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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 85 118
Rank change year-on-year -23 +33 -42
Contract jobs citing REST 90 142 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.63% 2.51% 2.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.84% 13.98% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 86 106
10th Percentile £353 £425 £413
25th Percentile £429 £481 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year - -0.90% +12.12%
75th Percentile £659 £623 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £720
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +12.75%
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 £57.50 £63.60
% change year-on-year +29.46% -9.59% +73.13%

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 701 1,016 1,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.70% 17.96% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 720 1,002
10th Percentile £313 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £612
90th Percentile £651 £706 £675
England median daily rate £550 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 38 38
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.25 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.50 £53.13 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.50 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +64.51% -12.87%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.75 £79.51 £65.51
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +12.22%

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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 11 May 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 11 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
Thames Valley -29 53 £625 +19.05% 15
Berkshire -30 48 £650 +23.81% 8
West Sussex +11 12 £353 -39.22% 2
Surrey +9 12 £513 -9.61% 7
Hampshire -17 8 £450 -35.71% 10
Buckinghamshire +26 3 £438 - 3
Oxfordshire -5 2 £350 -41.67% 4
Kent - 2 £500 - 1
Sussex - 1 £350 -
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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 11 (12.22%) Apache
2 10 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.44%) Confluence
3 4 (4.44%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.22%) GeoServer
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.11%) JBoss
5 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (28.89%) Azure
2 23 (25.56%) AWS
3 10 (11.11%) Serverless
4 9 (10.00%) GitHub
5 8 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.44%) GCP
9 3 (3.33%) Azure API Management
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.33%) SaaS
10 2 (2.22%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.11%) MailChimp
11 1 (1.11%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.44%) BGP
2 10 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
2 10 (11.11%) MPLS
2 10 (11.11%) Radio Access Network
2 10 (11.11%) VPN
3 4 (4.44%) HTTP
4 3 (3.33%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (3.33%) IOS XR
5 1 (1.11%) NFC
5 1 (1.11%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (24.44%) NoSQL
3 12 (13.33%) MongoDB
4 8 (8.89%) Relational Database
5 7 (7.78%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (5.56%) Couchbase
8 4 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (2.22%) GIS
11 1 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
11 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
11 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
11 1 (1.11%) Redis
11 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 33 (36.67%) JIRA
3 30 (33.33%) GitLab
4 27 (30.00%) Cucumber
4 27 (30.00%) Selenium
5 24 (26.67%) REST Assured
5 24 (26.67%) SonarQube
6 17 (18.89%) Git
7 11 (12.22%) TestRail
8 10 (11.11%) Robot Framework
9 5 (5.56%) JUnit
9 5 (5.56%) Visual Studio
10 3 (3.33%) Subversion
11 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
11 2 (2.22%) JMeter
11 2 (2.22%) VersionOne
12 1 (1.11%) Appium
12 1 (1.11%) CircleCI
12 1 (1.11%) Gradle
12 1 (1.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 36 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (32.22%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (22.22%) Law
4 13 (14.44%) Police
5 6 (6.67%) Finance
6 5 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.22%) German Language
7 2 (2.22%) Legal
7 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.22%) Retail
8 1 (1.11%) Automotive
8 1 (1.11%) Aviation
8 1 (1.11%) Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.11%) Publishing
8 1 (1.11%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (35.56%) Developer
2 18 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 13 (14.44%) Senior
4 12 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 12 (13.33%) Network Engineer
4 12 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Test Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Architect
7 6 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
7 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Integration Developer
10 3 (3.33%) Java Technical Architect
10 3 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.78%) Java EE
2 23 (25.56%) SOAP
3 15 (16.67%) ARM Templates
4 14 (15.56%) JSON
4 14 (15.56%) YANG
5 11 (12.22%) Spring
6 10 (11.11%) Kafka
6 10 (11.11%) NETCONF
6 10 (11.11%) RESTCONF
6 10 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 10 (11.11%) XML
7 9 (10.00%) .NET
7 9 (10.00%) Web Services
8 8 (8.89%) AngularJS
8 8 (8.89%) RESTful
9 7 (7.78%) HTML
9 7 (7.78%) Node.js
9 7 (7.78%) OpenID
9 7 (7.78%) React
10 6 (6.67%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.22%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.11%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.11%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.11%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.89%) Linux
2 2 (2.22%) Windows
3 1 (1.11%) Android
3 1 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (45.56%) Test Automation
2 38 (42.22%) Agile
3 37 (41.11%) DevOps
4 34 (37.78%) Continuous Integration
4 34 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (34.44%) Software Engineering
6 30 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
7 28 (31.11%) CI/CD
8 25 (27.78%) Decision-Making
8 25 (27.78%) Software Architecture
9 24 (26.67%) Scrum
10 23 (25.56%) Containerisation
11 16 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (16.67%) Microservices
13 14 (15.56%) TDD
13 14 (15.56%) Workflow
14 13 (14.44%) Configuration Management
14 13 (14.44%) Regression Testing
14 13 (14.44%) Security Testing
14 13 (14.44%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (47.78%) Java
2 31 (34.44%) SQL
3 22 (24.44%) Python
4 17 (18.89%) JavaScript
5 12 (13.33%) Go
6 9 (10.00%) C#
7 4 (4.44%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.44%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.33%) Bash
9 2 (2.22%) ABAP
9 2 (2.22%) C++
9 2 (2.22%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.11%) Groovy
10 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (36.67%) SC Cleared
1 33 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (7.78%) Degree
3 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.11%) QA
1 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (35.56%) Ansible
2 24 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 14 (15.56%) Terraform
4 12 (13.33%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (13.33%) Podman
5 1 (1.11%) Kibana
5 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (5.56%) Google
1 5 (5.56%) SAP
2 4 (4.44%) Oracle
3 3 (3.33%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (3.33%) Cisco
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.33%) TOWER Software
4 2 (2.22%) IBM
5 1 (1.11%) Dell
5 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.11%) Splunk