REST Contracts in Northern Ireland

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 22 30
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing REST 3 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.07% 4.02% 2.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.54% 25.81% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile £465 £380 £419
25th Percentile £488 £388 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £450 -
90th Percentile - £458 £550
UK median daily rate £520 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -4.59% -5.22% +15.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland 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 26 31 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 17.93% 15.58% 27.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 31
10th Percentile £495 £395 £415
25th Percentile £525 - £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £485
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -17.53% +12.53%
75th Percentile £650 £463 £500
90th Percentile - £536 £560
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.12 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for REST in Northern Ireland

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Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
County Antrim +2 3 £550 +25.71% 6
REST
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Software Packaging
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) SDET
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft