JAX-RS Contracts

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 550 660
Rank change year-on-year +33 +110 +119
Contract jobs citing JAX-RS 13 42 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.096% 0.052%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.45% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 30 22
10th Percentile £393 £300 £525
25th Percentile £431 £372 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £529 £700
Median % change year-on-year -12.06% -24.46% +19.76%
75th Percentile £478 £750 -
90th Percentile £520 - £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £375 £700
% change year-on-year +23.33% -46.43% +7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,892 9,286 12,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.84% 21.32% 22.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,698 6,381 9,209
10th Percentile £356 £350 £389
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 279 152
10th Percentile £29.14 £22.40 £30.08
25th Percentile £38.52 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +28.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.44 £80.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.00 £64.50
% change year-on-year +7.76% -10.08% +17.27%

JAX-RS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JAX-RS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JAX-RS.

Daily rate trend for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JAX-RS over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JAX-RS.

Hourly rate trend for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 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
UK excluding London +47 9 £463 +23.33% 8
England +45 8 £465 -8.37% 6
North of England +23 6 £465 -2.87% 2
North East - 4 £465 -
Work from Home +37 3 £520 -9.57% 8
Scotland - 3 £413 - 4
London +22 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +7 1 - -
North West +3 1 £465 -8.37% 2

JAX-RS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Kong
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) MongoDB
2 8 (61.54%) MySQL
2 8 (61.54%) NoSQL
2 8 (61.54%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Git
2 10 (76.92%) Jenkins
2 10 (76.92%) Maven
2 10 (76.92%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (61.54%) Artifactory
3 8 (61.54%) GitLab
3 8 (61.54%) SonarQube
4 7 (53.85%) gulp
5 3 (23.08%) Mockito
6 2 (15.38%) JUnit
7 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
7 1 (7.69%) JIRA
7 1 (7.69%) Mercurial
7 1 (7.69%) Selenium
7 1 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (15.38%) React Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Junior
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) Spring
1 10 (76.92%) Spring Boot
2 8 (61.54%) AngularJS
2 8 (61.54%) Apache CXF
2 8 (61.54%) Dropwizard
2 8 (61.54%) Kafka
2 8 (61.54%) Node.js
2 8 (61.54%) React
3 7 (53.85%) Express.js
3 7 (53.85%) Hibernate
3 7 (53.85%) MEAN Stack
3 7 (53.85%) MERN Stack
3 7 (53.85%) Mongoose
3 7 (53.85%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (53.85%) Sequelize
4 3 (23.08%) JAX-WS
4 3 (23.08%) REST
4 3 (23.08%) RESTful
5 2 (15.38%) OAuth
5 2 (15.38%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Microservices
2 8 (61.54%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (53.85%) Event-Driven
3 7 (53.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 7 (53.85%) Open Source
3 7 (53.85%) Operational Stability
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (7.69%) BDD
6 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
6 1 (7.69%) OO
6 1 (7.69%) OWASP
6 1 (7.69%) Process Management
6 1 (7.69%) TDD
6 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (69.23%) JavaScript
2 9 (69.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Pega