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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 106 76
Rank change year-on-year +11 -30 +8
Contract jobs citing REST 35 36 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.64% 1.35% 3.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.64% 8.45% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 74
10th Percentile £363 £454 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £633
90th Percentile £565 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £88.50 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year - +31.38% -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £76.53 £61.25
% change year-on-year -63.41% +24.95% -1.21%

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 405 426 661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.93% 16.03% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 275 500
10th Percentile £383 £308 £350
25th Percentile £425 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £659 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £42.20 £46.68 £27.15
25th Percentile £57.89 £50.00 £48.75
Median hourly rate £61.60 £52.28 £64.43
Median % change year-on-year +17.83% -18.86% -0.11%
75th Percentile - £81.70 £69.46
90th Percentile £68.23 £90.25 £73.23
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £59.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.41% -8.78% +4.59%

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 31 October 2024.

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 31 October 2024. 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 +12 29 £450 -18.18% 9
Buckinghamshire +7 5 £550 -19.71% 4
Oxfordshire +8 1 £260 -52.73% 3
REST
South East

REST
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 4 (11.43%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (8.57%) Apache
2 3 (8.57%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) IIS
3 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
1 14 (40.00%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) GCP
3 7 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.43%) OCI
5 3 (8.57%) GitHub
5 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (2.86%) Serverless
7 1 (2.86%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (45.71%) BGP
1 16 (45.71%) Ethernet VPN
1 16 (45.71%) MPLS
1 16 (45.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (48.57%) MongoDB
2 16 (45.71%) NoSQL
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle Discoverer
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (11.43%) SQLPlus
4 3 (8.57%) MySQL
4 3 (8.57%) Redis
5 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.86%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (57.14%) JIRA
2 10 (28.57%) GitLab
3 7 (20.00%) Git
4 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
5 4 (11.43%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (5.71%) MSBuild
6 2 (5.71%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (5.71%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.86%) JUnit
7 1 (2.86%) Selenium
7 1 (2.86%) Subversion
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.86%) Back Office
3 1 (2.86%) Marketing
3 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (60.00%) Developer
2 9 (25.71%) Senior
2 9 (25.71%) Senior Developer
3 8 (22.86%) Automation Developer
3 8 (22.86%) Tester
4 7 (20.00%) Automation Tester
5 4 (11.43%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Consultant
6 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Architect
7 2 (5.71%) DevOps Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Junior
7 2 (5.71%) Network Consultant
7 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Technical Developer
8 1 (2.86%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
8 1 (2.86%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (54.29%) SOAP
1 19 (54.29%) YANG
2 18 (51.43%) NETCONF
3 16 (45.71%) RESTCONF
4 11 (31.43%) XML
5 8 (22.86%) JSON
5 8 (22.86%) Kafka
6 7 (20.00%) Gherkin
7 6 (17.14%) HTML
8 5 (14.29%) CSS
9 3 (8.57%) React
9 3 (8.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 3 (8.57%) Web Services
10 2 (5.71%) .NET
10 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
10 2 (5.71%) Django
10 2 (5.71%) LAMP
10 2 (5.71%) Node.js
10 2 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (5.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (57.14%) Linux
2 17 (48.57%) Unix
3 16 (45.71%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (68.57%) CI/CD
2 20 (57.14%) Workflow
3 17 (48.57%) Agile
4 12 (34.29%) Scrum
5 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
5 9 (25.71%) DevOps
5 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (25.71%) Test Automation
6 8 (22.86%) BDD
6 8 (22.86%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (20.00%) API Design
7 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 7 (20.00%) OO
7 7 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (20.00%) Test Strategy
8 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (11.43%) Microservices
9 4 (11.43%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (80.00%) SQL
2 23 (65.71%) Python
3 7 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (14.29%) Java
5 4 (11.43%) PL/SQL
6 3 (8.57%) Go
7 2 (5.71%) C#
7 2 (5.71%) PHP
8 1 (2.86%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Cisco
2 8 (22.86%) Oracle
3 5 (14.29%) Salesforce
4 4 (11.43%) SAP
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.71%) MuleSoft
6 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.86%) Google
7 1 (2.86%) Informatica