RESTful Contracts in the South East

RESTful
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for RESTful skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RESTful 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 165 174 127
Rank change year-on-year +9 -47 -30
Contract jobs citing RESTful 35 52 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.89% 1.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.79% 4.94% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 40 94
10th Percentile £373 £406 £392
25th Percentile £400 £431 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% -4.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £480 £563 £569
90th Percentile £648 £609 £633
England median daily rate £525 £591 £550
% change year-on-year -11.15% +7.44% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile £36.75 - £60.81
Median hourly rate £38.50 - £65.53
75th Percentile £40.25 - £67.80
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% +25.00% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

RESTful 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 the South East 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 730 1,052 1,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.21% 18.05% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 749 1,028
10th Percentile £313 £363 £354
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £667 £725 £673
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 36 41
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.75 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.13 £54.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% +4.05%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.72 £67.80
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RESTful in the South East.

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RESTful in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Hampshire -6 11 £470 +11.90% 14
Surrey +17 8 £450 -25.31% 6
Thames Valley -11 8 £400 -20.00% 14
Berkshire -16 8 £400 -23.81% 6
West Sussex - 7 £400 - 4
East Sussex +7 1 £400 -33.33% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (20.00%) Confluence
2 5 (14.29%) Apache
3 4 (11.43%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.86%) Jadu
4 1 (2.86%) JBoss
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) Azure
2 11 (31.43%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (11.43%) Serverless
4 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) GCP
5 2 (5.71%) GitHub
5 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.71%) Google App Engine
5 2 (5.71%) PaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.86%) npm
6 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.57%) BGP
2 3 (8.57%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (8.57%) IOS XR
3 2 (5.71%) HTTP
3 2 (5.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.71%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (5.71%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.71%) Couchbase
4 2 (5.71%) MySQL
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.86%) Power BI
5 1 (2.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) Git
2 9 (25.71%) Jenkins
3 8 (22.86%) JIRA
4 6 (17.14%) Bitbucket
5 5 (14.29%) JUnit
6 4 (11.43%) Artifactory
7 3 (8.57%) Selenium
8 2 (5.71%) Android Studio
8 2 (5.71%) JMeter
8 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio
9 1 (2.86%) CircleCI
9 1 (2.86%) GitLab
9 1 (2.86%) Gradle
9 1 (2.86%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (2.86%) Postman
9 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
9 1 (2.86%) SpecFlow
9 1 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (2.86%) WebDriver
9 1 (2.86%) Xcode
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Automotive
4 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Developer
2 9 (25.71%) Software Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Development Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Java Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Software Development Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Test Development Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Full Stack Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.71%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) PHP Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) AngularJS
2 11 (31.43%) .NET
2 11 (31.43%) REST
3 10 (28.57%) SOAP
4 7 (20.00%) XML
5 6 (17.14%) .NET Core
5 6 (17.14%) JSON
5 6 (17.14%) Node.js
5 6 (17.14%) Web Services
6 5 (14.29%) .NET Framework
6 5 (14.29%) Spring
6 5 (14.29%) Spring Boot
7 4 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (11.43%) HTML
7 4 (11.43%) Kafka
8 3 (8.57%) Blazor
8 3 (8.57%) CSS
8 3 (8.57%) Django
8 3 (8.57%) J2EE
8 3 (8.57%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 4 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.57%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (8.57%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.71%) PKI
4 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.86%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Windows
3 4 (11.43%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (8.57%) Android
5 2 (5.71%) VMS
5 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Agile
2 11 (31.43%) Microservices
2 11 (31.43%) Scrum
2 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
3 8 (22.86%) BDD
3 8 (22.86%) DevOps
3 8 (22.86%) Open Source
4 7 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 7 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 6 (17.14%) End-to-End Testing
5 6 (17.14%) SDLC
5 6 (17.14%) TDD
6 5 (14.29%) Manual Testing
6 5 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (11.43%) Kanban
7 4 (11.43%) MVC
7 4 (11.43%) OO
7 4 (11.43%) Performance Management
7 4 (11.43%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 15 (42.86%) SQL
2 11 (31.43%) C#
3 8 (22.86%) Java
4 7 (20.00%) Python
5 5 (14.29%) PL/SQL
6 4 (11.43%) C++
6 4 (11.43%) T-SQL
7 3 (8.57%) Bash
7 3 (8.57%) PHP
8 2 (5.71%) Go
8 2 (5.71%) Kotlin
8 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Degree
1 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
2 4 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (11.43%) VirtualBox
3 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Ansible
1 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Oracle
2 3 (8.57%) Cisco
2 3 (8.57%) TOWER Software
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat