RESTful Contracts in the UK excluding London

RESTful
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for RESTful skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RESTful over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 240 155
Rank change year-on-year +40 -85 -6
Contract jobs citing RESTful 216 221 526
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.05% 0.94% 1.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.67% 5.14% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 161 372
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £403 £420 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £564
90th Percentile £625 £625 £633
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 19
10th Percentile £47.70 - £31.05
25th Percentile £65.00 - £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +45.45% +37.50%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £64.34
90th Percentile £87.00 - £69.64
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% +25.00% +30.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

RESTful 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 3,239 4,303 6,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.34% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,217 4,324
10th Percentile £324 £359 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 92 136
10th Percentile £21.63 £22.26 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.95 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +31.63% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.95
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing RESTful in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
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 RESTful within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +48 85 £491 -8.60% 70
North West +51 69 £491 +8.56% 30
Scotland +57 43 £400 -33.33% 23
South East +7 32 £450 -1.10% 36
Midlands +16 20 £500 -4.76% 29
East of England +10 18 £500 +13.64% 13
South West +14 15 £538 +2.38% 16
West Midlands +13 12 £607 +34.89% 19
Yorkshire +2 11 £475 -18.80% 28
East Midlands +15 8 £462 -14.05% 10
North East +16 5 £500 - 13
Wales +11 3 £438 -14.63% 10
RESTful
UK

RESTful
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 10 (4.63%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.70%) Confluence
3 5 (2.31%) Apache
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.93%) CMS
4 2 (0.93%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.46%) Appian
5 1 (0.46%) Jadu
5 1 (0.46%) JBoss
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 98 (45.37%) AWS
2 43 (19.91%) Azure
3 20 (9.26%) GCP
4 15 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (5.56%) Serverless
6 8 (3.70%) npm
7 6 (2.78%) GitHub
7 6 (2.78%) OpenShift
8 5 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.31%) Azure AKS
8 5 (2.31%) Azure App Service
9 4 (1.85%) Apigee
10 3 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.39%) BrowserStack
10 3 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.39%) SaaS
10 3 (1.39%) Yarn
11 2 (0.93%) Google App Engine
11 2 (0.93%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.63%) HTTP
2 6 (2.78%) Kerberos
3 5 (2.31%) SSL
4 4 (1.85%) Firewall
4 4 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.39%) BGP
5 3 (1.39%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.39%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 22 (10.19%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.94%) MySQL
5 14 (6.48%) SQL Server
6 12 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.31%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.85%) Redis
9 3 (1.39%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.39%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.93%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.46%) Big Data
11 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.46%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 37 (17.13%) Git
2 30 (13.89%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.33%) GitLab
4 17 (7.87%) Android Studio
5 15 (6.94%) Mockito
6 13 (6.02%) JIRA
7 12 (5.56%) Bitbucket
7 12 (5.56%) JUnit
8 8 (3.70%) webpack
9 7 (3.24%) Selenium
10 6 (2.78%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.78%) Xcode
11 5 (2.31%) XCUITest
12 4 (1.85%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.85%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.85%) Maven
13 3 (1.39%) gulp
13 3 (1.39%) Jasmine
13 3 (1.39%) Karma Test Runner
13 3 (1.39%) Mocha
General
1 37 (17.13%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.19%) Finance
3 16 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.56%) Banking
5 9 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.93%) Automotive
9 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Retail
10 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Publishing
10 1 (0.46%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 125 (57.87%) Developer
2 38 (17.59%) Software Engineer
3 32 (14.81%) Java Developer
4 28 (12.96%) Senior
5 17 (7.87%) Android Developer
5 17 (7.87%) Senior Developer
6 16 (7.41%) Architect
7 11 (5.09%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (4.63%) .NET Developer
8 10 (4.63%) Backend Developer
9 8 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (3.24%) Full Stack Developer
10 7 (3.24%) iOS Developer
11 6 (2.78%) Angular Developer
11 6 (2.78%) Full Stack Engineer
11 6 (2.78%) Node.js Developer
12 5 (2.31%) C# Developer
12 5 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (2.31%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (22.22%) Node.js
2 39 (18.06%) Spring
3 38 (17.59%) Spring Boot
4 33 (15.28%) Web Services
5 28 (12.96%) AngularJS
6 27 (12.50%) React
7 26 (12.04%) .NET
8 21 (9.72%) Kafka
9 19 (8.80%) OpenID
9 19 (8.80%) XML
10 16 (7.41%) CSS
10 16 (7.41%) SOAP
11 15 (6.94%) HTML
11 15 (6.94%) JSON
11 15 (6.94%) OAuth
12 11 (5.09%) .NET Core
12 11 (5.09%) REST
13 10 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (4.17%) .NET Framework
14 9 (4.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 16 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.94%) Data Structures
3 15 (6.94%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.63%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.24%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.31%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.31%) Verilog
8 5 (2.31%) VHDL
9 3 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.93%) IoT
10 2 (0.93%) IVR
10 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.93%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (0.93%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.93%) PKI
10 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.57%) Android
2 14 (6.48%) Linux
3 12 (5.56%) Apple iOS
4 11 (5.09%) Windows
5 7 (3.24%) VMS
6 6 (2.78%) Unix
7 4 (1.85%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (1.39%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (39.35%) Agile
2 74 (34.26%) Microservices
3 56 (25.93%) Software Engineering
4 49 (22.69%) CI/CD
5 34 (15.74%) DevOps
6 31 (14.35%) Continuous Integration
7 30 (13.89%) Design Patterns
8 28 (12.96%) Test Automation
9 24 (11.11%) SDLC
10 21 (9.72%) Scrum
10 21 (9.72%) TDD
11 20 (9.26%) User Experience
12 19 (8.80%) End-to-End Testing
12 19 (8.80%) Unit Testing
13 17 (7.87%) Android Development
13 17 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (6.94%) Full Stack Development
15 14 (6.48%) BDD
15 14 (6.48%) Clean Code
15 14 (6.48%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 98 (45.37%) Java
2 57 (26.39%) SQL
3 48 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 32 (14.81%) C#
5 30 (13.89%) Kotlin
5 30 (13.89%) TypeScript
6 28 (12.96%) Python
7 17 (7.87%) C
7 17 (7.87%) Scala
8 10 (4.63%) C++
9 8 (3.70%) Go
10 7 (3.24%) PHP
10 7 (3.24%) Swift
11 5 (2.31%) Bicep
11 5 (2.31%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.85%) Bash
12 4 (1.85%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.46%) Dart
14 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.48%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.56%) Degree
4 7 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.48%) QA
2 7 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.93%) WCAG
4 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (18.06%) Docker
2 9 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.85%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 30 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.72%) Terraform
3 10 (4.63%) Ansible
4 9 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.70%) Zipkin
6 6 (2.78%) Grafana
7 1 (0.46%) Anchore
7 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.46%) Istio
7 1 (0.46%) Kibana
7 1 (0.46%) Nagios
7 1 (0.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (7.87%) Oracle
2 10 (4.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.17%) Google
4 6 (2.78%) Cadence
5 3 (1.39%) Adobe
5 3 (1.39%) Cisco
5 3 (1.39%) Genesys
5 3 (1.39%) TOWER Software
6 2 (0.93%) IBM
6 2 (0.93%) SAP
6 2 (0.93%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.46%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.46%) Avaya
7 1 (0.46%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.46%) Confluent
7 1 (0.46%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.46%) OpenText
7 1 (0.46%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.46%) Teradata