REST Contracts in the East of England

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 94 85
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 -1
Contract jobs citing REST 17 29 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.90% 1.48% 2.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.05% 11.03% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 33
10th Percentile - £337 £402
25th Percentile £363 £464 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £488 £528 £638
90th Percentile £516 £537 £713
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +19.09% -
75th Percentile - £65.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.44 £57.50 £63.60
% change year-on-year +29.46% -9.59% +27.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 the East of England 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 281 263 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 14.88% 13.40% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 159 262
10th Percentile £325 £325 £375
25th Percentile £390 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.60% +10.13%
75th Percentile £581 £650 £605
90th Percentile £700 £700 £699
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 19 21
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £21.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% -8.70% +27.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.88 £75.25
90th Percentile £66.25 £74.80 £77.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for REST in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Hertfordshire +5 11 £400 - 4
Cambridgeshire +6 5 £475 +11.76% 14
Bedfordshire -2 1 £395 -1.25% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Power Automate
1 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
1 5 (29.41%) PowerApps
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Marketing
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Games
4 1 (5.88%) Electronics
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Applications Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Salesforce Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Systems Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Cloud Developer
6 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Genesys Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) CSS
1 11 (64.71%) HTML
2 6 (35.29%) Angular 2
2 6 (35.29%) AngularJS
2 6 (35.29%) HTML5
2 6 (35.29%) Java Concurrency
2 6 (35.29%) React
2 6 (35.29%) Spring
2 6 (35.29%) Spring Boot
2 6 (35.29%) Spring MVC
3 4 (23.53%) .NET
3 4 (23.53%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (23.53%) Visualforce
4 1 (5.88%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (5.88%) JPA
4 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.88%) SOAP
4 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Legacy Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Web Development
2 6 (35.29%) API Integration
2 6 (35.29%) Full Stack Development
2 6 (35.29%) MVC
2 6 (35.29%) Post-Production
2 6 (35.29%) Release Management
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Product Backlog
3 4 (23.53%) Workflow
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Change Management
5 2 (11.76%) CRM
5 2 (11.76%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (11.76%) Design Patterns
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL
5 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
5 2 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps
6 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
2 8 (47.06%) SQL
3 6 (35.29%) Java
3 6 (35.29%) TypeScript
4 4 (23.53%) Apex Code
4 4 (23.53%) C
4 4 (23.53%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) PMP
2 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Salesforce
2 3 (17.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.88%) Avaya
3 1 (5.88%) Computacenter
3 1 (5.88%) Genesys
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) SAP