The first table below looks at the demand for RESTful skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RESTful over the 3 months to 21 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 East of England 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RESTful
Rank 112 123 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs citing RESTful 8 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.367% 0.272% -
As % of the Application Development category 1.311% 0.974% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 0
Average daily rate £280 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £325 £394
% change year-on-year
+6.15% -17.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Application Development
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
610 821 763
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 27.98% 27.95% 29.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 430 351
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 58 63
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £27.50 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.70 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
RESTful
England

RESTful
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England RESTful Jobs Demand Trend

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RESTful across the East of England region.

East of England RESTful Daily Rate Trend

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RESTful across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England RESTful Daily Rate Histogram

RESTful
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RESTful across the East of England region.

East of England RESTful Hourly Rate Trend

RESTful
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Hertfordshire +9 4 £228 -35.00%
Bedfordshire +1 2 £400 +14.28%
Cambridgeshire - 2 £353 -
RESTful
England

RESTful
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing RESTful 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 RESTful.

1 25 (83.33%) Web Services
2 22 (73.33%) Java
3 20 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
4 18 (60.00%) MySQL
4 18 (60.00%) Linux
5 16 (53.33%) Spring
6 14 (46.67%) MVC
6 14 (46.67%) Git (software)
7 13 (43.33%) JSON
7 13 (43.33%) SOAP
8 12 (40.00%) HTML
9 11 (36.67%) CSS
9 11 (36.67%) TDD
10 10 (33.33%) Subversion
10 10 (33.33%) Apache
10 10 (33.33%) jQuery
11 9 (30.00%) E-Commerce
11 9 (30.00%) CMS
12 8 (26.67%) Scrum
12 8 (26.67%) J2EE
12 8 (26.67%) PHP
12 8 (26.67%) SQL
13 7 (23.33%) C#
13 7 (23.33%) OO
13 7 (23.33%) Hibernate
13 7 (23.33%) Ruby
13 7 (23.33%) Ruby on Rails
14 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
14 6 (20.00%) Ajax
14 6 (20.00%) JavaScript

RESTful
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing RESTful 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 RESTful. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (83.33%) Web Services
2 16 (53.33%) Spring
3 13 (43.33%) JSON
3 13 (43.33%) SOAP
4 12 (40.00%) HTML
5 11 (36.67%) CSS
6 10 (33.33%) jQuery
7 8 (26.67%) J2EE
8 7 (23.33%) Hibernate
8 7 (23.33%) Ruby on Rails
9 6 (20.00%) Ajax
9 6 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
9 6 (20.00%) HTML5
10 5 (16.67%) CSS3
11 4 (13.33%) JSF
11 4 (13.33%) WSRP
11 4 (13.33%) Java EE
11 4 (13.33%) XML
11 4 (13.33%) Swing
11 4 (13.33%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 10 (33.33%) Apache
2 9 (30.00%) CMS
3 6 (20.00%) Drupal
4 4 (13.33%) Tomcat
4 4 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (13.33%) concrete5
4 4 (13.33%) Liferay
5 3 (10.00%) WordPress
6 2 (6.667%) nginx
7 1 (3.333%) Sitefinity
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (60.00%) MySQL
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (13.33%) Redis
2 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (46.67%) Git (software)
2 10 (33.33%) Subversion
3 4 (13.33%) Maven
4 1 (3.333%) SpecFlow
4 1 (3.333%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.333%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.333%) NUnit
4 1 (3.333%) Selenium
General
1 5 (16.67%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Banking
2 4 (13.33%) Retail
2 4 (13.33%) Retail Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.667%) Games
Job Titles
1 29 (96.67%) Developer
2 11 (36.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.33%) PHP Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Portal Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Drupal Developer
4 3 (10.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) J2EE Developer
5 2 (6.667%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Agile .NET Developer
6 1 (3.333%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Agile C# Developer
6 1 (3.333%) WPF Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Web Developer
6 1 (3.333%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (13.33%) Informatics
3 2 (6.667%) LIMS
3 2 (6.667%) W3C
3 2 (6.667%) Digital Media
3 2 (6.667%) Online Games
3 2 (6.667%) Biology
4 1 (3.333%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 18 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Android
2 3 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 14 (46.67%) MVC
3 11 (36.67%) TDD
4 9 (30.00%) E-Commerce
5 8 (26.67%) Scrum
6 7 (23.33%) OO
7 6 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 5 (16.67%) BDD
8 5 (16.67%) Kanban
9 4 (13.33%) SEO
9 4 (13.33%) Content Management
9 4 (13.33%) Information Management
9 4 (13.33%) OOP
9 4 (13.33%) User Stories
10 2 (6.667%) Extreme Programming
10 2 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (6.667%) MVVM
11 1 (3.333%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) Java
2 8 (26.67%) PHP
2 8 (26.67%) SQL
3 7 (23.33%) C#
3 7 (23.33%) Ruby
4 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.33%) Perl
5 4 (13.33%) Python
5 4 (13.33%) Lisp
5 4 (13.33%) PHP5
6 3 (10.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.667%) Varnish
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) VMware
3 3 (10.00%) Zend
4 2 (6.667%) Microsoft
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