REST Contracts in the UK excluding London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 109 115
Rank change year-on-year -19 +6 -21
Contract jobs citing REST 344 536 665
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.68% 2.28% 2.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.61% 12.45% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 374 438
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +14.13%
75th Percentile £598 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £674
UK median daily rate £513 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.30% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 26
10th Percentile £26.15 £51.53 £46.22
25th Percentile £56.00 £53.81 £49.75
Median hourly rate £74.44 £57.75 £62.88
Median % change year-on-year +28.90% -8.15% +25.75%
75th Percentile £85.00 £61.81 £75.00
90th Percentile - £64.18 £79.25
UK median hourly rate £74.44 £56.25 £62.88
% change year-on-year +32.34% -10.54% +39.72%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding 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 3,242 4,306 6,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.83% 18.32% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,120 3,209 4,319
10th Percentile £325 £356 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 93 147
10th Percentile £21.73 £22.28 £20.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.05 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +28.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.34
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.95 £75.81
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
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 REST within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Scotland +29 95 £500 +2.56% 11
South East -23 91 £550 - 44
North of England -18 67 £525 -4.55% 56
South West +8 56 £533 -3.09% 21
North West -10 49 £525 -4.55% 30
Yorkshire +13 18 £445 -15.24% 21
Midlands +4 18 £500 -7.41% 18
East of England -6 17 £450 -10.00% 23
West Midlands -4 12 £488 -18.75% 11
East Midlands +17 6 £577 +6.85% 7
North East +15 4 £480 -21.63% 5
Northern Ireland +3 3 £550 +22.22% 14
Wales -5 1 - - 4
REST
UK

REST
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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (6.98%) Confluence
2 23 (6.69%) Apache
3 10 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.16%) Mule
5 4 (1.16%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.87%) IIS
7 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.58%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) JBoss
8 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.16%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.87%) Maximo
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 102 (29.65%) AWS
2 62 (18.02%) Azure
3 27 (7.85%) Serverless
4 23 (6.69%) OpenShift
5 22 (6.40%) GitHub
6 20 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.65%) AWS CodePipeline
8 14 (4.07%) GCP
8 14 (4.07%) Power Platform
8 14 (4.07%) SaaS
9 13 (3.78%) Power Automate
10 12 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.20%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.91%) PowerApps
13 9 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (2.03%) AWS CodeBuild
15 7 (2.03%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.52%) HTTP
2 13 (3.78%) BGP
3 10 (2.91%) Ethernet VPN
3 10 (2.91%) MPLS
3 10 (2.91%) Radio Access Network
3 10 (2.91%) VPN
4 8 (2.33%) SAN
5 6 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.16%) Firewall
6 4 (1.16%) NAS
7 3 (0.87%) 5G
7 3 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (0.87%) IOS XR
7 3 (0.87%) NetScaler
7 3 (0.87%) SSL
8 1 (0.29%) NFC
8 1 (0.29%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (19.77%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (8.43%) NoSQL
3 27 (7.85%) Relational Database
4 15 (4.36%) MongoDB
4 15 (4.36%) Oracle Database
5 14 (4.07%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.62%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.03%) MySQL
9 6 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (1.45%) Couchbase
10 5 (1.45%) SQLite
11 4 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.16%) CockroachDB
11 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.16%) Triplestore
12 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.87%) GIS
12 3 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 79 (22.97%) Jenkins
2 74 (21.51%) Git
3 57 (16.57%) JIRA
4 50 (14.53%) GitLab
5 42 (12.21%) Cucumber
6 35 (10.17%) JUnit
7 33 (9.59%) Selenium
8 29 (8.43%) SonarQube
9 25 (7.27%) REST Assured
10 14 (4.07%) Postman
11 12 (3.49%) TestRail
12 11 (3.20%) Maven
12 11 (3.20%) Visual Studio
13 10 (2.91%) Robot Framework
14 6 (1.74%) Artifactory
15 5 (1.45%) Checkstyle
15 5 (1.45%) IntelliJ
15 5 (1.45%) Subversion
16 4 (1.16%) Bitbucket
16 4 (1.16%) Log4j
General
1 98 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.70%) Public Sector
3 49 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.85%) Finance
5 20 (5.81%) Law
6 13 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.78%) Police
7 10 (2.91%) Banking
8 8 (2.33%) Back Office
8 8 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.03%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.45%) Marketing
11 4 (1.16%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.87%) Legal
12 3 (0.87%) Retail
13 2 (0.58%) Games
13 2 (0.58%) German Language
13 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 172 (50.00%) Developer
2 82 (23.84%) Java Developer
3 39 (11.34%) Senior
4 31 (9.01%) Java Engineer
5 29 (8.43%) Architect
6 25 (7.27%) Senior Developer
7 20 (5.81%) Full Stack Developer
8 19 (5.52%) Software Engineer
9 15 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (4.36%) Senior Java Developer
10 14 (4.07%) Test Engineer
11 12 (3.49%) Lead
11 12 (3.49%) Network Engineer
11 12 (3.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 12 (3.49%) Software Developer
12 11 (3.20%) Full Stack Engineer
13 10 (2.91%) Applications Developer
14 9 (2.62%) Data Engineer
14 9 (2.62%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (2.62%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (27.62%) Spring Boot
2 94 (27.33%) Spring
3 65 (18.90%) CSS
4 59 (17.15%) HTML
5 56 (16.28%) SOAP
6 49 (14.24%) React
7 46 (13.37%) JSON
8 40 (11.63%) Kafka
9 35 (10.17%) AngularJS
9 35 (10.17%) JPA
10 30 (8.72%) .NET
11 29 (8.43%) XML
12 27 (7.85%) Hibernate
12 27 (7.85%) Web Services
13 25 (7.27%) Java EE
14 22 (6.40%) Node.js
15 20 (5.81%) GraphQL
16 15 (4.36%) Apache Camel
16 15 (4.36%) ARM Templates
16 15 (4.36%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.94%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.36%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (4.07%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.62%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (1.74%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.74%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.16%) Insider Threat
8 4 (1.16%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.87%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.58%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.58%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.58%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.01%) Linux
2 22 (6.40%) Windows
3 8 (2.33%) Unix
3 8 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.58%) Android
4 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (44.19%) Agile
2 114 (33.14%) CI/CD
3 108 (31.40%) DevOps
4 72 (20.93%) Microservices
5 64 (18.60%) Test Automation
6 60 (17.44%) Software Engineering
7 58 (16.86%) Continuous Integration
8 57 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (16.28%) Scrum
10 42 (12.21%) Containerisation
10 42 (12.21%) TDD
11 40 (11.63%) Decision-Making
11 40 (11.63%) Full Stack Development
12 35 (10.17%) Unit Testing
13 33 (9.59%) Front End Development
13 33 (9.59%) SDLC
13 33 (9.59%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (9.59%) Workflow
14 28 (8.14%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (7.27%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 162 (47.09%) Java
2 100 (29.07%) SQL
3 72 (20.93%) JavaScript
4 68 (19.77%) Python
5 45 (13.08%) TypeScript
6 33 (9.59%) C#
7 14 (4.07%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.78%) Go
8 13 (3.78%) Perl
9 12 (3.49%) Bash
10 9 (2.62%) PL/SQL
11 7 (2.03%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.74%) C
13 5 (1.45%) PHP
14 4 (1.16%) C++
14 4 (1.16%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.16%) SPARQL
14 4 (1.16%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.16%) VB
14 4 (1.16%) VB6
Qualifications
1 96 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 74 (21.51%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.85%) DV Cleared
4 15 (4.36%) Degree
5 10 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.58%) HND
7 2 (0.58%) PMP
8 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.94%) QA
2 10 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.29%) SLA
5 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (23.55%) Docker
2 4 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.16%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.87%) OpenAM
3 3 (0.87%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 59 (17.15%) Kubernetes
2 51 (14.83%) Ansible
3 34 (9.88%) Terraform
4 12 (3.49%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (3.49%) Podman
5 10 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (2.62%) Grafana
7 6 (1.74%) Kibana
8 4 (1.16%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.16%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.29%) rkt
Vendors
1 33 (9.59%) Oracle
2 26 (7.56%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.23%) Salesforce
4 15 (4.36%) Google
5 14 (4.07%) SAP
6 12 (3.49%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.33%) IBM
8 7 (2.03%) Pega
9 5 (1.45%) EMC
9 5 (1.45%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.16%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.16%) Infragistics
10 4 (1.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (1.16%) Veritas
10 4 (1.16%) VMware
11 3 (0.87%) F5
11 3 (0.87%) ForgeRock
11 3 (0.87%) Nintex
11 3 (0.87%) Splunk