The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REST over the 3 months to 21 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 Nottingham 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 32 - 21
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing REST 6 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 2.083% - 3.004%
As % of the Application Development category 7.229% - 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
Average daily rate £350 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £380 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.89% +26.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £32.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+17.82% -19.37%
All Application Development
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
83 88 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 28.82% 39.29% 25.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 52 22
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £435 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 3
Average hourly rate £28.25 £8.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+232.35% -78.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
REST
Nottinghamshire

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham REST Jobs Demand Trend

REST
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nottingham REST Daily Rate Trend

REST
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 10 (90.91%) Web Services
1 10 (90.91%) C#
1 10 (90.91%) .NET
1 10 (90.91%) SQL Server
1 10 (90.91%) WPF
2 9 (81.82%) Multithreading
2 9 (81.82%) Linux
3 5 (45.45%) Perl
3 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET
4 2 (18.18%) WinForms
4 2 (18.18%) Twitter
5 1 (9.091%) jQuery
5 1 (9.091%) Apache Solr
5 1 (9.091%) SQL
5 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
5 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (9.091%) CSS
5 1 (9.091%) DHTML
5 1 (9.091%) HTML
5 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.091%) IBM
5 1 (9.091%) VLDB
5 1 (9.091%) Project Management
5 1 (9.091%) Advertising

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 10 (90.91%) Web Services
1 10 (90.91%) .NET
1 10 (90.91%) WPF
2 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET
3 2 (18.18%) WinForms
4 1 (9.091%) jQuery
4 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
4 1 (9.091%) CSS
4 1 (9.091%) DHTML
4 1 (9.091%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Apache Solr
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) SQL Server
2 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.091%) VLDB
General
1 1 (9.091%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (63.64%) SQL Developer
2 7 (63.64%) SQL Server Developer
3 6 (54.55%) .NET Developer
3 6 (54.55%) C# Developer
3 6 (54.55%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (45.45%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (36.36%) Database Developer
5 4 (36.36%) SQL Database Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Programmer
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Multithreading
2 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (9.091%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) C#
2 5 (45.45%) Perl
3 1 (9.091%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Twitter
2 1 (9.091%) IBM