RESTful Contracts in the UK excluding London

RESTful
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 197 256 151
Rank change year-on-year +59 -105 -3
Contract jobs citing RESTful 216 209 534
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.06% 0.91% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.63% 4.97% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 148 377
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £413 £424 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £563
90th Percentile £625 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £503 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -12.61% +5.50% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 19
10th Percentile £47.70 - £31.05
25th Percentile £65.00 - £48.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £65.21
90th Percentile £87.00 - £69.80
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
UK excluding London

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 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%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
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 RESTful 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
North of England +50 84 £495 -10.61% 63
North West +53 64 £495 +6.45% 27
Scotland +53 43 £400 -15.79% 17
South East -4 31 £450 -1.10% 34
Midlands +15 22 £500 -4.76% 33
East of England +10 18 £500 +9.29% 14
South West +8 15 £538 - 20
Yorkshire +2 15 £503 -14.10% 24
West Midlands +22 12 £607 +26.13% 24
East Midlands +6 10 £435 -19.07% 9
North East +14 5 £500 - 13
Wales +9 3 £438 -16.67% 7
RESTful
UK

RESTful
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 10 (4.63%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.70%) Confluence
3 5 (2.31%) Apache
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.93%) CMS
4 2 (0.93%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.46%) Appian
5 1 (0.46%) Jadu
5 1 (0.46%) JBoss
5 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 98 (45.37%) AWS
2 49 (22.69%) Azure
3 24 (11.11%) GCP
4 15 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (4.63%) Serverless
6 8 (3.70%) npm
7 6 (2.78%) GitHub
7 6 (2.78%) OpenShift
8 5 (2.31%) Azure AKS
8 5 (2.31%) Azure App Service
9 4 (1.85%) Apigee
9 4 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.39%) BrowserStack
10 3 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.39%) SaaS
10 3 (1.39%) Yarn
11 2 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.93%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.93%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.63%) HTTP
2 6 (2.78%) Kerberos
3 5 (2.31%) SSL
4 4 (1.85%) Firewall
4 4 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.39%) BGP
5 3 (1.39%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.39%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 21 (9.72%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.41%) MySQL
3 16 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 15 (6.94%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.85%) Redis
8 3 (1.39%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.39%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.93%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.46%) Big Data
10 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.46%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 40 (18.52%) Git
2 27 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.33%) GitLab
4 17 (7.87%) Android Studio
5 15 (6.94%) Mockito
6 13 (6.02%) JIRA
7 12 (5.56%) Bitbucket
8 11 (5.09%) JUnit
9 8 (3.70%) webpack
10 7 (3.24%) Selenium
11 6 (2.78%) Xcode
12 5 (2.31%) XCUITest
13 4 (1.85%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.85%) Cucumber
13 4 (1.85%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.85%) Maven
14 3 (1.39%) gulp
14 3 (1.39%) Jasmine
14 3 (1.39%) Karma Test Runner
14 3 (1.39%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (17.13%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.19%) Finance
3 17 (7.87%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.02%) Banking
5 9 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.93%) Automotive
8 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.93%) Retail
9 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.46%) Publishing
9 1 (0.46%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 123 (56.94%) Developer
2 38 (17.59%) Software Engineer
3 29 (13.43%) Java Developer
4 27 (12.50%) Senior
5 17 (7.87%) Android Developer
6 16 (7.41%) Architect
6 16 (7.41%) Senior Developer
7 11 (5.09%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (4.63%) .NET Developer
9 9 (4.17%) Backend Developer
10 8 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (3.24%) iOS Developer
12 6 (2.78%) Angular Developer
12 6 (2.78%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (2.78%) Full Stack Engineer
12 6 (2.78%) Node.js Developer
12 6 (2.78%) Software Developer
13 5 (2.31%) C# Developer
13 5 (2.31%) React Developer
13 5 (2.31%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (21.30%) Node.js
2 38 (17.59%) Spring
3 36 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 29 (13.43%) React
4 29 (13.43%) Web Services
5 28 (12.96%) .NET
6 27 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 21 (9.72%) Kafka
8 19 (8.80%) XML
9 18 (8.33%) CSS
10 17 (7.87%) HTML
11 16 (7.41%) OAuth
11 16 (7.41%) OpenID
12 15 (6.94%) SOAP
13 14 (6.48%) JSON
14 13 (6.02%) .NET Core
15 11 (5.09%) .NET Framework
15 11 (5.09%) Swagger
16 10 (4.63%) GraphQL
16 10 (4.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 16 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 15 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.94%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.63%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.24%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.31%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.31%) Verilog
8 5 (2.31%) VHDL
9 3 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.93%) IoT
10 2 (0.93%) IVR
10 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.93%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (0.93%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.93%) PKI
10 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.57%) Android
2 14 (6.48%) Linux
3 12 (5.56%) Apple iOS
4 11 (5.09%) Windows
5 7 (3.24%) VMS
6 6 (2.78%) Unix
7 4 (1.85%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (1.39%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (38.43%) Agile
2 75 (34.72%) Microservices
3 56 (25.93%) Software Engineering
4 53 (24.54%) CI/CD
5 34 (15.74%) DevOps
6 30 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
6 30 (13.89%) Design Patterns
7 27 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 26 (12.04%) SDLC
9 20 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (9.26%) TDD
9 20 (9.26%) User Experience
10 19 (8.80%) End-to-End Testing
10 19 (8.80%) Scrum
10 19 (8.80%) Unit Testing
11 18 (8.33%) Containerisation
12 17 (7.87%) Android Development
13 14 (6.48%) Clean Code
13 14 (6.48%) Full Stack Development
13 14 (6.48%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 97 (44.91%) Java
2 58 (26.85%) SQL
3 49 (22.69%) JavaScript
4 34 (15.74%) C#
5 33 (15.28%) Python
6 30 (13.89%) Kotlin
7 29 (13.43%) TypeScript
8 17 (7.87%) C
9 16 (7.41%) Scala
10 10 (4.63%) C++
11 8 (3.70%) Go
12 7 (3.24%) PHP
12 7 (3.24%) Swift
13 5 (2.31%) Bicep
13 5 (2.31%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.85%) Bash
14 4 (1.85%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.46%) Dart
16 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (11.57%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.48%) Degree
3 13 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.48%) QA
2 7 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.85%) GDPR
3 4 (1.85%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.93%) WCAG
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (19.44%) Docker
2 9 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.85%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 33 (15.28%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.72%) Terraform
3 9 (4.17%) Ansible
3 9 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.70%) Zipkin
5 6 (2.78%) Grafana
6 1 (0.46%) Anchore
6 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.46%) Istio
6 1 (0.46%) Kibana
6 1 (0.46%) Nagios
6 1 (0.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (7.87%) Oracle
2 13 (6.02%) Google
3 10 (4.63%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.78%) Cadence
5 3 (1.39%) Adobe
5 3 (1.39%) Cisco
5 3 (1.39%) Genesys
5 3 (1.39%) TOWER Software
6 2 (0.93%) IBM
6 2 (0.93%) SAP
6 2 (0.93%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.46%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.46%) Avaya
7 1 (0.46%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.46%) Confluent
7 1 (0.46%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.46%) OpenText
7 1 (0.46%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.46%) Typelevel