REST Contracts in Manchester

Representational State Transfer (REST)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 60 61 52
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing REST 37 47 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.57% 2.63% 4.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.79% 12.70% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 36 86
10th Percentile £402 £422 £425
25th Percentile £441 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% +12.30%
75th Percentile £598 £586 £588
90th Percentile £673 £606 £663
North West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £81.00
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +219.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester 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 343 370 825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 23.79% 20.74% 31.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 292 609
10th Percentile £363 £338 £375
25th Percentile £428 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £634 £575 £600
90th Percentile £825 £638 £651
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% +21.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 20
10th Percentile £65.50 - £14.25
25th Percentile £67.50 - £16.88
Median hourly rate £71.87 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +198.25%
75th Percentile £74.50 - £75.00
90th Percentile £81.30 - £81.00
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £70.00
% change year-on-year +19.32% -42.01% +118.75%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Manchester

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for REST in Manchester

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for REST in Manchester

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in Manchester

REST
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Manchester 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
Salford 0 1 £425 -15.00% 2
REST
North West

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (2.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) AWS
2 6 (16.22%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Stack
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (8.11%) Boomi
5 2 (5.41%) SaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) BigCommerce
6 1 (2.70%) Figma
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (21.62%) Relational Database
2 4 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (10.81%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (5.41%) MySQL
4 1 (2.70%) Flink
4 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Git
1 9 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 7 (18.92%) JUnit
3 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.70%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) Gradle
3 1 (2.70%) Postman
3 1 (2.70%) Selenium
General
1 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) Developer
2 14 (37.84%) Java Developer
3 11 (29.73%) Architect
4 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Data Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Pega Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Integration Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.41%) C++ Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Junior
7 2 (5.41%) Junior Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Junior Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Lead
7 2 (5.41%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Angular Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Full Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Full Stack JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (40.54%) Spring
1 15 (40.54%) Spring Boot
2 14 (37.84%) Hibernate
2 14 (37.84%) JPA
3 9 (24.32%) React
4 8 (21.62%) SOAP
4 8 (21.62%) Spring Security
5 4 (10.81%) GraphQL
5 4 (10.81%) JSON
5 4 (10.81%) XML
6 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
6 3 (8.11%) HTML
6 3 (8.11%) HTML5
6 3 (8.11%) RAML
7 2 (5.41%) CSS
7 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (5.41%) Node.js
8 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (2.70%) jOOQ
8 1 (2.70%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Data Structures
1 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
1 4 (10.81%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) Agile
2 14 (37.84%) Front End Development
3 11 (29.73%) Microservices
4 10 (27.03%) DevOps
5 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
6 8 (21.62%) Observability
7 6 (16.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 6 (16.22%) High Availability
7 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
7 6 (16.22%) Scrum
7 6 (16.22%) Unit Testing
8 4 (10.81%) Change Management
8 4 (10.81%) Data Lineage
8 4 (10.81%) Data Management
8 4 (10.81%) Data Mapping
8 4 (10.81%) Data Modelling
8 4 (10.81%) Data Protection
8 4 (10.81%) Data Strategy
8 4 (10.81%) GAP Analysis
8 4 (10.81%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) Java
2 9 (24.32%) TypeScript
3 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.41%) C
4 2 (5.41%) C++
4 2 (5.41%) Python
4 2 (5.41%) SQL
5 1 (2.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 14 (37.84%) SC Cleared
3 9 (24.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Data Quality
1 4 (10.81%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Terraform
3 2 (5.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Pega
2 1 (2.70%) Google