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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 63 86
Rank change year-on-year -27 +23 +21
Contract jobs citing REST 68 56 40
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 2.11% 3.38% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.74% 16.97% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 24 18
10th Percentile £340 £350 £351
25th Percentile £363 £383 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -16.63% +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £524 £675
90th Percentile £600 £568 £688
South East median daily rate £513 £475 £519
% change year-on-year +7.89% -8.43% -9.78%

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 495 330 395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.36% 19.89% 17.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 209 276
10th Percentile £363 £320 £363
25th Percentile £443 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £617 £575 £632
90th Percentile £675 £638 £663
South East median daily rate £530 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +11.53% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 10
10th Percentile £29.07 £13.25 £53.76
25th Percentile £61.74 £15.15 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £26.70 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +165.92% -56.66% +23.20%
75th Percentile £82.37 £32.64 -
90th Percentile £87.16 £62.63 £62.93
South East median hourly rate £69.11 £50.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +38.22% -18.83% +5.14%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -43 35 £500 -0.10% 16
Buckinghamshire - 31 £500 - 4
Oxfordshire -27 2 £625 +51.52% 1
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 (10.29%) OpenStack
2 5 (7.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) CIMPLICITY
3 1 (1.47%) Predix
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 36 (52.94%) Azure
2 25 (36.76%) AWS
3 16 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (14.71%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (13.24%) Entra ID
5 9 (13.24%) GCP
5 9 (13.24%) GitHub
6 8 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (10.29%) Azure AKS
7 7 (10.29%) Azure App Service
7 7 (10.29%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (8.82%) Azure API Management
9 5 (7.35%) Azure Storage
10 4 (5.88%) Google App Engine
10 4 (5.88%) IaaS
10 4 (5.88%) Serverless
11 3 (4.41%) Apigee
11 3 (4.41%) Azure Functions
11 3 (4.41%) PaaS
11 3 (4.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.82%) BGP
1 6 (8.82%) MPLS
2 5 (7.35%) LAN
2 5 (7.35%) WAN
3 3 (4.41%) DNS
4 2 (2.94%) HTTPS
4 2 (2.94%) Network Security
5 1 (1.47%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.47%) Firewall
5 1 (1.47%) IPv4
5 1 (1.47%) IPv6
5 1 (1.47%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.88%) DocumentDB
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.47%) Big Data
5 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.47%) MySQL
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.47%) Parquet
5 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (27.94%) Git
2 5 (7.35%) GitLab
2 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.88%) NUnit
4 2 (2.94%) JIRA
5 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.47%) Gradle
5 1 (1.47%) Maven
General
1 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.82%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.88%) Finance
5 3 (4.41%) Publishing
6 2 (2.94%) Automotive
6 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Marketing
7 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (48.53%) Developer
2 13 (19.12%) Architect
3 9 (13.24%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (11.76%) .NET Developer
5 7 (10.29%) Consultant
6 6 (8.82%) Network Architect
6 6 (8.82%) ServiceNow Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Azure Developer
7 5 (7.35%) IP Architect
7 5 (7.35%) Senior
7 5 (7.35%) ServiceNow Architect
7 5 (7.35%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 4 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
9 3 (4.41%) Apigee Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.94%) Lead
10 2 (2.94%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (41.18%) SOAP
2 17 (25.00%) Terraform
3 16 (23.53%) .NET
3 16 (23.53%) OAuth
4 14 (20.59%) React
5 13 (19.12%) JSON
6 11 (16.18%) .NET Core
6 11 (16.18%) .NET Framework
7 10 (14.71%) Entity Framework
7 10 (14.71%) RESTful
8 8 (11.76%) JWT
8 8 (11.76%) OAuth2
8 8 (11.76%) SAML
9 7 (10.29%) ASP.NET Web API
9 7 (10.29%) Middleware
9 7 (10.29%) XML
10 6 (8.82%) ASP.NET
10 6 (8.82%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 6 (8.82%) NETCONF
10 6 (8.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.82%) CMDB
2 6 (8.82%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.41%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.94%) SCADA
5 2 (2.94%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.47%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.47%) IoT
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.47%) TM Forum
6 1 (1.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Windows
2 1 (1.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.94%) Agile
2 29 (42.65%) CI/CD
3 28 (41.18%) DevOps
4 20 (29.41%) Scrum
5 14 (20.59%) Microservices
6 13 (19.12%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (19.12%) ITSM
6 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
7 12 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (14.71%) Analytics
8 10 (14.71%) RBAC
9 9 (13.24%) CAD
9 9 (13.24%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (11.76%) Roadmaps
10 8 (11.76%) SOLID
10 8 (11.76%) TDD
10 8 (11.76%) Test Automation
10 8 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (48.53%) JavaScript
2 22 (32.35%) SQL
3 19 (27.94%) Python
4 16 (23.53%) C#
5 11 (16.18%) TypeScript
6 8 (11.76%) PowerShell
7 6 (8.82%) Java
8 3 (4.41%) Bicep
9 2 (2.94%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.94%) Bash
9 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.94%) VB
10 1 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) CCIE
3 6 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (8.82%) JNCIE
4 4 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.47%) CCIE Service Provider
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.71%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) GRC
System Software
1 14 (20.59%) Docker
2 6 (8.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.47%) IAG
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.47%) SCOM
3 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (27.94%) ServiceNow
2 12 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.29%) Oracle
4 6 (8.82%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.88%) MuleSoft
6 3 (4.41%) Google
6 3 (4.41%) VMware
7 2 (2.94%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.94%) HP
8 1 (1.47%) Ariba
8 1 (1.47%) BMC
8 1 (1.47%) Cisco
8 1 (1.47%) Citrix
8 1 (1.47%) Databricks
8 1 (1.47%) SAP
8 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.47%) Splunk