REST Contracts in the South West

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 96 104 88
Rank change year-on-year +8 -16 -1
Contract jobs citing REST 57 59 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.81% 1.70% 2.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.93% 11.11% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 44 54
10th Percentile £319 £408 £413
25th Percentile £425 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £514
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% +7.06% +17.43%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £620
90th Percentile £653 £725 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile £65.90 - £48.70
25th Percentile £73.47 - £49.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £50.00 £52.38
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -4.53% -
75th Percentile £85.00 - £59.72
90th Percentile - - £63.60
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 West

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 West 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 441 531 701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.99% 15.30% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 425 497
10th Percentile £313 £387 £363
25th Percentile £400 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £646 £625 £575
90th Percentile £702 £714 £645
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 20 32
10th Percentile £43.75 £50.00 £48.79
25th Percentile £45.00 £52.50 £49.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year - +2.36% +27.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.38 £65.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £75.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for REST in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for REST in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +20 29 £520 +9.47% 13
Devon +10 12 £550 - 2
Gloucestershire -5 7 £517 -26.21% 3
Dorset +10 4 £400 - 1
Somerset -1 2 £450 -33.82% 1
Wiltshire -10 2 £475 -13.64% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (15.79%) Apache
2 5 (8.77%) SharePoint
3 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.75%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 16 (28.07%) Azure
2 9 (15.79%) AWS
2 9 (15.79%) OpenShift
3 8 (14.04%) GCP
4 7 (12.28%) GitHub
5 5 (8.77%) Amazon Cognito
5 5 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (8.77%) Power Automate
5 5 (8.77%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.77%) PowerApps
6 4 (7.02%) Azure Stack
6 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (5.26%) Serverless
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon Macie
8 1 (1.75%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.75%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (1.75%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.54%) HTTP
2 4 (7.02%) Firewall
2 4 (7.02%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.77%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.77%) SQLite
2 5 (8.77%) Triplestore
3 4 (7.02%) CockroachDB
3 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.02%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.75%) MySQL
5 1 (1.75%) Parquet
5 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (15.79%) GitLab
2 7 (12.28%) Git
3 5 (8.77%) Checkstyle
3 5 (8.77%) SonarQube
4 4 (7.02%) Maven
5 3 (5.26%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.26%) Selenium
6 2 (3.51%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.75%) JUnit
General
1 12 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Banking
4 1 (1.75%) Finance
4 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (45.61%) Developer
2 9 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Senior
4 6 (10.53%) Software Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Java Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Applications Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Data Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Power Apps Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Power Platform Developer
7 3 (5.26%) Salesforce Developer
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Full Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Python Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.58%) CSS
2 13 (22.81%) HTML
3 11 (19.30%) Spring
3 11 (19.30%) Spring Boot
4 10 (17.54%) JSON
5 9 (15.79%) Apache NiFi
5 9 (15.79%) SAML
5 9 (15.79%) XML
6 7 (12.28%) GWT
6 7 (12.28%) JAX-RS
6 7 (12.28%) Restlet
7 6 (10.53%) .NET
7 6 (10.53%) GraphQL
7 6 (10.53%) Kafka
8 5 (8.77%) .NET Core
8 5 (8.77%) .NET Framework
8 5 (8.77%) Apache Jena
8 5 (8.77%) Flask
8 5 (8.77%) PostGIS
8 5 (8.77%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.02%) Data Structures
2 4 (7.02%) Insider Threat
2 4 (7.02%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Linux
2 8 (14.04%) Windows
3 4 (7.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (36.84%) DevOps
2 20 (35.09%) Agile
3 19 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 11 (19.30%) Containerisation
4 11 (19.30%) Test Automation
5 10 (17.54%) Microservices
5 10 (17.54%) Software Engineering
6 8 (14.04%) Data Modelling
7 7 (12.28%) TDD
8 6 (10.53%) Design Patterns
8 6 (10.53%) Event-Driven
8 6 (10.53%) Front End Development
8 6 (10.53%) SDLC
8 6 (10.53%) Web Application Development
9 5 (8.77%) Analytics
9 5 (8.77%) API Development
9 5 (8.77%) Architectural Design
9 5 (8.77%) Code Quality
9 5 (8.77%) OO
10 4 (7.02%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.82%) JavaScript
2 16 (28.07%) Java
3 12 (21.05%) Python
4 6 (10.53%) C#
4 6 (10.53%) SQL
5 5 (8.77%) SPARQL
6 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.02%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.51%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.75%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.75%) C
8 1 (1.75%) Go
8 1 (1.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (40.35%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.81%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.77%) Azure Certification
5 4 (7.02%) Degree
6 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.51%) HND
7 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) Data Quality
1 5 (8.77%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (10.53%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.02%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.02%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (24.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (14.04%) Ansible
4 6 (10.53%) Terraform
5 1 (1.75%) rkt
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.04%) Google
3 4 (7.02%) CyberArk
3 4 (7.02%) Red Hat
3 4 (7.02%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.02%) VMware
4 2 (3.51%) SAP
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle
5 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow