The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited REST over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 84 109 -
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -
Contract jobs citing REST 29 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.537% 0.217% -
As % of the Application Development category 5.263% 0.907% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 0
Average daily rate £290 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £380 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.89% +26.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £33.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £32.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+17.82% -19.37%
All Application Development
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
551 551 452
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 29.20% 23.95% 25.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 329 240
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 21
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%
REST
England

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire REST Jobs Demand Trend

REST
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire REST Daily Rate Trend

REST
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing REST across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Yorkshire REST Daily Rate Histogram

REST
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
West Yorkshire +23 28 £290 -3.33%
South Yorkshire 0 1 £550 +144.44%
REST
England

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing REST 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 REST.

1 32 (82.05%) SOAP
2 23 (58.97%) Java
3 21 (53.85%) .NET
3 21 (53.85%) Oracle
4 20 (51.28%) JavaScript
4 20 (51.28%) Web Services
4 20 (51.28%) SOA
5 16 (41.03%) CSS
6 15 (38.46%) Git (software)
7 14 (35.90%) MongoDB
7 14 (35.90%) MySQL
7 14 (35.90%) HTTP
8 13 (33.33%) Scrum
8 13 (33.33%) Client/Server
8 13 (33.33%) Adobe
8 13 (33.33%) C#
8 13 (33.33%) HTML5
8 13 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
8 13 (33.33%) jQuery
8 13 (33.33%) TDD
8 13 (33.33%) Java EE
8 13 (33.33%) Adobe CQ
9 12 (30.77%) Route 53
9 12 (30.77%) Redis
9 12 (30.77%) Percona
9 12 (30.77%) Jenkins
9 12 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (30.77%) BDD
9 12 (30.77%) Hibernate
9 12 (30.77%) Spring

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing REST 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 REST. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (82.05%) SOAP
2 21 (53.85%) .NET
3 20 (51.28%) Web Services
4 16 (41.03%) CSS
5 13 (33.33%) HTML5
5 13 (33.33%) jQuery
5 13 (33.33%) Java EE
6 12 (30.77%) Hibernate
6 12 (30.77%) Spring
6 12 (30.77%) J2EE
6 12 (30.77%) XML
7 8 (20.51%) HTML
7 8 (20.51%) WCF
8 7 (17.95%) Silverlight
8 7 (17.95%) LAMP
8 7 (17.95%) CSS3
8 7 (17.95%) Node.js
8 7 (17.95%) Razor View Engine
9 5 (12.82%) ASP.NET
9 5 (12.82%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 13 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
1 13 (33.33%) Adobe CQ
2 12 (30.77%) Route 53
2 12 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 7 (17.95%) Apache Solr
3 7 (17.95%) nginx
3 7 (17.95%) Tomcat
3 7 (17.95%) Apache
4 5 (12.82%) ESB
5 2 (5.128%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (5.128%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.564%) IIS
6 1 (2.564%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.564%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (30.77%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.564%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.564%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.90%) HTTP
2 12 (30.77%) Internet
3 7 (17.95%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) MongoDB
1 14 (35.90%) MySQL
2 12 (30.77%) Redis
2 12 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.692%) SQLite
4 2 (5.128%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.564%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (38.46%) Git (software)
2 12 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 12 (30.77%) Maven
3 7 (17.95%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
4 2 (5.128%) JIRA
5 1 (2.564%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.564%) Xcode
General
1 7 (17.95%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.128%) Retail
3 1 (2.564%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (82.05%) Developer
2 14 (35.90%) Java Developer
3 10 (25.64%) .NET Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.692%) Technical Architect
6 3 (7.692%) C# Developer
6 3 (7.692%) iOS Developer
7 2 (5.128%) ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (2.564%) Web Developer
8 1 (2.564%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.564%) Systems Developer
8 1 (2.564%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (2.564%) Android Developer
8 1 (2.564%) Designer
8 1 (2.564%) Oracle Architect
8 1 (2.564%) CMS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (33.33%) Client/Server
2 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (10.26%) Computer Science
4 2 (5.128%) iPhone
4 2 (5.128%) iPad
4 2 (5.128%) Mathematics
5 1 (2.564%) Streaming Video
5 1 (2.564%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.08%) Linux
2 3 (7.692%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.128%) UNIX
3 2 (5.128%) Windows
4 1 (2.564%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) SOA
2 13 (33.33%) Scrum
2 13 (33.33%) TDD
3 12 (30.77%) BDD
3 12 (30.77%) Security Testing
3 12 (30.77%) MVC
4 7 (17.95%) Software Engineering
4 7 (17.95%) Kanban
4 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
4 7 (17.95%) Workflow
5 5 (12.82%) Unified Process
6 3 (7.692%) UML
6 3 (7.692%) RUP
6 3 (7.692%) Refactoring
6 3 (7.692%) Document Management
7 2 (5.128%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (5.128%) Change Management
7 2 (5.128%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (5.128%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (5.128%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) Java
2 20 (51.28%) JavaScript
3 13 (33.33%) C#
4 9 (23.08%) PHP
5 7 (17.95%) Ruby
5 7 (17.95%) Bash shell
5 7 (17.95%) C++
5 7 (17.95%) Perl
5 7 (17.95%) Python
6 4 (10.26%) SQL
7 2 (5.128%) XPath
8 1 (2.564%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 3 (7.692%) Degree
2 1 (2.564%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.128%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.128%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (5.128%) CA Wily
1 2 (5.128%) OpenView
2 1 (2.564%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (53.85%) Oracle
2 13 (33.33%) Adobe
3 12 (30.77%) Percona
3 12 (30.77%) hybris
4 2 (5.128%) VMware
4 2 (5.128%) HP
5 1 (2.564%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.564%) Perforce
5 1 (2.564%) FatWire
5 1 (2.564%) Omniture
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