The first table below looks at the demand for JAX-RS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JAX-RS 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 Manchester 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
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS)
Rank 69 81 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing JAX-RS 6 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.643% 0.155% -
As % of the Application Development category 2.027% 0.526% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
Average daily rate £323 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.85% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.85% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
296 380 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 31.73% 29.41% 27.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 219 155
Average daily rate £295 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £235 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 12
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.57% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JAX-RS
North West

JAX-RS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester JAX-RS Jobs Demand Trend

JAX-RS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester JAX-RS Daily Rate Trend

JAX-RS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JAX-RS within the Manchester 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
Salford - 5 £323 -
JAX-RS
North West

JAX-RS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing JAX-RS 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 JAX-RS.

1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) XSLT
1 9 (100.00%) RDF
1 9 (100.00%) XQuery
1 9 (100.00%) TDD
1 9 (100.00%) Spring
1 9 (100.00%) XPath
1 9 (100.00%) JSON
1 9 (100.00%) RESTful
1 9 (100.00%) BDD
1 9 (100.00%) REST
2 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (88.89%) Pair Programming
2 8 (88.89%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (88.89%) Enterprise Architecture
2 8 (88.89%) Benchmarking
2 8 (88.89%) OO
2 8 (88.89%) Web Services
3 5 (55.56%) Statistics
4 3 (33.33%) Ruby
4 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (33.33%) SPARQL
4 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (22.22%) Publishing
5 2 (22.22%) Streaming Video
5 2 (22.22%) Semantic Web
5 2 (22.22%) Content Management

JAX-RS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing JAX-RS 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 JAX-RS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) XSLT
1 9 (100.00%) Spring
1 9 (100.00%) JSON
1 9 (100.00%) RESTful
1 9 (100.00%) REST
2 8 (88.89%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (22.22%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (22.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
1 6 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Statistics
2 2 (22.22%) Streaming Video
2 2 (22.22%) Semantic Web
2 2 (22.22%) Interactive TV
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) RDF
1 9 (100.00%) TDD
1 9 (100.00%) BDD
2 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (88.89%) Pair Programming
2 8 (88.89%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (88.89%) Enterprise Architecture
2 8 (88.89%) Benchmarking
2 8 (88.89%) OO
3 2 (22.22%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) XQuery
1 9 (100.00%) XPath
2 3 (33.33%) Ruby
2 3 (33.33%) SPARQL