RESTful Contracts with Work from Home Options

RESTful
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 RESTful skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RESTful over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 184 121
Rank change year-on-year +28 -63 +7
Contract jobs citing RESTful 209 324 970
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.43% 1.34% 2.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.72% 5.37% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 252 695
10th Percentile £363 £361 £383
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £588 £671 £617
90th Percentile £688 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 17
10th Percentile - £66.05 £49.40
25th Percentile £75.00 £68.38 £60.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £73.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% +17.60% +56.25%
75th Percentile £87.50 £77.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £89.00 £78.95 £72.18
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.67% +20.00% +48.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 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 3,653 6,037 13,148
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.98% 24.99% 29.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,578 4,514 9,752
10th Percentile £342 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -1.82% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 77 114
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.40 £22.50
25th Percentile - £45.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.10 £76.40
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

RESTful
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

RESTful trend for jobs with a WFH option

RESTful
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 RESTful.

RESTful daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing RESTful over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

RESTful daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

RESTful
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 RESTful.

RESTful hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

RESTful
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 7 (3.35%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.39%) Confluence
3 4 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.44%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.44%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.96%) Apache
5 2 (0.96%) CMS
5 2 (0.96%) WordPress
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.48%) Drupal
6 1 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.39%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.48%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 76 (36.36%) AWS
2 52 (24.88%) Azure
3 22 (10.53%) GCP
4 18 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (8.61%) Serverless
5 10 (4.78%) GitHub
6 8 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (3.83%) Amazon S3
6 8 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (3.83%) npm
7 6 (2.87%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.87%) PaaS
7 6 (2.87%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.87%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.87%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.91%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.96%) HTTP
2 3 (1.44%) BGP
2 3 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (1.44%) Firewall
2 3 (1.44%) IOS XR
2 3 (1.44%) SSL
2 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.92%) SQL Server
2 22 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 21 (10.05%) MongoDB
3 21 (10.05%) Relational Database
4 16 (7.66%) MySQL
5 11 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (4.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (3.35%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.87%) Power BI
9 4 (1.91%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.91%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.44%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.44%) Redis
11 2 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.96%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.96%) Tableau
12 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.48%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 38 (18.18%) Git
2 16 (7.66%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.70%) JIRA
4 8 (3.83%) Android Studio
4 8 (3.83%) Selenium
5 7 (3.35%) Mockito
6 5 (2.39%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.91%) Babel
7 4 (1.91%) GitLab
7 4 (1.91%) webpack
7 4 (1.91%) Xcode
7 4 (1.91%) XCUITest
8 3 (1.44%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.44%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.44%) HP UFT
8 3 (1.44%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (1.44%) Postman
9 2 (0.96%) Appium
9 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
General
1 59 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (12.44%) Finance
4 24 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.66%) Banking
6 11 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.91%) Electronics
7 4 (1.91%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.91%) Marketing
8 2 (0.96%) Front Office
8 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Advertising
9 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Publishing
9 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 108 (51.67%) Developer
2 26 (12.44%) Software Engineer
3 21 (10.05%) Senior
4 19 (9.09%) Architect
5 14 (6.70%) Software Developer
6 13 (6.22%) Scala Developer
7 11 (5.26%) Java Developer
7 11 (5.26%) Python Developer
7 11 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 11 (5.26%) Site Engineer
7 11 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 10 (4.78%) .NET Developer
8 10 (4.78%) Android Developer
8 10 (4.78%) Full Stack Developer
8 10 (4.78%) Lead
8 10 (4.78%) Python Engineer
9 9 (4.31%) AWS Developer
10 8 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.35%) Development Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (17.70%) CSS
1 37 (17.70%) Node.js
2 35 (16.75%) HTML
3 32 (15.31%) React
4 31 (14.83%) .NET
5 26 (12.44%) Kafka
5 26 (12.44%) Web Services
6 22 (10.53%) AngularJS
6 22 (10.53%) Spring
6 22 (10.53%) Spring Boot
7 20 (9.57%) SOAP
8 17 (8.13%) JSON
8 17 (8.13%) REST
9 16 (7.66%) jQuery
9 16 (7.66%) XML
10 14 (6.70%) Akka
10 14 (6.70%) FastAPI
10 14 (6.70%) OAuth
11 11 (5.26%) .NET Framework
11 11 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.00%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (9.57%) Mobile App
3 16 (7.66%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.74%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.39%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.39%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.44%) Verilog
6 3 (1.44%) VHDL
7 2 (0.96%) Contactless
7 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.96%) Digital Wallet
7 2 (0.96%) IVR
7 2 (0.96%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.48%) IoT
8 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.57%) Linux
2 15 (7.18%) Android
3 8 (3.83%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.39%) Windows
5 3 (1.44%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (1.44%) Unix
6 2 (0.96%) VMS
7 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (33.97%) Agile
2 52 (24.88%) CI/CD
2 52 (24.88%) Microservices
3 50 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (23.44%) DevOps
5 40 (19.14%) Software Engineering
6 31 (14.83%) Unit Testing
7 30 (14.35%) User Experience
8 28 (13.40%) API Development
9 23 (11.00%) Full Stack Development
9 23 (11.00%) UX Design
10 22 (10.53%) Clean Code
11 21 (10.05%) Scrum
11 21 (10.05%) Test Automation
12 20 (9.57%) SDLC
13 18 (8.61%) Front End Development
14 17 (8.13%) Code Quality
14 17 (8.13%) End-to-End Testing
15 16 (7.66%) Continuous Integration
16 15 (7.18%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 63 (30.14%) JavaScript
2 62 (29.67%) Java
3 55 (26.32%) Python
4 44 (21.05%) SQL
5 27 (12.92%) C#
6 24 (11.48%) TypeScript
7 19 (9.09%) Scala
8 15 (7.18%) Kotlin
9 14 (6.70%) C++
10 13 (6.22%) Shell Script
11 11 (5.26%) Go
12 7 (3.35%) C
12 7 (3.35%) PHP
13 6 (2.87%) Ruby
14 5 (2.39%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.91%) Bash
15 4 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (1.91%) Swift
15 4 (1.91%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.48%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 34 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.66%) Degree
4 10 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.74%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.35%) QA
3 4 (1.91%) GDPR
4 2 (0.96%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.96%) PSD2
4 2 (0.96%) WCAG
5 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.48%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (12.92%) Docker
2 11 (5.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.44%) vCloud
3 3 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.44%) VirtualBox
3 3 (1.44%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.44%) vSphere
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (16.75%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.18%) Prometheus
3 12 (5.74%) Grafana
4 11 (5.26%) Consul
5 10 (4.78%) Ansible
6 8 (3.83%) Terraform
7 3 (1.44%) Autotask
7 3 (1.44%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.44%) Puppet
7 3 (1.44%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.70%) Oracle
3 13 (6.22%) OpenAI
4 12 (5.74%) Google
5 11 (5.26%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.87%) TOWER Software
7 5 (2.39%) SAP
8 4 (1.91%) IBM
9 3 (1.44%) Arista
9 3 (1.44%) BMC
9 3 (1.44%) Cisco
9 3 (1.44%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.44%) Remedy
9 3 (1.44%) Typelevel
9 3 (1.44%) VMware
10 2 (0.96%) Checkmarx
10 2 (0.96%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.96%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.96%) PayPal