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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JAX-RS 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.43% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.95% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £402 - -
90th Percentile £581 - -
England median daily rate £613 £638 £450
% change year-on-year -3.92% +41.67% -35.71%

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 614 405 524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 21.95% 19.63% 18.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 288 402
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £394 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £554 £582
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 4 28
10th Percentile £52.50 - £43.40
25th Percentile £53.75 £65.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.13 £67.75 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +46.71% +2.99%
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.38 £72.03
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.25 £79.43
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

JAX-RS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JAX-RS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

JAX-RS job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JAX-RS in the North West over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JAX-RS in the North West

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 27 February 2026. 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 - 8 £700 - 3
Cheshire - 4 £358 -
JAX-RS
England

JAX-RS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Apigee
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) HTTP
1 4 (33.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Mockito
2 4 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
1 12 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Apigee Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) ActiveMQ
1 8 (66.67%) Kafka
2 5 (41.67%) Spring
2 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
3 4 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 4 (33.33%) JSON
3 4 (33.33%) JWT
3 4 (33.33%) OAuth
3 4 (33.33%) OAuth2
3 4 (33.33%) RESTful
3 4 (33.33%) XML
4 1 (8.33%) Spring Batch
4 1 (8.33%) Spring Security
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Unix
3 5 (41.67%) Mac OS X
4 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Microservices
2 8 (66.67%) BDD
2 8 (66.67%) TDD
3 7 (58.33%) Agile
3 7 (58.33%) Pair Programming
3 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
4 6 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (41.67%) Responsive Web Design
5 5 (41.67%) Web Design
5 5 (41.67%) Web Development
6 4 (33.33%) API Design
6 4 (33.33%) API Testing
6 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
7 2 (16.67%) API Development
8 1 (8.33%) API Integration
8 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
8 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat