REST Contracts in Merseyside

Representational State Transfer (REST)
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 48 48
Rank change year-on-year +17 0 -9
Contract jobs citing REST 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.44% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 2.27% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £438 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £275
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +63.64% -
75th Percentile - £463 £288
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +12.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Merseyside

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 Merseyside 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 32 44 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 14.22% 13.41% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 34 34
10th Percentile £350 £345 £251
25th Percentile £356 £428 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.29% +22.00%
75th Percentile £510 £650 £544
90th Percentile £550 £675 £646
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +22.02%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Merseyside

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for REST in Merseyside

REST
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 3 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
Liverpool +10 1 £350 -22.22% 3
REST
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby