The first table below looks at the demand for RESTful skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RESTful over the 3 months to 22 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 Birmingham 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RESTful
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing RESTful 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.226% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.990% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £325 £394
% change year-on-year
+6.15% -17.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Application Development
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
101 174 128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 22.80% 27.53% 25.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 107 73
Average daily rate £300 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £375 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £36.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.36% -8.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
RESTful
West Midlands

RESTful
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham RESTful Daily Rate Trend

RESTful
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (50.00%) JDBC
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
2 1 (50.00%) Java RMI
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) SMTP
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (50.00%) IIOP
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory

RESTful
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 2 (100.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) JDBC
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
2 1 (50.00%) Java RMI
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) JMX
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (50.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 1 (50.00%) ESB
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (50.00%) IIOP
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Jython
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware