The first table below looks at the demand for RESTful skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RESTful over the 3 months to 20 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 Guildford 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RESTful
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing RESTful 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
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
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
76 24 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 34.86% 21.05% 23.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 10 13
Average daily rate £320 £375 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% +33.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £335 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 2
Average hourly rate £40.50 £31.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -16.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
RESTful
Surrey

RESTful
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford RESTful Daily Rate Trend

RESTful
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) Objective-C
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Media
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 1 (33.33%) Telematics
2 1 (33.33%) RSpec
2 1 (33.33%) Heroku
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) CSS

RESTful
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
1 1 (33.33%) RSpec
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (33.33%) iOS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Telematics
1 1 (33.33%) Heroku
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Media
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Objective-C
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Guildford, Surrey
Key Skills - Modern RESTful approach to Ruby on Rails development - Using Git as part of the daily development workflow (or other distributed source control systems) - RSpec/Cucumber with...
Austin Fraser
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 16 May 2013