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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 66 84
Rank change year-on-year -28 +18 +23
Contract jobs citing REST 63 53 37
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 2.04% 3.23% 1.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.88% 15.92% 9.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 23 19
10th Percentile £334 £330 £355
25th Percentile £363 £350 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £547 £519 £675
90th Percentile £613 £570 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.32% -8.89%

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 454 333 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.72% 20.27% 18.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 209 287
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.47% -15.82% -
75th Percentile £619 £550 £638
90th Percentile £704 £628 £666
South East median daily rate £530 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +11.58% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 9
10th Percentile £35.72 - £50.87
25th Percentile £61.74 £13.25 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £21.90 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +224.20% -64.45% +23.20%
75th Percentile £82.68 £32.31 -
90th Percentile £86.59 £32.57 £64.25
South East median hourly rate £69.11 £50.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +38.22% -18.83% +3.75%

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 3 September 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

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 3 September 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 -35 35 £500 - 34
Buckinghamshire - 26 £488 - 5
Oxfordshire -22 2 £625 +51.52% 11
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 (9.52%) OpenStack
2 5 (7.94%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) CIMPLICITY
3 1 (1.59%) Predix
Cloud Services
1 34 (53.97%) Azure
2 24 (38.10%) AWS
3 14 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 9 (14.29%) GitHub
5 8 (12.70%) GCP
6 7 (11.11%) Azure AKS
6 7 (11.11%) Azure App Service
6 7 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
6 7 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (9.52%) Azure API Management
8 5 (7.94%) Azure Storage
9 4 (6.35%) IaaS
10 3 (4.76%) Apigee
10 3 (4.76%) Google App Engine
10 3 (4.76%) PaaS
10 3 (4.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (3.17%) Azure Functions
11 2 (3.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.70%) BGP
2 6 (9.52%) MPLS
2 6 (9.52%) WAN
3 5 (7.94%) LAN
4 4 (6.35%) Network Security
5 3 (4.76%) DNS
5 3 (4.76%) VXLAN
6 2 (3.17%) BIG-IP
6 2 (3.17%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (3.17%) EIGRP
6 2 (3.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (3.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (3.17%) Firewall
6 2 (3.17%) HTTPS
6 2 (3.17%) IOS XR
6 2 (3.17%) Junos
6 2 (3.17%) NX-OS
6 2 (3.17%) OSPF
6 2 (3.17%) SSL
6 2 (3.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (6.35%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.59%) Big Data
4 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.59%) MySQL
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.59%) Parquet
4 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (25.40%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) GitLab
2 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.35%) NUnit
3 2 (3.17%) JIRA
4 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.59%) Gradle
4 1 (1.59%) Maven
General
1 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.35%) Finance
4 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Publishing
6 2 (3.17%) Automotive
6 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (47.62%) Developer
2 14 (22.22%) Architect
3 9 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (12.70%) .NET Developer
5 7 (11.11%) Network Architect
6 5 (7.94%) IP Architect
6 5 (7.94%) Senior
6 5 (7.94%) ServiceNow Architect
6 5 (7.94%) ServiceNow Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Azure Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Apigee Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.17%) Applications Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Lead
9 2 (3.17%) React Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (34.92%) SOAP
2 17 (26.98%) Terraform
3 16 (25.40%) .NET
4 14 (22.22%) OAuth
5 13 (20.63%) React
6 11 (17.46%) .NET Core
6 11 (17.46%) .NET Framework
7 10 (15.87%) Entity Framework
7 10 (15.87%) JSON
7 10 (15.87%) RESTful
8 8 (12.70%) NETCONF
8 8 (12.70%) SAML
9 7 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
9 7 (11.11%) JWT
9 7 (11.11%) Middleware
9 7 (11.11%) OAuth2
10 6 (9.52%) ASP.NET
10 6 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 6 (9.52%) YANG
11 5 (7.94%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.52%) CMDB
2 6 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.76%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.17%) SCADA
5 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.59%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.59%) IoT
6 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.59%) TM Forum
6 1 (1.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (47.62%) Agile
2 27 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 26 (41.27%) DevOps
4 17 (26.98%) Scrum
5 13 (20.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (20.63%) Microservices
6 12 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
6 12 (19.05%) ITSM
7 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (17.46%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (15.87%) Analytics
9 9 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (14.29%) RBAC
10 8 (12.70%) CAD
10 8 (12.70%) Roadmaps
10 8 (12.70%) SOLID
10 8 (12.70%) Test Automation
11 7 (11.11%) TDD
11 7 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 21 (33.33%) SQL
3 20 (31.75%) Python
4 16 (25.40%) C#
5 11 (17.46%) TypeScript
6 8 (12.70%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.94%) Java
8 3 (4.76%) Bicep
9 2 (3.17%) Apex Code
9 2 (3.17%) Bash
9 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.70%) CCIE
3 8 (12.70%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (12.70%) JNCIE
4 4 (6.35%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.59%) CCIE Service Provider
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.59%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.87%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.59%) GDPR
2 1 (1.59%) GRC
System Software
1 13 (20.63%) Docker
2 6 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.59%) IAG
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.70%) Ansible
3 2 (3.17%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.59%) SCOM
4 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (23.81%) ServiceNow
2 12 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.52%) Oracle
3 6 (9.52%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.35%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.76%) Cisco
5 3 (4.76%) Google
5 3 (4.76%) VMware
6 2 (3.17%) CyberArk
6 2 (3.17%) F5
6 2 (3.17%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.17%) HP
6 2 (3.17%) Juniper
7 1 (1.59%) Ariba
7 1 (1.59%) BMC
7 1 (1.59%) Citrix
7 1 (1.59%) Databricks
7 1 (1.59%) SAP
7 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.59%) Splunk