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REST Contracts in London

Browse 109 REST job vacancies in London

The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REST over the 3 months to 18 June 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 London 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.

3 months to
18 Jun 2013

Same period 2012

Same period 2011

Representational State Transfer (REST)

Rank

129

179

336

Rank change year-on-year

+50

+157

Contract jobs citing REST

370

276

123

As % of all contract IT jobs located in London

1.604%

1.036%

0.391%

As % of the Application Development category

5.283%

3.599%

1.281%

Number of daily rates quoted

252

201

Average daily rate

£400

£350

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

+14.28%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£300

£276

£292

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£525

£550

£520

UK excluding London average daily rate

£350

£300

% change year-on-year

+16.66%

Number of hourly rates quoted

Average hourly rate

£42.00

£40.00

£19.52

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

+5.00%

+104.91%

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£35.50

£32.50

£40.00

% change year-on-year

+9.23%

-18.75%

All Application Development
London

Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category

7004

7668

9600

As % of all contract IT jobs located in London

30.37%

28.80%

30.51%

Number of daily rates quoted

5074

5192

6534

Average daily rate

£400

£450

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

-11.11%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£275

£285

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£575

£613

UK excluding London average daily rate

£325

Number of hourly rates quoted

104

117

Average hourly rate

£40.00

£36.50

£33.50

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

+9.58%

+8.95%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£18.00

£19.52

£16.50

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£54.00

£47.50

£67.50

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£35.00

£31.00

£35.70

% change year-on-year

+12.90%

-13.16%

REST
England

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

REST
Daily Rate Trend

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

REST
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing REST across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

REST
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing REST across the London region.

REST
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 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	Find Job Vacancies
City of London	+25	84	£400	-20.00%	31
Wembley	-	2	-	-
Paddington	-	1	-	-
Hammersmith	-	1	£200	-
Brentford	-	1	£400	-
Sidcup	-	-	-	-
Uxbridge	-	-	-	-
Hackney	-	-	-	-
REST England

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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	294 (51.58%)	Java
2	268 (47.02%)	JavaScript
3	264 (46.32%)	Web Services
4	234 (41.05%)	JSON
5	224 (39.30%)	TDD
6	185 (32.46%)	SOAP
7	184 (32.28%)	MVC
8	179 (31.40%)	XML
9	172 (30.18%)	CSS
10	160 (28.07%)	Agile Software Development
11	146 (25.61%)	jQuery
12	145 (25.44%)	HTML
13	140 (24.56%)	.NET
14	137 (24.04%)	OO
15	132 (23.16%)	Scrum

16	121 (21.23%)	C#
17	119 (20.88%)	SQL Server
18	117 (20.53%)	HTML5
19	109 (19.12%)	Spring
20	106 (18.60%)	SQL
21	100 (17.54%)	BDD
22	95 (16.67%)	HTTP
23	90 (15.79%)	JUnit
24	87 (15.26%)	Finance
25	86 (15.09%)	Ajax
26	83 (14.56%)	Apple iOS
27	82 (14.39%)	Subversion
28	78 (13.68%)	Continuous Integration
28	78 (13.68%)	Git (software)
29	76 (13.33%)	Open Source

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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	264 (46.32%)	Web Services
2	234 (41.05%)	JSON
3	185 (32.46%)	SOAP
4	179 (31.40%)	XML
5	172 (30.18%)	CSS
6	146 (25.61%)	jQuery
7	145 (25.44%)	HTML
8	140 (24.56%)	.NET
9	117 (20.53%)	HTML5
10	109 (19.12%)	Spring
11	86 (15.09%)	Ajax
12	74 (12.98%)	ASP.NET
13	67 (11.75%)	CSS3
13	67 (11.75%)	WCF
14	65 (11.40%)	J2EE
15	57 (10.00%)	ASP.NET MVC
16	56 (9.825%)	Hibernate
17	50 (8.772%)	JSP
18	48 (8.421%)	.NET Framework
19	42 (7.368%)	EJB

Application Platforms
1	41 (7.193%)	CMS
2	40 (7.018%)	Apache
3	33 (5.789%)	Tomcat
4	20 (3.509%)	ESB
4	20 (3.509%)	Windows Azure
5	19 (3.333%)	Amazon AWS
6	15 (2.632%)	Force.com
7	13 (2.281%)	Mule
7	13 (2.281%)	IIS
8	11 (1.930%)	Umbraco
8	11 (1.930%)	Amazon EC2
9	7 (1.228%)	Drupal
9	7 (1.228%)	GlassFish
9	7 (1.228%)	Adobe CQ
10	6 (1.053%)	TIBCO EMS
11	5 (0.877%)	BizTalk Server
11	5 (0.877%)	SharePoint
11	5 (0.877%)	Confluence
11	5 (0.877%)	Alfresco
12	4 (0.702%)	WebSphere Application Server

Applications
1	17 (2.982%)	Photoshop
2	16 (2.807%)	MS Excel
3	2 (0.351%)	Adobe Illustrator
3	2 (0.351%)	InfoPath
4	1 (0.175%)	Google Apps
4	1 (0.175%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	11 (1.930%)	Dynamics CRM
2	5 (0.877%)	RMDS
3	2 (0.351%)	Google Analytics
4	1 (0.175%)	Oracle EBS
4	1 (0.175%)	Unica Affinium

Communications & Networking
1	95 (16.67%)	HTTP
2	39 (6.842%)	Internet
3	17 (2.982%)	SSL
4	16 (2.807%)	DNS
5	12 (2.105%)	Firewall
5	12 (2.105%)	Network Security
6	11 (1.930%)	NAS
6	11 (1.930%)	RTP
6	11 (1.930%)	RTSP
6	11 (1.930%)	SAN
7	10 (1.754%)	TCP/IP
8	2 (0.351%)	LDAP
8	2 (0.351%)	SSH
8	2 (0.351%)	AMQP
8	2 (0.351%)	OpenLDAP
8	2 (0.351%)	NFC
9	1 (0.175%)	4G
9	1 (0.175%)	Wireshark
9	1 (0.175%)	Wi-Fi
9	1 (0.175%)	DVB

Database & Business Intelligence
1	119 (20.88%)	SQL Server
2	61 (10.70%)	MySQL
3	56 (9.825%)	NoSQL
4	46 (8.070%)	MongoDB
5	30 (5.263%)	SQL Server 2008
6	18 (3.158%)	SQLite
7	17 (2.982%)	CouchDB
8	14 (2.456%)	Redis
9	13 (2.281%)	RDBMS
10	12 (2.105%)	Oracle 8/8i
10	12 (2.105%)	SQL Server 2005
10	12 (2.105%)	Apache Cassandra
11	11 (1.930%)	SQL Server 2012
12	10 (1.754%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
13	9 (1.579%)	PostgreSQL
13	9 (1.579%)	MarkLogic
13	9 (1.579%)	SSDT
14	8 (1.404%)	Hadoop
15	5 (0.877%)	InterSystems Cache
16	4 (0.702%)	Data Warehouse

Development Applications
1	90 (15.79%)	JUnit
2	82 (14.39%)	Subversion
3	78 (13.68%)	Git (software)
4	73 (12.81%)	Maven
5	51 (8.947%)	Selenium
6	50 (8.772%)	Jenkins
7	38 (6.667%)	Hudson
8	37 (6.491%)	Ant
9	34 (5.965%)	JIRA
10	32 (5.614%)	Mockito
11	31 (5.439%)	Xcode
12	30 (5.263%)	Mercurial
13	29 (5.088%)	GitHub
14	24 (4.211%)	Cucumber
14	24 (4.211%)	Eclipse
15	22 (3.860%)	Team Foundation Server
16	20 (3.509%)	Jasmine
17	18 (3.158%)	Trac
18	17 (2.982%)	Visual Studio
19	14 (2.456%)	Balsamiq Mockups

General
1	87 (15.26%)	Finance
2	66 (11.58%)	Banking
3	32 (5.614%)	Publishing
4	21 (3.684%)	Financial Institution
5	20 (3.509%)	Investment Banking
6	17 (2.982%)	Games
7	11 (1.930%)	Front Office
8	10 (1.754%)	Retail
9	7 (1.228%)	Marketing
9	7 (1.228%)	Telecoms
10	4 (0.702%)	Corporate Banking
11	3 (0.526%)	Multimedia
11	3 (0.526%)	Back Office
12	2 (0.351%)	Billing
13	1 (0.175%)	Online Betting
13	1 (0.175%)	Pharmaceutical
13	1 (0.175%)	Legal
13	1 (0.175%)	Advertising

Job Titles
1	415 (72.81%)	Developer
2	102 (17.89%)	Java Developer
3	53 (9.298%)	.NET Developer
4	46 (8.070%)	Senior Developer
5	45 (7.895%)	Architect
6	35 (6.140%)	iOS Developer
7	34 (5.965%)	Web Developer
8	32 (5.614%)	C# Developer
9	24 (4.211%)	Mobile Developer
10	22 (3.860%)	Agile Java Developer
10	22 (3.860%)	Front-End Developer
10	22 (3.860%)	Lead Developer
11	20 (3.509%)	Software Engineer
12	18 (3.158%)	Senior .NET Developer
12	18 (3.158%)	UI Developer
12	18 (3.158%)	Android Developer
12	18 (3.158%)	C# .NET Developer
13	15 (2.632%)	UI Programmer
13	15 (2.632%)	JavaScript Developer
13	15 (2.632%)	Consultant

Miscellaneous
1	76 (13.33%)	Open Source
2	53 (9.298%)	Mobile App
3	22 (3.860%)	Computer Science
4	19 (3.333%)	iPhone
5	17 (2.982%)	iPad
6	16 (2.807%)	Graphic Design
7	14 (2.456%)	Digital Media
8	13 (2.281%)	N-Tier
8	13 (2.281%)	Blackberry
9	10 (1.754%)	PKI
9	10 (1.754%)	Kindle
10	9 (1.579%)	Social Media
10	9 (1.579%)	Inversion of Control
10	9 (1.579%)	Taxonomies
11	8 (1.404%)	Ontologies
11	8 (1.404%)	W3C
12	7 (1.228%)	SaaS
12	7 (1.228%)	Cloud Computing
12	7 (1.228%)	New Media
13	6 (1.053%)	Enterprise Software

Operating Systems
1	83 (14.56%)	Apple iOS
2	68 (11.93%)	Android
3	58 (10.18%)	Linux
4	33 (5.789%)	Windows
5	28 (4.912%)	UNIX
6	7 (1.228%)	Solaris
7	6 (1.053%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	6 (1.053%)	Windows Server 2012
8	5 (0.877%)	Windows 8
9	4 (0.702%)	Windows Phone
10	3 (0.526%)	Windows Mobile
10	3 (0.526%)	AIX
10	3 (0.526%)	HPUX
11	2 (0.351%)	CentOS
12	1 (0.175%)	SUSE
12	1 (0.175%)	Ubuntu

Processes & Methodologies
1	224 (39.30%)	TDD
2	184 (32.28%)	MVC
3	160 (28.07%)	Agile Software Development
4	137 (24.04%)	OO
5	132 (23.16%)	Scrum
6	100 (17.54%)	BDD
7	78 (13.68%)	Continuous Integration
8	70 (12.28%)	E-Commerce
9	63 (11.05%)	SOA
10	51 (8.947%)	Pair Programming
11	45 (7.895%)	Web Development
12	44 (7.719%)	OOP
13	43 (7.544%)	Multithreading
14	41 (7.193%)	MVVM
15	39 (6.842%)	Unit Testing
16	38 (6.667%)	Kanban
17	35 (6.140%)	OOD
18	22 (3.860%)	Content Management
19	21 (3.684%)	Software Engineering
20	20 (3.509%)	Configuration Management

Programming Languages
1	294 (51.58%)	Java
2	268 (47.02%)	JavaScript
3	121 (21.23%)	C#
4	106 (18.60%)	SQL
5	60 (10.53%)	Ruby
6	52 (9.123%)	PHP
7	43 (7.544%)	Groovy
8	42 (7.368%)	Objective-C
8	42 (7.368%)	C++
9	37 (6.491%)	Python
10	25 (4.386%)	Perl
11	20 (3.509%)	T-SQL
12	18 (3.158%)	Scala
13	15 (2.632%)	Apex Code
14	12 (2.105%)	XPath
15	9 (1.579%)	XQuery
16	8 (1.404%)	XAML
16	8 (1.404%)	Clojure
17	7 (1.228%)	SPARQL
18	5 (0.877%)	PHP5

Qualifications
1	30 (5.263%)	Degree
2	10 (1.754%)	CISSP
3	3 (0.526%)	Microsoft Certification
3	3 (0.526%)	MCSD
3	3 (0.526%)	MCSE
3	3 (0.526%)	MCTS
3	3 (0.526%)	Security Cleared
4	2 (0.351%)	ISEB
5	1 (0.175%)	ISTQB
5	1 (0.175%)	SSCP
5	1 (0.175%)	GIAC
5	1 (0.175%)	SC Cleared
5	1 (0.175%)	CTC Cleared
5	1 (0.175%)	DV Cleared

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	52 (9.123%)	QA
2	4 (0.702%)	WCAG
3	3 (0.526%)	Section 508
4	2 (0.351%)	Dublin Core
5	1 (0.175%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	1 (0.175%)	PCI DSS

System Software
1	11 (1.930%)	Active Directory
1	11 (1.930%)	Samba
2	4 (0.702%)	NFS
3	2 (0.351%)	Veritas Volume Manager
3	2 (0.351%)	Veritas File System
4	1 (0.175%)	Shibboleth
4	1 (0.175%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	12 (2.105%)	Nagios
2	9 (1.579%)	Puppet
3	7 (1.228%)	BladeLogic
4	4 (0.702%)	ZABBIX
4	4 (0.702%)	OpenView
5	1 (0.175%)	HP Quality Center
5	1 (0.175%)	Business Desktop Deployment

Vendors
1	74 (12.98%)	Oracle
2	55 (9.649%)	Microsoft
3	18 (3.158%)	Google
4	16 (2.807%)	Salesforce.com
5	15 (2.632%)	JBoss
5	15 (2.632%)	Zend
6	14 (2.456%)	IBM
6	14 (2.456%)	Rackspace
7	11 (1.930%)	hybris
7	11 (1.930%)	Intershop
8	10 (1.754%)	Sony
9	9 (1.579%)	Facebook
10	8 (1.404%)	Sitecore
10	8 (1.404%)	Adobe
11	7 (1.228%)	EMC
11	7 (1.228%)	Symantec
11	7 (1.228%)	TIBCO
11	7 (1.228%)	Hummingbird
12	6 (1.053%)	Perforce
12	6 (1.053%)	Red Hat

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