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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 44 59 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Permanent jobs citing REST 3 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 1.042% 1.120% -
As % of the Application Development category 2.381% 2.062% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 0
Average salary £30,000 £50,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -
All Application Development
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
126 194 220
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 43.75% 54.34% 51.40%
Number of salaries quoted 93 121 162
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £61,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
REST
Hertfordshire

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford REST Salary Trend

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (77.78%) CSS
2 7 (77.78%) MVC
3 5 (55.56%) Web Development
3 5 (55.56%) Java
4 4 (44.44%) SOAP
4 4 (44.44%) Web Services
4 4 (44.44%) XML
4 4 (44.44%) Retail
4 4 (44.44%) Ajax
5 3 (33.33%) jQuery
5 3 (33.33%) N-Tier
5 3 (33.33%) Internet
5 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 3 (33.33%) OO
5 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (33.33%) C#
5 3 (33.33%) SQL
5 3 (33.33%) .NET
6 2 (22.22%) VBScript
6 2 (22.22%) VB.NET
6 2 (22.22%) DHTML
6 2 (22.22%) HTML
6 2 (22.22%) XHTML
6 2 (22.22%) ISO 9001
6 2 (22.22%) TickIT
6 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET 2.0
6 2 (22.22%) WinForms
6 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 7 (77.78%) CSS
2 4 (44.44%) SOAP
2 4 (44.44%) Web Services
2 4 (44.44%) XML
2 4 (44.44%) Ajax
3 3 (33.33%) jQuery
3 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (22.22%) DHTML
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) XHTML
4 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET 2.0
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
4 2 (22.22%) WinForms
5 1 (11.11%) Apache CXF
5 1 (11.11%) Smarty
5 1 (11.11%) HTML5
5 1 (11.11%) CSS3
5 1 (11.11%) RSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Ant
1 1 (11.11%) Subversion
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Git (software)
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Web Developer
3 2 (22.22%) .NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) PHP Developer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) N-Tier
2 1 (11.11%) W3C
2 1 (11.11%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) VMS
1 1 (11.11%) Fedora
1 1 (11.11%) CentOS
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) MVC
2 5 (55.56%) Web Development
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) OO
4 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (11.11%) Release Management
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) VBScript
4 2 (22.22%) VB.NET
5 1 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) Bash shell
5 1 (11.11%) Perl
5 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO 9001
1 2 (22.22%) TickIT
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat