REST Contracts in the North of England

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 110 99
Rank change year-on-year -12 -11 -8
Contract jobs citing REST 68 117 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.44% 2.01% 2.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.62% 10.41% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 93 136
10th Percentile £344 £414 £394
25th Percentile £401 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £565
90th Percentile £598 £609 £656
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £42.24
25th Percentile - - £43.72
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £47.38
Median % change year-on-year - -5.01% +101.85%
75th Percentile - - £49.16
90th Percentile - - £49.51
England median hourly rate £74.44 £55.69 £55.00
% change year-on-year +33.68% +1.25% +49.72%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of 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 892 1,124 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.95% 19.36% 22.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 879 1,230
10th Percentile £350 £369 £363
25th Percentile £425 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £598 £597 £575
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -2.22% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 26
10th Percentile £13.87 £43.56 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +47.06% +25.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +8.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for REST in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
North West -6 50 £525 -4.55% 39
Yorkshire +12 18 £445 -15.24% 23
North East +17 4 £480 -21.63% 7
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (5.88%) Mule
2 3 (4.41%) IIS
3 1 (1.47%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.94%) AWS
2 13 (19.12%) Azure
3 6 (8.82%) Azure Stack
3 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (5.88%) Serverless
5 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.41%) GCP
5 3 (4.41%) GitHub
5 3 (4.41%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.41%) SaaS
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.47%) Figma
7 1 (1.47%) IaaS
7 1 (1.47%) Miro
7 1 (1.47%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.06%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (20.59%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (8.82%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.94%) MySQL
4 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (26.47%) Git
2 15 (22.06%) JUnit
3 11 (16.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.88%) Liquibase
4 4 (5.88%) Log4j
5 3 (4.41%) JIRA
6 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.94%) GitLab
6 2 (2.94%) Gradle
6 2 (2.94%) Selenium
6 2 (2.94%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.47%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.47%) CocoaPods
7 1 (1.47%) Mockito
7 1 (1.47%) Postman
7 1 (1.47%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.47%) Xcode
General
1 16 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 11 (16.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.82%) Finance
4 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (61.76%) Developer
2 27 (39.71%) Java Developer
3 11 (16.18%) Architect
4 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 6 (8.82%) Data Architect
5 6 (8.82%) Lead
6 5 (7.35%) Lead Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Automation Tester
7 4 (5.88%) AWS Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Junior
7 4 (5.88%) Junior Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Junior Java Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Lead Java Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Pega Architect
7 4 (5.88%) Tester
8 3 (4.41%) Full Stack Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Pega Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Senior
9 2 (2.94%) Data Scientist
9 2 (2.94%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (36.76%) Hibernate
2 24 (35.29%) Spring
3 23 (33.82%) Spring Boot
4 20 (29.41%) JPA
5 16 (23.53%) React
6 15 (22.06%) JSON
7 8 (11.76%) Spring Security
8 7 (10.29%) HTML
9 6 (8.82%) .NET
9 6 (8.82%) SOAP
9 6 (8.82%) XML
10 5 (7.35%) .NET Framework
10 5 (7.35%) CSS
10 5 (7.35%) GraphQL
10 5 (7.35%) Kafka
11 4 (5.88%) Node.js
11 4 (5.88%) Web Services
12 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
12 3 (4.41%) HTML5
12 3 (4.41%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.82%) Data Structures
2 6 (8.82%) Reference Data
3 5 (7.35%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.88%) Low-Code
5 3 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (64.71%) Agile
2 28 (41.18%) Microservices
3 25 (36.76%) DevOps
4 22 (32.35%) CI/CD
5 20 (29.41%) Front End Development
6 18 (26.47%) Scrum
7 17 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 17 (25.00%) Unit Testing
8 12 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 12 (17.65%) High Availability
9 8 (11.76%) Data Mapping
9 8 (11.76%) Event-Driven
9 8 (11.76%) Observability
10 7 (10.29%) Data Architecture
10 7 (10.29%) Data Modelling
10 7 (10.29%) Full Stack Development
10 7 (10.29%) OO
11 6 (8.82%) Data Lineage
11 6 (8.82%) Data Strategy
11 6 (8.82%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 35 (51.47%) Java
2 15 (22.06%) TypeScript
3 10 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 9 (13.24%) Python
5 8 (11.76%) C#
6 5 (7.35%) Bash
6 5 (7.35%) Perl
6 5 (7.35%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.35%) SQL
7 2 (2.94%) C++
8 1 (1.47%) C
8 1 (1.47%) PHP
8 1 (1.47%) Ruby
8 1 (1.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 25 (36.76%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.35%) QA
System Software
1 14 (20.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.82%) Ansible
3 3 (4.41%) Terraform
4 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (10.29%) Pega
2 6 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.35%) EMC
4 3 (4.41%) IBM
4 3 (4.41%) Nintex
4 3 (4.41%) SAP
5 1 (1.47%) Confluent
5 1 (1.47%) Google
5 1 (1.47%) New Relic
5 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud