RESTful Contracts in England

RESTful
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for RESTful skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RESTful over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 202 147
Rank change year-on-year -2 -55 -22
Contract jobs citing RESTful 420 687 1,344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.14% 1.36% 1.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.63% 5.87% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 499 967
10th Percentile £375 £385 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £591 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.15% +7.44% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £710 £660
90th Percentile £719 £801 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 27
10th Percentile £47.70 £62.70 £35.85
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £67.80
90th Percentile £87.00 £77.00 £82.00
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% +25.00% +46.34%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

RESTful 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 7,454 11,713 19,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.17% 23.17% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,302 8,672 14,430
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 138 214
10th Percentile £21.63 £28.73 £21.30
25th Percentile £40.31 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in England

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in England

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in England

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in England

RESTful
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing RESTful in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for RESTful in England

RESTful
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 RESTful within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -39 220 £575 -11.54% 102
North of England +58 92 £488 -9.30% 72
North West +55 74 £475 +3.26% 30
South East +9 35 £450 -5.76% 51
East of England +23 20 £500 +13.64% 21
Midlands +4 19 £500 -4.76% 24
South West +22 16 £525 - 20
Yorkshire +3 13 £513 -12.39% 27
West Midlands +20 11 £607 +34.89% 15
East Midlands +10 8 £462 -14.05% 9
North East +23 5 £500 - 18
RESTful
UK

RESTful
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 14 (3.33%) Confluence
2 9 (2.14%) Apache
3 7 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.19%) CMS
5 4 (0.95%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.71%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.71%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.48%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.48%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.48%) Jadu
7 2 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.24%) CoreMedia CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Drupal
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.43%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.48%) Shopify
3 1 (0.24%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.24%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 196 (46.67%) AWS
2 95 (22.62%) Azure
3 67 (15.95%) GCP
4 36 (8.57%) Serverless
5 32 (7.62%) GitHub
6 28 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (4.05%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (3.10%) npm
11 12 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (1.90%) PaaS
14 8 (1.90%) Power Platform
15 7 (1.67%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.24%) HTTP
2 10 (2.38%) Firewall
3 7 (1.67%) SSL
4 6 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.19%) BGP
5 5 (1.19%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.95%) DNS
7 3 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.71%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.48%) DHCP
8 2 (0.48%) DMVPN
8 2 (0.48%) HSRP
8 2 (0.48%) LAN
8 2 (0.48%) Network Security
8 2 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.48%) SNMP
8 2 (0.48%) Spanning Tree
8 2 (0.48%) VPN
8 2 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (16.43%) NoSQL
2 47 (11.19%) MongoDB
3 36 (8.57%) Apache Cassandra
4 33 (7.86%) SQL Server
5 28 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 26 (6.19%) MySQL
7 25 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (3.33%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.38%) Redis
10 8 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.67%) Power BI
12 5 (1.19%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.71%) Couchbase
14 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.48%) Big Data
15 2 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 2 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 77 (18.33%) Git
2 40 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 24 (5.71%) GitLab
4 21 (5.00%) JIRA
5 19 (4.52%) Mockito
6 17 (4.05%) Android Studio
6 17 (4.05%) Cucumber
7 15 (3.57%) TeamCity
8 14 (3.33%) JUnit
9 12 (2.86%) webpack
10 11 (2.62%) Maven
10 11 (2.62%) Moq
10 11 (2.62%) Selenium
11 10 (2.38%) NUnit
12 9 (2.14%) Visual Studio
13 8 (1.90%) Cypress.io
14 7 (1.67%) CircleCI
14 7 (1.67%) Xcode
15 6 (1.43%) Gatling
15 6 (1.43%) SonarQube
General
1 98 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 51 (12.14%) Finance
3 35 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 33 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.52%) Telecoms
6 16 (3.81%) Banking
7 13 (3.10%) Front Office
8 10 (2.38%) Marketing
9 9 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.43%) Electronics
10 6 (1.43%) Retail
11 5 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.71%) Advertising
13 3 (0.71%) Back Office
13 3 (0.71%) Law
14 2 (0.48%) Automotive
14 2 (0.48%) French Language
14 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 244 (58.10%) Developer
2 56 (13.33%) Senior
3 45 (10.71%) Software Engineer
4 31 (7.38%) Java Developer
4 31 (7.38%) Scala Developer
5 30 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 27 (6.43%) Architect
7 23 (5.48%) Full Stack Developer
8 20 (4.76%) C# Developer
9 19 (4.52%) Android Developer
9 19 (4.52%) Software Developer
10 18 (4.29%) Consultant
11 17 (4.05%) .NET Developer
12 16 (3.81%) Lead
13 14 (3.33%) Python Developer
14 12 (2.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 12 (2.86%) Python Engineer
14 12 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
15 11 (2.62%) Angular Developer
15 11 (2.62%) Genesys Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (19.29%) Node.js
2 65 (15.48%) .NET
3 63 (15.00%) Web Services
4 57 (13.57%) Kafka
5 50 (11.90%) React
6 48 (11.43%) Spring
7 43 (10.24%) AngularJS
7 43 (10.24%) CSS
8 42 (10.00%) HTML
9 38 (9.05%) SOAP
10 37 (8.81%) Spring Boot
11 36 (8.57%) OAuth
12 32 (7.62%) Akka
13 28 (6.67%) .NET Core
14 27 (6.43%) JSON
15 26 (6.19%) REST
15 26 (6.19%) XML
16 24 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
17 22 (5.24%) OAuth2
17 22 (5.24%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.43%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.48%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.05%) Data Structures
5 16 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 15 (3.57%) Algorithms
7 14 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.38%) IVR
9 9 (2.14%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (1.67%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.19%) Verilog
12 5 (1.19%) VHDL
13 4 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.95%) IoT
13 4 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.67%) Android
1 28 (6.67%) Linux
2 13 (3.10%) Apple iOS
3 12 (2.86%) Windows
4 7 (1.67%) Unix
5 4 (0.95%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.48%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (38.81%) Agile
2 141 (33.57%) Microservices
3 111 (26.43%) DevOps
4 97 (23.10%) CI/CD
5 70 (16.67%) TDD
6 64 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (14.76%) Software Engineering
8 53 (12.62%) Unit Testing
9 52 (12.38%) Test Automation
10 49 (11.67%) Continuous Integration
11 44 (10.48%) Design Patterns
12 41 (9.76%) Scrum
13 38 (9.05%) Clean Code
14 36 (8.57%) Computer Science
14 36 (8.57%) Full Stack Development
15 34 (8.10%) Machine Learning
15 34 (8.10%) User Experience
16 30 (7.14%) BDD
16 30 (7.14%) Containerisation
16 30 (7.14%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 138 (32.86%) Java
2 111 (26.43%) SQL
3 94 (22.38%) JavaScript
4 92 (21.90%) Python
5 66 (15.71%) C#
6 48 (11.43%) TypeScript
7 37 (8.81%) Scala
8 26 (6.19%) Kotlin
9 17 (4.05%) C++
10 14 (3.33%) PHP
10 14 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 11 (2.62%) C
11 11 (2.62%) Go
12 9 (2.14%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.14%) Swift
13 6 (1.43%) Bash
13 6 (1.43%) Bicep
13 6 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (1.43%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (13.81%) Security Cleared
2 45 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.05%) Degree
4 23 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.43%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.24%) CCNP
11 1 (0.24%) CEH
11 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.24%) CISSP
11 1 (0.24%) GCIA
11 1 (0.24%) GCIH
11 1 (0.24%) GIAC
11 1 (0.24%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.00%) QA
2 13 (3.10%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.48%) NCSC
5 1 (0.24%) GDPR
5 1 (0.24%) NIST
5 1 (0.24%) SLA
5 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 83 (19.76%) Docker
2 8 (1.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.95%) VirtualBox
5 3 (0.71%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 89 (21.19%) Kubernetes
2 40 (9.52%) Terraform
3 21 (5.00%) Grafana
4 18 (4.29%) Ansible
5 13 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.90%) Consul
7 5 (1.19%) Kibana
8 1 (0.24%) Anchore
8 1 (0.24%) Argo
8 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.24%) logstash
8 1 (0.24%) MOM
8 1 (0.24%) Nagios
8 1 (0.24%) Packer
8 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.67%) Oracle
3 19 (4.52%) Typelevel
4 15 (3.57%) Google
5 12 (2.86%) Genesys
5 12 (2.86%) SAP
6 11 (2.62%) TIBCO
7 10 (2.38%) SaltStack
8 8 (1.90%) IBM
8 8 (1.90%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.43%) NEC
10 5 (1.19%) Cisco
10 5 (1.19%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.95%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.95%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.71%) Micro Focus
12 3 (0.71%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.71%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.71%) TOWER Software
13 2 (0.48%) Palo Alto