REST Contracts in Reading

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 31 80
Rank change year-on-year -15 +49 -33
Contract jobs citing REST 46 57 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.88% 5.51% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.12% 26.03% 8.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 39 14
10th Percentile £518 £452 £480
25th Percentile £570 £478 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +1.06% +3.90%
75th Percentile £688 £569 £575
90th Percentile £716 £623 £590
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £525 £523
% change year-on-year +23.81% +0.48% +4.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading 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 199 219 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 16.79% 21.18% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 172 181
10th Percentile £325 £406 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +10.82%
75th Percentile £628 £680 £594
90th Percentile £679 £725 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 2
10th Percentile £56.50 £72.76 £28.25
25th Percentile £56.65 £76.89 £29.38
Median hourly rate £58.30 £79.19 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +143.66% -45.83%
75th Percentile £61.60 - £34.38
90th Percentile - - £34.75
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year -21.78% +20.23% +63.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for REST in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Reading over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for REST in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 11 (23.91%) Apache
1 11 (23.91%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (13.04%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.17%) JBoss
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 20 (43.48%) AWS
2 16 (34.78%) Azure
3 10 (21.74%) Serverless
4 7 (15.22%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (15.22%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (6.52%) Azure API Management
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Functions
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.17%) PaaS
7 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.91%) BGP
1 11 (23.91%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (23.91%) MPLS
1 11 (23.91%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (23.91%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (39.13%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (30.43%) NoSQL
3 11 (23.91%) MongoDB
4 7 (15.22%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (69.57%) Jenkins
2 25 (54.35%) Cucumber
2 25 (54.35%) Selenium
3 24 (52.17%) GitLab
3 24 (52.17%) JIRA
3 24 (52.17%) REST Assured
3 24 (52.17%) SonarQube
4 11 (23.91%) Robot Framework
4 11 (23.91%) TestRail
5 6 (13.04%) Git
6 5 (10.87%) JUnit
7 3 (6.52%) Visual Studio
8 1 (2.17%) JMeter
8 1 (2.17%) Mockito
General
1 26 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 25 (54.35%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (43.48%) Law
4 13 (28.26%) Police
5 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Java Engineer
2 14 (30.43%) Developer
3 12 (26.09%) Java Developer
4 10 (21.74%) Network Engineer
4 10 (21.74%) Test Engineer
5 8 (17.39%) Senior
6 6 (13.04%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Software Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Full Stack Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Senior Java Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Architect
8 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Java Architect
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (54.35%) Java EE
2 18 (39.13%) SOAP
3 15 (32.61%) ARM Templates
4 11 (23.91%) NETCONF
4 11 (23.91%) RESTCONF
4 11 (23.91%) YANG
5 7 (15.22%) Spring
5 7 (15.22%) Spring Boot
5 7 (15.22%) Web Services
6 6 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (13.04%) Node.js
7 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
7 4 (8.70%) RESTful
8 3 (6.52%) .NET
8 3 (6.52%) J2EE
8 3 (6.52%) JSON
8 3 (6.52%) OAuth
8 3 (6.52%) OpenID
8 3 (6.52%) XML
9 2 (4.35%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (78.26%) Test Automation
2 32 (69.57%) DevOps
3 26 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (56.52%) Technical Leadership
4 25 (54.35%) Continuous Integration
4 25 (54.35%) Decision-Making
4 25 (54.35%) Software Architecture
5 23 (50.00%) Containerisation
6 22 (47.83%) Software Engineering
7 18 (39.13%) Agile
7 18 (39.13%) Scrum
8 17 (36.96%) CI/CD
9 16 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (30.43%) Security Testing
11 13 (28.26%) Configuration Management
12 12 (26.09%) Workflow
13 11 (23.91%) Integration Testing
13 11 (23.91%) Performance Testing
13 11 (23.91%) Regression Testing
13 11 (23.91%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (69.57%) Java
2 14 (30.43%) SQL
3 12 (26.09%) Python
4 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.52%) C#
5 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (67.39%) SC Cleared
1 31 (67.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (65.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (60.87%) Ansible
2 19 (41.30%) Kubernetes
3 13 (28.26%) Terraform
4 12 (26.09%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (26.09%) Podman
5 1 (2.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.17%) Splunk