Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 105 99 82
Rank change year-on-year -6 -17 -10
Contract jobs citing REST 907 1,474 2,656
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.09% 2.49% 2.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.15% 10.71% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 1,033 1,804
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £438 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -5.30% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £665
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 19
10th Percentile £26.58 £43.00 £29.20
25th Percentile £58.75 £45.00 £46.22
Median hourly rate £74.44 £53.87 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +8.28% +10.56%
75th Percentile £83.13 £65.75 £61.70
90th Percentile £85.00 £90.00 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 £47.50 £49.75
% change year-on-year +56.72% -4.52% -0.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the UK

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for REST in the UK

REST
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the UK

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in the UK

REST
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in the UK

REST
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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 -3 711 £525 -4.55% 333
London +4 441 £525 -8.70% 133
Work from Home -10 351 £500 -4.76% 189
UK excluding London -21 350 £500 -4.76% 215
Scotland +25 103 £500 +0.50% 14
South East -17 92 £550 - 53
North of England -11 68 £525 -2.78% 65
South West +10 51 £525 -4.55% 25
North West -13 50 £525 -4.55% 39
Yorkshire +12 18 £445 -15.24% 22
Midlands +5 18 £500 -7.41% 22
East of England +3 18 £475 -5.00% 28
West Midlands +6 12 £488 -20.41% 14
East Midlands +16 6 £577 +6.85% 8
North East +18 4 £480 -21.63% 4
Northern Ireland +4 3 £550 +33.33% 6
Wales -9 1 - - 3

REST
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 58 (6.39%) Confluence
2 32 (3.53%) Apache
3 19 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.43%) CMS
6 11 (1.21%) Anypoint
7 10 (1.10%) Site Server
8 9 (0.99%) Mule
8 9 (0.99%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.77%) IIS
10 5 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.55%) Mule ESB
10 5 (0.55%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.44%) JBoss
11 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.33%) nginx
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.55%) Shopify
4 4 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.33%) Maximo
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 261 (28.78%) AWS
2 211 (23.26%) Azure
3 69 (7.61%) GitHub
4 67 (7.39%) Serverless
5 59 (6.50%) GCP
6 58 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (5.29%) Amazon S3
8 37 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
8 37 (4.08%) OpenShift
8 37 (4.08%) SaaS
9 29 (3.20%) Power Platform
10 28 (3.09%) npm
11 27 (2.98%) Amazon SQS
11 27 (2.98%) IaaS
12 26 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (2.87%) Power Automate
13 24 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
14 23 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (2.43%) PaaS
15 22 (2.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.74%) HTTP
2 16 (1.76%) BGP
3 15 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.43%) Ethernet VPN
4 13 (1.43%) MPLS
4 13 (1.43%) VPN
5 12 (1.32%) Radio Access Network
6 9 (0.99%) SAN
6 9 (0.99%) SSL
7 7 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 7 (0.77%) Firewall
7 7 (0.77%) NetScaler
8 6 (0.66%) SSH
9 5 (0.55%) DNS
9 5 (0.55%) NAS
9 5 (0.55%) WinSCP
10 4 (0.44%) Internet
11 3 (0.33%) 5G
11 3 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.33%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (14.99%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (9.15%) NoSQL
3 62 (6.84%) SQL Server
4 61 (6.73%) Relational Database
5 29 (3.20%) MySQL
6 26 (2.87%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
9 22 (2.43%) Oracle Database
10 16 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
11 15 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (1.54%) GIS
13 13 (1.43%) Power BI
14 12 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (1.10%) DynamoDB
15 10 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.10%) Redis
16 8 (0.88%) Couchbase
17 7 (0.77%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 201 (22.16%) Git
2 161 (17.75%) Jenkins
3 139 (15.33%) JIRA
4 84 (9.26%) JUnit
5 80 (8.82%) Cucumber
6 71 (7.83%) GitLab
7 66 (7.28%) Selenium
8 55 (6.06%) Maven
9 44 (4.85%) Postman
10 38 (4.19%) REST Assured
10 38 (4.19%) SonarQube
11 28 (3.09%) Gradle
12 25 (2.76%) webpack
13 22 (2.43%) Cypress.io
13 22 (2.43%) JMeter
13 22 (2.43%) TeamCity
14 21 (2.32%) Visual Studio
15 20 (2.21%) TestRail
16 15 (1.65%) CircleCI
17 14 (1.54%) Bitbucket
General
1 220 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 121 (13.34%) Finance
3 113 (12.46%) Public Sector
4 99 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (5.07%) Banking
6 40 (4.41%) Front Office
7 26 (2.87%) Law
8 19 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (1.98%) Retail
10 13 (1.43%) Back Office
10 13 (1.43%) Police
10 13 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.32%) Marketing
12 9 (0.99%) Financial Institution
12 9 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.66%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.55%) German Language
Job Titles
1 480 (52.92%) Developer
2 165 (18.19%) Java Developer
3 118 (13.01%) Senior
4 96 (10.58%) Architect
5 74 (8.16%) Full Stack Developer
6 60 (6.62%) Java Engineer
7 59 (6.50%) Senior Developer
8 58 (6.39%) Software Engineer
9 36 (3.97%) Lead
10 33 (3.64%) Angular Developer
11 31 (3.42%) Applications Developer
11 31 (3.42%) Python Developer
12 28 (3.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 24 (2.65%) .NET Developer
13 24 (2.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 23 (2.54%) UI Developer
15 22 (2.43%) C# Developer
15 22 (2.43%) Java Software Engineer
15 22 (2.43%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (2.43%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (24.26%) Spring
2 198 (21.83%) Spring Boot
3 152 (16.76%) CSS
4 143 (15.77%) React
5 141 (15.55%) SOAP
6 137 (15.10%) HTML
7 136 (14.99%) JSON
8 115 (12.68%) AngularJS
9 114 (12.57%) .NET
9 114 (12.57%) Web Services
10 98 (10.80%) XML
11 91 (10.03%) Node.js
12 73 (8.05%) Kafka
13 70 (7.72%) JPA
14 64 (7.06%) GraphQL
15 61 (6.73%) Hibernate
16 46 (5.07%) SAML
17 43 (4.74%) Swagger
18 41 (4.52%) OAuth
19 40 (4.41%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 35 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (3.75%) Product Ownership
3 30 (3.31%) Data Structures
4 29 (3.20%) Public Cloud
5 24 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
6 19 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.09%) Mobile App
7 17 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.65%) Reference Data
8 15 (1.65%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.54%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.43%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.32%) Cloud Native
11 12 (1.32%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.99%) Legacy Code
13 9 (0.99%) Management Information System
13 9 (0.99%) Wiki
14 8 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 58 (6.39%) Linux
2 40 (4.41%) Windows
3 28 (3.09%) Unix
4 25 (2.76%) Apple iOS
5 23 (2.54%) Android
6 12 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.11%) AIX
8 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (41.79%) Agile
2 255 (28.11%) CI/CD
3 216 (23.81%) DevOps
4 202 (22.27%) Microservices
5 165 (18.19%) Software Engineering
6 158 (17.42%) Test Automation
7 127 (14.00%) Scrum
8 126 (13.89%) TDD
9 112 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
10 108 (11.91%) Full Stack Development
11 98 (10.80%) Continuous Integration
12 93 (10.25%) Unit Testing
13 91 (10.03%) Front End Development
14 87 (9.59%) Design Patterns
15 75 (8.27%) OO
16 66 (7.28%) BDD
17 63 (6.95%) SDLC
18 61 (6.73%) Containerisation
19 60 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
19 60 (6.62%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 378 (41.68%) Java
2 237 (26.13%) JavaScript
3 216 (23.81%) SQL
4 181 (19.96%) Python
5 132 (14.55%) TypeScript
6 128 (14.11%) C#
7 46 (5.07%) PowerShell
8 34 (3.75%) Go
9 26 (2.87%) Kotlin
9 26 (2.87%) Perl
10 19 (2.09%) Bash
11 15 (1.65%) C++
12 14 (1.54%) C
12 14 (1.54%) PHP
12 14 (1.54%) T-SQL
13 13 (1.43%) Apex Code
14 12 (1.32%) PL/SQL
15 11 (1.21%) Groovy
15 11 (1.21%) Ruby
15 11 (1.21%) Swift
Qualifications
1 177 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 146 (16.10%) SC Cleared
3 83 (9.15%) Degree
4 36 (3.97%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.77%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.44%) CISSP
9 4 (0.44%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.44%) PMP
10 3 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.22%) HND
12 1 (0.11%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.11%) ISEB
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.39%) QA
2 31 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 27 (2.98%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.21%) WCAG
5 9 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (0.66%) GDPR
6 6 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.55%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.55%) SLA
8 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.33%) GRC
9 2 (0.22%) HL7
9 2 (0.22%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 182 (20.07%) Docker
2 25 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.77%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.44%) OpenAM
4 4 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.33%) OpenIDM
5 3 (0.33%) vCloud
5 3 (0.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.11%) IAG
6 1 (0.11%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 138 (15.21%) Kubernetes
2 82 (9.04%) Terraform
3 70 (7.72%) Ansible
4 34 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
5 31 (3.42%) Grafana
6 17 (1.87%) Podman
7 15 (1.65%) Kibana
8 12 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (0.99%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.77%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.55%) CloudHub
11 5 (0.55%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.55%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.55%) Puppet
12 4 (0.44%) Argo
12 4 (0.44%) Packer
13 3 (0.33%) Autotask
13 3 (0.33%) Istio
13 3 (0.33%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.22%) logstash
Vendors
1 88 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 75 (8.27%) Oracle
3 54 (5.95%) Google
4 47 (5.18%) Salesforce
5 43 (4.74%) SAP
6 23 (2.54%) MuleSoft
7 22 (2.43%) Atlassian
7 22 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.87%) Splunk
9 15 (1.65%) IBM
10 13 (1.43%) Pega
11 11 (1.21%) ESRI
11 11 (1.21%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.88%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.77%) F5
13 7 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 7 (0.77%) VMware
13 7 (0.77%) WSO2
14 6 (0.66%) Adobe
14 6 (0.66%) TOWER Software