The first table below looks at the demand for RESTful skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RESTful over the 3 months to 17 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 Edinburgh 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RESTful
Rank - - 67
Contract jobs citing RESTful 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - - 0.149%
As % of the Application Development category - - 1.439%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £394
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -17.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
176 128 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 21.73% 11.57% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 59 61
Average daily rate £314 £310 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.20% -6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £150 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
RESTful
Scotland

RESTful
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh RESTful Daily Rate Trend

RESTful
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh RESTful Hourly Rate Trend

RESTful
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Facelets
2 1 (50.00%) RichFaces
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) JSF
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) HttpUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium

RESTful
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
2 1 (50.00%) Facelets
2 1 (50.00%) RichFaces
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) JSF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaBeans
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) Servlets
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) HttpUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) W3C
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss