The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 Chester 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 - - -
Contract jobs citing REST 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
15 16 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 10.64% 13.79% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 22
Average daily rate £375 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £9.00 - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
REST
Cheshire

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester REST Daily Rate Trend

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) SNMP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
1 2 (100.00%) TELNET
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) TestNG
1 2 (100.00%) MyEclipse
1 2 (100.00%) Mercurial
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (100.00%) HTML

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SNMP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) TestNG
1 2 (100.00%) MyEclipse
1 2 (100.00%) Mercurial
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle