REST Contracts in the North West

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 80 90
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing REST 48 90 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.75% 2.79% 2.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.64% 15.10% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 75 79
10th Percentile £350 £395 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +12.90%
75th Percentile £575 £579 £606
90th Percentile £598 £620 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% +81.08%
75th Percentile - - £46.16
90th Percentile - - £47.60
England median hourly rate £74.44 £53.87 £49.75
% change year-on-year +38.18% +8.28% +111.97%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

REST 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 498 596 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.12% 18.49% 24.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 470 748
10th Percentile £350 £337 £362
25th Percentile £425 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.46%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £739 £641 £650
England median daily rate £550 £570 £553
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.17% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 26
10th Percentile £37.63 £35.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.10 £19.69
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 £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for REST 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 REST in the North West.

Daily rate trend for REST in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST 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 REST in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for REST 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 REST within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 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 -3 32 £525 +5.00% 29
Cheshire -18 10 £393 -28.55% 6
Cumbria - 3 £525 -
Lancashire +7 2 - -
Merseyside +13 1 £350 -22.22% 2
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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.33%) Mule
2 3 (6.25%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 19 (39.58%) AWS
2 13 (27.08%) Azure
3 6 (12.50%) Azure Stack
3 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.25%) GCP
4 3 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 3 (6.25%) Serverless
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Functions
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.17%) GitHub
5 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.17%) SaaS
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.08%) BigCommerce
6 1 (2.08%) Datadog
6 1 (2.08%) Figma
6 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 5 (10.42%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.17%) MySQL
5 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 8 (16.67%) Git
3 5 (10.42%) JUnit
4 4 (8.33%) Liquibase
4 4 (8.33%) Log4j
5 2 (4.17%) Gradle
5 2 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (4.17%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.17%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.08%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.08%) GitLab
6 1 (2.08%) Maven
6 1 (2.08%) Mockito
6 1 (2.08%) Postman
6 1 (2.08%) Selenium
General
1 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Banking
4 1 (2.08%) Finance
4 1 (2.08%) Law
4 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (64.58%) Developer
2 17 (35.42%) Java Developer
3 10 (20.83%) Architect
4 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 6 (12.50%) Data Architect
6 4 (8.33%) AWS Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Pega Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Lead
7 3 (6.25%) Pega Developer
8 2 (4.17%) C++ Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Data Scientist
8 2 (4.17%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (2.08%) Automation Tester
9 1 (2.08%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.25%) Hibernate
2 14 (29.17%) Spring
3 13 (27.08%) Spring Boot
4 11 (22.92%) JPA
4 11 (22.92%) JSON
5 8 (16.67%) React
5 8 (16.67%) Spring Security
6 6 (12.50%) .NET
6 6 (12.50%) HTML
6 6 (12.50%) XML
7 5 (10.42%) .NET Framework
7 5 (10.42%) CSS
7 5 (10.42%) Kafka
7 5 (10.42%) Node.js
7 5 (10.42%) SOAP
8 4 (8.33%) GraphQL
8 4 (8.33%) Web Services
9 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
9 3 (6.25%) HTML5
9 3 (6.25%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 6 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 6 (12.50%) Reference Data
3 3 (6.25%) Low-Code
3 3 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (62.50%) Agile
2 19 (39.58%) Microservices
3 14 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 11 (22.92%) DevOps
4 11 (22.92%) Front End Development
5 8 (16.67%) Data Mapping
5 8 (16.67%) Observability
6 7 (14.58%) Data Modelling
6 7 (14.58%) Event-Driven
6 7 (14.58%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (14.58%) Unit Testing
7 6 (12.50%) API Management
7 6 (12.50%) Change Management
7 6 (12.50%) Data Lineage
7 6 (12.50%) Data Management
7 6 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 6 (12.50%) Data Strategy
7 6 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
7 6 (12.50%) Scrum
7 6 (12.50%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) Java
2 9 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 8 (16.67%) C#
4 7 (14.58%) Python
5 6 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.33%) SQL
7 2 (4.17%) C++
8 1 (2.08%) C
8 1 (2.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) Ansible
3 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Pega
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) IBM
3 3 (6.25%) Nintex
3 3 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (2.08%) Confluent
4 1 (2.08%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) New Relic