Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JAX-RS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JAX-RS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 698 749
Rank change year-on-year +144 +51 -109
Contract jobs citing JAX-RS 44 21 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.035% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.50% 0.15% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 17 62
10th Percentile £301 £510 £469
25th Percentile £441 £675 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £700 £540
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +29.63% +13.68%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £634
90th Percentile - £865 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -57.14% +12.00% +31.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JAX-RS 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 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 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

JAX-RS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JAX-RS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JAX-RS.

Daily rate trend for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JAX-RS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JAX-RS.

Hourly rate trend for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JAX-RS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +144 37 £525 -25.00% 3
London +116 27 £688 -8.33% 2
Work from Home +139 14 £575 -23.33% 3
UK excluding London +67 7 £300 -57.14% 1
South West - 4 £300 - 1
North of England +30 2 £450 -35.71%
Yorkshire +19 2 £450 -35.71%
South East - 1 - -

JAX-RS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (6.82%) nginx
1 3 (6.82%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) GCP
2 9 (20.45%) Amazon SQS
2 9 (20.45%) AWS
3 6 (13.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 6 (13.64%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.91%) MongoDB
2 7 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.27%) MySQL
4 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (54.55%) Mockito
2 9 (20.45%) Jenkins
2 9 (20.45%) JUnit
2 9 (20.45%) Maven
2 9 (20.45%) TestNG
3 6 (13.64%) Cucumber
3 6 (13.64%) Selenium
4 5 (11.36%) EasyMock
5 3 (6.82%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.82%) Cypress.io
5 3 (6.82%) Git
5 3 (6.82%) GitLab
5 3 (6.82%) Gradle
5 3 (6.82%) JMeter
5 3 (6.82%) Mocha
5 3 (6.82%) Postman
5 3 (6.82%) REST Assured
5 3 (6.82%) SoapUI
5 3 (6.82%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.82%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.55%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (86.36%) Developer
2 34 (77.27%) Java Developer
3 13 (29.55%) Senior
3 13 (29.55%) Senior Developer
3 13 (29.55%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (11.36%) Digital Developer
5 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Backend Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Java Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Automation Tester
7 2 (4.55%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Tester
8 1 (2.27%) Agile Developer
8 1 (2.27%) Agile Java Developer
8 1 (2.27%) Senior Agile Developer
8 1 (2.27%) Senior Agile Java Developer
8 1 (2.27%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (56.82%) REST
1 25 (56.82%) Spring Boot
2 24 (54.55%) Spring
3 21 (47.73%) Kafka
4 18 (40.91%) ActiveMQ
5 16 (36.36%) Restlet
5 16 (36.36%) SAML
6 15 (34.09%) GWT
7 6 (13.64%) WireMock
8 3 (6.82%) Chai
8 3 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (6.82%) Gherkin
8 3 (6.82%) Guice
8 3 (6.82%) JAXB
8 3 (6.82%) Middleware
8 3 (6.82%) Mustache
8 3 (6.82%) Node.js
8 3 (6.82%) OpenAPI
8 3 (6.82%) SOAP
8 3 (6.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Insider Threat
2 3 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.55%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (38.64%) Linux
1 17 (38.64%) Mac OS X
1 17 (38.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 22 (50.00%) Agile
3 21 (47.73%) BDD
3 21 (47.73%) Microservices
4 18 (40.91%) Pair Programming
4 18 (40.91%) TDD
4 18 (40.91%) Web Development
5 17 (38.64%) Continuous Deployment
6 16 (36.36%) Responsive Web Design
6 16 (36.36%) Web Design
7 7 (15.91%) Risk Assessment
8 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 6 (13.64%) Cloud Security
8 6 (13.64%) MVC
9 5 (11.36%) User Experience
10 4 (9.09%) UX Design
11 3 (6.82%) Dependency Injection
11 3 (6.82%) Multithreading
11 3 (6.82%) OOP
11 3 (6.82%) Performance Improvement
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.82%) Python
3 3 (6.82%) SQL
4 2 (4.55%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 17 (38.64%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (20.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (34.09%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.64%) Terraform
4 3 (6.82%) Ansible
4 3 (6.82%) Kustomize
4 3 (6.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) Google
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.82%) Oracle
2 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.55%) SAP