The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REST 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 Buckinghamshire 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
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 48 74 74
Rank change year-on-year
+26 0
Contract jobs citing REST 17 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 2.157% 0.098% 0.094%
As % of the Application Development category 8.134% 0.515% 0.422%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £380 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.89% +26.66%
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
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
209 194 237
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 26.52% 19.09% 22.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 104 104
Average daily rate £325 £308 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.69% -6.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
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 Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Milton Keynes - 9 £500 -
High Wycombe - 7 £260 -
REST
South East

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 18 (100.00%) Web Services
2 13 (72.22%) .NET
3 12 (66.67%) C#
4 9 (50.00%) HTML
4 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (50.00%) Oracle
4 9 (50.00%) CSS
4 9 (50.00%) SOA
4 9 (50.00%) WSDL
4 9 (50.00%) BPEL
4 9 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
4 9 (50.00%) jQuery
4 9 (50.00%) Middleware
4 9 (50.00%) Oracle Service Bus
4 9 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (44.44%) JSON
6 7 (38.89%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (38.89%) XPath
6 7 (38.89%) SOAP
6 7 (38.89%) XML
7 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET
7 6 (33.33%) MVC
7 6 (33.33%) WCF
8 5 (27.78%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
8 5 (27.78%) Workflow
8 5 (27.78%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (27.78%) Scrum
8 5 (27.78%) Web 2.0
8 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Architecture

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 18 (100.00%) Web Services
2 13 (72.22%) .NET
3 9 (50.00%) CSS
3 9 (50.00%) WSDL
3 9 (50.00%) Middleware
3 9 (50.00%) jQuery
3 9 (50.00%) HTML
4 8 (44.44%) JSON
5 7 (38.89%) SOAP
5 7 (38.89%) XML
6 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET
6 6 (33.33%) WCF
7 5 (27.78%) XSD
8 3 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (11.11%) XML Schema
9 2 (11.11%) XSLT
9 2 (11.11%) JMS
10 1 (5.556%) Mustache
Application Platforms
1 9 (50.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 9 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (11.11%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Ant
1 5 (27.78%) Eclipse
1 5 (27.78%) JDeveloper
1 5 (27.78%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
2 9 (50.00%) UI Developer
2 9 (50.00%) UI Programmer
3 7 (38.89%) Lead Developer
3 7 (38.89%) Oracle SOA Developer
3 7 (38.89%) SOA Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Front-End Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Web 2.0
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) SOA
1 9 (50.00%) BPEL
2 7 (38.89%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (33.33%) MVC
4 5 (27.78%) Workflow
4 5 (27.78%) Scrum
4 5 (27.78%) UML
4 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
5 2 (11.11%) BPMN
6 1 (5.556%) Integration Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) C#
2 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (38.89%) XPath
4 5 (27.78%) XQuery
5 2 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Oracle
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