The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT jobs advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited REST over the 3 months to 17 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 North East region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 60 61 64
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +3
Permanent jobs citing REST 4 9 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 0.582% 1.027% 0.555%
As % of the Application Development category 1.498% 2.990% 1.311%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 4
Average salary £43,500 £62,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.40% +47.05%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -
All Application Development
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
267 301 305
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 38.86% 34.36% 42.30%
Number of salaries quoted 249 244 269
Average salary £33,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.71% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
REST
England

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 17 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
Tyne and Wear -11 3 £44,000 -29.60%
REST
England

REST
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SOAP
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Java EE
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (80.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) Struts
2 4 (80.00%) EJB
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) JSP
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) JSF
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) ICEfaces
3 1 (20.00%) Mockito

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 5 (100.00%) SOAP
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
1 5 (100.00%) Java EE
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 4 (80.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (80.00%) Struts
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) J2EE
2 4 (80.00%) EJB
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) ICEfaces
3 1 (20.00%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Workflow
1 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle