The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited REST over the 3 months to 24 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 103 117 114
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -3
Permanent jobs citing REST 20 11 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.112% 0.548% 0.303%
As % of the Application Development category 2.445% 1.042% 0.590%
Number of salaries quoted 20 10 2
Average salary £30,000 £30,000 £48,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -38.46%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,150 £29,750 £47,750
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £31,400 £49,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -
All Application Development
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
818 1056 847
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 45.47% 52.59% 51.30%
Number of salaries quoted 674 950 774
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
REST
North West

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire REST Salary Trend

REST
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing REST across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire REST Salary Histogram

REST
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Warrington +24 13 £30,000 -
Macclesfield - 3 £21,500 -
REST
North West

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 33 (94.29%) SOAP
2 23 (65.71%) JavaScript
2 23 (65.71%) .NET
3 22 (62.86%) Ajax
4 21 (60.00%) HTML
4 21 (60.00%) CSS
5 20 (57.14%) C#
5 20 (57.14%) XML
6 19 (54.29%) ASP.NET
6 19 (54.29%) Web Services
7 18 (51.43%) SQL
8 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
8 14 (40.00%) TDD
9 13 (37.14%) Agile Software Development
10 12 (34.29%) Spring
10 12 (34.29%) Java
11 10 (28.57%) T-SQL
11 10 (28.57%) JUnit
11 10 (28.57%) XML-RPC
11 10 (28.57%) JIRA
11 10 (28.57%) Maven
12 9 (25.71%) jQuery
12 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (25.71%) MVC
12 9 (25.71%) MS Excel
13 8 (22.86%) PHP
13 8 (22.86%) Ant
14 7 (20.00%) MySQL
14 7 (20.00%) Finance
14 7 (20.00%) WCF

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 33 (94.29%) SOAP
2 23 (65.71%) .NET
3 22 (62.86%) Ajax
4 21 (60.00%) HTML
4 21 (60.00%) CSS
5 20 (57.14%) XML
6 19 (54.29%) ASP.NET
6 19 (54.29%) Web Services
7 12 (34.29%) Spring
8 10 (28.57%) XML-RPC
9 9 (25.71%) jQuery
10 7 (20.00%) WCF
11 6 (17.14%) Dojo
11 6 (17.14%) Apache Axis
11 6 (17.14%) GWT
11 6 (17.14%) JSTL
11 6 (17.14%) Java EE
11 6 (17.14%) Hibernate
11 6 (17.14%) Flash
11 6 (17.14%) JAXB
Application Platforms
1 6 (17.14%) Jetty
1 6 (17.14%) Apache
1 6 (17.14%) Tomcat
2 4 (11.43%) WebLogic
3 3 (8.571%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.714%) MSMQ
Applications
1 9 (25.71%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (8.571%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.857%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) MySQL
2 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.43%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (11.43%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) JUnit
1 10 (28.57%) JIRA
1 10 (28.57%) Maven
2 8 (22.86%) Ant
3 6 (17.14%) Subversion
3 6 (17.14%) Log4j
4 4 (11.43%) Git (software)
4 4 (11.43%) Mockito
4 4 (11.43%) Eclipse
5 3 (8.571%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (11.43%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (8.571%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 26 (74.29%) Developer
2 19 (54.29%) .NET Developer
3 10 (28.57%) Software Developer
4 9 (25.71%) .NET Software Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Team Leader
5 6 (17.14%) Java Developer
6 3 (8.571%) Consultant
6 3 (8.571%) Microsoft Consultant
6 3 (8.571%) .NET Consultant
7 2 (5.714%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (5.714%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (5.714%) Java Web Developer
7 2 (5.714%) .NET Architect
7 2 (5.714%) Graduate Developer
7 2 (5.714%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.714%) Development Team Leader
7 2 (5.714%) Architect
7 2 (5.714%) Web Developer
7 2 (5.714%) Graduate
8 1 (2.857%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Life Science
1 4 (11.43%) LIMS
2 2 (5.714%) Open Source
3 1 (2.857%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) UNIX
1 6 (17.14%) Solaris
2 5 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (5.714%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) TDD
2 13 (37.14%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (25.71%) MVC
4 6 (17.14%) Performance Testing
4 6 (17.14%) High Availability
4 6 (17.14%) RAD
5 5 (14.29%) Scrum
6 4 (11.43%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (11.43%) Unit Testing
6 4 (11.43%) Workflow
7 3 (8.571%) CRM
7 3 (8.571%) E-Commerce
7 3 (8.571%) Software Engineering
7 3 (8.571%) Business Analysis
8 2 (5.714%) Web Development
8 2 (5.714%) Migration
8 2 (5.714%) SOA
8 2 (5.714%) OO
9 1 (2.857%) OOD
9 1 (2.857%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 23 (65.71%) JavaScript
2 20 (57.14%) C#
3 18 (51.43%) SQL
4 12 (34.29%) Java
5 10 (28.57%) T-SQL
6 8 (22.86%) PHP
7 2 (5.714%) PHP5
7 2 (5.714%) VB.NET
7 2 (5.714%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.714%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.857%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Zend
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle
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Web Service Developer, C# .NET SQL - Macclesfield £30K. A steadily growing and successful financial organisation requires a Web Service Developer to join a passionate team and assist in...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Chester, North West
They have landed a project to re-develop the websites and customer facing systems for a major aggregator, as such need an experience ASP.Net developer to join...
Computer Futures
Salary: £37000 - £44000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Warrington, North West
Create and manage scalable API libraries *Well-versed in, but not limited to: C#, Javascript, HTML, CSS, REST, XML, .NET, JQuery, SQL-Server, MySQL *Familiarity with native mobile...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Macclesfield, North West
Our client, a steadily growing and successful financial organisation based in Macclesfield, Cheshire currently requires a Graduate .NET Developer. You will join a passionate team and assist in...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £23000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Macclesfield, Cheshire
The role would suit a candidate with a .NET and SQL background. The successful candidate will have had some working experience as a developer, perhaps as part of...
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Salary: £20000 - £23000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013