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 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 88 114
Rank change year-on-year -22 +26 -27
Contract jobs citing REST 84 135 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.49% 2.40% 2.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.54% 13.87% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 78 114
10th Percentile £350 £425 £352
25th Percentile £425 £486 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £641 £650
90th Percentile £715 £711 £711
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £24.03 £51.63 £62.67
25th Percentile £25.94 £52.19 £63.45
Median hourly rate £28.00 £53.75 £64.76
Median % change year-on-year -47.91% -16.99% +29.51%
75th Percentile £29.00 £54.69 £66.06
90th Percentile - £54.88 £66.84
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +85.43%

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 728 973 1,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.94% 17.29% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 685 996
10th Percentile £313 £363 £350
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +14.13%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £619
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 38 38
10th Percentile £35.00 £50.88 £29.60
25th Percentile £56.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £67.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +50.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.23
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.51 £67.55
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.22% +13.44%

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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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -12 45 £650 +23.81% 11
Berkshire -24 40 £650 +23.81% 7
West Sussex +13 14 £353 -39.22% 6
Hampshire -18 12 £450 -35.71% 4
Surrey +1 8 £535 -4.21% 12
Buckinghamshire +33 3 £438 - 4
Oxfordshire -6 2 £350 -41.67% 1
Kent - 2 £500 - 2
Sussex - 1 £350 - 1
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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 8 (9.52%) Apache
2 7 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.57%) Confluence
3 3 (3.57%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.38%) GeoServer
5 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.19%) JBoss
5 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.57%) Azure
2 21 (25.00%) AWS
3 9 (10.71%) GitHub
4 7 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (8.33%) Serverless
5 6 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.76%) Boomi
6 4 (4.76%) GCP
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.38%) SaaS
8 1 (1.19%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.19%) Google App Engine
8 1 (1.19%) MailChimp
8 1 (1.19%) NuGet
8 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.90%) BGP
2 9 (10.71%) HTTP
3 7 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 7 (8.33%) MPLS
3 7 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (8.33%) VPN
4 3 (3.57%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (3.57%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.19%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (17.86%) NoSQL
3 9 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 6 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (5.95%) Couchbase
6 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.38%) GIS
7 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.19%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.19%) Power BI
8 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (45.24%) Jenkins
2 29 (34.52%) JIRA
3 27 (32.14%) Cucumber
3 27 (32.14%) GitLab
3 27 (32.14%) Selenium
4 24 (28.57%) REST Assured
4 24 (28.57%) SonarQube
5 15 (17.86%) Git
6 7 (8.33%) Robot Framework
6 7 (8.33%) TestRail
7 4 (4.76%) JUnit
8 3 (3.57%) Subversion
9 2 (2.38%) JMeter
9 2 (2.38%) VersionOne
9 2 (2.38%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.19%) Appium
10 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.19%) Gradle
10 1 (1.19%) Mockito
10 1 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 29 (34.52%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (23.81%) Law
4 13 (15.48%) Police
5 5 (5.95%) Finance
5 5 (5.95%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.76%) German Language
7 2 (2.38%) Legal
7 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.38%) Retail
8 1 (1.19%) Automotive
8 1 (1.19%) Aviation
8 1 (1.19%) Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.19%) Publishing
8 1 (1.19%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (39.29%) Developer
2 18 (21.43%) Java Engineer
3 12 (14.29%) Senior
4 11 (13.10%) Java Developer
4 11 (13.10%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.71%) Network Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Test Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Full Stack Developer
8 5 (5.95%) Integration Developer
8 5 (5.95%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.95%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Coordinator
9 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Java Architect
10 3 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.76%) Java EE
2 18 (21.43%) SOAP
3 13 (15.48%) ARM Templates
4 12 (14.29%) Kafka
5 11 (13.10%) YANG
6 10 (11.90%) Spring
7 9 (10.71%) Spring Boot
8 8 (9.52%) HTML
8 8 (9.52%) JSON
8 8 (9.52%) Web Services
9 7 (8.33%) AngularJS
9 7 (8.33%) CSS
9 7 (8.33%) NETCONF
9 7 (8.33%) React
9 7 (8.33%) RESTCONF
9 7 (8.33%) RESTful
10 6 (7.14%) GraphQL
10 6 (7.14%) Node.js
11 5 (5.95%) OpenID
12 4 (4.76%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.38%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.19%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.19%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.19%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.38%) Windows
3 1 (1.19%) Android
3 1 (1.19%) Unix
3 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (44.05%) Test Automation
2 33 (39.29%) Continuous Integration
2 33 (39.29%) DevOps
3 32 (38.10%) Agile
4 30 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 29 (34.52%) Technical Leadership
6 25 (29.76%) Decision-Making
6 25 (29.76%) Software Architecture
7 23 (27.38%) CI/CD
8 19 (22.62%) Containerisation
9 18 (21.43%) Scrum
10 14 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (15.48%) Configuration Management
12 12 (14.29%) Microservices
13 11 (13.10%) Open Source
13 11 (13.10%) TDD
14 10 (11.90%) Regression Testing
15 9 (10.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 9 (10.71%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (50.00%) Java
2 22 (26.19%) SQL
3 18 (21.43%) Python
4 15 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 12 (14.29%) Go
6 4 (4.76%) ABAP
6 4 (4.76%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.57%) Bash
7 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.38%) C#
8 2 (2.38%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.19%) C++
9 1 (1.19%) Groovy
9 1 (1.19%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (39.29%) SC Cleared
1 33 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.19%) CISM
3 1 (1.19%) CISSP
3 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.19%) QA
1 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (36.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (36.90%) Ansible
2 23 (27.38%) Kubernetes
3 14 (16.67%) Terraform
4 12 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (14.29%) Podman
5 1 (1.19%) Kibana
5 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (11.90%) SAP
2 5 (5.95%) Oracle
3 4 (4.76%) Google
3 4 (4.76%) IBM
4 3 (3.57%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.57%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (3.57%) Cisco
4 3 (3.57%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.19%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.19%) Dell
5 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.19%) Splunk