The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 78 81 76
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -5
Contract jobs citing REST 5 1 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.391% 0.075% 0.607%
As % of the Application Development category 1.650% 0.300% 2.875%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
Average daily rate £250 £525 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-52.38% +44.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £525 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £525 £413
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
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
303 333 313
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 23.67% 24.93% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 177 138
Average daily rate £310 £275 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £393 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 18
Average hourly rate £33.00 £19.75 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+67.08% -39.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.40 £8.50 £16.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £57.50 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
REST
England

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire +8 2 £244 -53.57%
Derbyshire - - - -
Leicestershire - - - -
REST
England

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 16 (84.21%) Web Services
2 12 (63.16%) C#
2 12 (63.16%) .NET
2 12 (63.16%) SQL Server
3 10 (52.63%) WPF
4 9 (47.37%) Multithreading
4 9 (47.37%) HTML
4 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
4 9 (47.37%) Linux
4 9 (47.37%) CSS
5 8 (42.11%) XML
6 7 (36.84%) jQuery
6 7 (36.84%) Perl
7 6 (31.58%) XHTML
7 6 (31.58%) JSON
8 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET
9 4 (21.05%) PHP
9 4 (21.05%) SQL
9 4 (21.05%) MySQL
9 4 (21.05%) LAMP
9 4 (21.05%) MVC
9 4 (21.05%) SOAP
9 4 (21.05%) Apache Solr
9 4 (21.05%) Ajax
9 4 (21.05%) TDD
9 4 (21.05%) PHPUnit
10 3 (15.79%) Subversion
10 3 (15.79%) WebSphere
10 3 (15.79%) IBM

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 16 (84.21%) Web Services
2 12 (63.16%) .NET
3 10 (52.63%) WPF
4 9 (47.37%) HTML
4 9 (47.37%) CSS
5 8 (42.11%) XML
6 7 (36.84%) jQuery
7 6 (31.58%) XHTML
7 6 (31.58%) JSON
8 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET
9 4 (21.05%) LAMP
9 4 (21.05%) SOAP
9 4 (21.05%) Ajax
10 3 (15.79%) WebSphere
10 3 (15.79%) DHTML
11 2 (10.53%) J2EE
11 2 (10.53%) EJB
11 2 (10.53%) ADO.NET
11 2 (10.53%) JDBC
11 2 (10.53%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) Apache Solr
2 2 (10.53%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (10.53%) CMS
2 2 (10.53%) Commerce Server
3 1 (5.263%) Windows Azure
3 1 (5.263%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (5.263%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) SQL Server
2 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (21.05%) MySQL
4 2 (10.53%) DB2
4 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.263%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) PHPUnit
2 3 (15.79%) Subversion
2 3 (15.79%) Eclipse
3 2 (10.53%) JUnit
3 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
3 2 (10.53%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 1 (5.263%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.263%) JIRA
4 1 (5.263%) Git (software)
4 1 (5.263%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1 (5.263%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) .NET Developer
2 8 (42.11%) C# Developer
2 8 (42.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 7 (36.84%) SQL Developer
3 7 (36.84%) SQL Server Developer
4 5 (26.32%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (21.05%) Database Developer
5 4 (21.05%) PHP Developer
5 4 (21.05%) SQL Database Developer
6 3 (15.79%) WebSphere Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Programmer
7 2 (10.53%) Web Developer
7 2 (10.53%) PHP Web Developer
8 1 (5.263%) .NET Software Developer
8 1 (5.263%) C# Programmer
8 1 (5.263%) Software Programmer
8 1 (5.263%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (5.263%) .NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) UNIX
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.263%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Multithreading
2 4 (21.05%) MVC
2 4 (21.05%) TDD
3 3 (15.79%) SEO
4 2 (10.53%) UML
4 2 (10.53%) OO
4 2 (10.53%) RAD
4 2 (10.53%) CRM
4 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (10.53%) Content Management
5 1 (5.263%) Waterfall
5 1 (5.263%) Refactoring
5 1 (5.263%) SOA
5 1 (5.263%) Mobile Commerce
5 1 (5.263%) Project Management
5 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) C#
2 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
3 7 (36.84%) Perl
4 4 (21.05%) PHP
4 4 (21.05%) SQL
5 2 (10.53%) Java
5 2 (10.53%) Bash shell
6 1 (5.263%) C
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) IBM
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Twitter
3 1 (5.263%) Zend
3 1 (5.263%) Adobe
3 1 (5.263%) Apple
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