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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 60 81
Rank change year-on-year -24 +21 -16
Contract jobs citing REST 63 44 54
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 2.14% 2.95% 2.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.69% 16.79% 15.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 24 22
10th Percentile £362 £330 £500
25th Percentile £404 £350 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -21.57% +21.43%
75th Percentile £538 £517 £688
90th Percentile £591 £562 £710
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year +40.00% +94.17% -

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 429 262 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.60% 17.57% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 173 233
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £648 £660 £674
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 16
10th Percentile £46.30 £23.35 £56.58
25th Percentile £51.25 £27.11 £56.65
Median hourly rate £61.92 £31.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +96.56% -48.86% -21.78%
75th Percentile £78.75 £77.19 -
90th Percentile £81.50 £86.38 £62.00
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +2.22% -8.69% -4.50%

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

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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 6 May 2026.

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 6 May 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 -34 40 £425 -15.00% 26
Buckinghamshire -9 22 £513 +59.66% 9
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 10
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 5 (7.94%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.76%) Appian
2 3 (4.76%) IIS
2 3 (4.76%) JBoss
2 3 (4.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (4.76%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.76%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.17%) ArcGIS
3 2 (3.17%) Confluence
4 1 (1.59%) Apache
4 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Maximo
1 1 (1.59%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.33%) AWS
1 21 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (12.70%) GCP
3 5 (7.94%) GitHub
3 5 (7.94%) Serverless
4 4 (6.35%) Azure AKS
5 3 (4.76%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.76%) Azure Functions
5 3 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.76%) Google App Engine
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Storage
6 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.17%) PaaS
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) BGP
1 4 (6.35%) LAN
1 4 (6.35%) MPLS
1 4 (6.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.70%) Relational Database
2 7 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.35%) Metadata
4 3 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.76%) MySQL
5 2 (3.17%) DocumentDB
5 2 (3.17%) GIS
5 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.59%) Parquet
6 1 (1.59%) Redis
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (20.63%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) GitLab
2 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.17%) Maven
3 2 (3.17%) NUnit
4 1 (1.59%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.59%) Gradle
4 1 (1.59%) JIRA
4 1 (1.59%) JUnit
4 1 (1.59%) Mockito
General
1 20 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Telecoms
3 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Automotive
5 1 (1.59%) Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Finance
5 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (41.27%) Developer
2 18 (28.57%) Architect
3 9 (14.29%) ServiceNow Architect
4 7 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (11.11%) ServiceNow Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Consultant
5 5 (7.94%) Lead
5 5 (7.94%) Senior
6 4 (6.35%) .NET Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.35%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 4 (6.35%) Technical Leader
7 3 (4.76%) AWS Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Azure Developer
7 3 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) IP Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Network Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (3.17%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (53.97%) SOAP
2 12 (19.05%) OAuth
2 12 (19.05%) React
3 10 (15.87%) .NET
3 10 (15.87%) JSON
4 9 (14.29%) Web Services
5 7 (11.11%) .NET Core
5 7 (11.11%) XML
6 5 (7.94%) .NET Framework
6 5 (7.94%) AngularJS
6 5 (7.94%) GraphQL
6 5 (7.94%) Spring
7 4 (6.35%) Entity Framework
7 4 (6.35%) NETCONF
7 4 (6.35%) Node.js
7 4 (6.35%) OpenID
7 4 (6.35%) YANG
8 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 3 (4.76%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) CMDB
2 7 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.76%) N-Tier
5 2 (3.17%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.59%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
1 2 (3.17%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.10%) Agile
2 18 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 18 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 18 (28.57%) DevOps
2 18 (28.57%) ITSM
3 14 (22.22%) CAD
3 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (20.63%) IT Asset Management
4 13 (20.63%) Roadmaps
5 12 (19.05%) Scrum
6 11 (17.46%) Security Operations
7 9 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (14.29%) ITIL
8 8 (12.70%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (12.70%) Microservices
8 8 (12.70%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (11.11%) Migration
9 7 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (11.11%) Waterfall
10 6 (9.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 31 (49.21%) JavaScript
2 19 (30.16%) SQL
3 15 (23.81%) Python
4 10 (15.87%) C#
5 9 (14.29%) Java
6 6 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.35%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.76%) PHP
9 2 (3.17%) Bash
9 2 (3.17%) VB
10 1 (1.59%) Bicep
10 1 (1.59%) Delphi
10 1 (1.59%) Jython
10 1 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) CCIE
3 4 (6.35%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (6.35%) JNCIE
4 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) GRC
2 2 (3.17%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (19.05%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (12.70%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.52%) Terraform
3 5 (7.94%) Ansible
4 2 (3.17%) Grafana
4 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.59%) Argo
5 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 6 (9.52%) Oracle
3 4 (6.35%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.17%) ESRI
4 2 (3.17%) HP
4 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.17%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.59%) SAP