REST Contracts in the North West

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 79 74
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing REST 49 84 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.83% 2.69% 3.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.82% 14.36% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 69 86
10th Percentile £355 £424 £406
25th Percentile £415 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +12.90%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £598 £628 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +14.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - £49.95
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £81.00
England median hourly rate £74.44 £57.50 £63.60
% change year-on-year +29.46% -9.59% +27.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West 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 499 585 982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.63% 18.71% 24.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 457 722
10th Percentile £363 £338 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +24.24%
75th Percentile £599 £575 £588
90th Percentile £750 £644 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 35
10th Percentile £37.63 £37.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.76 £29.63
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.55 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.45% -32.43% +76.47%
75th Percentile £72.03 £43.35 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.15 £43.37 £79.60
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +9.89%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for REST in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in the North West

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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 REST within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +7 33 £525 +5.00% 25
Cheshire -13 10 £393 -28.55% 2
Cumbria - 3 £525 -
Lancashire +6 2 - - 1
Merseyside +18 1 £350 -22.22% 3
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England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.16%) Mule
2 3 (6.12%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.69%) AWS
2 11 (22.45%) Azure
3 6 (12.24%) Azure Stack
3 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.12%) Power Automate
4 3 (6.12%) Serverless
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Functions
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.08%) SaaS
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.04%) BigCommerce
6 1 (2.04%) Figma
6 1 (2.04%) GCP
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (16.33%) Relational Database
3 6 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (12.24%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.08%) MySQL
4 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Git
1 10 (20.41%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.29%) JUnit
3 4 (8.16%) Liquibase
3 4 (8.16%) Log4j
4 2 (4.08%) JIRA
4 2 (4.08%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.04%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.04%) GitLab
5 1 (2.04%) Gradle
5 1 (2.04%) Postman
5 1 (2.04%) Selenium
General
1 10 (20.41%) Public Sector
2 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Finance
Job Titles
1 33 (67.35%) Developer
2 20 (40.82%) Java Developer
3 10 (20.41%) Architect
4 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Data Architect
6 4 (8.16%) AWS Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Lead
6 4 (8.16%) Pega Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Lead Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Pega Developer
8 2 (4.08%) C++ Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Data Scientist
8 2 (4.08%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Junior
8 2 (4.08%) Junior Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Junior Java Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (36.73%) Hibernate
2 17 (34.69%) Spring
3 15 (30.61%) Spring Boot
4 14 (28.57%) JPA
5 11 (22.45%) JSON
6 10 (20.41%) React
7 8 (16.33%) Spring Security
8 6 (12.24%) .NET
8 6 (12.24%) HTML
8 6 (12.24%) XML
9 5 (10.20%) .NET Framework
9 5 (10.20%) CSS
9 5 (10.20%) SOAP
10 4 (8.16%) GraphQL
10 4 (8.16%) Kafka
10 4 (8.16%) Node.js
10 4 (8.16%) Web Services
11 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
11 3 (6.12%) HTML5
11 3 (6.12%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (12.24%) Data Structures
2 6 (12.24%) Reference Data
3 3 (6.12%) Low-Code
3 3 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (63.27%) Agile
2 21 (42.86%) Microservices
3 14 (28.57%) Front End Development
4 12 (24.49%) CI/CD
4 12 (24.49%) DevOps
5 10 (20.41%) Unit Testing
6 9 (18.37%) Scrum
7 8 (16.33%) Data Mapping
7 8 (16.33%) Observability
8 7 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 6 (12.24%) Analytics
9 6 (12.24%) Change Management
9 6 (12.24%) Data Architecture
9 6 (12.24%) Data Governance
9 6 (12.24%) Data Management
9 6 (12.24%) Data Protection
9 6 (12.24%) Data Strategy
9 6 (12.24%) GAP Analysis
9 6 (12.24%) High Availability
9 6 (12.24%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 25 (51.02%) Java
2 9 (18.37%) JavaScript
2 9 (18.37%) TypeScript
3 8 (16.33%) C#
4 7 (14.29%) Python
5 4 (8.16%) SQL
6 2 (4.08%) C++
7 1 (2.04%) C
7 1 (2.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (40.82%) Security Cleared
2 18 (36.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.16%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Pega
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.12%) IBM
3 3 (6.12%) Nintex
3 3 (6.12%) SAP
4 1 (2.04%) Google