REST Contracts in South London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 28 42
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 -15
Contract jobs citing REST 11 21 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 4.66% 5.43% 3.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.37% 22.58% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 9
10th Percentile £449 £450 £471
25th Percentile £486 £451 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £455 £625
Median % change year-on-year +14.01% -27.20% +51.98%
75th Percentile £581 £494 £638
90th Percentile £681 £500 £670
London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +12.15%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South London

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 South London 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 54 93 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 22.88% 24.03% 29.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 69 86
10th Percentile £425 £443 £388
25th Percentile £459 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% -18.75% +26.32%
75th Percentile £582 £625 £638
90th Percentile £686 £690 £700
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £52.97 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year - +9.04% -2.84%
London median hourly rate £40.00 £67.25 £48.04
% change year-on-year -40.52% +39.99% -3.92%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in South London

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for REST in South London

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in South London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in South London

REST
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Croydon -1 10 £525 +15.38%
Wandsworth - 1 £513 -
REST
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (36.36%) OpenStack
2 3 (27.27%) Confluence
3 1 (9.09%) JBoss
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon S3
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (45.45%) Serverless
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon MSK
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) Git
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) JUnit
4 1 (9.09%) JMeter
4 1 (9.09%) Mockito
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 8 (72.73%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) Spring
1 10 (90.91%) Spring Boot
2 6 (54.55%) Hibernate
3 5 (45.45%) JPA
3 5 (45.45%) Spring Security
3 5 (45.45%) Web Services
4 4 (36.36%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (36.36%) Node.js
5 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
5 2 (18.18%) Apache Camel
5 2 (18.18%) HTML
5 2 (18.18%) Kafka
5 2 (18.18%) Mustache
5 2 (18.18%) React
5 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 2 (18.18%) SOAP
6 1 (9.09%) CSS
6 1 (9.09%) Flask
6 1 (9.09%) J2EE
6 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) Microservices
2 8 (72.73%) Scrum
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Observability
3 5 (45.45%) TDD
4 4 (36.36%) Front End Development
5 3 (27.27%) BDD
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (27.27%) High Availability
5 3 (27.27%) Kanban
6 2 (18.18%) Static Code Analysis
7 1 (9.09%) API Development
7 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 1 (9.09%) Process Management
7 1 (9.09%) SDLC
7 1 (9.09%) User Stories
7 1 (9.09%) Web Application Development
7 1 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk