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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 113 88
Rank change year-on-year -7 -25 -14
Contract jobs citing REST 692 1,123 2,101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.89% 2.28% 2.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.27% 9.92% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 822 1,489
10th Percentile £375 £421 £413
25th Percentile £438 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +12.75%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £768 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -5.65% -5.30% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 31
10th Percentile £26.58 £44.00 £46.19
25th Percentile £58.75 £51.94 £49.75
Median hourly rate £74.44 £57.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year +29.46% -9.59% +27.20%
75th Percentile £83.13 £77.88 £75.39
90th Percentile £85.00 £90.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £74.44 £56.25 £62.88
% change year-on-year +32.34% -10.54% +39.72%

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 7,463 11,324 19,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.42% 23.02% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 8,397 14,309
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 139 213
10th Percentile £22.12 £29.15 £23.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.02 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +2 420 £525 -8.70% 131
South East -27 90 £550 - 45
North of England -17 67 £525 -4.55% 56
South West +12 56 £533 -3.09% 21
North West -9 49 £525 -4.55% 30
Yorkshire +12 18 £445 -15.24% 21
Midlands +7 18 £500 -7.41% 18
East of England -6 17 £450 -10.00% 23
West Midlands +2 12 £488 -18.75% 11
East Midlands +19 6 £577 +6.85% 7
North East +13 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 32 (4.62%) Apache
1 32 (4.62%) Confluence
2 17 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.45%) Anypoint
4 10 (1.45%) CMS
5 9 (1.30%) Mule
6 8 (1.16%) Site Server
7 6 (0.87%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.72%) IIS
8 5 (0.72%) Mule ESB
9 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.58%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.43%) nginx
11 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.29%) JBoss
11 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.43%) Maximo
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.43%) Shopify
5 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
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 HCM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 184 (26.59%) Azure
2 174 (25.14%) AWS
3 62 (8.96%) GitHub
4 55 (7.95%) GCP
5 53 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (6.21%) Serverless
7 30 (4.34%) SaaS
8 28 (4.05%) Amazon S3
8 28 (4.05%) Power Platform
9 24 (3.47%) npm
9 24 (3.47%) Power Automate
10 23 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (3.32%) OpenShift
11 22 (3.18%) PowerApps
12 21 (3.03%) IaaS
12 21 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
13 19 (2.75%) PaaS
14 18 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.62%) HTTP
2 15 (2.17%) BGP
3 12 (1.73%) Ethernet VPN
3 12 (1.73%) MPLS
3 12 (1.73%) VPN
4 11 (1.59%) Radio Access Network
5 8 (1.16%) SSH
6 6 (0.87%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.72%) SAN
8 4 (0.58%) Firewall
9 3 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (0.43%) DNS
9 3 (0.43%) Internet
9 3 (0.43%) IOS XR
9 3 (0.43%) VoIP
10 2 (0.29%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.29%) SMS
11 1 (0.14%) DHCP
11 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (14.45%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (10.26%) NoSQL
3 55 (7.95%) SQL Server
4 51 (7.37%) Relational Database
5 23 (3.32%) MongoDB
5 23 (3.32%) MySQL
6 15 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
9 11 (1.59%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.59%) GIS
9 11 (1.59%) Power BI
9 11 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.01%) Couchbase
11 7 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.87%) Triplestore
13 5 (0.72%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 151 (21.82%) Git
2 105 (15.17%) Jenkins
3 102 (14.74%) JIRA
4 60 (8.67%) Selenium
5 59 (8.53%) JUnit
6 58 (8.38%) GitLab
7 56 (8.09%) Cucumber
8 34 (4.91%) SonarQube
9 33 (4.77%) Maven
10 31 (4.48%) REST Assured
11 22 (3.18%) Gradle
11 22 (3.18%) Postman
12 21 (3.03%) webpack
13 20 (2.89%) TeamCity
13 20 (2.89%) Visual Studio
14 18 (2.60%) JMeter
15 16 (2.31%) TestRail
16 14 (2.02%) Bitbucket
16 14 (2.02%) CircleCI
16 14 (2.02%) Cypress.io
General
1 153 (22.11%) Social Skills
2 99 (14.31%) Finance
3 93 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 39 (5.64%) Front Office
6 33 (4.77%) Banking
7 25 (3.61%) Law
8 15 (2.17%) Retail
9 13 (1.88%) Police
10 12 (1.73%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.45%) Marketing
12 9 (1.30%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.01%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.72%) Back Office
15 4 (0.58%) Aviation
15 4 (0.58%) Games
15 4 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 373 (53.90%) Developer
2 108 (15.61%) Java Developer
3 87 (12.57%) Senior
4 69 (9.97%) Architect
5 55 (7.95%) Full Stack Developer
6 45 (6.50%) Software Engineer
7 42 (6.07%) Java Engineer
8 37 (5.35%) Senior Developer
9 30 (4.34%) Angular Developer
10 29 (4.19%) Applications Developer
11 27 (3.90%) Lead
12 23 (3.32%) Python Developer
13 22 (3.18%) .NET Developer
13 22 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (3.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 22 (3.18%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 21 (3.03%) C# Developer
15 20 (2.89%) Senior Software Engineer
15 20 (2.89%) UI Developer
16 18 (2.60%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (20.09%) Spring
2 118 (17.05%) CSS
3 117 (16.91%) React
4 116 (16.76%) JSON
5 112 (16.18%) Spring Boot
6 106 (15.32%) SOAP
7 105 (15.17%) HTML
8 100 (14.45%) .NET
9 92 (13.29%) AngularJS
10 85 (12.28%) Web Services
11 83 (11.99%) XML
12 58 (8.38%) Node.js
13 55 (7.95%) GraphQL
14 53 (7.66%) Hibernate
14 53 (7.66%) JPA
15 45 (6.50%) Kafka
16 37 (5.35%) SAML
17 35 (5.06%) Swagger
18 31 (4.48%) HTML5
19 30 (4.34%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.62%) Product Ownership
2 29 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (3.61%) Data Structures
4 20 (2.89%) Linux Command Line
5 18 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (2.60%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.31%) Public Cloud
7 15 (2.17%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.88%) Fixed Income
9 13 (1.88%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.88%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.30%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.30%) Legacy Code
11 8 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.01%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.01%) Wiki
13 6 (0.87%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.87%) IoT
13 6 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.65%) Linux
2 28 (4.05%) Windows
3 22 (3.18%) Apple iOS
4 20 (2.89%) Android
5 17 (2.46%) Unix
6 5 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) AIX
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (40.75%) Agile
2 181 (26.16%) CI/CD
2 181 (26.16%) DevOps
3 136 (19.65%) Microservices
4 131 (18.93%) Software Engineering
5 130 (18.79%) Test Automation
6 106 (15.32%) Scrum
7 98 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (13.73%) TDD
9 81 (11.71%) Continuous Integration
9 81 (11.71%) Front End Development
10 79 (11.42%) Unit Testing
11 78 (11.27%) Design Patterns
12 73 (10.55%) Full Stack Development
13 66 (9.54%) OO
14 56 (8.09%) BDD
15 55 (7.95%) Containerisation
15 55 (7.95%) Mentoring
16 45 (6.50%) MVC
16 45 (6.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 260 (37.57%) Java
2 193 (27.89%) JavaScript
3 156 (22.54%) SQL
4 134 (19.36%) Python
5 113 (16.33%) C#
6 105 (15.17%) TypeScript
7 41 (5.92%) PowerShell
8 31 (4.48%) Go
9 25 (3.61%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.17%) C++
11 13 (1.88%) Apex Code
11 13 (1.88%) C
11 13 (1.88%) Perl
11 13 (1.88%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.59%) Groovy
12 11 (1.59%) Swift
13 10 (1.45%) Bash
14 9 (1.30%) PHP
15 8 (1.16%) Korn
15 8 (1.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 154 (22.25%) Security Cleared
2 131 (18.93%) SC Cleared
3 76 (10.98%) Degree
4 30 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (4.34%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.58%) CISSP
8 4 (0.58%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.58%) PMP
9 3 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.29%) HND
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 53 (7.66%) QA
2 25 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.45%) WCAG
5 6 (0.87%) GDPR
5 6 (0.87%) ISO 20022
5 6 (0.87%) 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 15022
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 132 (19.08%) Docker
2 23 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.58%) OpenAM
5 4 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.43%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) IAG
7 1 (0.14%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 120 (17.34%) Kubernetes
2 68 (9.83%) Terraform
3 64 (9.25%) Ansible
4 29 (4.19%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (2.46%) Podman
6 15 (2.17%) Grafana
7 12 (1.73%) Docker Swarm
8 8 (1.16%) Kibana
9 7 (1.01%) PingFederate
10 5 (0.72%) CloudHub
11 4 (0.58%) Argo
11 4 (0.58%) Packer
11 4 (0.58%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.43%) Istio
12 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.29%) logstash
13 2 (0.29%) Puppet
14 1 (0.14%) Forefront Identity Manager
14 1 (0.14%) rkt
Vendors
1 79 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.94%) Google
3 43 (6.21%) Salesforce
4 42 (6.07%) Oracle
5 35 (5.06%) SAP
6 23 (3.32%) MuleSoft
7 15 (2.17%) Splunk
8 12 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.59%) Atlassian
9 11 (1.59%) IBM
9 11 (1.59%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.30%) ESRI
10 9 (1.30%) Pega
11 8 (1.16%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.87%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.87%) Ping Identity
12 6 (0.87%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (0.87%) WSO2
13 5 (0.72%) Dell
13 5 (0.72%) VMware