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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 89 87
Rank change year-on-year +35 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing REST 53 44 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.45% 1.66% 2.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.97% 11.03% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 21 31
10th Percentile £344 £363 £425
25th Percentile £394 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% -10.64%
75th Percentile £523 £688 £600
90th Percentile £556 £713 £623
South East median daily rate £475 £594 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.95% -4.35%

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 295 399 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.22% 15.06% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 273 352
10th Percentile £325 £340 £339
25th Percentile £407 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 13
10th Percentile £13.25 £56.62 £23.47
25th Percentile £18.95 £56.65 £50.00
Median hourly rate £29.63 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.90% -12.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £43.86 - £79.19
90th Percentile £81.78 £61.68 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £63.25
% change year-on-year -18.83% -2.61% +40.56%

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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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +27 49 £500 -23.08% 156
Buckinghamshire +10 3 £321 - 34
Oxfordshire +1 1 £413 +35.25% 17
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 2 (3.77%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (3.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.89%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.89%) Camunda
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) IIS
2 1 (1.89%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 24 (45.28%) Azure
2 21 (39.62%) AWS
3 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.55%) OCI
3 4 (7.55%) SaaS
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (5.66%) Azure AKS
4 3 (5.66%) Azure App Service
4 3 (5.66%) Serverless
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub
6 1 (1.89%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.89%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) HTTP
2 2 (3.77%) SSL
3 1 (1.89%) BGP
3 1 (1.89%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.89%) FTP
3 1 (1.89%) MPLS
3 1 (1.89%) SMS
3 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.43%) Data Lake
2 5 (9.43%) MongoDB
2 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.77%) DocumentDB
3 2 (3.77%) MySQL
3 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.77%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.89%) GIS
4 1 (1.89%) Parquet
4 1 (1.89%) Redis
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.89%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (30.19%) Jenkins
2 15 (28.30%) JIRA
3 14 (26.42%) GitLab
4 13 (24.53%) Cucumber
4 13 (24.53%) REST Assured
4 13 (24.53%) Selenium
5 10 (18.87%) SonarQube
6 6 (11.32%) Git
7 3 (5.66%) JUnit
7 3 (5.66%) Mockito
8 2 (3.77%) JMeter
9 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.89%) DbUnit
9 1 (1.89%) jMock
9 1 (1.89%) Maven
9 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 17 (32.08%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (18.87%) Telecoms
4 8 (15.09%) Law
5 5 (9.43%) Billing
6 4 (7.55%) Police
6 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.77%) Finance
8 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (47.17%) Developer
2 9 (16.98%) Java Developer
2 9 (16.98%) Java Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Software Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Python Developer
4 5 (9.43%) Architect
4 5 (9.43%) Designer
4 5 (9.43%) SIEM Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Solutions Designer
5 4 (7.55%) Azure Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 4 (7.55%) React Developer
5 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Senior
6 3 (5.66%) AWS Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (32.08%) SOAP
1 17 (32.08%) Web Services
2 16 (30.19%) JSON
3 13 (24.53%) Java EE
4 10 (18.87%) ARM Templates
5 9 (16.98%) XML
6 7 (13.21%) HTML
6 7 (13.21%) React
7 6 (11.32%) .NET
8 5 (9.43%) OAuth
9 4 (7.55%) .NET Core
9 4 (7.55%) .NET Framework
9 4 (7.55%) Ajax
9 4 (7.55%) CSS
10 3 (5.66%) AngularJS
10 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (5.66%) Entity Framework
10 3 (5.66%) GraphQL
10 3 (5.66%) Node.js
10 3 (5.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Onboarding
2 5 (9.43%) CSOC
2 5 (9.43%) Frameworx
2 5 (9.43%) TM Forum
3 4 (7.55%) CMDB
3 4 (7.55%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.89%) IoT
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Linux
1 2 (3.77%) Windows
2 1 (1.89%) CentOS
2 1 (1.89%) Unix
2 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) DevOps
2 22 (41.51%) Agile
3 20 (37.74%) Technical Leadership
4 17 (32.08%) Configuration Management
5 16 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (28.30%) Software Engineering
6 15 (28.30%) Test Automation
7 14 (26.42%) Containerisation
7 14 (26.42%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (26.42%) Software Architecture
8 13 (24.53%) CI/CD
9 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (20.75%) Scrum
10 10 (18.87%) Decision-Making
11 9 (16.98%) Microservices
12 8 (15.09%) Process Improvement
13 6 (11.32%) Full-Stack Development
14 5 (9.43%) Business Strategy
14 5 (9.43%) Customer Experience
14 5 (9.43%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.96%) Java
2 11 (20.75%) Python
3 10 (18.87%) SQL
4 5 (9.43%) C#
4 5 (9.43%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.66%) Apex Code
5 3 (5.66%) Bicep
6 2 (3.77%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.77%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.89%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.89%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.89%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.43%) GIAC
4 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.89%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.89%) HL7
2 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (32.08%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.89%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 17 (32.08%) Kubernetes
2 15 (28.30%) Terraform
3 9 (16.98%) Ansible
3 9 (16.98%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (16.98%) Podman
4 2 (3.77%) Kibana
4 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.89%) Grafana
5 1 (1.89%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (18.87%) ServiceNow
2 8 (15.09%) Salesforce
3 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.55%) Oracle
5 3 (5.66%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.77%) Databricks
6 2 (3.77%) Splunk
6 2 (3.77%) Virgin Media
7 1 (1.89%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco
7 1 (1.89%) IBM
7 1 (1.89%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (1.89%) SAP
7 1 (1.89%) Snow