The first table below looks at the demand for RESTful skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RESTful over the 3 months to 24 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 Hampshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RESTful
Rank 100 88 -
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -
Contract jobs citing RESTful 3 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.197% 0.377% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.677% 1.357% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Average daily rate £330 £260 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.92% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £388
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -16.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £37.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Application Development
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
443 442 515
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 29.03% 27.78% 27.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 191 208
Average daily rate £350 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £465 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 50 72
Average hourly rate £39.00 £37.50 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +2.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.13 £19.00 £33.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
RESTful
South East

RESTful
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Southampton -2 1 - -
Basingstoke -12 1 £330 +13.79%
RESTful
South East

RESTful
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) XSD
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) ClearCase
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) JAXP
3 1 (25.00%) SAX
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Apple
3 1 (25.00%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (25.00%) ClearQuest
3 1 (25.00%) DTV

RESTful
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) XSD
1 2 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (25.00%) JAXP
2 1 (25.00%) SAX
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) DOM
2 1 (25.00%) Cocoa
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (25.00%) JAX-RS
2 1 (25.00%) Cocoa Touch
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebLogic Portal
1 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) Liferay
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (25.00%) NUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) Talend Open Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (25.00%) Hudson
1 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (25.00%) DTV
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Web Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Talend