REST Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing REST 13 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.42% - 1.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.84% - 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile - - £451
25th Percentile £410 - £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £760
Median % change year-on-year - - +90.00%
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile £458 - £761
East of England median daily rate £420 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -13.85% -11.36% +12.82%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridgeshire

REST 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 requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 69 42 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 18.16% 8.40% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 31 86
10th Percentile £300 £363 £409
25th Percentile £340 £438 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £465 £613 £625
90th Percentile £555 £675 £713
East of England median daily rate £406 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -18.75% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile - £15.51 £14.69
Median hourly rate - £15.76 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - -43.71% +133.33%
75th Percentile - £16.26 £50.56
90th Percentile - £16.40 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.53 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.05% -14.57% +34.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for REST in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in Cambridgeshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Cambridge - 8 £420 - 5
Peterborough - 3 - -
REST
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 8 (61.54%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Power Automate
1 8 (61.54%) Power Platform
1 8 (61.54%) PowerApps
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JUnit
1 3 (23.08%) Maven
1 3 (23.08%) Mockito
General
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) Applications Developer
2 8 (61.54%) Power Apps Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Functional Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) CSS
1 8 (61.54%) HTML
1 8 (61.54%) HTML5 Canvas
2 5 (38.46%) Web Services
3 3 (23.08%) RESTful
4 2 (15.38%) Node.js
4 2 (15.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Data Encryption
1 8 (61.54%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (61.54%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
3 3 (23.08%) Low Latency
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (15.38%) OOP
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) VMware