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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 81 84
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 -25
Contract jobs citing REST 78 29 61
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 2.95% 1.86% 2.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.11% 10.03% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 13 24
10th Percentile £378 £337 £452
25th Percentile £413 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £631
90th Percentile £592 £583 £714
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £545
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.26% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.75
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £88.50
75th Percentile - - £90.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - +22.45%

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 456 289 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.23% 18.55% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 202 233
10th Percentile £364 £381 £325
25th Percentile £421 £427 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £593 £638 £625
90th Percentile £648 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £532 £500
% change year-on-year -6.06% +6.45% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 17
10th Percentile £56.01 £23.35 £56.50
25th Percentile £73.25 £27.11 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £31.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +157.14% -48.86% -21.53%
75th Percentile - £77.19 £62.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £86.38 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +3 60 £475 -5.94% 12
Buckinghamshire -2 16 £500 +55.76% 14
Oxfordshire - 2 - - 4
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 (7.69%) WebLogic
2 3 (3.85%) Anypoint
2 3 (3.85%) Appian
2 3 (3.85%) IIS
2 3 (3.85%) JBoss
2 3 (3.85%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.85%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.56%) ArcGIS
3 2 (2.56%) Confluence
4 1 (1.28%) Apache
4 1 (1.28%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.28%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Maximo
2 1 (1.28%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.21%) AWS
1 22 (28.21%) Azure
2 12 (15.38%) GCP
3 11 (14.10%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (11.54%) GitHub
5 8 (10.26%) Serverless
6 7 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (7.69%) Azure Functions
7 6 (7.69%) SaaS
8 5 (6.41%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (6.41%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.13%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.85%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (3.85%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.85%) Azure API Management
10 3 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (3.85%) Google App Engine
10 3 (3.85%) OCI
11 2 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) BGP
1 2 (2.56%) LAN
1 2 (2.56%) MPLS
1 2 (2.56%) SSL
1 2 (2.56%) VoIP
1 2 (2.56%) WAN
2 1 (1.28%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.23%) Relational Database
2 9 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.41%) Oracle Database
4 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.13%) Metadata
5 3 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.85%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.85%) GIS
5 3 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.85%) MySQL
5 3 (3.85%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (3.85%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (3.85%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (2.56%) Parquet
6 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.28%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.28%) Power BI
7 1 (1.28%) PowerCenter
7 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (16.67%) Git
2 7 (8.97%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.13%) GitLab
4 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.28%) JIRA
4 1 (1.28%) JUnit
4 1 (1.28%) Maven
4 1 (1.28%) Mockito
4 1 (1.28%) NUnit
General
1 30 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.85%) Banking
4 3 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Billing
5 2 (2.56%) Finance
6 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (41.03%) Developer
2 22 (28.21%) Architect
3 14 (17.95%) ServiceNow Architect
4 10 (12.82%) Senior
5 8 (10.26%) Lead
6 6 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) ServiceNow Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Salesforce Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Consultant
8 4 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.85%) Active Directory Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) AWS Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Azure Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (64.10%) SOAP
2 17 (21.79%) OAuth
3 10 (12.82%) Web Services
4 9 (11.54%) .NET
5 8 (10.26%) GraphQL
5 8 (10.26%) JSON
5 8 (10.26%) OAuth2
5 8 (10.26%) OpenID
6 7 (8.97%) .NET Core
7 6 (7.69%) Node.js
7 6 (7.69%) React
7 6 (7.69%) SAML
8 5 (6.41%) .NET Framework
8 5 (6.41%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (6.41%) Visualforce
8 5 (6.41%) XML
9 4 (5.13%) ARM Templates
10 3 (3.85%) AngularJS
10 3 (3.85%) ASP.NET
10 3 (3.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.79%) CMDB
2 6 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.85%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.85%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (2.56%) Windows
3 1 (1.28%) CentOS
3 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.03%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (38.46%) Agile
3 26 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 25 (32.05%) CI/CD
5 24 (30.77%) DevOps
6 23 (29.49%) ITSM
7 17 (21.79%) IT Asset Management
8 16 (20.51%) Roadmaps
8 16 (20.51%) Scrum
8 16 (20.51%) Security Operations
9 15 (19.23%) ITIL
10 14 (17.95%) CAD
11 11 (14.10%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (12.82%) API Management
12 10 (12.82%) Enterprise Architecture
12 10 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (12.82%) Translating Business Requirements
13 9 (11.54%) Migration
14 8 (10.26%) ETL
14 8 (10.26%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 35 (44.87%) JavaScript
2 19 (24.36%) SQL
3 17 (21.79%) Python
4 12 (15.38%) Java
5 11 (14.10%) C#
6 7 (8.97%) PowerShell
7 6 (7.69%) PHP
8 5 (6.41%) Apex Code
8 5 (6.41%) Bash
9 3 (3.85%) DataWeave
9 3 (3.85%) Jython
9 3 (3.85%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.56%) Groovy
10 2 (2.56%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.28%) Bicep
11 1 (1.28%) Delphi
11 1 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.28%) Magik
11 1 (1.28%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.56%) CCIE
4 2 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.56%) Degree
4 2 (2.56%) JNCIE
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.38%) GRC
2 4 (5.13%) QA
3 3 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.85%) GDPR
4 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.28%) NIST
4 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (11.54%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (10.26%) Terraform
2 6 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.85%) Ansible
3 3 (3.85%) CloudHub
3 3 (3.85%) Grafana
3 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.56%) Argo
5 1 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (35.90%) ServiceNow
2 9 (11.54%) Oracle
2 9 (11.54%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.41%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.85%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.56%) ESRI
5 2 (2.56%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.28%) HP
6 1 (1.28%) IBM
6 1 (1.28%) Informatica
6 1 (1.28%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.28%) SAP
6 1 (1.28%) Snow