The first table below looks at the demand for RESTful skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RESTful over the 3 months to 22 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 Salford 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RESTful
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing RESTful 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 24.00% - -
As % of the Application Development category 60.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Average daily rate £323 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £325 £394
% change year-on-year
+6.15% -17.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Application Development
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
10 11 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 40.00% 28.21% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 0
Average daily rate £323 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
RESTful
Manchester

RESTful
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford RESTful Jobs Demand Trend

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend

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

Salford RESTful Daily Rate Trend

RESTful
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing RESTful 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 RESTful.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) J2EE
1 8 (100.00%) Web Services
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) XSLT
1 8 (100.00%) RDF
1 8 (100.00%) XQuery
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
1 8 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 8 (100.00%) XPath
1 8 (100.00%) BDD
1 8 (100.00%) REST
2 7 (87.50%) JAX-RS
2 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) JSON
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (87.50%) Benchmarking
2 7 (87.50%) OO
3 4 (50.00%) Statistics
4 3 (37.50%) Ruby
4 3 (37.50%) SPARQL
4 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
5 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (25.00%) Semantic Web
5 2 (25.00%) Interactive TV
5 2 (25.00%) Content Management
5 2 (25.00%) Publishing

RESTful
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing RESTful 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 RESTful. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (100.00%) J2EE
1 8 (100.00%) Web Services
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) XSLT
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) REST
2 7 (87.50%) JAX-RS
2 7 (87.50%) JSON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Statistics
2 2 (25.00%) Semantic Web
2 2 (25.00%) Interactive TV
2 2 (25.00%) Streaming Video
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) RDF
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
1 8 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 8 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 8 (100.00%) BDD
2 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (87.50%) Benchmarking
2 7 (87.50%) OO
3 2 (25.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) XQuery
1 8 (100.00%) XPath
2 3 (37.50%) Ruby
2 3 (37.50%) SPARQL