The first table below looks at the demand for RESTful skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RESTful over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Wales region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RESTful
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing RESTful 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £388
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -16.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Application Development
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
85 142 165
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 19.95% 24.91% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 62 65
Average daily rate £325 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £470 £511
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -35.29%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
RESTful
UK

RESTful
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RESTful across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Wales RESTful Jobs Demand Trend

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RESTful across the Wales region.

Wales RESTful Daily Rate Trend

RESTful
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing RESTful also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited RESTful.

1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) Web Services
2 6 (85.71%) TDD
3 4 (57.14%) Spring
3 4 (57.14%) UNIX
3 4 (57.14%) OO
3 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
4 3 (42.86%) XML
4 3 (42.86%) MySQL
4 3 (42.86%) PHP
4 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 3 (42.86%) Ruby
4 3 (42.86%) Web Development
4 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
5 2 (28.57%) Hudson
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Open Source
5 2 (28.57%) Content Management
6 1 (14.29%) UML
6 1 (14.29%) J2EE
6 1 (14.29%) JUnit
6 1 (14.29%) CSS
6 1 (14.29%) HTML
6 1 (14.29%) JSON
6 1 (14.29%) WATIR
6 1 (14.29%) Selenium
6 1 (14.29%) Mockito
6 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 1 (14.29%) REST

RESTful
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing RESTful also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited RESTful. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (85.71%) Web Services
2 4 (57.14%) Spring
2 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
3 3 (42.86%) XML
4 1 (14.29%) J2EE
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) JSON
4 1 (14.29%) REST
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Hudson
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) WATIR
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Mockito
3 1 (14.29%) Capybara
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) TDD
2 4 (57.14%) OO
3 3 (42.86%) Web Development
3 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Content Management
5 1 (14.29%) UML
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) PHP
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Ruby