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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 12 December 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
12 Dec 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
53 |
57 |
68 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+4 |
+11 |
+31 |
| Contract jobs citing REST |
4,469 |
3,866 |
3,325 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
4.24% |
3.74% |
3.22% |
| As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category |
12.22% |
11.62% |
10.41% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
3,107 |
2,729 |
2,401 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£475 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
+5.56% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£363 |
£345 |
£320 |
| 90th Percentile |
£625 |
£619 |
£588 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£425 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
- |
- |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
34 |
36 |
11 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£45.00 |
£45.00 |
£31.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+42.86% |
-18.71% |
| 10th Percentile |
£35.00 |
£26.96 |
£19.23 |
| 90th Percentile |
£62.03 |
£51.25 |
£40.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£45.00 |
£45.00 |
£32.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+38.46% |
-13.33% |
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 |
36,569 |
33,279 |
31,952 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
34.73% |
32.20% |
30.92% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
25,840 |
23,509 |
22,058 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
+3.03% |
| 10th Percentile |
£325 |
£313 |
£300 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£625 |
£588 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£400 |
£389 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
+2.96% |
+3.60% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
312 |
362 |
366 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£41.53 |
£40.00 |
£40.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+3.83% |
- |
+6.67% |
| 10th Percentile |
£18.63 |
£17.78 |
£14.53 |
| 90th Percentile |
£60.00 |
£51.20 |
£51.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£41.53 |
£40.00 |
£38.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.83% |
+3.90% |
+2.67% |
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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 12 December 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 12 December 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 12 December 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 12 December 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 |
2,549 (57.04%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,364 (52.90%) |
Java |
| 3 |
1,574 (35.22%) |
JavaScript |
| 4 |
1,523 (34.08%) |
TDD |
| 5 |
1,377 (30.81%) |
Git (software) |
| 6 |
1,339 (29.96%) |
Microservices |
| 7 |
1,288 (28.82%) |
Web Services |
| 8 |
1,205 (26.96%) |
SOAP |
| 9 |
1,182 (26.45%) |
Spring |
| 10 |
1,147 (25.67%) |
HTML |
| 11 |
1,050 (23.50%) |
Jenkins |
| 12 |
1,027 (22.98%) |
JSON |
| 13 |
995 (22.26%) |
CSS |
| 14 |
990 (22.15%) |
Scrum |
| 15 |
973 (21.77%) |
BDD |
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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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