The first table below looks at the demand for RESTful 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 RESTful 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RESTful
Rank 47 53 47
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -6
Contract jobs citing RESTful 3 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.562% 0.941% 0.310%
As % of the Application Development category 2.778% 4.000% 2.105%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 0
Average daily rate £325 £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £394
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -17.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Application Development
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
108 200 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 20.22% 23.53% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 138 36
Average daily rate £305 £320 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.84% +16.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £238 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £405 £372
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
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%
RESTful
South West

RESTful
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol RESTful Daily Rate Trend

RESTful
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 10 (83.33%) Web Services
2 7 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (58.33%) JSON
3 6 (50.00%) TDD
3 6 (50.00%) Java
4 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (41.67%) E-Commerce
4 5 (41.67%) Scrum
4 5 (41.67%) XML
5 4 (33.33%) CSS
5 4 (33.33%) PHP
5 4 (33.33%) C++
5 4 (33.33%) Spring
6 3 (25.00%) jQuery
6 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (25.00%) HTML
6 3 (25.00%) C
6 3 (25.00%) J2EE
6 3 (25.00%) OO
6 3 (25.00%) Windows
6 3 (25.00%) Objective-C
6 3 (25.00%) MVC
6 3 (25.00%) Degree
6 3 (25.00%) Memory Management
6 3 (25.00%) Apple iOS
6 3 (25.00%) iOS SDK
6 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
7 2 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
7 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3

RESTful
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 10 (83.33%) Web Services
2 7 (58.33%) JSON
3 5 (41.67%) XML
4 4 (33.33%) CSS
4 4 (33.33%) Spring
5 3 (25.00%) HTML
5 3 (25.00%) J2EE
5 3 (25.00%) jQuery
5 3 (25.00%) iOS SDK
6 2 (16.67%) OAuth
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 2 (16.67%) ASP
6 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
6 2 (16.67%) .NET
6 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
6 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
6 2 (16.67%) Java EE
6 2 (16.67%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) IIS
1 1 (8.333%) Apache
1 1 (8.333%) WordPress
1 1 (8.333%) Magento
1 1 (8.333%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Maven
1 2 (16.67%) ReSharper
1 2 (16.67%) WATIR
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
1 2 (16.67%) FitNesse
1 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
1 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (16.67%) Hudson
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.333%) JUnit
General
1 1 (8.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 3 (25.00%) iOS Developer
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 2 (16.67%) QA Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) PHP Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (16.67%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (16.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (50.00%) TDD
3 5 (41.67%) E-Commerce
3 5 (41.67%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) OO
4 3 (25.00%) MVC
4 3 (25.00%) Memory Management
5 2 (16.67%) BDD
5 2 (16.67%) Agile Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Web Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Kanban
5 2 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (8.333%) Internet Marketing
6 1 (8.333%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) PHP
3 4 (33.33%) C++
4 3 (25.00%) C
4 3 (25.00%) Objective-C
5 2 (16.67%) VB6
5 2 (16.67%) Ruby
5 2 (16.67%) C#
5 2 (16.67%) VB
6 1 (8.333%) SQL
6 1 (8.333%) PHP5
6 1 (8.333%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Facebook
1 2 (16.67%) Twitter
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) Google
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Rate: £200 - £300 per day
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