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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 59 88
Rank change year-on-year -29 +29 +7
Contract jobs citing REST 71 56 38
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 2.18% 3.38% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.64% 18.24% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 31 19
10th Percentile £360 £321 £355
25th Percentile £429 £372 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% +30.00%
75th Percentile £541 £519 £681
90th Percentile £597 £551 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £588
% change year-on-year +10.53% -19.15% +6.82%

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 454 307 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.95% 18.54% 15.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 207 281
10th Percentile £358 £325 £363
25th Percentile £438 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +3.92%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £623
90th Percentile £670 £630 £659
South East median daily rate £525 £478 £525
% change year-on-year +9.83% -8.95% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 13
10th Percentile £29.07 £13.25 £56.53
25th Percentile £43.83 £17.05 £56.65
Median hourly rate £73.17 £27.76 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +163.56% -54.94% +2.67%
75th Percentile £84.34 £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% -1.44%

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 23 July 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

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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 23 July 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
Berkshire -42 35 £500 - 13
Buckinghamshire -6 33 £500 +55.76% 1
Oxfordshire -17 3 £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 (9.86%) Confluence
2 6 (8.45%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.82%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.41%) Appian
4 1 (1.41%) CIMPLICITY
4 1 (1.41%) IIS
4 1 (1.41%) JBoss
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.41%) Predix
4 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (52.11%) Azure
2 23 (32.39%) AWS
3 20 (28.17%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (15.49%) Azure Monitor
4 11 (15.49%) GCP
5 10 (14.08%) Azure Key Vault
6 9 (12.68%) Azure AKS
6 9 (12.68%) Entra ID
7 8 (11.27%) Azure App Service
8 7 (9.86%) Azure Storage
9 6 (8.45%) Azure API Management
9 6 (8.45%) GitHub
9 6 (8.45%) Google App Engine
10 4 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.63%) IaaS
10 4 (5.63%) PaaS
10 4 (5.63%) Serverless
11 3 (4.23%) Apigee
11 3 (4.23%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) BGP
1 5 (7.04%) LAN
1 5 (7.04%) MPLS
1 5 (7.04%) WAN
2 2 (2.82%) DNS
2 2 (2.82%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.27%) Azure SQL Database
1 8 (11.27%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.23%) DocumentDB
2 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.82%) GIS
3 2 (2.82%) Parquet
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.41%) Big Data
4 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.41%) Metadata
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (30.99%) Git
2 7 (9.86%) GitLab
3 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.63%) NUnit
5 2 (2.82%) JIRA
5 2 (2.82%) Maven
6 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.41%) Gradle
6 1 (1.41%) JUnit
6 1 (1.41%) Mockito
General
1 18 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
2 6 (8.45%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.23%) Publishing
4 2 (2.82%) Automotive
4 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Finance
4 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (53.52%) Developer
2 15 (21.13%) Architect
3 11 (15.49%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (12.68%) ServiceNow Developer
5 8 (11.27%) .NET Developer
6 7 (9.86%) Azure Developer
7 6 (8.45%) Consultant
7 6 (8.45%) ServiceNow Architect
8 5 (7.04%) IP Architect
8 5 (7.04%) Network Architect
8 5 (7.04%) Senior
8 5 (7.04%) ServiceNow Consultant
9 4 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.23%) Apigee Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Java Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Java Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) React Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (43.66%) SOAP
2 20 (28.17%) OAuth
3 17 (23.94%) .NET
4 15 (21.13%) React
5 14 (19.72%) JSON
6 13 (18.31%) .NET Core
7 12 (16.90%) .NET Framework
8 11 (15.49%) Entity Framework
8 11 (15.49%) RESTful
8 11 (15.49%) SAML
9 8 (11.27%) OpenID
10 7 (9.86%) OAuth2
10 7 (9.86%) Web Services
10 7 (9.86%) XML
11 6 (8.45%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (8.45%) JWT
11 6 (8.45%) Spring
12 5 (7.04%) ASP.NET Web Forms
12 5 (7.04%) NETCONF
12 5 (7.04%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.45%) CMDB
2 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.82%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.41%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.41%) IoT
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.41%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.41%) SCADA
6 1 (1.41%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
1 2 (2.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (52.11%) Agile
2 33 (46.48%) DevOps
3 29 (40.85%) CI/CD
4 23 (32.39%) Scrum
5 17 (23.94%) ITSM
6 15 (21.13%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (21.13%) Microservices
6 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (16.90%) CAD
7 12 (16.90%) Enterprise Architecture
8 11 (15.49%) Analytics
9 10 (14.08%) Data Modelling
9 10 (14.08%) RBAC
9 10 (14.08%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (12.68%) ITIL
11 8 (11.27%) Identity Access Management
11 8 (11.27%) Log Analytics
11 8 (11.27%) Roadmaps
11 8 (11.27%) TDD
12 7 (9.86%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (49.30%) JavaScript
2 25 (35.21%) SQL
3 18 (25.35%) Python
4 17 (23.94%) C#
5 11 (15.49%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.86%) Java
6 7 (9.86%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.63%) Bicep
8 2 (2.82%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.82%) Bash
8 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.82%) VB
9 1 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 18 (25.35%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.13%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.04%) CCIE
3 5 (7.04%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (7.04%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) JNCIE
4 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.68%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) GRC
3 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (21.13%) Docker
2 8 (11.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (21.13%) Terraform
2 13 (18.31%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.04%) Ansible
4 2 (2.82%) Grafana
4 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.41%) Argo
5 1 (1.41%) SCOM
5 1 (1.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (33.80%) ServiceNow
2 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.45%) Oracle
4 5 (7.04%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.23%) Google
5 3 (4.23%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.82%) ESRI
6 2 (2.82%) HP
6 2 (2.82%) VMware
7 1 (1.41%) BMC
7 1 (1.41%) Citrix
7 1 (1.41%) SAP
7 1 (1.41%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.41%) Splunk