JAX-RS Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring JAX-RS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 119 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing JAX-RS 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.19% 0.042% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 0.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £458 £504 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £508 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.37% - -
75th Percentile £473 £511 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 £725 £650
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -7.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 462 366 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 21.46% 15.48% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 241 448
10th Percentile £313 £350 £363
25th Percentile £368 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £500 £577 £625
90th Percentile £614 £800 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 28
10th Percentile £27.20 £40.07 £45.88
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £51.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.50 £53.44
90th Percentile £83.13 £73.30 £67.63
England median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.63% +4.88% -4.13%

JAX-RS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for JAX-RS in the North West

JAX-RS
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing JAX-RS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing JAX-RS

JAX-RS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Manchester +4 4 £465 -8.37% 1
JAX-RS
England

JAX-RS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Mockito
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) gulp
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Batch
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Security
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) Apache CXF
3 1 (25.00%) Dropwizard
3 1 (25.00%) Express.js
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) MEAN Stack
3 1 (25.00%) MERN Stack
3 1 (25.00%) Mongoose
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) Sequelize
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat