REST Contracts in the UK excluding London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 115 121
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -25
Contract jobs citing REST 345 537 657
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.68% 2.28% 2.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.62% 12.51% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 377 441
10th Percentile £363 £410 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +13.82%
75th Percentile £598 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £696 £674
UK median daily rate £514 £546 £575
% change year-on-year -5.91% -5.04% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 16
10th Percentile £26.15 £46.00 £43.72
25th Percentile £56.00 £47.50 £48.50
Median hourly rate £74.44 £50.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +48.88% +0.50% -0.50%
75th Percentile £85.00 £57.88 £59.36
90th Percentile - £62.60 £62.88
UK median hourly rate £74.44 £55.69 £49.75
% change year-on-year +33.68% +11.93% +10.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 3,250 4,294 6,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 18.27% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,209 4,365
10th Percentile £324 £356 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 91 138
10th Percentile £21.73 £22.50 £20.18
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Scotland +26 98 £500 +0.50% 11
South East -28 90 £550 - 48
North of England -8 68 £525 -2.78% 70
South West +14 53 £500 -9.09% 21
North West -8 50 £525 -4.55% 38
Yorkshire +19 18 £445 -15.24% 25
Midlands +7 18 £500 -7.41% 20
East of England -8 18 £475 -5.00% 29
West Midlands +7 12 £488 -20.41% 12
East Midlands +14 6 £577 +6.85% 8
North East +16 4 £480 -21.63% 7
Northern Ireland +2 3 £550 +29.41% 9
Wales -7 1 - - 3
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (6.96%) Confluence
2 22 (6.38%) Apache
3 11 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.16%) Mule
5 4 (1.16%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.87%) IIS
7 2 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.58%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) JBoss
8 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.16%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.87%) Maximo
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 103 (29.86%) AWS
2 60 (17.39%) Azure
3 30 (8.70%) Serverless
4 19 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (5.51%) GitHub
4 19 (5.51%) OpenShift
5 15 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
6 14 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (4.06%) GCP
6 14 (4.06%) SaaS
7 13 (3.77%) Amazon S3
7 13 (3.77%) Power Platform
8 12 (3.48%) Power Automate
9 9 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.61%) PowerApps
10 8 (2.32%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.03%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.64%) HTTP
2 14 (4.06%) BGP
3 11 (3.19%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (3.19%) MPLS
3 11 (3.19%) Radio Access Network
3 11 (3.19%) VPN
4 8 (2.32%) SAN
5 7 (2.03%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (1.16%) Firewall
6 4 (1.16%) NAS
6 4 (1.16%) NetScaler
6 4 (1.16%) SSL
7 3 (0.87%) 5G
7 3 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.87%) IOS XR
8 1 (0.29%) NFC
8 1 (0.29%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (20.29%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (9.28%) NoSQL
3 31 (8.99%) Relational Database
4 15 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 15 (4.35%) Oracle Database
5 14 (4.06%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.03%) MySQL
9 6 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (1.45%) CockroachDB
10 5 (1.45%) Couchbase
10 5 (1.45%) SQLite
11 4 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.87%) GIS
12 3 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 80 (23.19%) Jenkins
2 76 (22.03%) Git
3 59 (17.10%) JIRA
4 48 (13.91%) GitLab
5 43 (12.46%) Cucumber
6 36 (10.43%) JUnit
7 33 (9.57%) Selenium
8 29 (8.41%) SonarQube
9 25 (7.25%) REST Assured
10 14 (4.06%) Postman
11 13 (3.77%) Maven
11 13 (3.77%) TestRail
12 11 (3.19%) Robot Framework
12 11 (3.19%) Visual Studio
13 6 (1.74%) Artifactory
14 5 (1.45%) Checkstyle
14 5 (1.45%) IntelliJ
14 5 (1.45%) Subversion
15 4 (1.16%) Log4j
15 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 98 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 52 (15.07%) Public Sector
3 49 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.12%) Finance
5 20 (5.80%) Law
6 13 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.77%) Police
7 10 (2.90%) Banking
8 8 (2.32%) Back Office
8 8 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.03%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.45%) Marketing
11 4 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.16%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.16%) Retail
12 3 (0.87%) Legal
13 2 (0.58%) Games
13 2 (0.58%) German Language
13 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 172 (49.86%) Developer
2 83 (24.06%) Java Developer
3 41 (11.88%) Senior
4 32 (9.28%) Java Engineer
5 29 (8.41%) Architect
6 27 (7.83%) Senior Developer
7 21 (6.09%) Full Stack Developer
8 20 (5.80%) Software Engineer
9 16 (4.64%) Senior Java Developer
10 15 (4.35%) Test Engineer
11 13 (3.77%) Network Engineer
12 12 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.48%) Lead
12 12 (3.48%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 12 (3.48%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.19%) Full Stack Engineer
14 9 (2.61%) Applications Developer
14 9 (2.61%) Data Engineer
14 9 (2.61%) Full Stack Java Developer
14 9 (2.61%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (27.83%) Spring Boot
2 94 (27.25%) Spring
3 62 (17.97%) CSS
4 56 (16.23%) SOAP
5 55 (15.94%) HTML
6 50 (14.49%) React
7 46 (13.33%) JSON
8 38 (11.01%) Kafka
9 37 (10.72%) AngularJS
10 35 (10.14%) JPA
11 32 (9.28%) .NET
12 29 (8.41%) XML
13 27 (7.83%) Hibernate
13 27 (7.83%) Web Services
14 25 (7.25%) Java EE
15 21 (6.09%) Node.js
16 16 (4.64%) GraphQL
16 16 (4.64%) OAuth
17 15 (4.35%) Apache Camel
17 15 (4.35%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.22%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (4.06%) Public Cloud
4 10 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.03%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (1.74%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.74%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.16%) Insider Threat
8 4 (1.16%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.87%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.58%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.58%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.58%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 28 (8.12%) Linux
2 22 (6.38%) Windows
3 11 (3.19%) Unix
4 8 (2.32%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.58%) Android
5 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (45.80%) Agile
2 113 (32.75%) CI/CD
3 104 (30.14%) DevOps
4 76 (22.03%) Microservices
5 67 (19.42%) Test Automation
6 62 (17.97%) Software Engineering
7 59 (17.10%) Continuous Integration
7 59 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (16.52%) Scrum
9 45 (13.04%) TDD
10 41 (11.88%) Full Stack Development
11 40 (11.59%) Containerisation
11 40 (11.59%) Decision-Making
12 37 (10.72%) Unit Testing
13 34 (9.86%) SDLC
13 34 (9.86%) Workflow
14 33 (9.57%) Front End Development
14 33 (9.57%) Technical Leadership
15 30 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 25 (7.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 166 (48.12%) Java
2 103 (29.86%) SQL
3 71 (20.58%) Python
4 70 (20.29%) JavaScript
5 46 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 34 (9.86%) C#
7 14 (4.06%) Perl
7 14 (4.06%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.77%) Bash
9 12 (3.48%) Go
10 9 (2.61%) PL/SQL
11 7 (2.03%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.74%) C
13 5 (1.45%) PHP
14 4 (1.16%) C++
14 4 (1.16%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.16%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.16%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.16%) VB
14 4 (1.16%) VB6
Qualifications
1 91 (26.38%) Security Cleared
2 69 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.83%) DV Cleared
4 15 (4.35%) Degree
5 10 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.58%) HND
7 2 (0.58%) PMP
8 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.22%) QA
2 10 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.32%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.32%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.29%) SLA
4 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 79 (22.90%) Docker
2 4 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.16%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.87%) OpenAM
3 3 (0.87%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 56 (16.23%) Kubernetes
2 50 (14.49%) Ansible
3 34 (9.86%) Terraform
4 12 (3.48%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (3.48%) Podman
5 10 (2.90%) Grafana
5 10 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.74%) Kibana
7 5 (1.45%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.16%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.29%) rkt
Vendors
1 33 (9.57%) Oracle
2 26 (7.54%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.22%) Salesforce
4 14 (4.06%) Google
5 12 (3.48%) Atlassian
5 12 (3.48%) SAP
6 8 (2.32%) IBM
7 7 (2.03%) Pega
8 5 (1.45%) EMC
8 5 (1.45%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.16%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.16%) F5
9 4 (1.16%) Infragistics
9 4 (1.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (1.16%) Veritas
9 4 (1.16%) VMware
10 3 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.87%) ForgeRock
10 3 (0.87%) Nintex