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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 93 113
Rank change year-on-year +28 +20 -36
Contract jobs citing REST 59 35 32
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 3.17% 1.64% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.20% 8.41% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 11 16
10th Percentile £360 £363 £453
25th Percentile £408 £450 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.75% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £538 £545 £609
90th Percentile £575 £565 £701
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +5.56% -18.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.75
Median hourly rate - - £88.50
75th Percentile - - £90.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year +78.57% -63.41% +24.95%

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 343 416 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.44% 19.47% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 279 260
10th Percentile £318 £382 £308
25th Percentile £406 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £620
90th Percentile £625 £660 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile - £42.20 £46.68
25th Percentile £13.25 £57.89 £50.00
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £52.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +17.83% -18.86%
75th Percentile £81.00 - £81.70
90th Percentile - £68.23 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 6 November 2025.

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

REST
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 November 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 +31 53 £500 +11.11% 132
Buckinghamshire +6 4 £431 -21.59% 12
Oxfordshire -9 2 £413 +58.65% 15
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 6 (10.17%) OpenStack
2 4 (6.78%) Camunda
3 3 (5.08%) Anypoint
3 3 (5.08%) WebLogic
4 2 (3.39%) nginx
5 1 (1.69%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.69%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Maximo
1 2 (3.39%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 19 (32.20%) Azure
2 13 (22.03%) AWS
3 6 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (10.17%) GitHub
3 6 (10.17%) SaaS
4 5 (8.47%) OCI
5 4 (6.78%) GCP
5 4 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.78%) Serverless
6 3 (5.08%) Azure API Management
6 3 (5.08%) Azure Functions
6 3 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.39%) AtomSphere
7 2 (3.39%) Boomi
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.69%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) BGP
1 7 (11.86%) MPLS
2 6 (10.17%) LAN
2 6 (10.17%) WAN
3 3 (5.08%) SSL
4 2 (3.39%) VoIP
5 1 (1.69%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (1.69%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.69%) SMS
5 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.08%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle ODI
3 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.39%) GIS
5 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.69%) Parquet
5 1 (1.69%) Power BI
5 1 (1.69%) PowerCenter
5 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.69%) Redis
5 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.69%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Git
2 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.39%) JIRA
4 1 (1.69%) GitLab
4 1 (1.69%) Gradle
4 1 (1.69%) Maven
4 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (38.98%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.47%) Retail
4 4 (6.78%) Finance
4 4 (6.78%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.39%) Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Billing
5 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (50.85%) Developer
2 14 (23.73%) Architect
3 9 (15.25%) Salesforce Developer
4 6 (10.17%) IP Architect
4 6 (10.17%) IP Specialist
4 6 (10.17%) Python Developer
4 6 (10.17%) Senior
5 5 (8.47%) ServiceNow Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Lead
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Active Directory Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Integration Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Oracle Specialist
8 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Gen AI Developer
8 2 (3.39%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (52.54%) SOAP
2 9 (15.25%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (13.56%) React
3 8 (13.56%) Visualforce
4 7 (11.86%) NETCONF
4 7 (11.86%) OAuth
4 7 (11.86%) OAuth2
4 7 (11.86%) Web Services
4 7 (11.86%) YANG
5 6 (10.17%) JSON
6 5 (8.47%) .NET
6 5 (8.47%) XML
7 4 (6.78%) .NET Core
7 4 (6.78%) AngularJS
7 4 (6.78%) FastAPI
7 4 (6.78%) GraphQL
7 4 (6.78%) HTML
7 4 (6.78%) OpenID
8 3 (5.08%) ARM Templates
8 3 (5.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (8.47%) CMDB
4 3 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.39%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.69%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) IoT
6 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) CentOS
1 2 (3.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
2 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.29%) DevOps
1 22 (37.29%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (32.20%) Agile
2 19 (32.20%) CI/CD
3 15 (25.42%) Data Modelling
4 13 (22.03%) Microservices
5 11 (18.64%) Roadmaps
5 11 (18.64%) Scrum
5 11 (18.64%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (16.95%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (13.56%) API Management
7 8 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (13.56%) Technical Architecture
8 7 (11.86%) AI
8 7 (11.86%) Analytics
8 7 (11.86%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
8 7 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (11.86%) Translating Business Requirements
8 7 (11.86%) Validation
9 6 (10.17%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.51%) Python
2 16 (27.12%) JavaScript
3 12 (20.34%) SQL
4 9 (15.25%) Apex Code
5 8 (13.56%) Java
6 7 (11.86%) C#
7 4 (6.78%) PL/SQL
8 3 (5.08%) Bash
8 3 (5.08%) DataWeave
8 3 (5.08%) PHP
8 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.39%) Groovy
9 2 (3.39%) Jython
9 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.69%) Bicep
10 1 (1.69%) Magik
10 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.69%) SOQL
10 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) CCIE
1 6 (10.17%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (10.17%) JNCIE
2 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.39%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) GRC
2 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.08%) GDPR
2 3 (5.08%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) HL7
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) NIST
3 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) Ansible
2 5 (8.47%) Terraform
3 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.08%) CloudHub
5 1 (1.69%) Argo
5 1 (1.69%) Grafana
5 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) Salesforce
2 8 (13.56%) Oracle
3 5 (8.47%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.08%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.08%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.39%) Databricks
5 2 (3.39%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco
6 1 (1.69%) IBM
6 1 (1.69%) Informatica
6 1 (1.69%) Pega
6 1 (1.69%) Snow