The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REST over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 15 25 30
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +5
Contract jobs citing REST 30 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 14.08% 1.622% 0.398%
As % of the Application Development category 29.13% 3.896% 1.299%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 3 0
Average daily rate £350 £450 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.22% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £380 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.89% +26.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £32.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+17.82% -19.37%
All Application Development
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
103 77 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 48.36% 41.62% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 25 28
Average daily rate £350 £375 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -2.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
Average hourly rate £39.00 £20.00 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+95.00% -42.02%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
REST
Hampshire

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing REST across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Basingstoke REST Jobs Demand Trend

REST
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing REST across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke REST Daily Rate Trend

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing REST also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited REST.

1 44 (100.00%) Java
1 44 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 44 (100.00%) SOAP
1 44 (100.00%) Web Services
1 44 (100.00%) MVC
1 44 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 44 (100.00%) Spring
1 44 (100.00%) Spring MVC
2 42 (95.45%) JMS
2 42 (95.45%) EJB
3 41 (93.18%) JAXB
3 41 (93.18%) JSON
3 41 (93.18%) Spring Security
3 41 (93.18%) Spring Web Flow
3 41 (93.18%) JTA
3 41 (93.18%) Web Development
3 41 (93.18%) Java EE
3 41 (93.18%) JPA
3 41 (93.18%) BDD
4 37 (84.09%) Git (software)
4 37 (84.09%) Maven
4 37 (84.09%) CSS
4 37 (84.09%) JUnit
4 37 (84.09%) HTML
4 37 (84.09%) JavaScript
5 35 (79.55%) SQL
5 35 (79.55%) Software Architecture
6 34 (77.27%) Mockito
6 34 (77.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 34 (77.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing REST also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited REST. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 44 (100.00%) SOAP
1 44 (100.00%) Web Services
1 44 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 44 (100.00%) Spring
1 44 (100.00%) Spring MVC
2 42 (95.45%) JMS
2 42 (95.45%) EJB
3 41 (93.18%) JAXB
3 41 (93.18%) Spring Security
3 41 (93.18%) Spring Web Flow
3 41 (93.18%) JTA
3 41 (93.18%) Java EE
3 41 (93.18%) JSON
3 41 (93.18%) JPA
4 37 (84.09%) CSS
4 37 (84.09%) HTML
5 34 (77.27%) jQuery
6 31 (70.45%) Apache CXF
7 30 (68.18%) JSP
8 17 (38.64%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 21 (47.73%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (6.818%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 34 (77.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 34 (77.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (31.82%) NoSQL
4 7 (15.91%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 37 (84.09%) JUnit
1 37 (84.09%) Maven
1 37 (84.09%) Git (software)
2 34 (77.27%) Mockito
3 17 (38.64%) Selenium
4 12 (27.27%) JBehave
General
1 3 (6.818%) Finance
Job Titles
1 36 (81.82%) Developer
1 36 (81.82%) Java Developer
2 10 (22.73%) Technical Leader
3 7 (15.91%) Software Architect
3 7 (15.91%) Architect
4 6 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (9.091%) Lead Developer
5 4 (9.091%) Java Solutions Architect
5 4 (9.091%) Java Architect
6 3 (6.818%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 3 (6.818%) Technical Developer
7 2 (4.545%) Lead Java Developer
8 1 (2.273%) Team Leader
8 1 (2.273%) Java Team Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) MVC
2 41 (93.18%) Web Development
2 41 (93.18%) BDD
3 35 (79.55%) Software Architecture
4 29 (65.91%) Pair Programming
4 29 (65.91%) UML
4 29 (65.91%) OOD
5 17 (38.64%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (31.82%) Dependency Injection
6 14 (31.82%) Agile Software Development
7 13 (29.55%) TDD
8 7 (15.91%) Scrum
8 7 (15.91%) SOA
9 1 (2.273%) OO
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (84.09%) JavaScript
3 35 (79.55%) SQL
4 7 (15.91%) C#
Vendors
1 29 (65.91%) JBoss
2 12 (27.27%) Twitter