REST Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REST over the 3 months to 17 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 Reading 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing REST 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.084% - -
As % of the Application Development category 4.286% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £160 - -
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 210 158 244
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 25.30% 14.85% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 60 116
Average daily rate £363 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £470 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £11.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -43.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
REST
Berkshire

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading REST Daily Rate Trend

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 13 (86.67%) Web Services
2 8 (53.33%) XML
2 8 (53.33%) C#
3 7 (46.67%) SOAP
4 6 (40.00%) SQL
4 6 (40.00%) IIS
4 6 (40.00%) Visual Studio
5 5 (33.33%) Games
5 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 5 (33.33%) C++
5 5 (33.33%) Java
5 5 (33.33%) CSS
5 5 (33.33%) Windows
5 5 (33.33%) Ajax
5 5 (33.33%) ISTQB
5 5 (33.33%) WCF
5 5 (33.33%) soapUI
6 4 (26.67%) DbVisualizer
6 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
6 4 (26.67%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (26.67%) Degree
6 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
6 4 (26.67%) jQuery
6 4 (26.67%) Groovy
6 4 (26.67%) Handset
6 4 (26.67%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
6 4 (26.67%) HTML
6 4 (26.67%) .NET
6 4 (26.67%) Automated Testing

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 13 (86.67%) Web Services
2 8 (53.33%) XML
3 7 (46.67%) SOAP
4 5 (33.33%) CSS
4 5 (33.33%) Ajax
4 5 (33.33%) WCF
4 5 (33.33%) soapUI
5 4 (26.67%) jQuery
5 4 (26.67%) HTML
5 4 (26.67%) .NET
6 3 (20.00%) WebSphere
6 3 (20.00%) JSON
6 3 (20.00%) HTML5
6 3 (20.00%) CSS3
7 2 (13.33%) Sencha Touch
7 2 (13.33%) Spring
7 2 (13.33%) Struts2
7 2 (13.33%) Struts
8 1 (6.667%) Servlets
8 1 (6.667%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) IIS
2 3 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (13.33%) CMS
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Azure
4 1 (6.667%) WebLogic
4 1 (6.667%) Apache
4 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
4 1 (6.667%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
1 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.667%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (26.67%) DbVisualizer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Mining
4 1 (6.667%) GIS
4 1 (6.667%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.667%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.667%) MySQL
4 1 (6.667%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (13.33%) Eclipse
2 2 (13.33%) Subversion
3 1 (6.667%) JProfiler
3 1 (6.667%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.667%) LoadRunner
General
1 5 (33.33%) Games
2 3 (20.00%) Publishing
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Development Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Development Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Web Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Mobile Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Web Applications Developer
5 1 (6.667%) GIS Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (6.667%) Applications Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Performance Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Handset
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (13.33%) Blackberry
3 2 (13.33%) Smartphone
3 2 (13.33%) Kinect
3 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle Exalogic
4 1 (6.667%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) UNIX
3 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (13.33%) Windows 8
3 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Android
4 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.667%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Automated Testing
1 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
1 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (20.00%) System Testing
2 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (20.00%) Web Development
2 3 (20.00%) Web Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Load Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Code Coverage
3 2 (13.33%) Scrum
3 2 (13.33%) OO
3 2 (13.33%) Data Management
3 2 (13.33%) Content Management
3 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (13.33%) Web Application Development
3 2 (13.33%) Kanban
3 2 (13.33%) Game Development
3 2 (13.33%) Software Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Process Architecture
4 1 (6.667%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) C#
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) C++
3 5 (33.33%) Java
4 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (26.67%) Groovy
5 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (13.33%) C
7 1 (6.667%) Scala
7 1 (6.667%) Ruby
7 1 (6.667%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 4 (26.67%) Degree
3 3 (20.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Sencha
3 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.667%) ESRI
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