REST Contracts in the South East

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 107 82 120
Rank change year-on-year -25 +38 -37
Contract jobs citing REST 87 143 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.60% 2.56% 1.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.48% 14.33% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 88 103
10th Percentile £352 £425 £415
25th Percentile £428 £481 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -1.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £666 £623 £650
90th Percentile £705 £700 £723
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £23.18 - -
25th Percentile £23.81 - -
Median hourly rate £25.75 - £62.15
75th Percentile £27.81 - -
90th Percentile £28.53 - -
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
South East

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 South East 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 697 998 1,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.81% 17.86% 19.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 715 992
10th Percentile £313 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £608
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 35 37
10th Percentile £36.40 £50.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.65 £56.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +100.00% -22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £79.83 £65.22
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for REST in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for REST in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the South East 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
Thames Valley -34 51 £625 +19.05% 16
Berkshire -32 46 £650 +23.81% 9
West Sussex +13 12 £353 -39.22% 2
Hampshire -17 10 £450 -35.71% 9
Surrey +5 9 £524 -6.22% 7
Buckinghamshire +31 3 £438 - 3
Oxfordshire -3 2 £350 -41.67% 4
Kent - 2 £500 -
Sussex - 1 £350 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (11.49%) Apache
2 9 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.60%) Confluence
4 3 (3.45%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.30%) GeoServer
6 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.15%) JBoss
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.03%) Azure
2 23 (26.44%) AWS
3 9 (10.34%) GitHub
3 9 (10.34%) Serverless
4 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.60%) Azure Functions
6 4 (4.60%) GCP
7 3 (3.45%) Azure API Management
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.45%) SaaS
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.30%) Boomi
9 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.79%) BGP
2 9 (10.34%) Ethernet VPN
2 9 (10.34%) MPLS
2 9 (10.34%) Radio Access Network
2 9 (10.34%) VPN
3 5 (5.75%) HTTP
4 3 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (3.45%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (28.74%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (24.14%) NoSQL
3 11 (12.64%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.05%) Relational Database
4 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (5.75%) Couchbase
7 4 (4.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.30%) GIS
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.15%) Power BI
10 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.15%) Redis
10 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (43.68%) Jenkins
2 31 (35.63%) JIRA
3 29 (33.33%) GitLab
4 27 (31.03%) Cucumber
4 27 (31.03%) Selenium
5 24 (27.59%) REST Assured
5 24 (27.59%) SonarQube
6 15 (17.24%) Git
7 9 (10.34%) Robot Framework
7 9 (10.34%) TestRail
8 4 (4.60%) JUnit
8 4 (4.60%) Visual Studio
9 3 (3.45%) Subversion
10 2 (2.30%) JMeter
10 2 (2.30%) VersionOne
11 1 (1.15%) Appium
11 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.15%) CircleCI
11 1 (1.15%) Gradle
General
1 34 (39.08%) Social Skills
2 29 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (22.99%) Law
4 13 (14.94%) Police
5 6 (6.90%) Finance
6 5 (5.75%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.30%) German Language
7 2 (2.30%) Legal
7 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.30%) Retail
8 1 (1.15%) Automotive
8 1 (1.15%) Aviation
8 1 (1.15%) Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.15%) Publishing
8 1 (1.15%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (36.78%) Developer
2 18 (20.69%) Java Engineer
3 12 (13.79%) Senior
4 11 (12.64%) Java Developer
4 11 (12.64%) Network Engineer
4 11 (12.64%) Software Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Test Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Architect
7 6 (6.90%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Full Stack Developer
8 5 (5.75%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.75%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Integration Developer
9 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (28.74%) Java EE
2 21 (24.14%) SOAP
3 15 (17.24%) ARM Templates
4 13 (14.94%) YANG
5 11 (12.64%) JSON
6 10 (11.49%) Kafka
6 10 (11.49%) Spring
7 9 (10.34%) NETCONF
7 9 (10.34%) RESTCONF
7 9 (10.34%) Spring Boot
8 8 (9.20%) .NET
8 8 (9.20%) HTML
8 8 (9.20%) Web Services
9 7 (8.05%) AngularJS
9 7 (8.05%) CSS
9 7 (8.05%) OpenID
9 7 (8.05%) React
9 7 (8.05%) RESTful
9 7 (8.05%) XML
10 6 (6.90%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.30%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.30%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.15%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.15%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.15%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.05%) Linux
2 2 (2.30%) Windows
3 1 (1.15%) Android
3 1 (1.15%) Unix
3 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.83%) Test Automation
2 36 (41.38%) DevOps
3 34 (39.08%) Agile
4 33 (37.93%) Continuous Integration
5 31 (35.63%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (34.48%) Software Engineering
6 30 (34.48%) Technical Leadership
7 27 (31.03%) CI/CD
8 25 (28.74%) Decision-Making
8 25 (28.74%) Software Architecture
9 22 (25.29%) Containerisation
10 21 (24.14%) Scrum
11 16 (18.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (16.09%) Microservices
13 13 (14.94%) Configuration Management
13 13 (14.94%) TDD
14 12 (13.79%) Regression Testing
14 12 (13.79%) Security Testing
15 11 (12.64%) Unit Testing
15 11 (12.64%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 42 (48.28%) Java
2 29 (33.33%) SQL
3 20 (22.99%) Python
4 15 (17.24%) JavaScript
5 12 (13.79%) Go
6 7 (8.05%) C#
7 5 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.60%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.45%) Bash
10 2 (2.30%) ABAP
10 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.15%) C++
11 1 (1.15%) Groovy
11 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (37.93%) SC Cleared
1 33 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (6.90%) Degree
3 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.15%) CISM
3 1 (1.15%) CISSP
3 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.15%) QA
1 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (39.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (35.63%) Ansible
2 23 (26.44%) Kubernetes
3 14 (16.09%) Terraform
4 12 (13.79%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (13.79%) Podman
5 1 (1.15%) Kibana
5 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (6.90%) SAP
2 5 (5.75%) Oracle
3 4 (4.60%) Google
4 3 (3.45%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (3.45%) Cisco
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.45%) TOWER Software
5 2 (2.30%) IBM
6 1 (1.15%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.15%) Dell
6 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.15%) Splunk