The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REST over the 3 months to 24 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 Canary Wharf 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 48 48 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing REST 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.777% 0.529% -
As % of the Application Development category 2.500% 1.613% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £538 -
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
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
120 124 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 31.09% 32.80% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 78 135
Average daily rate £600 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £400 £418
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
REST
London

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf REST Daily Rate Trend

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 5 (100.00%) JSON
2 3 (60.00%) jQuery
2 3 (60.00%) HTML5
2 3 (60.00%) MVVM
2 3 (60.00%) CSS3
2 3 (60.00%) KnockoutJS
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) Front Office
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP
4 1 (20.00%) Derivative
4 1 (20.00%) DataSynapse
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (20.00%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Grid Computing
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) RMDS
4 1 (20.00%) TIBCO

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 5 (100.00%) JSON
2 3 (60.00%) jQuery
2 3 (60.00%) HTML5
2 3 (60.00%) CSS3
2 3 (60.00%) KnockoutJS
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (20.00%) WCF
4 1 (20.00%) WPF
4 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) TIBCO EMS
1 1 (20.00%) GemFire
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Front Office Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Derivative
1 1 (20.00%) Grid Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) MVVM
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) RAD
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Monte Carlo Method
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) DataSynapse
2 1 (20.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (20.00%) Reuters
2 1 (20.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) 29West