RESTful Contracts in England

RESTful
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 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 207 189 140
Rank change year-on-year -18 -49 -12
Contract jobs citing RESTful 421 666 1,366
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.16% 1.38% 1.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.62% 6.02% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 491 976
10th Percentile £384 £386 £398
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £710 £660
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £503 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -12.61% +5.50% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 26
10th Percentile £47.70 £62.70 £35.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +21.70% +12.05%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £67.88
90th Percentile £87.00 £77.00 £81.16
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% +25.00% +30.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 advertised in 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 7,485 11,072 18,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.57% 22.98% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,308 8,225 14,183
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 132 215
10th Percentile £22.50 £26.18 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in England

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RESTful in England.

Daily rate trend for RESTful in England

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in England

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RESTful in England.

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in England

RESTful
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing RESTful in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for RESTful in England

RESTful
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the 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
London -31 230 £575 -11.54% 125
North of England +50 84 £495 -10.61% 67
North West +53 64 £495 +6.45% 30
South East -4 31 £450 -1.10% 35
Midlands +15 22 £500 -4.76% 33
East of England +10 18 £500 +9.29% 14
South West +8 15 £538 - 22
Yorkshire +2 15 £503 -14.10% 25
West Midlands +22 12 £607 +26.13% 23
East Midlands +6 10 £435 -19.07% 10
North East +14 5 £500 - 13
RESTful
UK

RESTful
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 14 (3.33%) Confluence
2 9 (2.14%) Apache
3 7 (1.66%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.19%) CMS
5 3 (0.71%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.48%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.48%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.48%) Jadu
6 2 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.24%) Appian
7 1 (0.24%) CICS
7 1 (0.24%) CoreMedia CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
7 1 (0.24%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (1.66%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.43%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.48%) Shopify
4 1 (0.24%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.24%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.24%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 192 (45.61%) AWS
2 103 (24.47%) Azure
3 74 (17.58%) GCP
4 36 (8.55%) Serverless
5 30 (7.13%) GitHub
6 27 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.99%) Amazon S3
7 21 (4.99%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (4.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (3.09%) npm
10 12 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.61%) AWS Step Functions
11 11 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (2.14%) PaaS
13 8 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (1.90%) Azure Functions
13 8 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (1.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 48 (11.40%) HTTP
2 10 (2.38%) Firewall
3 7 (1.66%) SSL
4 6 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.19%) BGP
5 5 (1.19%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.71%) IOS XR
7 2 (0.48%) DMVPN
7 2 (0.48%) HSRP
7 2 (0.48%) MPLS
7 2 (0.48%) Network Security
7 2 (0.48%) OSPF
7 2 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.48%) SNMP
7 2 (0.48%) Spanning Tree
7 2 (0.48%) VLAN
7 2 (0.48%) VPN
7 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (15.68%) NoSQL
2 50 (11.88%) MongoDB
3 38 (9.03%) SQL Server
4 36 (8.55%) Apache Cassandra
5 27 (6.41%) MySQL
6 23 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (5.46%) Relational Database
7 15 (3.56%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.38%) Redis
9 9 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.66%) Power BI
12 5 (1.19%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.95%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.95%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.71%) Big Data
14 3 (0.71%) Tableau
15 2 (0.48%) GIS
Development Applications
1 80 (19.00%) Git
2 34 (8.08%) Jenkins
3 23 (5.46%) GitLab
4 21 (4.99%) JIRA
5 19 (4.51%) Mockito
6 17 (4.04%) Android Studio
7 13 (3.09%) Maven
7 13 (3.09%) TeamCity
8 12 (2.85%) webpack
9 11 (2.61%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.61%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.61%) JUnit
9 11 (2.61%) Selenium
10 9 (2.14%) Moq
11 8 (1.90%) Cypress.io
11 8 (1.90%) NUnit
11 8 (1.90%) Visual Studio
12 7 (1.66%) SonarQube
12 7 (1.66%) Xcode
13 6 (1.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 100 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 54 (12.83%) Finance
3 38 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.60%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.99%) Banking
6 14 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 12 (2.85%) Front Office
8 8 (1.90%) Marketing
9 7 (1.66%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.66%) Retail
10 5 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.95%) Electronics
11 4 (0.95%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.71%) Advertising
12 3 (0.71%) Back Office
12 3 (0.71%) Law
12 3 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.71%) Publishing
13 2 (0.48%) French Language
13 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 244 (57.96%) Developer
2 59 (14.01%) Senior
3 49 (11.64%) Software Engineer
4 35 (8.31%) Scala Developer
5 30 (7.13%) Architect
5 30 (7.13%) Senior Developer
6 25 (5.94%) Java Developer
7 22 (5.23%) Software Developer
8 20 (4.75%) Full Stack Developer
9 18 (4.28%) Android Developer
9 18 (4.28%) C# Developer
10 17 (4.04%) .NET Developer
10 17 (4.04%) Lead
10 17 (4.04%) Python Developer
11 16 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (3.09%) Consultant
12 13 (3.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 12 (2.85%) Python Engineer
13 12 (2.85%) React Developer
14 11 (2.61%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (19.24%) Node.js
2 66 (15.68%) Kafka
3 65 (15.44%) .NET
4 60 (14.25%) React
5 54 (12.83%) Web Services
6 50 (11.88%) CSS
7 49 (11.64%) HTML
8 46 (10.93%) Spring
9 42 (9.98%) AngularJS
10 38 (9.03%) SOAP
11 37 (8.79%) Akka
12 34 (8.08%) Spring Boot
13 33 (7.84%) OAuth
14 29 (6.89%) .NET Core
15 27 (6.41%) JSON
15 27 (6.41%) XML
16 25 (5.94%) REST
17 22 (5.23%) RabbitMQ
18 20 (4.75%) GraphQL
19 19 (4.51%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.18%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (5.70%) Mobile App
4 19 (4.51%) Data Structures
5 17 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 16 (3.80%) Algorithms
7 15 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.38%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.66%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.43%) IVR
11 5 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.19%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.19%) Verilog
11 5 (1.19%) VHDL
12 4 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.95%) PKI
13 3 (0.71%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.13%) Linux
2 27 (6.41%) Android
3 14 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.85%) Windows
5 8 (1.90%) Unix
6 4 (0.95%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.71%) VMS
7 3 (0.71%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (37.53%) Agile
2 149 (35.39%) Microservices
3 111 (26.37%) DevOps
4 96 (22.80%) CI/CD
5 74 (17.58%) TDD
6 72 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (16.39%) Software Engineering
8 56 (13.30%) Unit Testing
9 51 (12.11%) Test Automation
10 47 (11.16%) Continuous Integration
11 44 (10.45%) Design Patterns
12 40 (9.50%) User Experience
13 39 (9.26%) Clean Code
14 37 (8.79%) Full Stack Development
15 34 (8.08%) API Development
15 34 (8.08%) Computer Science
15 34 (8.08%) Containerisation
15 34 (8.08%) Scrum
16 33 (7.84%) Machine Learning
16 33 (7.84%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 127 (30.17%) Java
2 117 (27.79%) SQL
3 99 (23.52%) JavaScript
4 97 (23.04%) Python
5 67 (15.91%) C#
6 47 (11.16%) TypeScript
7 40 (9.50%) Scala
8 22 (5.23%) Kotlin
9 17 (4.04%) C++
10 14 (3.33%) PHP
11 11 (2.61%) C
11 11 (2.61%) Go
11 11 (2.61%) PowerShell
11 11 (2.61%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.38%) Swift
13 6 (1.43%) Bash
13 6 (1.43%) Bicep
13 6 (1.43%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (12.59%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.50%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.79%) Degree
4 25 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.43%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.71%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CCNP
9 1 (0.24%) CEH
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
9 1 (0.24%) GCIA
9 1 (0.24%) GCIH
9 1 (0.24%) GIAC
9 1 (0.24%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.28%) QA
2 12 (2.85%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.19%) GDPR
4 4 (0.95%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.48%) NCSC
6 1 (0.24%) NIST
6 1 (0.24%) SLA
6 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (20.67%) Docker
2 9 (2.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.95%) VirtualBox
5 3 (0.71%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (23.28%) Kubernetes
2 36 (8.55%) Terraform
3 22 (5.23%) Grafana
4 16 (3.80%) Ansible
5 14 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.14%) Consul
7 6 (1.43%) Kibana
8 2 (0.48%) logstash
9 1 (0.24%) Anchore
9 1 (0.24%) Argo
9 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.24%) Nagios
9 1 (0.24%) Packer
9 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (7.60%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.36%) Oracle
3 20 (4.75%) Typelevel
4 19 (4.51%) Google
5 11 (2.61%) SaltStack
6 10 (2.38%) SAP
6 10 (2.38%) TIBCO
7 8 (1.90%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.90%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.66%) Genesys
8 7 (1.66%) IBM
9 6 (1.43%) NEC
10 5 (1.19%) Cisco
11 4 (0.95%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.71%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.71%) Checkmarx
12 3 (0.71%) Micro Focus
12 3 (0.71%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.71%) TOWER Software
13 2 (0.48%) MuleSoft