JNCIE
4 5 (7.46%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.97%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) CCIE Service Provider
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.49%) GDPR
2 1 (1.49%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) Docker
2 7 (10.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (23.88%) Kubernetes
1 16 (23.88%) Terraform
2 6 (8.96%) Ansible
3 1 (1.49%) SCOM
3 1 (1.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (32.84%) ServiceNow
2 13 (19.40%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.45%) Oracle
4 4 (5.97%) MuleSoft
4 4 (5.97%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.48%) Google
5 3 (4.48%) VMware
6 2 (2.99%) HP
7 1 (1.49%) BMC
7 1 (1.49%) Cisco
7 1 (1.49%) Citrix
7 1 (1.49%) Databricks
7 1 (1.49%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.49%) Splunk