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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 85 61
Rank change year-on-year +14 -24 +45
Contract jobs citing REST 33 61 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.18% 2.17% 3.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.13% 14.81% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 62
10th Percentile £319 £480 £425
25th Percentile £350 £525 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +11.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £524 £675 £600
90th Percentile £569 £698 £620
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £88.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £28.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -55.20% +0.56%

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 272 412 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.99% 14.64% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 240 365
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £620 £620 £620
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £503 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.50% -4.76% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 8
10th Percentile £23.35 £56.58 £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% +17.83%
75th Percentile £77.19 £64.00 £80.25
90th Percentile £86.38 £90.25 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.46% -5.23% +40.54%

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 2 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 2 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 +15 30 £500 -16.67% 42
Buckinghamshire +9 3 £321 -26.63% 5
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 (3.03%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
1 1 (3.03%) IIS
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) AWS
1 14 (42.42%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) SaaS
3 3 (9.09%) PaaS
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
4 2 (6.06%) Azure App Service
4 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.03%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) IaaS
5 1 (3.03%) OCI
5 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) HTTP
2 2 (6.06%) MQTT
2 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.03%) BGP
3 1 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (3.03%) FTP
3 1 (3.03%) MPLS
3 1 (3.03%) SSL
3 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Data Lake
2 4 (12.12%) MySQL
2 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.06%) DocumentDB
4 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.06%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.03%) Parquet
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) JIRA
2 8 (24.24%) GitLab
3 7 (21.21%) Cucumber
3 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
3 7 (21.21%) REST Assured
3 7 (21.21%) Selenium
4 5 (15.15%) SonarQube
5 3 (9.09%) Git
General
1 13 (39.39%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Telecoms
4 4 (12.12%) Billing
4 4 (12.12%) Law
5 2 (6.06%) Automotive
5 2 (6.06%) Police
6 1 (3.03%) Finance
6 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Developer
2 7 (21.21%) Architect
3 6 (18.18%) SIEM Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Java Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Designer
5 4 (12.12%) Java Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Solutions Designer
6 3 (9.09%) .NET Developer
6 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Telecoms Architect
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Python Developer
7 2 (6.06%) React Developer
7 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (39.39%) JSON
2 9 (27.27%) SOAP
2 9 (27.27%) Web Services
3 8 (24.24%) XML
4 7 (21.21%) Java EE
5 6 (18.18%) .NET
5 6 (18.18%) ARM Templates
6 4 (12.12%) .NET Core
6 4 (12.12%) .NET Framework
6 4 (12.12%) Ajax
6 4 (12.12%) CSS
6 4 (12.12%) HTML
6 4 (12.12%) OAuth
7 3 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (9.09%) Entity Framework
7 3 (9.09%) Node.js
7 3 (9.09%) React
8 2 (6.06%) GraphQL
8 2 (6.06%) PostGIS
8 2 (6.06%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) CSOC
1 6 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 5 (15.15%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (12.12%) CMDB
3 4 (12.12%) Frameworx
3 4 (12.12%) TM Forum
4 2 (6.06%) Infotainment
4 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) CentOS
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
1 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Agile
1 14 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (39.39%) Technical Leadership
3 12 (36.36%) DevOps
4 11 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 9 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 8 (24.24%) Process Improvement
6 8 (24.24%) Software Engineering
7 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
7 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
7 7 (21.21%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (21.21%) Scrum
7 7 (21.21%) Software Architecture
8 6 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (18.18%) Incident Response
8 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (18.18%) Security Operations
8 6 (18.18%) SIEM
8 6 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (15.15%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) Java
2 8 (24.24%) SQL
3 5 (15.15%) C#
4 4 (12.12%) Python
5 2 (6.06%) Bicep
5 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.03%) ActionScript
6 1 (3.03%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.18%) GIAC
4 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Terraform
2 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (15.15%) Ansible
3 5 (15.15%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (15.15%) Podman
4 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.03%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.12%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.03%) IBM
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Snow