RESTful Contracts in the North West

RESTful
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for RESTful skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RESTful over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 124 124
Rank change year-on-year +60 0 -27
Contract jobs citing RESTful 74 32 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.67% 0.99% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.68% 5.32% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 20 47
10th Percentile £385 £358 £297
25th Percentile £431 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +2.22% -3.23%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £581
90th Percentile £625 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £591 £550
% change year-on-year -11.15% +7.44% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26.85
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £31.00
75th Percentile - - £34.75
90th Percentile - - £35.95
England median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% +25.00% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

RESTful is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 504 602 977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.18% 18.70% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 474 741
10th Percentile £350 £337 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.12%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £740 £647 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 26
10th Percentile £37.63 £35.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.10 £25.69
Median hourly rate £47.31 £42.80 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% +5.37% +19.46%
75th Percentile £71.87 £45.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.05 - £62.50
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RESTful in the North West.

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RESTful in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +56 68 £475 +1.06% 19
Lancashire +10 6 £625 - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 37 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (9.46%) npm
3 6 (8.11%) Azure
3 6 (8.11%) Serverless
4 4 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.05%) Yarn
6 2 (2.70%) GitHub
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.35%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.35%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (27.03%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.05%) MySQL
2 3 (4.05%) Redis
3 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (22.97%) GitLab
2 14 (18.92%) Android Studio
3 7 (9.46%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.46%) Mockito
4 6 (8.11%) Cucumber
5 5 (6.76%) Xcode
5 5 (6.76%) XCUITest
6 4 (5.41%) Git
7 3 (4.05%) Jasmine
7 3 (4.05%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (4.05%) Mocha
7 3 (4.05%) webpack
8 2 (2.70%) Gatling
9 1 (1.35%) Selenium
9 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (12.16%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.76%) Finance
2 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.35%) Retail
4 1 (1.35%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 45 (60.81%) Developer
2 18 (24.32%) Senior
3 17 (22.97%) Software Engineer
4 15 (20.27%) Android Developer
5 9 (12.16%) Java Developer
6 8 (10.81%) Senior Developer
7 7 (9.46%) iOS Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Test Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (4.05%) Backend Developer
10 3 (4.05%) Senior Backend Developer
10 3 (4.05%) Senior Test Engineer
11 2 (2.70%) .NET Developer
11 2 (2.70%) Automation Tester
11 2 (2.70%) C# Developer
11 2 (2.70%) Java Automation Tester
11 2 (2.70%) Tester
12 1 (1.35%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.08%) Node.js
2 16 (21.62%) Web Services
3 10 (13.51%) OAuth
3 10 (13.51%) OAuth2
3 10 (13.51%) OpenID
4 7 (9.46%) AngularJS
5 5 (6.76%) React
6 4 (5.41%) Kafka
7 3 (4.05%) .NET
7 3 (4.05%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.05%) .NET Framework
7 3 (4.05%) Playwright
8 2 (2.70%) CSS
8 2 (2.70%) HTML
8 2 (2.70%) J2EE
8 2 (2.70%) REST
8 2 (2.70%) SOAP
8 2 (2.70%) Spring
9 1 (1.35%) Jest
9 1 (1.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.22%) Mobile App
2 10 (13.51%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.05%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.05%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.35%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.35%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.62%) Android
2 7 (9.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.84%) Agile
2 22 (29.73%) Design Patterns
2 22 (29.73%) Microservices
3 20 (27.03%) Software Engineering
4 19 (25.68%) CI/CD
5 15 (20.27%) Android Development
5 15 (20.27%) Unit Testing
6 9 (12.16%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (10.81%) Scrum
8 7 (9.46%) API Testing
8 7 (9.46%) iOS Development
8 7 (9.46%) Mobile Development
9 5 (6.76%) DevOps
10 4 (5.41%) Decision-Making
10 4 (5.41%) Front End Development
10 4 (5.41%) SOLID
10 4 (5.41%) TDD
11 3 (4.05%) OO
11 3 (4.05%) OOP
11 3 (4.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (51.35%) Java
2 15 (20.27%) Kotlin
3 8 (10.81%) SQL
4 7 (9.46%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.46%) Swift
5 6 (8.11%) C#
6 5 (6.76%) Python
6 5 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.05%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.05%) Scala
8 2 (2.70%) C
8 2 (2.70%) PHP
9 1 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (6.76%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (1.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (22.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.35%) Google