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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 89 110
Rank change year-on-year +29 +21 -24
Contract jobs citing REST 54 37 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.33% 1.68% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.14% 9.66% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 16
10th Percentile £350 £351 £466
25th Percentile £397 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -4.44% -2.17%
75th Percentile £506 £675 £616
90th Percentile £570 £688 £669
South East median daily rate £475 £455 £550
% change year-on-year +4.40% -17.27% -1.12%

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 315 383 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.43% 17.35% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 262 297
10th Percentile £321 £363 £313
25th Percentile £395 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £551 £625 £625
90th Percentile £625 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £472 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -10.10% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 7
10th Percentile - £50.87 £36.74
25th Percentile £13.25 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £61.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.08% +23.20% -22.40%
75th Percentile £23.03 - £53.03
90th Percentile £28.60 £64.25 £65.31
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.00%

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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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

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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 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the Thames Valley

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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 16 September 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 +39 53 £500 -4.76% 32
Oxfordshire -10 1 £413 +35.25% 6
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 6 (11.11%) OpenStack
2 4 (7.41%) Camunda
3 2 (3.70%) nginx
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 26 (48.15%) Azure
2 23 (42.59%) AWS
3 3 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.56%) OCI
3 3 (5.56%) Serverless
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (3.70%) GitHub
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.85%) Route 53
5 1 (1.85%) SaaS
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Twilio
5 1 (1.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.96%) BGP
1 7 (12.96%) MPLS
2 6 (11.11%) LAN
2 6 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (1.85%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.85%) HTTP
3 1 (1.85%) SMS
3 1 (1.85%) SSL
3 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.70%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.85%) GIS
4 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.85%) Redis
4 1 (1.85%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 15 (27.78%) JIRA
3 14 (25.93%) GitLab
4 13 (24.07%) Cucumber
4 13 (24.07%) REST Assured
4 13 (24.07%) Selenium
5 10 (18.52%) SonarQube
6 4 (7.41%) Git
7 3 (5.56%) JUnit
7 3 (5.56%) Mockito
8 2 (3.70%) JMeter
8 2 (3.70%) Maven
9 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.85%) DbUnit
9 1 (1.85%) Gradle
9 1 (1.85%) jMock
9 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Law
4 6 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.41%) Police
5 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.41%) Retail
6 3 (5.56%) Billing
7 2 (3.70%) Finance
8 1 (1.85%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 29 (53.70%) Developer
2 9 (16.67%) Architect
2 9 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Java Developer
3 8 (14.81%) Salesforce Developer
4 6 (11.11%) IP Architect
4 6 (11.11%) IP Specialist
5 4 (7.41%) Python Developer
5 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Designer
6 3 (5.56%) Senior
6 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Solutions Designer
7 2 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Gen AI Developer
7 2 (3.70%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (33.33%) SOAP
2 14 (25.93%) Web Services
3 13 (24.07%) Java EE
4 9 (16.67%) ARM Templates
5 8 (14.81%) JSON
5 8 (14.81%) Lightning Web Components
5 8 (14.81%) React
6 7 (12.96%) NETCONF
6 7 (12.96%) Visualforce
6 7 (12.96%) YANG
7 6 (11.11%) HTML
7 6 (11.11%) XML
8 5 (9.26%) AngularJS
9 4 (7.41%) Spring
10 3 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (5.56%) FastAPI
10 3 (5.56%) Hibernate
10 3 (5.56%) jQuery
10 3 (5.56%) RESTful
10 3 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.56%) Frameworx
3 3 (5.56%) TM Forum
4 2 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) CMDB
5 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.85%) IoT
5 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) CentOS
2 1 (1.85%) Unix
2 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) DevOps
2 21 (38.89%) Technical Leadership
3 19 (35.19%) Agile
4 18 (33.33%) Microservices
5 14 (25.93%) Configuration Management
5 14 (25.93%) Containerisation
5 14 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (25.93%) Software Architecture
5 14 (25.93%) Software Engineering
5 14 (25.93%) Test Automation
6 10 (18.52%) Decision-Making
6 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (18.52%) Scrum
7 9 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 9 (16.67%) Data Modelling
8 7 (12.96%) Enterprise Architecture
8 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (11.11%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
9 6 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
9 6 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.33%) Java
2 15 (27.78%) Python
3 8 (14.81%) Apex Code
4 6 (11.11%) SQL
5 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.70%) C#
8 1 (1.85%) Bicep
8 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.85%) SOQL
8 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) CCIE
2 6 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (11.11%) JNCIE
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) HL7
1 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (27.78%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (27.78%) Ansible
2 14 (25.93%) Kubernetes
3 10 (18.52%) Terraform
4 9 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (16.67%) Podman
5 2 (3.70%) Kibana
6 1 (1.85%) Grafana
6 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Salesforce
2 5 (9.26%) Oracle
3 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.70%) Databricks
4 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.70%) Splunk
4 2 (3.70%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco
5 1 (1.85%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.85%) Pega