The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REST over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cheshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 64 66 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing REST 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.414% 0.123% -
As % of the Application Development category 1.796% 0.395% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £365 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
- +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -18.75%
All Application Development
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
167 253 258
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 23.03% 31.04% 27.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 154 158
Average daily rate £370 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.84% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
Average hourly rate £30.00 £13.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+122.22% -55.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
REST
North West

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire REST Daily Rate Trend

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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Warrington - 1 £365 -
Macclesfield - - - - 4
REST
North West

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (25.00%) OpenGL ES
3 1 (25.00%) UIKit
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) XPath
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Flex
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) Online Games
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Android

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) OpenGL ES
3 1 (25.00%) UIKit
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Flex
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Flash
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) MFC
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Servlets
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SNMP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) TestNG
2 1 (25.00%) MyEclipse
2 1 (25.00%) Mercurial
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) iOS Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C++/C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C++ Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Online Games
1 1 (25.00%) iPhone
1 1 (25.00%) iPad
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) XPath
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle