The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited REST over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 61 79 62
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -17
Permanent jobs citing REST 3 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.619% 0.595% 0.830%
As % of the Application Development category 1.255% 1.149% 1.905%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 4
Average salary £55,000 £35,000 £37,050
Average salary % change year-on-year
+57.14% -5.53%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -5.55%
All Application Development
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
239 348 210
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 49.28% 51.79% 43.57%
Number of salaries quoted 216 325 164
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £47,200
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
REST
North West

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside REST Salary Trend

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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Liverpool +3 3 £55,000 +57.14%
REST
North West

REST
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) UML
1 3 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
General
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) UML
1 3 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle