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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 19 October 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
19 Oct 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
57 |
56 |
70 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-1 |
+14 |
+42 |
| Contract jobs citing REST |
4,209 |
3,661 |
3,420 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
4.08% |
3.68% |
3.21% |
| As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category |
11.70% |
11.42% |
10.57% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
2,962 |
2,519 |
2,425 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£475 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£363 |
£339 |
£320 |
| 90th Percentile |
£625 |
£625 |
£588 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£425 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
- |
+1.19% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
26 |
34 |
17 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£45.00 |
£45.00 |
£31.90 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+41.07% |
-14.93% |
| 10th Percentile |
£35.00 |
£23.52 |
£20.85 |
| 90th Percentile |
£64.84 |
£51.75 |
£43.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£44.25 |
£45.00 |
£32.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
-1.67% |
+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 |
35,962 |
32,047 |
32,361 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
34.88% |
32.23% |
30.41% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
25,313 |
22,481 |
22,491 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
+6.25% |
| 10th Percentile |
£325 |
£313 |
£295 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£625 |
£588 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£400 |
£388 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
+3.23% |
+3.33% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
322 |
366 |
382 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£41.53 |
£40.00 |
£37.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+3.83% |
+6.67% |
+0.13% |
| 10th Percentile |
£15.30 |
£18.25 |
£13.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£59.88 |
£52.50 |
£50.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£41.00 |
£40.31 |
£36.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.72% |
+11.96% |
-3.94% |
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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 19 October 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 19 October 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 19 October 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 19 October 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 |
2,320 (55.12%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,180 (51.79%) |
Java |
| 3 |
1,578 (37.49%) |
JavaScript |
| 4 |
1,431 (34.00%) |
TDD |
| 5 |
1,269 (30.15%) |
Web Services |
| 6 |
1,247 (29.63%) |
Git (software) |
| 7 |
1,201 (28.53%) |
Microservices |
| 8 |
1,140 (27.08%) |
SOAP |
| 9 |
1,113 (26.44%) |
HTML |
| 10 |
1,084 (25.75%) |
Spring |
| 11 |
1,006 (23.90%) |
CSS |
| 12 |
935 (22.21%) |
Jenkins |
| 13 |
908 (21.57%) |
Scrum |
| 14 |
906 (21.53%) |
JSON |
| 15 |
857 (20.36%) |
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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