RESTful
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for RESTful skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RESTful over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 191 152
Rank change year-on-year -11 -39 -34
Contract jobs citing RESTful 511 833 1,676
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 1.39% 1.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.76% 5.98% 6.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 617 1,196
10th Percentile £371 £400 £404
25th Percentile £431 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% +9.00%
75th Percentile £605 £700 £650
90th Percentile £710 £800 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 30
10th Percentile £47.70 £62.70 £37.65
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +25.00% +46.34%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £67.80
90th Percentile £87.00 £77.00 £80.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year - +53.85% +30.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

RESTful 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing RESTful over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
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 RESTful within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -2 420 £525 -11.15% 294
UK excluding London +60 224 £470 -6.00% 221
London -39 220 £575 -11.54% 102
Work from Home +6 204 £500 -9.09% 267
North of England +58 92 £488 -9.30% 72
North West +55 74 £475 +3.26% 30
Scotland +42 39 £400 -28.89% 25
South East +9 35 £450 -5.76% 51
East of England +23 20 £500 +13.64% 21
Midlands +4 19 £500 -4.76% 24
South West +22 16 £525 - 20
Yorkshire +3 13 £513 -12.39% 27
West Midlands +20 11 £607 +34.89% 15
East Midlands +10 8 £462 -14.05% 9
North East +23 5 £500 - 18
Wales +8 3 £438 -14.63% 12

RESTful
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 15 (2.94%) Confluence
2 9 (1.76%) Apache
3 8 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.17%) CMS
6 4 (0.78%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.59%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.39%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.39%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.39%) Jadu
8 2 (0.39%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.39%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.39%) WordPress
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.20%) CoreMedia CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Drupal
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 14 (2.74%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.37%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.39%) Shopify
4 1 (0.20%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.20%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 235 (45.99%) AWS
2 111 (21.72%) Azure
3 79 (15.46%) GCP
4 39 (7.63%) Serverless
5 34 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (6.65%) GitHub
6 19 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (3.52%) Amazon S3
8 15 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (2.54%) npm
11 11 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (1.76%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (1.76%) Azure Functions
14 8 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.57%) PaaS
14 8 (1.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 54 (10.57%) HTTP
2 11 (2.15%) Firewall
3 8 (1.57%) SSL
4 7 (1.37%) Kerberos
5 6 (1.17%) BGP
5 6 (1.17%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.98%) DNS
6 5 (0.98%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.59%) DHCP
7 3 (0.59%) HSRP
7 3 (0.59%) LAN
7 3 (0.59%) MPLS
7 3 (0.59%) Network Security
7 3 (0.59%) OSPF
7 3 (0.59%) SNMP
7 3 (0.59%) VLAN
7 3 (0.59%) VPN
7 3 (0.59%) WAN
7 3 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (16.44%) NoSQL
2 55 (10.76%) MongoDB
3 39 (7.63%) SQL Server
4 38 (7.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 37 (7.24%) MySQL
5 37 (7.24%) Relational Database
6 35 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (2.74%) DynamoDB
8 10 (1.96%) Redis
9 9 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.37%) Power BI
11 5 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.98%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.98%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.59%) Couchbase
12 3 (0.59%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.59%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.39%) Big Data
13 2 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 95 (18.59%) Git
2 58 (11.35%) Jenkins
3 30 (5.87%) JIRA
4 29 (5.68%) GitLab
5 19 (3.72%) Cucumber
5 19 (3.72%) Mockito
6 17 (3.33%) Android Studio
7 15 (2.94%) TeamCity
7 15 (2.94%) webpack
8 14 (2.74%) JUnit
8 14 (2.74%) Selenium
9 12 (2.35%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.35%) Maven
10 11 (2.15%) Moq
11 10 (1.96%) NUnit
12 9 (1.76%) Visual Studio
13 8 (1.57%) Cypress.io
14 7 (1.37%) CircleCI
14 7 (1.37%) SonarQube
14 7 (1.37%) Xcode
General
1 115 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 58 (11.35%) Finance
3 44 (8.61%) Public Sector
4 40 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.28%) Banking
6 24 (4.70%) Telecoms
7 13 (2.54%) Front Office
8 12 (2.35%) Marketing
9 11 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.57%) Electronics
11 6 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.17%) Retail
12 4 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.59%) Advertising
13 3 (0.59%) Back Office
13 3 (0.59%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.59%) Law
13 3 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.39%) Automotive
14 2 (0.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 306 (59.88%) Developer
2 70 (13.70%) Senior
3 49 (9.59%) Java Developer
4 46 (9.00%) Software Engineer
5 41 (8.02%) Senior Developer
6 40 (7.83%) Scala Developer
7 31 (6.07%) Architect
8 26 (5.09%) Full Stack Developer
8 26 (5.09%) Software Developer
9 23 (4.50%) .NET Developer
9 23 (4.50%) Python Developer
10 21 (4.11%) Consultant
11 20 (3.91%) C# Developer
12 19 (3.72%) Android Developer
13 18 (3.52%) Lead
14 16 (3.13%) AWS Developer
14 16 (3.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 15 (2.94%) Senior Java Developer
16 14 (2.74%) Genesys Consultant
17 13 (2.54%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (18.20%) Node.js
2 73 (14.29%) Web Services
3 72 (14.09%) .NET
4 68 (13.31%) React
5 67 (13.11%) Kafka
6 65 (12.72%) Spring
7 57 (11.15%) CSS
8 56 (10.96%) HTML
9 55 (10.76%) Spring Boot
10 54 (10.57%) AngularJS
11 43 (8.41%) SOAP
12 41 (8.02%) Akka
12 41 (8.02%) OAuth
13 39 (7.63%) JSON
14 38 (7.44%) XML
15 33 (6.46%) REST
16 31 (6.07%) OpenID
17 30 (5.87%) .NET Core
18 24 (4.70%) RabbitMQ
19 23 (4.50%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (5.28%) Greenfield Project
3 26 (5.09%) Mobile App
4 25 (4.89%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 16 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.94%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.54%) IVR
10 9 (1.76%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (0.98%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.98%) PKI
13 5 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.98%) Verilog
13 5 (0.98%) VHDL
14 4 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 4 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.07%) Android
2 30 (5.87%) Linux
3 15 (2.94%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.35%) Windows
5 11 (2.15%) Unix
6 6 (1.17%) VMS
7 4 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.59%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (40.12%) Agile
2 173 (33.86%) Microservices
3 131 (25.64%) CI/CD
4 128 (25.05%) DevOps
5 83 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 73 (14.29%) TDD
7 68 (13.31%) Test Automation
8 65 (12.72%) Continuous Integration
9 61 (11.94%) Unit Testing
10 53 (10.37%) Clean Code
11 50 (9.78%) Scrum
12 48 (9.39%) User Experience
13 47 (9.20%) Full Stack Development
14 46 (9.00%) Design Patterns
15 45 (8.81%) API Development
16 42 (8.22%) Computer Science
17 41 (8.02%) Machine Learning
18 37 (7.24%) Containerisation
18 37 (7.24%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 166 (32.49%) Java
2 138 (27.01%) SQL
3 114 (22.31%) JavaScript
4 112 (21.92%) Python
5 67 (13.11%) C#
6 56 (10.96%) Scala
7 54 (10.57%) TypeScript
8 36 (7.05%) Kotlin
9 21 (4.11%) Go
10 17 (3.33%) C
10 17 (3.33%) C++
11 16 (3.13%) PowerShell
12 15 (2.94%) PHP
13 10 (1.96%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.76%) Swift
15 8 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (1.37%) Bash
16 7 (1.37%) Ruby
17 6 (1.17%) Bicep
17 6 (1.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 44 (8.61%) Degree
4 26 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.17%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CCNP
10 1 (0.20%) CEH
10 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CISSP
10 1 (0.20%) GCIA
10 1 (0.20%) GCIH
10 1 (0.20%) GIAC
10 1 (0.20%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.09%) QA
2 20 (3.91%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.59%) GDPR
4 3 (0.59%) NCSC
4 3 (0.59%) WCAG
5 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.39%) PSD2
6 1 (0.20%) NIST
6 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 97 (18.98%) Docker
2 9 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 5 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.78%) VirtualBox
6 3 (0.59%) vCloud
6 3 (0.59%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.59%) vSphere
7 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 99 (19.37%) Kubernetes
2 47 (9.20%) Terraform
3 23 (4.50%) Ansible
4 21 (4.11%) Grafana
5 18 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.57%) Consul
7 5 (0.98%) Kibana
7 5 (0.98%) Zipkin
8 3 (0.59%) Autotask
8 3 (0.59%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.59%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) Anchore
9 1 (0.20%) Argo
9 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.20%) Istio
9 1 (0.20%) logstash
9 1 (0.20%) MOM
9 1 (0.20%) Nagios
9 1 (0.20%) Packer
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (6.65%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.26%) Oracle
3 19 (3.72%) Typelevel
4 18 (3.52%) Google
5 17 (3.33%) OpenAI
6 15 (2.94%) Genesys
6 15 (2.94%) SAP
7 11 (2.15%) TIBCO
8 10 (1.96%) SaltStack
9 9 (1.76%) IBM
10 7 (1.37%) NEC
11 6 (1.17%) Cadence
11 6 (1.17%) Cisco
11 6 (1.17%) TOWER Software
12 5 (0.98%) Avaya
12 5 (0.98%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.98%) VMware
13 4 (0.78%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.78%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.78%) Sitecore