REST Contracts in the South East

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 96 114
Rank change year-on-year -15 +18 -32
Contract jobs citing REST 92 140 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.67% 2.40% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.60% 13.31% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 85 110
10th Percentile £358 £425 £412
25th Percentile £429 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% -0.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £663 £620 £638
90th Percentile £703 £695 £716
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +13.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £23.18 - -
25th Percentile £23.81 - -
Median hourly rate £25.75 - £62.15
75th Percentile £27.81 - -
90th Percentile £28.53 - -
England median hourly rate £74.44 £53.87 £49.75
% change year-on-year +38.18% +8.28% +111.97%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East 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 730 1,052 1,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.21% 18.05% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 749 1,028
10th Percentile £313 £363 £354
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £667 £725 £673
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 36 41
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.75 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.13 £54.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% +4.05%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.72 £67.80
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the South East.

Daily rate trend for REST in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Thames Valley -25 53 £650 +23.81% 13
Berkshire -22 50 £650 +23.81% 9
West Sussex +11 15 £378 -34.91% 5
Surrey +9 13 £513 -6.82% 11
Hampshire -11 5 £525 -25.00% 10
Kent - 3 £456 - 1
Buckinghamshire +27 2 £438 - 2
Oxfordshire -9 1 - - 2
Sussex - 1 £350 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (13.04%) Apache
2 11 (11.96%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (6.52%) OpenStack
4 5 (5.43%) Confluence
5 2 (2.17%) GeoServer
6 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.09%) JBoss
6 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.09%) Site Server
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (28.26%) AWS
1 26 (28.26%) Azure
2 12 (13.04%) Serverless
3 11 (11.96%) GitHub
4 9 (9.78%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (7.61%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (7.61%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.35%) Azure Functions
7 3 (3.26%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.26%) Azure API Management
7 3 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.26%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.26%) SaaS
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.17%) GCP
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.09%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.22%) BGP
2 11 (11.96%) Ethernet VPN
2 11 (11.96%) MPLS
2 11 (11.96%) Radio Access Network
2 11 (11.96%) VPN
3 3 (3.26%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (3.26%) HTTP
3 3 (3.26%) IOS XR
4 1 (1.09%) NFC
4 1 (1.09%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (26.09%) NoSQL
3 12 (13.04%) MongoDB
4 10 (10.87%) Relational Database
5 7 (7.61%) Apache Cassandra
5 7 (7.61%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.52%) Couchbase
7 4 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (3.26%) GIS
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.09%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.09%) Redis
9 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (47.83%) Jenkins
2 35 (38.04%) JIRA
3 33 (35.87%) GitLab
4 27 (29.35%) Cucumber
4 27 (29.35%) Selenium
5 24 (26.09%) REST Assured
5 24 (26.09%) SonarQube
6 19 (20.65%) Git
7 12 (13.04%) TestRail
8 11 (11.96%) Robot Framework
9 7 (7.61%) JUnit
10 5 (5.43%) Visual Studio
11 3 (3.26%) Subversion
12 2 (2.17%) JMeter
12 2 (2.17%) VersionOne
13 1 (1.09%) CircleCI
13 1 (1.09%) Eclipse
13 1 (1.09%) Mockito
13 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (1.09%) TestNG
General
1 36 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 29 (31.52%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (21.74%) Law
4 13 (14.13%) Police
5 6 (6.52%) Finance
6 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.17%) German Language
8 2 (2.17%) Legal
8 2 (2.17%) Retail
9 1 (1.09%) Automotive
9 1 (1.09%) Aviation
9 1 (1.09%) Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.09%) Publishing
9 1 (1.09%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (31.52%) Developer
2 18 (19.57%) Java Engineer
3 14 (15.22%) Senior
3 14 (15.22%) Software Engineer
4 13 (14.13%) Java Developer
4 13 (14.13%) Network Engineer
5 10 (10.87%) Test Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (7.61%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Architect
8 6 (6.52%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Java Software Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 3 (3.26%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.17%) Java EE
2 24 (26.09%) SOAP
3 15 (16.30%) ARM Templates
4 14 (15.22%) YANG
5 12 (13.04%) JSON
5 12 (13.04%) Spring
6 11 (11.96%) Kafka
6 11 (11.96%) NETCONF
6 11 (11.96%) RESTCONF
6 11 (11.96%) RESTful
6 11 (11.96%) Spring Boot
7 10 (10.87%) .NET
7 10 (10.87%) Web Services
8 9 (9.78%) AngularJS
9 8 (8.70%) Node.js
9 8 (8.70%) XML
10 6 (6.52%) CSS
10 6 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (6.52%) HTML
10 6 (6.52%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (3.26%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.17%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (2.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.09%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.09%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.09%) Smartcard
4 1 (1.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.43%) Linux
2 2 (2.17%) Windows
3 1 (1.09%) Android
3 1 (1.09%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (45.65%) Agile
1 42 (45.65%) Test Automation
2 38 (41.30%) DevOps
3 36 (39.13%) Continuous Integration
4 34 (36.96%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (36.96%) Software Engineering
5 30 (32.61%) Technical Leadership
6 29 (31.52%) CI/CD
7 27 (29.35%) Scrum
8 25 (27.17%) Decision-Making
8 25 (27.17%) Software Architecture
9 24 (26.09%) Containerisation
10 18 (19.57%) Microservices
11 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (16.30%) TDD
12 15 (16.30%) Workflow
13 14 (15.22%) Regression Testing
13 14 (15.22%) Security Testing
13 14 (15.22%) Unit Testing
14 13 (14.13%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 43 (46.74%) Java
2 31 (33.70%) SQL
3 21 (22.83%) Python
4 18 (19.57%) JavaScript
5 13 (14.13%) Go
6 9 (9.78%) C#
7 5 (5.43%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.35%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.26%) Bash
10 2 (2.17%) ABAP
10 2 (2.17%) C++
10 2 (2.17%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.17%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.09%) Groovy
11 1 (1.09%) Korn
11 1 (1.09%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (36.96%) Security Cleared
2 33 (35.87%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.61%) Degree
4 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.09%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.09%) QA
1 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (44.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (34.78%) Ansible
2 26 (28.26%) Kubernetes
3 14 (15.22%) Terraform
4 12 (13.04%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (13.04%) Podman
5 1 (1.09%) Kibana
5 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (4.35%) Atlassian
1 4 (4.35%) Oracle
2 3 (3.26%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (3.26%) Cisco
2 3 (3.26%) Google
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.26%) Salesforce
2 3 (3.26%) SAP
2 3 (3.26%) TOWER Software
3 2 (2.17%) IBM
4 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.09%) ESRI
4 1 (1.09%) Splunk