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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 674 761
Rank change year-on-year +134 +87 -103
Contract jobs citing JAX-RS 50 29 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.049% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.56% 0.21% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 22 62
10th Percentile £306 £525 £469
25th Percentile £409 £666 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £700 £540
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% +29.63% +13.68%
75th Percentile £741 - £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £338 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -51.79% +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 8,932 13,763 24,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.23% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,201 10,039 17,650
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 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.40
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +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 3 May 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 3 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
England +138 42 £500 -28.57% 1
London +114 30 £600 -17.24%
Work from Home +130 16 £550 -21.43% 2
UK excluding London +48 9 £338 -51.79% 1
South West - 6 £300 - 1
North of England +16 2 £450 -35.71%
Yorkshire +9 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 (6.00%) nginx
1 3 (6.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.00%) GCP
2 9 (18.00%) Amazon SQS
2 9 (18.00%) AWS
3 6 (12.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 6 (12.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.00%) MongoDB
2 7 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.00%) MySQL
4 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (48.00%) Mockito
2 15 (30.00%) Maven
3 9 (18.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (18.00%) JUnit
3 9 (18.00%) TestNG
4 6 (12.00%) Cucumber
4 6 (12.00%) Selenium
5 5 (10.00%) EasyMock
6 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket
6 3 (6.00%) Cypress.io
6 3 (6.00%) Git
6 3 (6.00%) GitLab
6 3 (6.00%) Gradle
6 3 (6.00%) JMeter
6 3 (6.00%) Mocha
6 3 (6.00%) Postman
6 3 (6.00%) REST Assured
6 3 (6.00%) SoapUI
6 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
6 3 (6.00%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (88.00%) Developer
2 40 (80.00%) Java Developer
3 15 (30.00%) Senior
3 15 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 15 (30.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Digital Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Backend Developer
5 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Java Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Automation Tester
7 2 (4.00%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Tester
8 1 (2.00%) Agile Developer
8 1 (2.00%) Agile Java Developer
8 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Developer
8 1 (2.00%) Senior Agile Developer
8 1 (2.00%) Senior Agile Java Developer
8 1 (2.00%) Senior Backend Developer
8 1 (2.00%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (62.00%) REST
1 31 (62.00%) Spring Boot
2 30 (60.00%) Spring
3 22 (44.00%) Restlet
4 21 (42.00%) GWT
4 21 (42.00%) Kafka
5 20 (40.00%) SAML
6 18 (36.00%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (12.00%) WireMock
8 3 (6.00%) Chai
8 3 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (6.00%) Gherkin
8 3 (6.00%) Guice
8 3 (6.00%) JAXB
8 3 (6.00%) Middleware
8 3 (6.00%) Mustache
8 3 (6.00%) Node.js
8 3 (6.00%) OpenAPI
8 3 (6.00%) SOAP
8 3 (6.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Insider Threat
2 3 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.00%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (34.00%) Linux
1 17 (34.00%) Mac OS X
1 17 (34.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 24 (48.00%) TDD
3 22 (44.00%) Agile
4 21 (42.00%) BDD
4 21 (42.00%) Microservices
5 18 (36.00%) Pair Programming
5 18 (36.00%) Web Development
6 17 (34.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 16 (32.00%) Responsive Web Design
7 16 (32.00%) Web Design
8 7 (14.00%) Risk Assessment
9 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
9 6 (12.00%) Cloud Security
9 6 (12.00%) MVC
10 5 (10.00%) User Experience
11 4 (8.00%) UX Design
12 3 (6.00%) Dependency Injection
12 3 (6.00%) Multithreading
12 3 (6.00%) OOP
12 3 (6.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 50 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.00%) Python
3 3 (6.00%) SQL
4 2 (4.00%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (38.00%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (18.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (12.00%) Terraform
4 3 (6.00%) Ansible
4 3 (6.00%) Kustomize
4 3 (6.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (44.00%) Google
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) Oracle
2 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.00%) SAP