The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 81 64 -
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -
Permanent jobs citing REST 2 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.196% 0.154% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.477% 0.353% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £42,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -
All Application Development
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
419 283 438
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 40.96% 43.61% 55.65%
Number of salaries quoted 364 252 423
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
REST
Oxfordshire

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford REST Salary Trend

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 (75.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Sinatra
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (50.00%) Statistics
2 2 (50.00%) Web Development
2 2 (50.00%) Django
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Music
3 1 (25.00%) NHibernate
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) N-Tier

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 (75.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Sinatra
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (50.00%) Django
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) NHibernate
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (25.00%) Music
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (25.00%) QA Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (25.00%) Handset
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA