The first table below looks at the demand for RESTful skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RESTful over the 3 months to 23 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 West Yorkshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RESTful
Rank 88 88 59
Rank change year-on-year
0 -29
Contract jobs citing RESTful 5 6 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.399% 0.380% 1.572%
As % of the Application Development category 1.408% 1.749% 7.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 5
Average daily rate £300 £300 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £294 £298 £191
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £325 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £325 £388
% change year-on-year
+6.15% -16.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
355 343 255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 28.35% 21.71% 22.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 209 137
Average daily rate £298 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.83% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £212 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 5
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
RESTful
Yorkshire

RESTful
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire RESTful Daily Rate Trend

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RESTful across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Yorkshire RESTful Daily Rate Histogram

RESTful
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Leeds -3 5 £300 -
RESTful
Yorkshire

RESTful
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) XML
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) SOAP
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) PHP
4 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
4 2 (33.33%) UNIX
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (33.33%) UML
4 2 (33.33%) Apache
4 2 (33.33%) XHTML
4 2 (33.33%) Unified Process
4 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (33.33%) CSS
4 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management

RESTful
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) XML
3 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (50.00%) SOAP
4 2 (33.33%) XHTML
4 2 (33.33%) CSS
4 2 (33.33%) LAMP
4 2 (33.33%) JMS
4 2 (33.33%) Lucene
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 2 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (33.33%) Java EE
4 2 (33.33%) LINQ
4 2 (33.33%) Sinatra
4 2 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (33.33%) Regular Expression
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (33.33%) ESB
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (33.33%) RavenDB
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Agile .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) CRM Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) NHS
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (33.33%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) TDD
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) UML
2 2 (33.33%) Unified Process
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) SOA
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) Automated Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Server
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) OpenView
1 2 (33.33%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
1 2 (33.33%) HP