The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REST over the 3 months to 23 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 Bristol 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 47 46 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing REST 5 19 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.978% 2.273% -
As % of the Application Development category 4.673% 9.406% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 19 0
Average daily rate £313 £390 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.87% -
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%
All Application Development
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
107 202 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 20.94% 24.16% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 139 41
Average daily rate £300 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £405 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
Average hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
REST
South West

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol REST Daily Rate Trend

REST
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing REST across the Bristol region.

Bristol REST Hourly Rate Trend

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 9 (90.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (70.00%) Web Services
2 7 (70.00%) Eclipse
3 5 (50.00%) XML
3 5 (50.00%) Android
4 4 (40.00%) CSS
4 4 (40.00%) HTML
5 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (30.00%) Ajax
6 2 (20.00%) Web Development
6 2 (20.00%) JDeveloper
6 2 (20.00%) Mac OS X
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle ADF
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle
6 2 (20.00%) SOAP
6 2 (20.00%) Photoshop
6 2 (20.00%) Blog
6 2 (20.00%) Social Network
6 2 (20.00%) Subversion
6 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) NetBeans
7 1 (10.00%) Spring
7 1 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (10.00%) Grails
7 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (10.00%) Groovy
7 1 (10.00%) HTML5
7 1 (10.00%) Oracle BPM

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 7 (70.00%) Web Services
2 5 (50.00%) XML
3 4 (40.00%) CSS
3 4 (40.00%) HTML
4 3 (30.00%) Ajax
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle ADF
5 2 (20.00%) SOAP
6 1 (10.00%) Spring
6 1 (10.00%) Grails
6 1 (10.00%) HTML5
6 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (10.00%) RESTful
6 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
6 1 (10.00%) .NET
6 1 (10.00%) J2EE
6 1 (10.00%) Middleware
6 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (10.00%) Java EE
6 1 (10.00%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (20.00%) JDeveloper
2 2 (20.00%) Subversion
2 2 (20.00%) NetBeans
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (10.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Android Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) iOS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Blog
1 2 (20.00%) Social Network
2 1 (10.00%) iPad
2 1 (10.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Android
2 2 (20.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (20.00%) Web Development
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) MVC
3 1 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Mercator