REST Contracts in Berkshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 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 80 51 88
Rank change year-on-year -29 +37 -18
Contract jobs citing REST 40 64 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.08% 3.60% 1.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.65% 20.58% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 39 35
10th Percentile £533 £420 £404
25th Percentile £575 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £688 £594 £598
90th Percentile £718 £627 £630
South East median daily rate £575 £550 £568
% change year-on-year +4.55% -3.08% +13.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

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 advertised in Berkshire 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 293 311 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.20% 17.51% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 225 295
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +11.41%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £600
90th Percentile £651 £704 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 5
10th Percentile £56.61 £52.90 £30.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +28.05% +64.00%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £68.25
90th Percentile £61.72 £80.48 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -5.23% +44.44% -14.29%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for REST in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Reading -20 38 £650 +23.81% 4
Maidenhead -6 1 - -
Newbury - 1 - -
REST
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (17.50%) Apache
1 7 (17.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.50%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.50%) JBoss
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) AWS
2 14 (35.00%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) Serverless
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) BGP
1 7 (17.50%) Ethernet VPN
1 7 (17.50%) MPLS
1 7 (17.50%) Radio Access Network
1 7 (17.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (72.50%) Jenkins
2 25 (62.50%) Cucumber
2 25 (62.50%) Selenium
3 24 (60.00%) REST Assured
3 24 (60.00%) SonarQube
4 20 (50.00%) GitLab
4 20 (50.00%) JIRA
5 7 (17.50%) Robot Framework
5 7 (17.50%) TestRail
6 4 (10.00%) Git
7 2 (5.00%) JUnit
8 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.50%) JMeter
8 1 (2.50%) Mockito
8 1 (2.50%) NWDI
8 1 (2.50%) NWDS
8 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (50.00%) Law
4 13 (32.50%) Police
5 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Java Engineer
2 12 (30.00%) Developer
3 9 (22.50%) Java Developer
4 8 (20.00%) Senior
5 6 (15.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (15.00%) Network Engineer
5 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 6 (15.00%) Software Engineer
5 6 (15.00%) Test Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Architect
8 3 (7.50%) Java Architect
8 3 (7.50%) Java Technical Architect
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Technical Architect
9 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (62.50%) Java EE
2 13 (32.50%) ARM Templates
3 10 (25.00%) SOAP
4 8 (20.00%) YANG
5 7 (17.50%) NETCONF
5 7 (17.50%) RESTCONF
6 4 (10.00%) Node.js
6 4 (10.00%) React
6 4 (10.00%) Spring
6 4 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 4 (10.00%) Web Services
7 3 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (7.50%) HTML
7 3 (7.50%) JSON
7 3 (7.50%) Kafka
8 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 2 (5.00%) Apache Camel
8 2 (5.00%) Mustache
8 2 (5.00%) XML
9 1 (2.50%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 27 (67.50%) DevOps
3 26 (65.00%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
4 25 (62.50%) Decision-Making
4 25 (62.50%) Software Architecture
4 25 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
5 22 (55.00%) Software Engineering
6 19 (47.50%) Containerisation
7 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (32.50%) Configuration Management
9 12 (30.00%) Agile
9 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
9 12 (30.00%) Scrum
10 9 (22.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 8 (20.00%) Security Testing
11 8 (20.00%) Workflow
12 7 (17.50%) Integration Testing
12 7 (17.50%) Performance Testing
12 7 (17.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (77.50%) Java
2 9 (22.50%) Python
2 9 (22.50%) SQL
3 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.50%) C#
4 1 (2.50%) Groovy
4 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 28 (70.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (57.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (62.50%) Ansible
2 16 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (32.50%) Terraform
4 12 (30.00%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (30.00%) Podman
5 1 (2.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.50%) Google
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle
2 1 (2.50%) Splunk