JAX-RS Contract Job Trends in the South West

Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring JAX-RS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - 146
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing JAX-RS 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.085% - 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.58% - 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.14%
75th Percentile £388 - £419
90th Percentile - - £450
England median daily rate £686 £465 £504
% change year-on-year +47.42% -7.69% -28.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 516 270 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.54% 15.35% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 175 294
10th Percentile £325 £355 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £723 £684 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 31 71
10th Percentile £52.88 £61.25 £43.75
25th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile - £68.38 -
90th Percentile - £70.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%

JAX-RS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

JAX-RS job vacancy trend in the South West

JAX-RS
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing JAX-RS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing JAX-RS

JAX-RS
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
Bristol - 3 £375 -
JAX-RS
England

JAX-RS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 3 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JPA
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth2
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) AOP
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google