The first table below looks at the demand for RESTful skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RESTful over the 3 months to 17 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 Watford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RESTful
Rank - 16 -
Contract jobs citing RESTful 0 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford - 5.505% -
As % of the Application Development category - 20.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £394
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -17.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Application Development
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
19 29 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 28.36% 26.61% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 8
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £275 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £378 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £20.00 - £11.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
RESTful
Hertfordshire

RESTful
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford RESTful Daily Rate Trend

RESTful
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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%) Web Services
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (85.71%) E-Commerce
2 6 (85.71%) Java
3 5 (71.43%) MySQL
3 5 (71.43%) Linux
3 5 (71.43%) Scrum
3 5 (71.43%) Spring
3 5 (71.43%) JSON
3 5 (71.43%) Kanban
4 3 (42.86%) Spring MVC
4 3 (42.86%) Grails
4 3 (42.86%) MVC
4 3 (42.86%) Groovy
5 2 (28.57%) TDD
5 2 (28.57%) Digital Media
5 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
5 2 (28.57%) SOAP
5 2 (28.57%) Extreme Programming
6 1 (14.29%) REST

RESTful
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 7 (100.00%) Web Services
2 5 (71.43%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) JSON
3 3 (42.86%) Spring MVC
3 3 (42.86%) Grails
4 2 (28.57%) SOAP
5 1 (14.29%) REST
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MySQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (85.71%) E-Commerce
3 5 (71.43%) Scrum
3 5 (71.43%) Kanban
4 3 (42.86%) MVC
5 2 (28.57%) Extreme Programming
5 2 (28.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Groovy