REST Contracts with Work from Home Options

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 84 76
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing REST 350 696 1,474
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.28% 2.68% 3.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.54% 10.60% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 504 993
10th Percentile £375 £410 £410
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £695 £750 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - £39.25 £41.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £45.63 £47.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £57.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -59.13% +15.58% +24.38%
75th Percentile £24.25 £62.25 £58.66
90th Percentile - £64.35 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £74.44 £53.87 £49.75
% change year-on-year +38.18% +8.28% +24.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,670 6,563 13,189
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.86% 25.23% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,552 4,891 9,760
10th Percentile £333 £394 £390
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £638
90th Percentile £775 £756 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 81 121
10th Percentile £24.90 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £38.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

REST trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing REST.

REST daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing REST over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

REST daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing REST.

REST hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (5.14%) Confluence
2 6 (1.71%) Anypoint
2 6 (1.71%) Mule
2 6 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.43%) CMS
3 5 (1.43%) Mule ESB
4 4 (1.14%) Apache
4 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.86%) IIS
5 3 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.86%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.86%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.57%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.57%) nginx
6 2 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.29%) JBoss
7 1 (0.29%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.14%) Shopify
3 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (28.00%) AWS
2 94 (26.86%) Azure
3 26 (7.43%) GitHub
3 26 (7.43%) Serverless
4 24 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (6.00%) GCP
6 17 (4.86%) Amazon S3
6 17 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (4.86%) OpenShift
7 13 (3.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (3.43%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (3.43%) Azure API Management
8 12 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
8 12 (3.43%) PaaS
9 11 (3.14%) Azure Stack
9 11 (3.14%) Power Platform
9 11 (3.14%) SaaS
10 10 (2.86%) npm
10 10 (2.86%) PowerApps
11 9 (2.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.29%) HTTP
2 6 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.43%) Firewall
3 5 (1.43%) SAN
4 3 (0.86%) BGP
4 3 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (0.86%) DNS
4 3 (0.86%) IOS XR
4 3 (0.86%) WinSCP
5 2 (0.57%) Internet
6 1 (0.29%) DHCP
6 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.29%) MQTT
6 1 (0.29%) NAS
6 1 (0.29%) NFC
6 1 (0.29%) PPP
6 1 (0.29%) SSL
6 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 33 (9.43%) NoSQL
2 33 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.57%) Relational Database
4 12 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.43%) MySQL
5 11 (3.14%) Snowflake Schema
6 10 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.57%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (2.57%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.43%) CockroachDB
10 5 (1.43%) Couchbase
10 5 (1.43%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.43%) Redis
11 4 (1.14%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.86%) GIS
12 3 (0.86%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (17.14%) Git
2 59 (16.86%) Jenkins
3 45 (12.86%) JIRA
4 27 (7.71%) Cucumber
4 27 (7.71%) GitLab
5 24 (6.86%) Selenium
6 19 (5.43%) Maven
7 16 (4.57%) SonarQube
8 14 (4.00%) JUnit
9 13 (3.71%) REST Assured
10 12 (3.43%) Visual Studio
11 11 (3.14%) Postman
12 10 (2.86%) Cypress.io
12 10 (2.86%) JMeter
13 8 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (2.29%) TeamCity
13 8 (2.29%) webpack
14 6 (1.71%) Bitbucket
14 6 (1.71%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.71%) TestRail
General
1 80 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 42 (12.00%) Finance
3 38 (10.86%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.29%) Banking
6 12 (3.43%) Law
7 10 (2.86%) Retail
8 9 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.00%) Front Office
9 7 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.00%) Police
9 7 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.43%) Back Office
10 5 (1.43%) Marketing
11 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.86%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.86%) Publishing
12 2 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 188 (53.71%) Developer
2 49 (14.00%) Senior
3 41 (11.71%) Architect
4 40 (11.43%) Java Developer
5 32 (9.14%) Full Stack Developer
6 28 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 26 (7.43%) Senior Developer
8 21 (6.00%) Java Engineer
9 15 (4.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 14 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
11 13 (3.71%) React Developer
12 12 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (3.14%) C# Developer
13 11 (3.14%) Data Architect
13 11 (3.14%) Lead
13 11 (3.14%) Python Developer
13 11 (3.14%) Software Developer
14 10 (2.86%) Applications Developer
14 10 (2.86%) Technical Architect
15 9 (2.57%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (19.14%) Spring
2 62 (17.71%) CSS
2 62 (17.71%) SOAP
3 61 (17.43%) HTML
3 61 (17.43%) JSON
4 60 (17.14%) Spring Boot
5 58 (16.57%) Web Services
6 55 (15.71%) .NET
7 49 (14.00%) React
8 44 (12.57%) Node.js
9 40 (11.43%) XML
10 38 (10.86%) AngularJS
11 37 (10.57%) GraphQL
12 27 (7.71%) OAuth
13 25 (7.14%) Kafka
14 22 (6.29%) Spring Security
15 21 (6.00%) SAML
16 20 (5.71%) Swagger
17 18 (5.14%) ASP.NET
18 16 (4.57%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.14%) Data Structures
1 11 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
1 11 (3.14%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.57%) Mobile App
2 9 (2.57%) Reference Data
3 8 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (1.71%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.43%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.43%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.43%) Web 2.0
7 4 (1.14%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.14%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.00%) Linux
1 21 (6.00%) Windows
2 15 (4.29%) Apple iOS
3 14 (4.00%) Android
4 8 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.71%) Unix
6 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (39.14%) Agile
2 97 (27.71%) CI/CD
3 83 (23.71%) DevOps
4 73 (20.86%) Microservices
5 66 (18.86%) Software Engineering
6 59 (16.86%) Test Automation
7 41 (11.71%) Full Stack Development
7 41 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (10.29%) Design Patterns
9 35 (10.00%) OO
10 34 (9.71%) TDD
11 32 (9.14%) MVC
12 31 (8.86%) Data Modelling
12 31 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (8.29%) Front End Development
14 28 (8.00%) Scrum
15 27 (7.71%) Continuous Integration
16 26 (7.43%) BDD
16 26 (7.43%) Containerisation
17 25 (7.14%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 112 (32.00%) Java
2 102 (29.14%) JavaScript
3 88 (25.14%) SQL
4 60 (17.14%) C#
5 58 (16.57%) Python
6 41 (11.71%) TypeScript
7 15 (4.29%) Go
8 13 (3.71%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.57%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.00%) ABAP
10 7 (2.00%) C
10 7 (2.00%) PHP
11 5 (1.43%) Bash
11 5 (1.43%) C++
11 5 (1.43%) Ruby
12 4 (1.14%) SOQL
12 4 (1.14%) Swift
13 3 (0.86%) Bicep
13 3 (0.86%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.86%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 63 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 53 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.86%) Degree
4 11 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.86%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.29%) CISSP
8 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.29%) ISEB
8 1 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.29%) QA
2 17 (4.86%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.43%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.86%) GDPR
4 3 (0.86%) WCAG
5 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.57%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 64 (18.29%) Docker
2 12 (3.43%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.00%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.86%) vCloud
5 3 (0.86%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.29%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 47 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.29%) Terraform
3 28 (8.00%) Ansible
4 13 (3.71%) Grafana
5 12 (3.43%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (2.29%) Docker Swarm
6 8 (2.29%) Podman
7 5 (1.43%) CloudHub
7 5 (1.43%) Kibana
7 5 (1.43%) PingFederate
8 4 (1.14%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.14%) Puppet
9 3 (0.86%) Autotask
9 3 (0.86%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.57%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.57%) Packer
11 1 (0.29%) Control-M
11 1 (0.29%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.29%) logstash
11 1 (0.29%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 37 (10.57%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.00%) Google
3 20 (5.71%) Oracle
3 20 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 19 (5.43%) SAP
5 12 (3.43%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.14%) MuleSoft
7 10 (2.86%) Atlassian
8 8 (2.29%) Pega
9 7 (2.00%) VMware
10 6 (1.71%) Ping Identity
10 6 (1.71%) TOWER Software
11 5 (1.43%) BMC
11 5 (1.43%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.43%) IBM
11 5 (1.43%) Splunk
12 4 (1.14%) Genesys
13 3 (0.86%) Cisco
13 3 (0.86%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.86%) Sitecore