REST Contracts in England

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 107 86
Rank change year-on-year -15 -21 -14
Contract jobs citing REST 697 1,176 2,092
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.89% 2.33% 2.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.35% 10.04% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 866 1,485
10th Percentile £375 £419 £413
25th Percentile £438 £485 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +13.30%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £670
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 18
10th Percentile £26.58 £43.00 £37.95
25th Percentile £58.75 £45.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £74.44 £53.87 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +8.28% +111.97%
75th Percentile £83.13 £65.75 £61.93
90th Percentile £85.00 £90.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £74.44 £53.87 £49.75
% change year-on-year +38.18% +8.28% +24.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,454 11,713 19,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.17% 23.17% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,302 8,672 14,430
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 138 214
10th Percentile £21.63 £28.73 £21.30
25th Percentile £40.31 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for REST in England

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for REST in England

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in England

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in England

REST
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in England

REST
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 REST within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +8 427 £533 -7.30% 131
South East -15 92 £550 +0.55% 46
North of England -10 71 £525 -1.18% 74
North West -16 51 £525 -4.55% 43
South West +11 48 £550 - 22
Yorkshire +14 20 £445 -15.24% 26
Midlands 0 19 £513 -5.09% 23
East of England +3 18 £475 -5.00% 31
West Midlands +12 13 £500 -18.37% 17
East Midlands +13 6 £577 +6.85% 6
North East +20 4 £480 -21.63% 5
REST
UK

REST
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 35 (5.02%) Confluence
2 29 (4.16%) Apache
3 18 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.58%) Site Server
6 10 (1.43%) Anypoint
6 10 (1.43%) CMS
7 9 (1.29%) Mule
8 8 (1.15%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.72%) IIS
9 5 (0.72%) Mule ESB
9 5 (0.72%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.43%) nginx
12 2 (0.29%) EPiServer
12 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.29%) JBoss
12 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.43%) Maximo
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.43%) Shopify
5 2 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 180 (25.82%) AWS
2 177 (25.39%) Azure
3 61 (8.75%) GitHub
4 56 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (7.03%) Serverless
6 44 (6.31%) GCP
7 33 (4.73%) SaaS
8 32 (4.59%) Amazon S3
9 27 (3.87%) Power Platform
10 26 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (3.73%) npm
10 26 (3.73%) Power Automate
11 24 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (3.30%) IaaS
13 22 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
13 22 (3.16%) PowerApps
14 21 (3.01%) PaaS
15 19 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.02%) HTTP
2 16 (2.30%) BGP
3 13 (1.87%) Ethernet VPN
3 13 (1.87%) MPLS
3 13 (1.87%) VPN
4 12 (1.72%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (0.86%) Firewall
5 6 (0.86%) SSH
5 6 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.72%) SAN
7 4 (0.57%) Internet
8 3 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.43%) DNS
8 3 (0.43%) IOS XR
9 2 (0.29%) Intranet
9 2 (0.29%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.29%) SMS
9 2 (0.29%) WinSCP
10 1 (0.14%) DHCP
10 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (15.06%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (10.76%) NoSQL
3 60 (8.61%) SQL Server
4 56 (8.03%) Relational Database
5 26 (3.73%) MongoDB
5 26 (3.73%) MySQL
6 16 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (2.01%) GIS
9 13 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (1.58%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.58%) Power BI
11 11 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (1.15%) Couchbase
12 8 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.15%) Redis
13 6 (0.86%) Big Data
13 6 (0.86%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 149 (21.38%) Git
2 109 (15.64%) Jenkins
3 104 (14.92%) JIRA
4 62 (8.90%) JUnit
5 59 (8.46%) Selenium
6 58 (8.32%) Cucumber
7 56 (8.03%) GitLab
8 34 (4.88%) SonarQube
9 32 (4.59%) REST Assured
10 27 (3.87%) Maven
11 24 (3.44%) webpack
12 22 (3.16%) Gradle
12 22 (3.16%) Postman
12 22 (3.16%) TeamCity
12 22 (3.16%) Visual Studio
13 18 (2.58%) TestRail
14 17 (2.44%) JMeter
15 14 (2.01%) CircleCI
15 14 (2.01%) Cypress.io
16 13 (1.87%) SpecFlow
General
1 157 (22.53%) Social Skills
2 102 (14.63%) Finance
3 94 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 38 (5.45%) Front Office
6 37 (5.31%) Banking
7 27 (3.87%) Law
8 15 (2.15%) Retail
9 13 (1.87%) Police
10 12 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.58%) Marketing
12 8 (1.15%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.72%) Back Office
14 5 (0.72%) German Language
14 5 (0.72%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 371 (53.23%) Developer
2 101 (14.49%) Java Developer
3 94 (13.49%) Senior
4 72 (10.33%) Architect
5 59 (8.46%) Full Stack Developer
6 47 (6.74%) Software Engineer
7 42 (6.03%) Senior Developer
8 38 (5.45%) Java Engineer
9 31 (4.45%) Angular Developer
10 30 (4.30%) Applications Developer
10 30 (4.30%) Lead
11 26 (3.73%) .NET Developer
12 25 (3.59%) Python Developer
13 23 (3.30%) C# Developer
13 23 (3.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 21 (3.01%) React Developer
14 21 (3.01%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 20 (2.87%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
16 18 (2.58%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (19.23%) Spring
2 113 (16.21%) React
3 110 (15.78%) CSS
3 110 (15.78%) JSON
3 110 (15.78%) Spring Boot
4 106 (15.21%) SOAP
5 105 (15.06%) .NET
6 103 (14.78%) HTML
7 92 (13.20%) AngularJS
8 85 (12.20%) Web Services
9 81 (11.62%) XML
10 64 (9.18%) Node.js
11 56 (8.03%) GraphQL
12 54 (7.75%) Hibernate
12 54 (7.75%) JPA
13 47 (6.74%) Kafka
14 37 (5.31%) HTML5
15 34 (4.88%) SAML
16 33 (4.73%) Swagger
17 30 (4.30%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.73%) Product Ownership
2 32 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (3.16%) Data Structures
3 22 (3.16%) Mobile App
4 18 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (2.15%) Public Cloud
6 14 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.87%) Reference Data
8 12 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 12 (1.72%) Fixed Income
8 12 (1.72%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.58%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.29%) Legacy Code
10 9 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.29%) Wiki
11 7 (1.00%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.00%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.00%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 37 (5.31%) Linux
2 28 (4.02%) Windows
3 24 (3.44%) Apple iOS
4 22 (3.16%) Android
5 17 (2.44%) Unix
6 5 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) AIX
7 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (41.89%) Agile
2 186 (26.69%) DevOps
3 180 (25.82%) CI/CD
4 147 (21.09%) Microservices
5 140 (20.09%) Software Engineering
6 127 (18.22%) Test Automation
7 112 (16.07%) Scrum
8 101 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
9 87 (12.48%) Front End Development
9 87 (12.48%) TDD
10 83 (11.91%) Continuous Integration
11 81 (11.62%) Design Patterns
12 80 (11.48%) Full Stack Development
13 79 (11.33%) Unit Testing
14 65 (9.33%) OO
15 56 (8.03%) Mentoring
16 54 (7.75%) BDD
17 50 (7.17%) Containerisation
18 49 (7.03%) MVC
19 44 (6.31%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 254 (36.44%) Java
2 189 (27.12%) JavaScript
3 156 (22.38%) SQL
4 137 (19.66%) Python
5 123 (17.65%) C#
6 103 (14.78%) TypeScript
7 45 (6.46%) PowerShell
8 27 (3.87%) Go
9 23 (3.30%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.15%) T-SQL
11 14 (2.01%) C++
11 14 (2.01%) PHP
12 13 (1.87%) Perl
13 11 (1.58%) Apex Code
13 11 (1.58%) C
13 11 (1.58%) Korn
13 11 (1.58%) Swift
14 10 (1.43%) Bash
15 9 (1.29%) Groovy
16 8 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 148 (21.23%) Security Cleared
2 124 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 74 (10.62%) Degree
4 32 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (4.45%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.00%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.57%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.57%) PMP
9 3 (0.43%) CISSP
9 3 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.29%) HND
11 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.14%) ISEB
11 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (7.89%) QA
2 25 (3.59%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.43%) WCAG
5 6 (0.86%) GDPR
6 5 (0.72%) ISO 20022
6 5 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.72%) SLA
7 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.43%) GRC
8 2 (0.29%) HL7
8 2 (0.29%) MiFID
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 127 (18.22%) Docker
2 21 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.57%) OpenAM
4 4 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.57%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.43%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) IAG
6 1 (0.14%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 116 (16.64%) Kubernetes
2 68 (9.76%) Terraform
3 63 (9.04%) Ansible
4 24 (3.44%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (2.15%) Podman
6 13 (1.87%) Grafana
7 12 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (1.00%) Kibana
9 6 (0.86%) PingFederate
10 5 (0.72%) CloudHub
10 5 (0.72%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.57%) Argo
11 4 (0.57%) Packer
12 3 (0.43%) Istio
12 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.29%) logstash
13 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.29%) Puppet
14 1 (0.14%) Forefront Identity Manager
14 1 (0.14%) rkt
Vendors
1 81 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.46%) Oracle
3 41 (5.88%) Google
4 40 (5.74%) Salesforce
5 33 (4.73%) SAP
6 22 (3.16%) MuleSoft
7 13 (1.87%) IBM
7 13 (1.87%) Splunk
8 12 (1.72%) ESRI
9 11 (1.58%) Atlassian
9 11 (1.58%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.58%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.29%) Pega
11 7 (1.00%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.86%) Adobe
12 6 (0.86%) Optimizely
12 6 (0.86%) Ping Identity
12 6 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (0.86%) WSO2
13 5 (0.72%) EMC