REST Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REST over the 3 months to 24 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 Berkshire 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 102 131 126
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -5
Contract jobs citing REST 18 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.752% 0.127% 0.101%
As % of the Application Development category 3.468% 0.739% 0.410%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
Average daily rate £363 - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £374 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.35% +24.58%
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%
Search 11 REST jobs in Berkshire
All Application Development
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 519 541 731
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 21.67% 17.20% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 247 310
Average daily rate £388 £340 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.97% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 11 64
Average hourly rate £35.00 £21.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.79% -49.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
REST
South East

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire REST Daily Rate Trend

REST
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing REST across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire REST Daily Rate Histogram

REST
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading - 9 £160 -
REST
South East

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 22 (73.33%) Web Services
2 15 (50.00%) Java
3 14 (46.67%) C#
4 13 (43.33%) XML
5 10 (33.33%) Windows
5 10 (33.33%) SOAP
5 10 (33.33%) C++
5 10 (33.33%) SQL
6 9 (30.00%) IIS
6 9 (30.00%) Visual Studio
7 8 (26.67%) UNIX
7 8 (26.67%) .NET
7 8 (26.67%) HTML
7 8 (26.67%) Games
7 8 (26.67%) Ajax
7 8 (26.67%) Selenium
7 8 (26.67%) WCF
7 8 (26.67%) soapUI
8 7 (23.33%) Automated Testing
8 7 (23.33%) CSS
9 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
9 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
9 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (16.67%) Game Development
10 5 (16.67%) WebDriver
10 5 (16.67%) J2EE
10 5 (16.67%) Python
10 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
10 5 (16.67%) Software Testing
10 5 (16.67%) ISTQB

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 22 (73.33%) Web Services
2 13 (43.33%) XML
3 10 (33.33%) SOAP
4 8 (26.67%) .NET
4 8 (26.67%) HTML
4 8 (26.67%) Ajax
4 8 (26.67%) WCF
4 8 (26.67%) soapUI
5 7 (23.33%) CSS
6 5 (16.67%) J2EE
6 5 (16.67%) JSON
7 4 (13.33%) jQuery
7 4 (13.33%) WebSphere
8 3 (10.00%) HTML5
8 3 (10.00%) CSS3
8 3 (10.00%) Spring
9 2 (6.667%) ArcObjects
9 2 (6.667%) Struts
9 2 (6.667%) Servlets
9 2 (6.667%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 9 (30.00%) IIS
2 4 (13.33%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (10.00%) CMS
4 2 (6.667%) ArcGIS
4 2 (6.667%) Windows Azure
5 1 (3.333%) Lync
5 1 (3.333%) Apache
5 1 (3.333%) Tomcat
5 1 (3.333%) WebLogic
5 1 (3.333%) ArcIMS
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) MS Excel
1 2 (6.667%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.333%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) Wireshark
1 2 (6.667%) VoIP
1 2 (6.667%) HTTP
2 1 (3.333%) LDAP
2 1 (3.333%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.333%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) DbVisualizer
3 2 (6.667%) GIS
3 2 (6.667%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.333%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.333%) MySQL
4 1 (3.333%) DB2
4 1 (3.333%) MS Access
4 1 (3.333%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.333%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Visual Studio
2 8 (26.67%) Selenium
3 5 (16.67%) WebDriver
4 3 (10.00%) LoadRunner
5 2 (6.667%) Subversion
5 2 (6.667%) Eclipse
5 2 (6.667%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.333%) JProfiler
6 1 (3.333%) JUnit
6 1 (3.333%) FitNesse
General
1 8 (26.67%) Games
2 3 (10.00%) Finance
2 3 (10.00%) Publishing
3 1 (3.333%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Development Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Software Development Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Software Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Tester
3 5 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Automation Tester
5 3 (10.00%) Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Test Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Software Test Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Web Developer
6 2 (6.667%) GIS Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Mobile Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Test Leader
7 1 (3.333%) Agile Java Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Integration Specialist
7 1 (3.333%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Architect
7 1 (3.333%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (13.33%) Handset
2 3 (10.00%) Smartphone
2 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (6.667%) Replication
3 2 (6.667%) Blackberry
3 2 (6.667%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.667%) Kinect
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle Exalogic
4 1 (3.333%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.333%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.333%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Windows
2 8 (26.67%) UNIX
3 4 (13.33%) Android
3 4 (13.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (6.667%) Linux
4 2 (6.667%) Windows 8
5 1 (3.333%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) Automated Testing
2 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (16.67%) Game Development
3 5 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (13.33%) Web Testing
4 4 (13.33%) System Testing
4 4 (13.33%) Test Strategy
5 3 (10.00%) Kanban
5 3 (10.00%) Scrum
5 3 (10.00%) Web Development
6 2 (6.667%) Test Scripting
6 2 (6.667%) Load Testing
6 2 (6.667%) Stress Testing
6 2 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (6.667%) TDD
6 2 (6.667%) Data Management
6 2 (6.667%) Content Management
6 2 (6.667%) Code Coverage
6 2 (6.667%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) Java
2 14 (46.67%) C#
3 10 (33.33%) C++
3 10 (33.33%) SQL
4 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (16.67%) Python
5 5 (16.67%) Groovy
6 3 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (6.667%) Objective-C
7 2 (6.667%) C
7 2 (6.667%) VB
7 2 (6.667%) Scala
8 1 (3.333%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 4 (13.33%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.667%) ESRI
2 2 (6.667%) Oracle
2 2 (6.667%) Sencha
3 1 (3.333%) Red Hat
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