The first table below looks at the demand for RESTful skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RESTful 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 South East 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
RESTful
Rank 211 232 238
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +6
Contract jobs citing RESTful 12 15 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.154% 0.148% 0.134%
As % of the Application Development category 0.617% 0.644% 0.507%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 7
Average daily rate £350 £300 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £334 £232 £410
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £350 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £394
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -17.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £37.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1945 2328 2759
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.89% 22.92% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1021 1162 1249
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £239 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 106 194
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £39.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -10.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £17.65 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £41.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
RESTful
England

RESTful
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East RESTful Daily Rate Trend

RESTful
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RESTful across the South East region.

South East RESTful Hourly Rate Trend

RESTful
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
East Sussex +14 4 £350 +7.69%
Hampshire -7 3 £330 +36.08%
West Sussex - 2 £425 -
Berkshire +12 1 £440 +25.71%
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Kent - 1 £340 -
RESTful
England

RESTful
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 29 (72.50%) Web Services
2 19 (47.50%) jQuery
3 17 (42.50%) XML
3 17 (42.50%) Java
4 15 (37.50%) TDD
5 13 (32.50%) Agile Software Development
5 13 (32.50%) Maven
5 13 (32.50%) SOAP
6 12 (30.00%) HTML
7 11 (27.50%) JavaScript
7 11 (27.50%) JSON
8 10 (25.00%) Scrum
8 10 (25.00%) CSS
8 10 (25.00%) BDD
9 9 (22.50%) Adobe CQ
9 9 (22.50%) Jenkins
9 9 (22.50%) .NET
9 9 (22.50%) Eclipse
9 9 (22.50%) Adobe
9 9 (22.50%) Ajax
9 9 (22.50%) Omniture
10 8 (20.00%) Content Management
10 8 (20.00%) Apache
10 8 (20.00%) JSP
10 8 (20.00%) Servlets
10 8 (20.00%) Apache Sling
10 8 (20.00%) OSGi
10 8 (20.00%) Git (software)
11 7 (17.50%) Apache Felix
12 6 (15.00%) Mobile App

RESTful
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 29 (72.50%) Web Services
2 19 (47.50%) jQuery
3 17 (42.50%) XML
4 13 (32.50%) SOAP
5 12 (30.00%) HTML
6 11 (27.50%) JSON
7 10 (25.00%) CSS
8 9 (22.50%) .NET
8 9 (22.50%) Ajax
9 8 (20.00%) JSP
9 8 (20.00%) Servlets
9 8 (20.00%) Apache Sling
9 8 (20.00%) OSGi
10 7 (17.50%) Apache Felix
11 6 (15.00%) Spring
12 5 (12.50%) HTML5
12 5 (12.50%) Hibernate
12 5 (12.50%) ASP.NET
13 4 (10.00%) XSLT
13 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 9 (22.50%) Adobe CQ
2 8 (20.00%) Apache
3 3 (7.500%) Windows Azure
4 2 (5.000%) IIS
4 2 (5.000%) CMS
5 1 (2.500%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (2.500%) Drupal
5 1 (2.500%) Umbraco
5 1 (2.500%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (2.500%) Liferay
5 1 (2.500%) Apache Solr
5 1 (2.500%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.500%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.500%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (2.500%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (2.500%) FileNet
5 1 (2.500%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.500%) Amazon AWS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.500%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.500%) Intranet
2 1 (2.500%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.000%) SQL Server
1 2 (5.000%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.500%) MySQL
2 1 (2.500%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Maven
2 9 (22.50%) Eclipse
2 9 (22.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (20.00%) Git (software)
4 5 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 4 (10.00%) RSpec
5 4 (10.00%) Subversion
6 2 (5.000%) Selenium
7 1 (2.500%) FitNesse
7 1 (2.500%) Talend Open Studio
7 1 (2.500%) ClearQuest
7 1 (2.500%) NUnit
7 1 (2.500%) JUnit
7 1 (2.500%) ClearCase
7 1 (2.500%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.500%) Hudson
7 1 (2.500%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (7.500%) Finance
2 2 (5.000%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.500%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.500%) Back Office
3 1 (2.500%) Electronics
3 1 (2.500%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.500%) Publishing
3 1 (2.500%) Banking
3 1 (2.500%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (80.00%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) Programmer
3 6 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 4 (10.00%) iOS Developer
5 3 (7.500%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.000%) Architect
6 2 (5.000%) Web Developer
6 2 (5.000%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (5.000%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.000%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (5.000%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (2.500%) Android Developer
7 1 (2.500%) Senior iOS Developer
7 1 (2.500%) Scala Developer
7 1 (2.500%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (2.500%) QA Engineer
7 1 (2.500%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.500%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.00%) Heroku
2 4 (10.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.500%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.500%) DTV
3 1 (2.500%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.500%) Telematics
3 1 (2.500%) Open Source
3 1 (2.500%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Apple iOS
2 5 (12.50%) Linux
3 4 (10.00%) CentOS
4 2 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.000%) Android
5 1 (2.500%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) TDD
2 13 (32.50%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (25.00%) Scrum
3 10 (25.00%) BDD
4 8 (20.00%) Content Management
5 6 (15.00%) MVC
5 6 (15.00%) OO
6 4 (10.00%) Workflow
6 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (5.000%) Kanban
7 2 (5.000%) E-Commerce
7 2 (5.000%) OOP
7 2 (5.000%) Unit Testing
8 1 (2.500%) Web Testing
8 1 (2.500%) Test Scripting
8 1 (2.500%) UML
8 1 (2.500%) Automated Testing
8 1 (2.500%) Use Case
8 1 (2.500%) Digital Marketing
8 1 (2.500%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) Java
2 11 (27.50%) JavaScript
3 6 (15.00%) Objective-C
3 6 (15.00%) Ruby
4 5 (12.50%) C#
5 4 (10.00%) SQL
6 3 (7.500%) Scala
7 2 (5.000%) Python
7 2 (5.000%) C++
8 1 (2.500%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.500%) PHP
8 1 (2.500%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.500%) C
8 1 (2.500%) Bash shell
8 1 (2.500%) XPath
8 1 (2.500%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.500%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.000%) Degree
4 1 (2.500%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.500%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.500%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.500%) Varnish
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Adobe
1 9 (22.50%) Omniture
2 4 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.000%) Oracle
3 2 (5.000%) SAP
3 2 (5.000%) Google
3 2 (5.000%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.500%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.500%) Sencha
4 1 (2.500%) Talend
4 1 (2.500%) IBM
4 1 (2.500%) Apple
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