The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REST over the 3 months to 23 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 Surrey 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 69 96 93
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -3
Contract jobs citing REST 11 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.957% 0.124% 0.374%
As % of the Application Development category 3.303% 0.432% 1.273%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 6
Average daily rate £375 £325 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £325 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £325 £358
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £374 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.35% +24.58%
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
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
333 463 550
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 28.96% 28.76% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 265 304
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 16
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £19.00 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £41.50 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
REST
South East

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey REST Daily Rate Trend

REST
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing REST across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Surrey REST Daily Rate Histogram

REST
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey REST Hourly Rate Trend

REST
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 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
Guildford - 5 £400 -
Staines - 2 £375 -
REST
South East

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 11 (64.71%) Web Services
2 10 (58.82%) Java
3 8 (47.06%) Ajax
4 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
4 7 (41.18%) SOAP
4 7 (41.18%) HTML
4 7 (41.18%) SQL
5 6 (35.29%) CSS
5 6 (35.29%) HTTP
5 6 (35.29%) JSON
6 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
6 5 (29.41%) Degree
6 5 (29.41%) Android
6 5 (29.41%) MVC
7 4 (23.53%) Objective-C
7 4 (23.53%) Adobe
7 4 (23.53%) OpenGL
7 4 (23.53%) C#
7 4 (23.53%) C++
7 4 (23.53%) XML
7 4 (23.53%) OO
7 4 (23.53%) Memory Management
7 4 (23.53%) Apple iOS
7 4 (23.53%) Adobe CQ
7 4 (23.53%) OpenGL ES
7 4 (23.53%) Mobile App
7 4 (23.53%) Multithreading
8 3 (17.65%) jQuery
8 3 (17.65%) WCF
8 3 (17.65%) Linux

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 11 (64.71%) Web Services
2 8 (47.06%) Ajax
3 7 (41.18%) SOAP
3 7 (41.18%) HTML
4 6 (35.29%) CSS
4 6 (35.29%) JSON
5 4 (23.53%) OpenGL
5 4 (23.53%) XML
5 4 (23.53%) OpenGL ES
6 3 (17.65%) jQuery
6 3 (17.65%) WCF
6 3 (17.65%) .NET
7 2 (11.76%) WSDL
7 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
7 2 (11.76%) J2EE
8 1 (5.882%) Spring
8 1 (5.882%) JNI
8 1 (5.882%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (5.882%) Java ME
8 1 (5.882%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) Adobe CQ
2 3 (17.65%) IIS
3 1 (5.882%) ESB
3 1 (5.882%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
1 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) HTTP
2 1 (5.882%) CDMA
2 1 (5.882%) GSM
2 1 (5.882%) 3GPP
2 1 (5.882%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
1 2 (11.76%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.882%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.882%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
1 2 (11.76%) JUnit
2 1 (5.882%) Selenium
2 1 (5.882%) Hudson
2 1 (5.882%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.882%) WebDriver
2 1 (5.882%) Rational Rose
2 1 (5.882%) Telelogic TAU
2 1 (5.882%) JMeter
General
1 3 (17.65%) Games
2 2 (11.76%) Electronics
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Mobile Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Development Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Android Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Development Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.882%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (5.882%) iOS Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Agile C# Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Middleware Developer
4 1 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Tester
4 1 (5.882%) Web Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
2 4 (23.53%) Mobile App
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.76%) Kinect
3 2 (11.76%) Mathematics
4 1 (5.882%) Smartphone
4 1 (5.882%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Android
2 4 (23.53%) Apple iOS
3 3 (17.65%) Linux
4 1 (5.882%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) MVC
2 4 (23.53%) OO
2 4 (23.53%) Memory Management
2 4 (23.53%) Multithreading
3 2 (11.76%) Code Coverage
3 2 (11.76%) Software Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) Process Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
3 2 (11.76%) Use Case
3 2 (11.76%) Web Application Development
3 2 (11.76%) Game Development
3 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
3 2 (11.76%) Load Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Automated Testing
3 2 (11.76%) TDD
4 1 (5.882%) Data Management
4 1 (5.882%) Software Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Web Development
4 1 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Objective-C
3 4 (23.53%) C#
3 4 (23.53%) C++
4 3 (17.65%) C
5 2 (11.76%) PHP
6 1 (5.882%) XPath
6 1 (5.882%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.882%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.882%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Adobe
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.882%) WSO2
3 1 (5.882%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle
3 1 (5.882%) Telelogic
3 1 (5.882%) Perforce
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