REST Contracts with Work from Home Options

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 82 73
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 -2
Contract jobs citing REST 341 684 1,448
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.26% 2.72% 3.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.40% 10.79% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 486 973
10th Percentile £387 £410 £413
25th Percentile £450 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £705
UK median daily rate £514 £546 £575
% change year-on-year -5.91% -5.04% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 11
10th Percentile - £39.25 £41.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £45.63 £49.50
Median hourly rate £23.50 £57.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -59.13% +15.58% +24.38%
75th Percentile £24.25 £62.25 £59.83
90th Percentile - £64.35 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £74.44 £55.69 £49.75
% change year-on-year +33.68% +11.93% +10.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,628 6,337 13,079
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.03% 25.22% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 4,711 9,657
10th Percentile £331 £395 £400
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 116
10th Percentile £24.68 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

REST trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing REST.

REST daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing REST over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

REST daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing REST.

REST hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (4.69%) Confluence
2 8 (2.35%) CMS
3 6 (1.76%) Anypoint
3 6 (1.76%) Mule
4 5 (1.47%) Mule ESB
5 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.88%) Apache
6 3 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.88%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.59%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.59%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.59%) nginx
7 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.29%) Drupal
8 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.29%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.17%) Shopify
3 3 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 96 (28.15%) Azure
2 92 (26.98%) AWS
3 29 (8.50%) GCP
4 25 (7.33%) GitHub
5 24 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (6.16%) Serverless
7 13 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (3.81%) OpenShift
8 12 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (3.52%) Azure API Management
8 12 (3.52%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (3.52%) PaaS
9 11 (3.23%) Amazon S3
9 11 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (3.23%) Azure Stack
9 11 (3.23%) SaaS
10 10 (2.93%) npm
10 10 (2.93%) Power Platform
10 10 (2.93%) WhatsApp
11 9 (2.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.11%) HTTP
2 5 (1.47%) Firewall
2 5 (1.47%) SAN
2 5 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.88%) BGP
3 3 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (0.88%) IOS XR
3 3 (0.88%) WinSCP
4 2 (0.59%) Internet
5 1 (0.29%) DHCP
5 1 (0.29%) DNS
5 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.29%) MQTT
5 1 (0.29%) NAS
5 1 (0.29%) NFC
5 1 (0.29%) PPP
5 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 32 (9.38%) NoSQL
3 30 (8.80%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (5.28%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.23%) MySQL
5 11 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (2.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 9 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.47%) CockroachDB
9 5 (1.47%) Couchbase
9 5 (1.47%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.17%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.88%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.88%) Redis
11 3 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.59%) GIS
Development Applications
1 57 (16.72%) Git
2 54 (15.84%) Jenkins
3 44 (12.90%) JIRA
4 26 (7.62%) GitLab
5 25 (7.33%) Cucumber
5 25 (7.33%) Selenium
6 21 (6.16%) Maven
7 16 (4.69%) SonarQube
8 14 (4.11%) Visual Studio
9 13 (3.81%) JUnit
9 13 (3.81%) REST Assured
10 11 (3.23%) Postman
11 10 (2.93%) JMeter
12 8 (2.35%) webpack
13 7 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (2.05%) TeamCity
14 6 (1.76%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.76%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.76%) TestNG
14 6 (1.76%) TestRail
General
1 77 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.73%) Finance
3 31 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 27 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.81%) Banking
6 11 (3.23%) Law
7 10 (2.93%) Retail
8 9 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.05%) Front Office
9 7 (2.05%) Police
10 6 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.76%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.47%) Back Office
12 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.88%) Marketing
12 3 (0.88%) Publishing
13 2 (0.59%) German Language
13 2 (0.59%) Legal
13 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 177 (51.91%) Developer
2 50 (14.66%) Senior
3 44 (12.90%) Architect
4 43 (12.61%) Java Developer
5 27 (7.92%) Software Engineer
6 26 (7.62%) Full Stack Developer
6 26 (7.62%) Senior Developer
7 22 (6.45%) Java Engineer
8 15 (4.40%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 14 (4.11%) Java Software Engineer
10 13 (3.81%) Technical Architect
11 12 (3.52%) React Developer
11 12 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (3.23%) C# Developer
12 11 (3.23%) Data Architect
13 10 (2.93%) Applications Developer
13 10 (2.93%) Consultant
13 10 (2.93%) Python Developer
13 10 (2.93%) Senior Java Engineer
13 10 (2.93%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (19.65%) Spring
2 63 (18.48%) SOAP
3 60 (17.60%) Spring Boot
4 58 (17.01%) .NET
4 58 (17.01%) JSON
4 58 (17.01%) Web Services
5 54 (15.84%) CSS
6 51 (14.96%) HTML
7 44 (12.90%) React
8 43 (12.61%) Node.js
9 40 (11.73%) AngularJS
10 38 (11.14%) XML
11 35 (10.26%) GraphQL
12 25 (7.33%) OAuth
12 25 (7.33%) SAML
13 22 (6.45%) Kafka
14 20 (5.87%) Swagger
15 19 (5.57%) Spring Security
16 18 (5.28%) ASP.NET
17 16 (4.69%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.11%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 10 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.64%) Reference Data
5 8 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.35%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.76%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.47%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.47%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.47%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.47%) Web 2.0
9 4 (1.17%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.17%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.16%) Windows
2 20 (5.87%) Linux
3 13 (3.81%) Apple iOS
4 12 (3.52%) Android
5 6 (1.76%) Unix
5 6 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (38.42%) Agile
2 92 (26.98%) CI/CD
3 73 (21.41%) DevOps
4 70 (20.53%) Microservices
5 65 (19.06%) Software Engineering
6 59 (17.30%) Test Automation
7 43 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (10.85%) TDD
9 36 (10.56%) Design Patterns
10 34 (9.97%) Full Stack Development
11 33 (9.68%) OO
12 29 (8.50%) Continuous Integration
12 29 (8.50%) Front End Development
12 29 (8.50%) Scrum
13 27 (7.92%) Data Modelling
13 27 (7.92%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (7.62%) BDD
14 26 (7.62%) MVC
15 25 (7.33%) Web Development
16 24 (7.04%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (32.26%) Java
2 96 (28.15%) JavaScript
3 82 (24.05%) SQL
4 62 (18.18%) C#
5 49 (14.37%) Python
6 36 (10.56%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.69%) Go
8 10 (2.93%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.64%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.05%) C
11 6 (1.76%) ABAP
12 5 (1.47%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.47%) C++
12 5 (1.47%) PHP
12 5 (1.47%) Ruby
13 4 (1.17%) Bash
13 4 (1.17%) Swift
14 3 (0.88%) Bicep
14 3 (0.88%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.88%) Rust
Qualifications
1 58 (17.01%) Security Cleared
2 50 (14.66%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.21%) Degree
4 12 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.88%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.88%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.29%) CISSP
9 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.29%) ISEB
9 1 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.80%) QA
2 13 (3.81%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.52%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.88%) GDPR
4 3 (0.88%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.88%) WCAG
5 2 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.59%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 64 (18.77%) Docker
2 11 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.05%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.88%) vCloud
5 3 (0.88%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.29%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 48 (14.08%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.56%) Terraform
3 28 (8.21%) Ansible
4 15 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (3.23%) Grafana
6 8 (2.35%) Docker Swarm
6 8 (2.35%) Podman
7 6 (1.76%) Kibana
8 5 (1.47%) CloudHub
8 5 (1.47%) PingFederate
9 4 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.17%) Puppet
10 3 (0.88%) Autotask
10 3 (0.88%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.59%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.59%) Packer
12 1 (0.29%) Control-M
12 1 (0.29%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 1 (0.29%) logstash
12 1 (0.29%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 37 (10.85%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.33%) Google
3 21 (6.16%) Oracle
3 21 (6.16%) Salesforce
4 19 (5.57%) SAP
5 14 (4.11%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.52%) MuleSoft
7 10 (2.93%) Atlassian
8 8 (2.35%) Pega
9 7 (2.05%) VMware
10 6 (1.76%) Ping Identity
10 6 (1.76%) TOWER Software
11 5 (1.47%) BMC
11 5 (1.47%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.47%) IBM
11 5 (1.47%) Splunk
12 4 (1.17%) Genesys
13 3 (0.88%) Cisco
13 3 (0.88%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.88%) Sitecore