REST Contracts in England

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 115 83
Rank change year-on-year -3 -32 -11
Contract jobs citing REST 698 1,116 2,087
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.90% 2.28% 2.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.30% 9.91% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 818 1,477
10th Percentile £375 £425 £413
25th Percentile £438 £488 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +12.75%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £764 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £546 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% -5.04% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 31
10th Percentile £26.58 £44.00 £46.19
25th Percentile £58.75 £51.94 £49.75
Median hourly rate £74.44 £57.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year +29.46% -9.59% +73.13%
75th Percentile £83.13 £77.88 £75.39
90th Percentile £85.00 £90.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £74.44 £56.25 £62.88
% change year-on-year +32.34% -10.54% +39.72%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,502 11,262 18,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.41% 23.04% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,321 8,347 14,217
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 139 215
10th Percentile £22.27 £29.15 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +12.22%
75th Percentile £65.01 £75.00 £67.65
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for REST in England

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in England.

Daily rate trend for REST in England

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in England

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in England.

Hourly rate trend for REST in England

REST
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in England

REST
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +7 424 £525 -8.70% 132
South East -23 90 £550 - 43
North of England -7 67 £525 -4.55% 57
South West +7 56 £533 -3.09% 21
North West -16 49 £525 -4.55% 29
Yorkshire +10 18 £445 -15.24% 23
Midlands +5 18 £500 -7.41% 19
East of England 0 18 £450 -10.00% 25
West Midlands -3 12 £488 -20.41% 11
East Midlands +15 6 £577 +6.85% 8
North East +16 4 £480 -21.63% 5
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 33 (4.73%) Apache
2 32 (4.58%) Confluence
3 17 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 16 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.43%) Anypoint
5 10 (1.43%) CMS
6 9 (1.29%) Mule
7 8 (1.15%) Site Server
8 6 (0.86%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.72%) IIS
9 5 (0.72%) Mule ESB
10 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.57%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.43%) nginx
12 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.43%) Maximo
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.43%) Shopify
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 185 (26.50%) Azure
2 177 (25.36%) AWS
3 63 (9.03%) GitHub
4 55 (7.88%) GCP
5 53 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (6.45%) Serverless
7 30 (4.30%) SaaS
8 29 (4.15%) Amazon S3
9 28 (4.01%) Power Platform
10 24 (3.44%) npm
10 24 (3.44%) Power Automate
11 23 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (3.30%) OpenShift
12 22 (3.15%) PowerApps
13 21 (3.01%) IaaS
13 21 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (2.87%) Amazon SQS
15 19 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (2.72%) PaaS
16 18 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.58%) HTTP
2 15 (2.15%) BGP
3 12 (1.72%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (1.72%) MPLS
3 12 (1.72%) VPN
4 11 (1.58%) Radio Access Network
5 8 (1.15%) SSH
6 6 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.72%) SAN
8 4 (0.57%) Firewall
9 3 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (0.43%) DNS
9 3 (0.43%) Internet
9 3 (0.43%) IOS XR
9 3 (0.43%) VoIP
10 2 (0.29%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.29%) SMS
10 2 (0.29%) WinSCP
11 1 (0.14%) PPP
11 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (14.33%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (10.17%) NoSQL
3 55 (7.88%) SQL Server
4 53 (7.59%) Relational Database
5 24 (3.44%) MongoDB
6 23 (3.30%) MySQL
7 15 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (1.58%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.58%) GIS
10 11 (1.58%) Power BI
10 11 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.00%) Couchbase
12 7 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.86%) Triplestore
14 5 (0.72%) Big Data
14 5 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 152 (21.78%) Git
2 108 (15.47%) Jenkins
3 104 (14.90%) JIRA
4 60 (8.60%) Selenium
5 59 (8.45%) JUnit
6 58 (8.31%) GitLab
7 56 (8.02%) Cucumber
8 34 (4.87%) SonarQube
9 33 (4.73%) Maven
10 31 (4.44%) REST Assured
11 23 (3.30%) Postman
12 22 (3.15%) Gradle
13 21 (3.01%) Visual Studio
13 21 (3.01%) webpack
14 20 (2.87%) TeamCity
15 18 (2.58%) JMeter
16 17 (2.44%) TestRail
17 15 (2.15%) Bitbucket
18 14 (2.01%) CircleCI
18 14 (2.01%) Cypress.io
General
1 156 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 100 (14.33%) Finance
3 93 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 39 (5.59%) Front Office
6 33 (4.73%) Banking
7 25 (3.58%) Law
8 15 (2.15%) Retail
9 13 (1.86%) Police
10 12 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.43%) Marketing
12 9 (1.29%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.00%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.72%) Back Office
15 4 (0.57%) Aviation
15 4 (0.57%) Games
15 4 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 375 (53.72%) Developer
2 108 (15.47%) Java Developer
3 90 (12.89%) Senior
4 69 (9.89%) Architect
5 55 (7.88%) Full Stack Developer
6 47 (6.73%) Software Engineer
7 42 (6.02%) Java Engineer
8 39 (5.59%) Senior Developer
9 30 (4.30%) Angular Developer
10 29 (4.15%) Applications Developer
11 28 (4.01%) Lead
12 24 (3.44%) Python Developer
13 22 (3.15%) .NET Developer
13 22 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (3.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 22 (3.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 21 (3.01%) C# Developer
14 21 (3.01%) Senior Software Engineer
15 20 (2.87%) UI Developer
16 19 (2.72%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (20.20%) Spring
2 118 (16.91%) CSS
3 117 (16.76%) JSON
3 117 (16.76%) React
4 114 (16.33%) Spring Boot
5 106 (15.19%) SOAP
6 105 (15.04%) HTML
7 101 (14.47%) .NET
8 92 (13.18%) AngularJS
9 87 (12.46%) Web Services
10 84 (12.03%) XML
11 58 (8.31%) Node.js
12 55 (7.88%) GraphQL
12 55 (7.88%) Hibernate
12 55 (7.88%) JPA
13 46 (6.59%) Kafka
14 37 (5.30%) SAML
15 35 (5.01%) Swagger
16 31 (4.44%) .NET Core
16 31 (4.44%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.58%) Product Ownership
2 29 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (3.72%) Data Structures
4 20 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
5 18 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (2.58%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.29%) Public Cloud
7 15 (2.15%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.86%) Fixed Income
9 13 (1.86%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.86%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.29%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.29%) Legacy Code
10 9 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.00%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.00%) Wiki
12 6 (0.86%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (0.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.88%) Linux
2 29 (4.15%) Windows
3 22 (3.15%) Apple iOS
4 20 (2.87%) Android
5 18 (2.58%) Unix
6 5 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) AIX
7 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (40.83%) Agile
2 183 (26.22%) CI/CD
3 181 (25.93%) DevOps
4 137 (19.63%) Microservices
5 133 (19.05%) Software Engineering
6 131 (18.77%) Test Automation
7 108 (15.47%) Scrum
8 99 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
9 95 (13.61%) TDD
10 84 (12.03%) Front End Development
11 82 (11.75%) Continuous Integration
12 80 (11.46%) Unit Testing
13 79 (11.32%) Design Patterns
14 73 (10.46%) Full Stack Development
15 67 (9.60%) OO
16 56 (8.02%) BDD
17 55 (7.88%) Containerisation
17 55 (7.88%) Mentoring
18 45 (6.45%) MVC
18 45 (6.45%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 264 (37.82%) Java
2 194 (27.79%) JavaScript
3 157 (22.49%) SQL
4 137 (19.63%) Python
5 115 (16.48%) C#
6 105 (15.04%) TypeScript
7 41 (5.87%) PowerShell
8 31 (4.44%) Go
9 25 (3.58%) Kotlin
10 16 (2.29%) C++
11 13 (1.86%) Apex Code
11 13 (1.86%) C
11 13 (1.86%) Perl
11 13 (1.86%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.58%) Groovy
12 11 (1.58%) Swift
13 10 (1.43%) Bash
14 9 (1.29%) PHP
15 8 (1.15%) Korn
15 8 (1.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 156 (22.35%) Security Cleared
2 133 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 77 (11.03%) Degree
4 31 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (4.30%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.57%) CISSP
9 4 (0.57%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.57%) PMP
10 3 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.29%) HND
12 1 (0.14%) ISEB
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (7.74%) QA
2 25 (3.58%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.43%) WCAG
5 6 (0.86%) GDPR
5 6 (0.86%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.72%) SLA
7 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.43%) GRC
8 2 (0.29%) HL7
8 2 (0.29%) MiFID
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 133 (19.05%) Docker
2 23 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.57%) OpenAM
5 4 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.43%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) IAG
7 1 (0.14%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 120 (17.19%) Kubernetes
2 68 (9.74%) Terraform
3 64 (9.17%) Ansible
4 29 (4.15%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (2.44%) Podman
6 15 (2.15%) Grafana
7 12 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
8 8 (1.15%) Kibana
9 7 (1.00%) PingFederate
10 5 (0.72%) CloudHub
11 4 (0.57%) Argo
11 4 (0.57%) Packer
11 4 (0.57%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.43%) Istio
12 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.29%) logstash
13 2 (0.29%) Puppet
14 1 (0.14%) Forefront Identity Manager
14 1 (0.14%) rkt
Vendors
1 79 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.02%) Google
3 43 (6.16%) Salesforce
4 42 (6.02%) Oracle
5 35 (5.01%) SAP
6 23 (3.30%) MuleSoft
7 15 (2.15%) Splunk
8 12 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.58%) Atlassian
9 11 (1.58%) IBM
9 11 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.29%) ESRI
10 9 (1.29%) Pega
11 8 (1.15%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.86%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.86%) Ping Identity
12 6 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (0.86%) WSO2
13 5 (0.72%) Dell
13 5 (0.72%) VMware