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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 August 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| Representational State Transfer (REST) UK |
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6 months to
16 Aug 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
57 |
58 |
74 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+1 |
+16 |
+51 |
| Contract jobs citing REST |
4,102 |
3,434 |
3,153 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
4.01% |
3.59% |
2.89% |
| As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category |
11.64% |
11.07% |
9.95% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
2,851 |
2,352 |
2,165 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£460 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+8.70% |
+2.22% |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£363 |
£331 |
£319 |
| 90th Percentile |
£613 |
£613 |
£588 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£425 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
- |
+3.03% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
28 |
31 |
21 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£45.00 |
£37.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-5.56% |
+20.00% |
-13.29% |
| 10th Percentile |
£21.25 |
£22.50 |
£19.23 |
| 90th Percentile |
£55.03 |
£57.50 |
£48.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£45.00 |
£38.75 |
| % change year-on-year |
-5.56% |
+16.13% |
-8.82% |
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 with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.
| All Software Libraries and Frameworks UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills |
35,252 |
31,010 |
31,692 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
34.46% |
32.41% |
29.07% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
24,904 |
21,394 |
22,142 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
+6.25% |
| 10th Percentile |
£320 |
£306 |
£293 |
| 90th Percentile |
£625 |
£625 |
£588 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£423 |
£400 |
£383 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.75% |
+4.58% |
+2.00% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
343 |
384 |
386 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£41.50 |
£40.00 |
£36.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+3.75% |
+11.11% |
-2.70% |
| 10th Percentile |
£15.24 |
£16.00 |
£12.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£57.50 |
£53.75 |
£50.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£40.25 |
£40.00 |
£36.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+0.63% |
+11.11% |
-2.70% |
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Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing REST as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing REST.
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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing REST over the 6 months to 16 August 2018.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing REST over the 6 months to 16 August 2018.
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Top 16 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 16 August 2018. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 16 August 2018, IT contractor jobs citing REST also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for REST.
| 1 |
2,262 (55.14%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,146 (52.32%) |
Java |
| 3 |
1,530 (37.30%) |
JavaScript |
| 4 |
1,415 (34.50%) |
TDD |
| 5 |
1,311 (31.96%) |
Web Services |
| 6 |
1,255 (30.59%) |
Git (software) |
| 7 |
1,161 (28.30%) |
SOAP |
| 7 |
1,161 (28.30%) |
Microservices |
| 8 |
1,082 (26.38%) |
HTML |
| 9 |
1,068 (26.04%) |
Spring |
| 10 |
975 (23.77%) |
CSS |
| 11 |
919 (22.40%) |
JSON |
| 12 |
908 (22.14%) |
Jenkins |
| 13 |
895 (21.82%) |
Scrum |
| 14 |
883 (21.53%) |
Continuous Integration |
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Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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