The first table below looks at the demand for RESTful 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 RESTful over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RESTful
Rank 120 134 116
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -18
Contract jobs citing RESTful 1 4 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.043% 0.126% 0.464%
As % of the Application Development category 0.199% 0.746% 1.857%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 11
Average daily rate £250 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £365
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Application Development
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
503 536 754
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 21.49% 16.91% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 252 328
Average daily rate £400 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 54
Average hourly rate £35.00 £19.00 £42.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.21% -55.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
RESTful
South East

RESTful
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire RESTful Jobs Demand Trend

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire RESTful Daily Rate Trend

RESTful
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Maidenhead - - - -
Newbury - - - -
Reading - - - - 1
RESTful
South East

RESTful
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing RESTful 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 RESTful.

1 8 (100.00%) Web Services
2 6 (75.00%) XML
2 6 (75.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) jQuery
3 5 (62.50%) JSON
3 5 (62.50%) OSGi
3 5 (62.50%) Adobe CQ
3 5 (62.50%) Apache Sling
3 5 (62.50%) JSP
3 5 (62.50%) Servlets
3 5 (62.50%) SOAP
3 5 (62.50%) Apache
3 5 (62.50%) Eclipse
3 5 (62.50%) Adobe
3 5 (62.50%) Content Management
3 5 (62.50%) Maven
3 5 (62.50%) Ajax
3 5 (62.50%) Omniture
4 4 (50.00%) Apache Felix
4 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (12.50%) TDD
6 1 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (12.50%) Extreme Programming
6 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (12.50%) Web Development
6 1 (12.50%) XPath
6 1 (12.50%) Spring
6 1 (12.50%) JAXB

RESTful
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing RESTful 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 RESTful. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (100.00%) Web Services
2 6 (75.00%) XML
2 6 (75.00%) jQuery
3 5 (62.50%) JSON
3 5 (62.50%) OSGi
3 5 (62.50%) Apache Sling
3 5 (62.50%) JSP
3 5 (62.50%) Servlets
3 5 (62.50%) SOAP
3 5 (62.50%) Ajax
4 4 (50.00%) Apache Felix
5 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
6 1 (12.50%) Spring
6 1 (12.50%) JAXB
6 1 (12.50%) CSS
6 1 (12.50%) XSLT
6 1 (12.50%) REST
6 1 (12.50%) CSS3
6 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
6 1 (12.50%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) Adobe CQ
1 5 (62.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon AWS
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Eclipse
1 5 (62.50%) Maven
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) FitNesse
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Programmer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Agile Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Content Management
2 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Extreme Programming
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
3 1 (12.50%) Kanban
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) XPath
2 1 (12.50%) XQuery
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Groovy
2 1 (12.50%) Scala
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Adobe
1 5 (62.50%) Omniture