JAX-RS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JAX-RS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JAX-RS over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 395 424
Rank change year-on-year +47 +29 +59
Contract jobs citing JAX-RS 9 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.066% 0.047% 0.083%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.36% 0.29% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile £365 - £650
25th Percentile £419 £300 £672
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £375 £700
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -46.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £473 £450 -
90th Percentile £475 £462 -
UK median daily rate £465 £529 £700
% change year-on-year -12.06% -24.46% +20.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,522 3,438 4,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.61% 16.19% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,742 2,206 3,061
10th Percentile £320 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £561 £606 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 242 90
10th Percentile £33.91 £22.88 £22.47
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.13 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -11.43% +17.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.40 £78.12
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +28.40%

JAX-RS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JAX-RS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JAX-RS in the UK excluding London

JAX-RS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JAX-RS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JAX-RS in the UK excluding London

JAX-RS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JAX-RS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JAX-RS in the UK excluding London

JAX-RS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JAX-RS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JAX-RS in the UK excluding London

JAX-RS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 June 2025. 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
North of England +31 6 £465 -2.87% 2
North East - 4 £465 -
Scotland - 3 £413 - 5
North West +8 1 £465 -8.37% 2
Yorkshire +3 1 - -
JAX-RS
UK

JAX-RS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Kong
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) MongoDB
2 6 (66.67%) MySQL
2 6 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Git
2 8 (88.89%) Jenkins
2 8 (88.89%) Maven
2 8 (88.89%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (66.67%) Artifactory
3 6 (66.67%) GitLab
3 6 (66.67%) SonarQube
4 5 (55.56%) gulp
5 2 (22.22%) JUnit
5 2 (22.22%) Mockito
6 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
6 1 (11.11%) Mercurial
6 1 (11.11%) Selenium
6 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (22.22%) React Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Junior
5 1 (11.11%) Junior Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Spring
1 8 (88.89%) Spring Boot
2 6 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 6 (66.67%) Apache CXF
2 6 (66.67%) Dropwizard
2 6 (66.67%) Node.js
2 6 (66.67%) React
3 5 (55.56%) Express.js
3 5 (55.56%) Hibernate
3 5 (55.56%) Kafka
3 5 (55.56%) MEAN Stack
3 5 (55.56%) MERN Stack
3 5 (55.56%) Mongoose
3 5 (55.56%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (55.56%) Sequelize
4 3 (33.33%) RESTful
5 2 (22.22%) JAX-WS
5 2 (22.22%) OAuth
5 2 (22.22%) REST
6 1 (11.11%) EJB
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Microservices
2 6 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven
3 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 5 (55.56%) Open Source
3 5 (55.56%) Operational Stability
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) API Development
6 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
6 1 (11.11%) OO
6 1 (11.11%) OWASP
6 1 (11.11%) SDLC
6 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft