JAX-RS Contracts in England

Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JAX-RS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JAX-RS over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 523 604
Rank change year-on-year +45 +81 +99
Contract jobs citing JAX-RS 8 36 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.096% 0.062%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.46% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 29 22
10th Percentile £456 £300 £525
25th Percentile £458 £363 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £508 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.37% -27.50% +12.00%
75th Percentile £473 £750 -
90th Percentile £477 - £745
UK median daily rate £465 £529 £700
% change year-on-year -12.06% -24.46% +19.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

JAX-RS falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,678 7,900 10,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.61% 21.10% 22.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,947 5,517 7,901
10th Percentile £358 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £514 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.37% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 263 134
10th Percentile £31.78 £22.96 £32.03
25th Percentile £49.06 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £58.88 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -13.46% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.49 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +28.40%

JAX-RS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JAX-RS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JAX-RS in England

JAX-RS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JAX-RS in England.

Daily rate trend for JAX-RS in England

JAX-RS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JAX-RS in England.

Hourly rate trend for JAX-RS in England

JAX-RS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JAX-RS within the England region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +23 6 £465 -2.87% 2
North East - 4 £465 -
London +22 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +7 1 - -
North West +3 1 £465 -8.37% 2
JAX-RS
UK

JAX-RS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Kong
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) MongoDB
2 6 (75.00%) MySQL
2 6 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Artifactory
1 6 (75.00%) Git
1 6 (75.00%) GitLab
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (75.00%) Maven
1 6 (75.00%) SonarQube
1 6 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (62.50%) gulp
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Mockito
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Apache CXF
1 6 (75.00%) Dropwizard
1 6 (75.00%) Kafka
1 6 (75.00%) Node.js
1 6 (75.00%) Spring
1 6 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
2 5 (62.50%) Express.js
2 5 (62.50%) Hibernate
2 5 (62.50%) MEAN Stack
2 5 (62.50%) MERN Stack
2 5 (62.50%) Mongoose
2 5 (62.50%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (62.50%) React
2 5 (62.50%) Sequelize
3 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (12.50%) JAX-WS
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven
2 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (62.50%) Open Source
2 5 (62.50%) Operational Stability
3 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) API Integration
5 1 (12.50%) BDD
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Iteration Planning
5 1 (12.50%) OWASP
5 1 (12.50%) Process Management
5 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) TDD
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Pega