The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT jobs advertised for the Preston 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 Preston region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing REST 3 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 2.479% - -
As % of the Application Development category 4.167% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Average salary £55,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -
All Application Development
Preston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
72 72 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 59.50% 58.54% 41.30%
Number of salaries quoted 68 72 19
Average salary £33,250 £31,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,761 £27,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
REST
Lancashire

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston REST Salary Trend

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (75.00%) OOD
2 3 (75.00%) UML
2 3 (75.00%) OOA/OOD
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (75.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (75.00%) Retail
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) soapUI
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) WATIR
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) FitNesse
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Java

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) soapUI
3 1 (25.00%) XML
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) WATIR
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) FitNesse
General
1 3 (75.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 3 (75.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Architect
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Architect
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Test Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) OOD
1 3 (75.00%) UML
1 3 (75.00%) OOA/OOD
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle