The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited REST over the 3 months to 20 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 94 80 98
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +18
Permanent jobs citing REST 29 35 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 1.673% 1.986% 0.790%
As % of the Application Development category 3.040% 4.861% 1.835%
Number of salaries quoted 28 22 13
Average salary £35,000 £30,500 £47,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.75% -35.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,350 £41,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,250 £32,500 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -
All Application Development
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
954 720 763
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 55.05% 40.86% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 880 672 680
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
REST
South West

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol REST Jobs Demand Trend

REST
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing REST across the Bristol region.

Bristol REST Salary Trend

REST
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing REST across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Bristol REST Salary Histogram

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 IT job ads sampled that cited REST.

1 40 (80.00%) Java
2 38 (76.00%) XML
3 33 (66.00%) Web Services
4 29 (58.00%) SOAP
5 25 (50.00%) JSON
6 24 (48.00%) SQL Server
7 22 (44.00%) Android
8 19 (38.00%) MySQL
8 19 (38.00%) SQL
9 18 (36.00%) JavaScript
9 18 (36.00%) Oracle
9 18 (36.00%) Eclipse
10 17 (34.00%) Scrum
10 17 (34.00%) HTML
11 16 (32.00%) C#
11 16 (32.00%) Subversion
12 14 (28.00%) CSS
13 12 (24.00%) Oracle 8/8i
13 12 (24.00%) Agile Software Development
13 12 (24.00%) Mobile App
14 11 (22.00%) Web Development
14 11 (22.00%) J2EE
15 10 (20.00%) JUnit
15 10 (20.00%) Windows
15 10 (20.00%) Spring
16 9 (18.00%) Content Management
16 9 (18.00%) .NET
17 8 (16.00%) Visual Studio
17 8 (16.00%) OO
17 8 (16.00%) Unit Testing

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 IT job ads sampled that cited REST. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 38 (76.00%) XML
2 33 (66.00%) Web Services
3 29 (58.00%) SOAP
4 25 (50.00%) JSON
5 17 (34.00%) HTML
6 14 (28.00%) CSS
7 11 (22.00%) J2EE
8 10 (20.00%) Spring
9 9 (18.00%) .NET
10 6 (12.00%) Struts
11 5 (10.00%) XSD
12 4 (8.000%) J2ME
12 4 (8.000%) Hibernate
12 4 (8.000%) Cocoa
12 4 (8.000%) EJB
13 3 (6.000%) Ajax
13 3 (6.000%) jQuery
14 2 (4.000%) ASP.NET MVC
14 2 (4.000%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 2 (4.000%) Castle Windsor
Application Platforms
1 6 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.000%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.000%) Apache
3 1 (2.000%) CMS
3 1 (2.000%) ESB
3 1 (2.000%) Windows Azure
3 1 (2.000%) Google App Engine
3 1 (2.000%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) SSL
2 4 (8.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (48.00%) SQL Server
2 19 (38.00%) MySQL
3 12 (24.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 6 (12.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (8.000%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.000%) Pentaho
6 1 (2.000%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.000%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.000%) DB2
Development Applications
1 18 (36.00%) Eclipse
2 16 (32.00%) Subversion
3 10 (20.00%) JUnit
4 8 (16.00%) Visual Studio
5 4 (8.000%) JMeter
5 4 (8.000%) Maven
5 4 (8.000%) Hudson
6 2 (4.000%) MSTest
6 2 (4.000%) NUnit
7 1 (2.000%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (2.000%) Aerospace
1 1 (2.000%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (86.00%) Developer
2 18 (36.00%) Android Developer
3 10 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 8 (16.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 8 (16.00%) Software Developer
4 8 (16.00%) Senior Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Mobile Developer
7 4 (8.000%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 4 (8.000%) Web Developer
8 3 (6.000%) Java Web Developer
9 1 (2.000%) Applications Developer
9 1 (2.000%) Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Mobile App
2 6 (12.00%) Blackberry
3 4 (8.000%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.000%) Open Source
4 2 (4.000%) Social Network
4 2 (4.000%) Data Integration
5 1 (2.000%) iPhone
5 1 (2.000%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.000%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.000%) iPad
5 1 (2.000%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 22 (44.00%) Android
2 10 (20.00%) Windows
3 7 (14.00%) Linux
4 6 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (10.00%) Mac OS X
6 3 (6.000%) Windows Phone
7 2 (4.000%) Windows Phone 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) Scrum
2 12 (24.00%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (22.00%) Web Development
4 9 (18.00%) Content Management
5 8 (16.00%) Unit Testing
5 8 (16.00%) OO
6 7 (14.00%) Mobile Application Development
7 6 (12.00%) SIEM
8 5 (10.00%) TDD
8 5 (10.00%) SOA
8 5 (10.00%) ETL
9 4 (8.000%) High Availability
9 4 (8.000%) Web Application Development
10 3 (6.000%) E-Commerce
11 2 (4.000%) Dependency Injection
11 2 (4.000%) MVC
12 1 (2.000%) Logistics
12 1 (2.000%) Project Planning
12 1 (2.000%) Multithreading
12 1 (2.000%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 40 (80.00%) Java
2 19 (38.00%) SQL
3 18 (36.00%) JavaScript
4 16 (32.00%) C#
5 6 (12.00%) Bash shell
6 4 (8.000%) T-SQL
6 4 (8.000%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.000%) XPath
7 1 (2.000%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.000%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (36.00%) Oracle
2 6 (12.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (12.00%) F5
2 6 (12.00%) ArcSight
3 5 (10.00%) Google
4 4 (8.000%) Salesforce.com
4 4 (8.000%) Facebook
4 4 (8.000%) Twitter
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