The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REST over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Southampton 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 36 33 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Contract jobs citing REST 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.588% 0.398% -
As % of the Application Development category 3.175% 1.613% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £640 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
- +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -18.75%
All Application Development
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
63 62 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 18.53% 24.70% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 33 13
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £274 £257
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £559 £563
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 4
Average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +11.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
REST
Hampshire

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton REST Jobs Demand Trend

REST
Daily Rate Trend

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

Southampton REST Daily Rate Trend

REST
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Southampton REST Hourly Rate Trend

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region citing REST 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 REST.

1 6 (100.00%) XML
2 5 (83.33%) MVC
3 4 (66.67%) OO
4 3 (50.00%) Java
4 3 (50.00%) JSON
4 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Android
5 2 (33.33%) HTML5
5 2 (33.33%) TDD
5 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
5 2 (33.33%) XSL
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (33.33%) HTTP
6 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
6 1 (16.67%) Intranet
6 1 (16.67%) Internet
6 1 (16.67%) Extranet
6 1 (16.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (16.67%) DTV
6 1 (16.67%) DVB
6 1 (16.67%) GIS
6 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
6 1 (16.67%) JMS
6 1 (16.67%) OOD
6 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 1 (16.67%) .NET
6 1 (16.67%) Oracle
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region citing REST 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 REST. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) XML
2 3 (50.00%) JSON
3 2 (33.33%) HTML5
3 2 (33.33%) XSL
4 1 (16.67%) JMS
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) JDBC
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) XSLT
4 1 (16.67%) DHTML
4 1 (16.67%) JPA
4 1 (16.67%) Drools
4 1 (16.67%) WCF
4 1 (16.67%) WF
4 1 (16.67%) CakePHP
4 1 (16.67%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) ESB
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Intranet
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) Extranet
2 1 (16.67%) DVB
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) GIS
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Android Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) PHP Developer
3 1 (16.67%) PHP Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) DTV
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
1 1 (16.67%) Social Media
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) MVC
2 4 (66.67%) OO
3 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
5 1 (16.67%) OOD
5 1 (16.67%) UML
5 1 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
5 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Web Development
5 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle