JAX-RS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 301 338 440
Rank change year-on-year +37 +102 +148
Contract jobs citing JAX-RS 3 13 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.031% 0.088% 0.050%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.35% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 8
10th Percentile - £450 -
25th Percentile - £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -17.86% +29.87%
75th Percentile - £750 £713
90th Percentile - - £750
UK median daily rate £465 £529 £700
% change year-on-year -12.06% -24.46% +19.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,635 3,755 5,907
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.86% 25.51% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,888 2,638 4,418
10th Percentile £358 £350 £381
25th Percentile £418 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +0.56% -2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £659 £650
90th Percentile £825 £825 £754
UK median daily rate £514 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.37% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 94 76
10th Percentile £32.22 £24.68 £25.75
25th Percentile £61.25 - £45.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +26.50%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.00 £74.06
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.50 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +28.40%

JAX-RS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing JAX-RS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JAX-RS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

JAX-RS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing JAX-RS.

JAX-RS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

JAX-RS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Artifactory
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) gulp
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) Mockito
General
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
2 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (66.67%) Apache CXF
2 2 (66.67%) Dropwizard
2 2 (66.67%) Express.js
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) MEAN Stack
2 2 (66.67%) MERN Stack
2 2 (66.67%) Mongoose
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) Sequelize
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Operational Stability
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
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