REST Contracts in the UK excluding London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 134 111 119
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 -22
Contract jobs citing REST 338 525 664
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.67% 2.28% 2.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.38% 12.49% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 369 437
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +13.82%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £667
UK median daily rate £523 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.88% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 27
10th Percentile £26.15 £51.53 £46.23
25th Percentile £56.00 £53.81 £49.75
Median hourly rate £74.44 £57.75 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year +28.90% -9.20% +27.20%
75th Percentile £85.00 £61.81 £76.25
90th Percentile - £64.18 £78.90
UK median hourly rate £74.44 £56.25 £63.60
% change year-on-year +32.34% -11.56% +41.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 3,256 4,203 6,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.27% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,129 3,144 4,310
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £691 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 87 146
10th Percentile £21.96 £22.20 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.94 £74.13 £65.51
90th Percentile £74.85 £79.19 £76.64
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the UK excluding London 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
South East -25 87 £563 +2.27% 43
Scotland +16 86 £498 +2.05% 13
North of England -14 68 £525 -4.55% 62
South West +8 57 £529 -3.82% 22
North West -11 51 £525 -4.55% 34
Midlands +3 18 £488 -9.72% 18
Yorkshire +5 17 £460 -12.38% 23
East of England -2 17 £450 -10.00% 25
West Midlands +7 12 £475 -20.83% 9
Northern Ireland +7 8 £588 +30.56% 15
East Midlands +8 6 £577 +6.85% 9
North East +11 4 £480 -21.63% 6
Wales -6 1 - - 3
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (7.10%) Apache
2 20 (5.92%) Confluence
3 9 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.18%) Mule
6 3 (0.89%) IIS
6 3 (0.89%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.59%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.59%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.30%) CMS
8 1 (0.30%) JBoss
8 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.18%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.89%) Maximo
2 3 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (30.77%) AWS
2 69 (20.41%) Azure
3 28 (8.28%) GitHub
4 27 (7.99%) Serverless
5 25 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (7.10%) OpenShift
7 16 (4.73%) AWS CodePipeline
8 15 (4.44%) Power Platform
8 15 (4.44%) SaaS
9 14 (4.14%) GCP
10 13 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.85%) Power Automate
11 11 (3.25%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.96%) PowerApps
13 9 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.07%) AWS CodeBuild
15 7 (2.07%) Azure Functions
15 7 (2.07%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.33%) HTTP
2 12 (3.55%) BGP
3 9 (2.66%) Ethernet VPN
3 9 (2.66%) MPLS
3 9 (2.66%) Radio Access Network
3 9 (2.66%) VPN
4 8 (2.37%) SAN
5 4 (1.18%) Firewall
5 4 (1.18%) NAS
5 4 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.89%) IOS XR
7 1 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.30%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (19.53%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (8.58%) NoSQL
3 26 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 15 (4.44%) Oracle Database
5 14 (4.14%) MongoDB
5 14 (4.14%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.66%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.07%) MySQL
9 6 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (1.48%) Couchbase
10 5 (1.48%) SQLite
10 5 (1.48%) Triplestore
11 4 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.18%) CockroachDB
11 4 (1.18%) Power BI
11 4 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.89%) GIS
Development Applications
1 72 (21.30%) Jenkins
2 67 (19.82%) Git
3 52 (15.38%) JIRA
4 50 (14.79%) GitLab
5 38 (11.24%) Cucumber
6 33 (9.76%) Selenium
7 30 (8.88%) JUnit
8 29 (8.58%) SonarQube
9 25 (7.40%) REST Assured
10 14 (4.14%) Maven
11 10 (2.96%) Postman
11 10 (2.96%) TestRail
11 10 (2.96%) Visual Studio
12 9 (2.66%) Robot Framework
13 6 (1.78%) Artifactory
14 5 (1.48%) Checkstyle
14 5 (1.48%) Subversion
15 4 (1.18%) IntelliJ
15 4 (1.18%) Liquibase
15 4 (1.18%) Log4j
General
1 90 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.98%) Public Sector
3 48 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.99%) Finance
5 20 (5.92%) Law
6 13 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.85%) Police
7 9 (2.66%) Banking
8 8 (2.37%) Back Office
8 8 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.07%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.48%) Marketing
11 4 (1.18%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.89%) Legal
12 3 (0.89%) Retail
13 2 (0.59%) Games
13 2 (0.59%) German Language
13 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.30%) Automotive
14 1 (0.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 166 (49.11%) Developer
2 77 (22.78%) Java Developer
3 37 (10.95%) Senior
4 32 (9.47%) Java Engineer
5 29 (8.58%) Architect
6 24 (7.10%) Senior Developer
7 20 (5.92%) Full Stack Developer
8 19 (5.62%) Software Engineer
9 17 (5.03%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.14%) Senior Java Developer
11 13 (3.85%) Software Developer
11 13 (3.85%) Test Engineer
12 12 (3.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 11 (3.25%) Full Stack Engineer
13 11 (3.25%) Lead
13 11 (3.25%) Network Engineer
14 10 (2.96%) Java Software Engineer
15 9 (2.66%) Applications Developer
15 9 (2.66%) Data Engineer
15 9 (2.66%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (28.11%) Spring Boot
2 92 (27.22%) Spring
3 65 (19.23%) CSS
4 58 (17.16%) HTML
5 52 (15.38%) SOAP
6 49 (14.50%) React
7 43 (12.72%) JSON
8 37 (10.95%) Kafka
9 35 (10.36%) JPA
10 33 (9.76%) AngularJS
11 29 (8.58%) .NET
12 28 (8.28%) Web Services
13 27 (7.99%) Hibernate
14 26 (7.69%) XML
15 25 (7.40%) Java EE
16 21 (6.21%) GraphQL
16 21 (6.21%) Node.js
17 15 (4.44%) ARM Templates
17 15 (4.44%) OAuth
17 15 (4.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.03%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (4.14%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.66%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.78%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.78%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (1.78%) Reference Data
6 6 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.78%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.18%) Insider Threat
8 4 (1.18%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.59%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.59%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.59%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.88%) Linux
2 23 (6.80%) Windows
3 9 (2.66%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.07%) Unix
5 3 (0.89%) Android
5 3 (0.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (43.20%) Agile
2 114 (33.73%) DevOps
3 112 (33.14%) CI/CD
4 71 (21.01%) Microservices
5 62 (18.34%) Test Automation
6 61 (18.05%) Software Engineering
7 55 (16.27%) Continuous Integration
8 52 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (15.38%) Scrum
9 42 (12.43%) Containerisation
10 40 (11.83%) Decision-Making
10 40 (11.83%) Full Stack Development
10 40 (11.83%) TDD
11 33 (9.76%) SDLC
11 33 (9.76%) Technical Leadership
12 32 (9.47%) Front End Development
12 32 (9.47%) Unit Testing
13 30 (8.88%) Workflow
14 27 (7.99%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (7.40%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 161 (47.63%) Java
2 94 (27.81%) SQL
3 68 (20.12%) JavaScript
4 62 (18.34%) Python
5 45 (13.31%) TypeScript
6 31 (9.17%) C#
7 15 (4.44%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.85%) Go
9 11 (3.25%) Perl
10 10 (2.96%) Bash
11 7 (2.07%) C
11 7 (2.07%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.78%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.48%) SPARQL
14 4 (1.18%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.18%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.18%) VB
14 4 (1.18%) VB6
15 3 (0.89%) BeanShell
15 3 (0.89%) C++
Qualifications
1 103 (30.47%) Security Cleared
2 75 (22.19%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.06%) DV Cleared
4 13 (3.85%) Degree
5 9 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.78%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.59%) HND
7 2 (0.59%) PMP
8 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.30%) CISM
8 1 (0.30%) CISSP
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.03%) QA
2 10 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.07%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.30%) SLA
4 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 78 (23.08%) Docker
2 4 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.18%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.89%) OpenAM
3 3 (0.89%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 60 (17.75%) Kubernetes
2 51 (15.09%) Ansible
3 35 (10.36%) Terraform
4 12 (3.55%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (3.55%) Podman
5 10 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (2.66%) Grafana
7 5 (1.48%) Kibana
8 4 (1.18%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.18%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.30%) rkt
Vendors
1 32 (9.47%) Oracle
2 29 (8.58%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.44%) Salesforce
4 14 (4.14%) Google
4 14 (4.14%) SAP
5 12 (3.55%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.37%) IBM
7 7 (2.07%) Pega
8 5 (1.48%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.48%) EMC
8 5 (1.48%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.48%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.18%) Infragistics
9 4 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (1.18%) Veritas
9 4 (1.18%) VMware
10 3 (0.89%) ForgeRock
10 3 (0.89%) Nintex
10 3 (0.89%) Splunk
10 3 (0.89%) TOWER Software