REST Contracts in the South West

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 119 91
Rank change year-on-year +15 -28 -1
Contract jobs citing REST 48 55 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.51% 1.50% 2.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.14% 9.84% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 39 51
10th Percentile £300 £403 £413
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +5.37% +10.81%
75th Percentile £581 £613 £601
90th Percentile £701 £725 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +14.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £65.90 - £48.35
25th Percentile £73.47 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £50.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +0.50% -
75th Percentile £85.00 - £59.30
90th Percentile - - £63.60
England median hourly rate £74.44 £53.87 £49.75
% change year-on-year +38.18% +8.28% +111.97%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 the South West 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 431 559 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.52% 15.25% 20.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 442 521
10th Percentile £313 £388 £363
25th Percentile £396 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £663 £606 £575
90th Percentile £701 £700 £644
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.31% +0.09% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 18 33
10th Percentile £43.75 £49.25 £48.84
25th Percentile £44.06 £50.66 £49.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £57.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -9.59% +27.20%
75th Percentile £74.44 £74.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 -
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 West

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the South West.

Daily rate trend for REST in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the South West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Bristol +18 22 £525 +16.67% 16
Devon +10 12 £550 - 1
Gloucestershire +7 6 £500 -28.57% 3
Dorset +8 5 £400 -
Somerset -1 1 £450 -8.63% 2
Wiltshire -9 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (10.42%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.33%) Apache
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.08%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.83%) Azure
2 5 (10.42%) GCP
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (10.42%) Power Automate
2 5 (10.42%) Power Platform
2 5 (10.42%) PowerApps
3 4 (8.33%) AWS
3 4 (8.33%) Azure Stack
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 3 (6.25%) Serverless
5 2 (4.17%) GitHub
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.08%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) HTTP
2 4 (8.33%) Firewall
2 4 (8.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) CockroachDB
1 5 (10.42%) NoSQL
1 5 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (10.42%) SQLite
2 4 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.08%) MySQL
5 1 (2.08%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Git
2 5 (10.42%) Checkstyle
2 5 (10.42%) SonarQube
3 4 (8.33%) GitLab
4 3 (6.25%) Artifactory
5 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.17%) Selenium
6 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Banking
3 1 (2.08%) Finance
3 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.08%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (47.92%) Developer
2 7 (14.58%) Senior
3 6 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Architect
4 5 (10.42%) Java Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Applications Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 4 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Power Apps Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Django Developer
7 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Python/Django Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.08%) CSS
2 10 (20.83%) JSON
3 9 (18.75%) XML
4 8 (16.67%) HTML
5 7 (14.58%) Spring
5 7 (14.58%) Spring Boot
6 6 (12.50%) .NET
6 6 (12.50%) SAML
7 5 (10.42%) .NET Core
7 5 (10.42%) .NET Framework
7 5 (10.42%) Flask
7 5 (10.42%) React
8 4 (8.33%) AngularJS
8 4 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (8.33%) GWT
8 4 (8.33%) JAX-RS
8 4 (8.33%) Restlet
9 3 (6.25%) CSS3
9 3 (6.25%) HTML5
9 3 (6.25%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.33%) Insider Threat
2 4 (8.33%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (8.33%) Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (39.58%) Agile
2 16 (33.33%) DevOps
3 14 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 11 (22.92%) Microservices
5 10 (20.83%) Software Engineering
6 9 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 9 (18.75%) Test Automation
7 6 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 6 (12.50%) Design Patterns
7 6 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 6 (12.50%) Front End Development
8 5 (10.42%) Analytics
8 5 (10.42%) API Development
8 5 (10.42%) Architectural Design
8 5 (10.42%) Code Quality
8 5 (10.42%) OO
8 5 (10.42%) SDLC
8 5 (10.42%) TDD
8 5 (10.42%) Web Application Development
9 4 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.08%) Python
2 12 (25.00%) Java
2 12 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (14.58%) SQL
4 6 (12.50%) C#
5 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.17%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.08%) C
7 1 (2.08%) Go
7 1 (2.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.75%) DV Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.42%) Azure Certification
5 4 (8.33%) Degree
6 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.17%) HND
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (8.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.67%) Ansible
3 6 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (2.08%) rkt
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Google
3 4 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 4 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.33%) VMware
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle
4 2 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow