The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REST 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 Staffordshire 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
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing REST 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £380 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.89% +26.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £32.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+17.82% -19.37%
All Application Development
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
25 76 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 28.74% 34.55% 51.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 33 66
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £382 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.31 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.31% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
REST
West Midlands

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire REST Daily Rate Trend

REST
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WF
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) DevExpress
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 8
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WF
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) DevExpress