The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REST 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 Hertfordshire 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
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 50 60 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing REST 13 10 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.041% 1.024% -
As % of the Application Development category 6.103% 3.534% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 0
Average daily rate £450 £450 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £374 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.35% +24.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £32.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+17.82% -19.37%
All Application Development
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
213 283 213
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 33.44% 28.97% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 121 92
Average daily rate £400 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £275 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £490 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 24
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £23.30 £33.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £36.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
REST
East of England

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire REST Jobs Demand Trend

REST
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing REST across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire REST Daily Rate Trend

REST
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing REST across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire REST Daily Rate Histogram

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing REST 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 REST.

1 13 (68.42%) JavaScript
1 13 (68.42%) CSS
2 12 (63.16%) Ajax
3 11 (57.89%) HTML
3 11 (57.89%) OO
4 10 (52.63%) JSP
4 10 (52.63%) SOAP
4 10 (52.63%) Linux
5 9 (47.37%) Java
5 9 (47.37%) XML
5 9 (47.37%) JSON
6 8 (42.11%) HTML5
6 8 (42.11%) CSS3
6 8 (42.11%) UNIX
7 7 (36.84%) Web Services
8 6 (31.58%) Oracle
8 6 (31.58%) PowerHouse
8 6 (31.58%) Web Design
8 6 (31.58%) Spring
8 6 (31.58%) Responsive Web Design
9 5 (26.32%) Maven
9 5 (26.32%) TDD
10 4 (21.05%) Hibernate
10 4 (21.05%) J2EE
10 4 (21.05%) JUnit
10 4 (21.05%) Waterfall
10 4 (21.05%) BDD
11 3 (15.79%) GWT
11 3 (15.79%) ESB
11 3 (15.79%) Apache Flex

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing REST 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 REST. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (68.42%) CSS
2 12 (63.16%) Ajax
3 11 (57.89%) HTML
4 10 (52.63%) JSP
4 10 (52.63%) SOAP
5 9 (47.37%) XML
5 9 (47.37%) JSON
6 8 (42.11%) HTML5
6 8 (42.11%) CSS3
7 7 (36.84%) Web Services
8 6 (31.58%) Spring
9 4 (21.05%) Hibernate
9 4 (21.05%) J2EE
10 3 (15.79%) GWT
10 3 (15.79%) Apache Flex
10 3 (15.79%) Swing
11 2 (10.53%) jQuery
12 1 (5.263%) soapUI
12 1 (5.263%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 1 (5.263%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) ESB
1 3 (15.79%) Apache
1 3 (15.79%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.263%) Adobe CQ
2 1 (5.263%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) MySQL
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Maven
2 4 (21.05%) JUnit
3 3 (15.79%) Eclipse
3 3 (15.79%) Ant
3 3 (15.79%) Subversion
4 2 (10.53%) WebDriver
5 1 (5.263%) JProfiler
5 1 (5.263%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.263%) Checkstyle
5 1 (5.263%) Selenium
5 1 (5.263%) FitNesse
5 1 (5.263%) Gradle
5 1 (5.263%) Jenkins
5 1 (5.263%) ClearCase
5 1 (5.263%) LoadRunner
5 1 (5.263%) Xcode
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 1 (5.263%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.263%) Publishing
2 1 (5.263%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) JavaScript Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Front-End Developer
4 2 (10.53%) J2EE Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (5.263%) iOS Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Programmer
5 1 (5.263%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Java Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Java Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Digital Media
2 1 (5.263%) iPad
2 1 (5.263%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Linux
2 8 (42.11%) UNIX
3 1 (5.263%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) OO
2 6 (31.58%) Web Design
2 6 (31.58%) Responsive Web Design
3 5 (26.32%) TDD
4 4 (21.05%) Waterfall
4 4 (21.05%) BDD
5 3 (15.79%) SOA
5 3 (15.79%) Scrum
5 3 (15.79%) UML
6 2 (10.53%) MVC
6 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
7 1 (5.263%) Load Testing
7 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
7 1 (5.263%) B2B
7 1 (5.263%) Extreme Programming
7 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (5.263%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) JavaScript
2 9 (47.37%) Java
3 6 (31.58%) PowerHouse
4 3 (15.79%) SQL
5 1 (5.263%) Groovy
5 1 (5.263%) C#
5 1 (5.263%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.263%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.263%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.263%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) JBoss
3 1 (5.263%) Elastic Path
3 1 (5.263%) Adobe
Hertfordshire
iOS Developer | iOS SDK, Objective-C, Xcode, JSON, XML, iPhone, iPad | Contract | Hertfordshire... The iOS Developer will be building applications for the iPhone and iPad platforms. Key Skills:...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £200 - £260 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013