Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JAX-RS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JAX-RS over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 668 770
Rank change year-on-year +133 +102 -127
Contract jobs citing JAX-RS 51 30 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.052% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.57% 0.22% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 23 58
10th Percentile £308 £530 £472
25th Percentile £413 £656 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £540
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +29.63% +13.68%
75th Percentile £738 - £673
90th Percentile £750 £750 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -46.43% +7.69% +36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £63.95
25th Percentile - - £66.13
Median hourly rate - - £69.75
75th Percentile - - £73.38
90th Percentile - - £75.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £77.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JAX-RS 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 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 8,917 13,508 23,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.73% 23.22% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,178 9,847 17,358
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 156 240
10th Percentile £21.25 £30.38 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.60
90th Percentile £74.85 £81.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +28.00% +11.11%

JAX-RS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JAX-RS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JAX-RS.

Daily rate trend for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JAX-RS over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JAX-RS.

Hourly rate trend for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JAX-RS within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +122 43 £488 -30.36% 2
London +114 30 £600 -14.29% 1
Work from Home +118 17 £525 -25.00% 2
UK excluding London +57 10 £375 -46.43% 1
South West +19 7 £300 -57.14% 1
North of England +9 2 £450 -35.71%
Yorkshire +6 2 £450 -35.71%
South East - 1 - -

JAX-RS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (5.88%) nginx
1 3 (5.88%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 23 (45.10%) GCP
2 9 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
2 9 (17.65%) AWS
3 6 (11.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 6 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (35.29%) MongoDB
2 7 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.96%) MySQL
4 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (47.06%) Mockito
2 16 (31.37%) Maven
3 9 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 9 (17.65%) JUnit
3 9 (17.65%) TestNG
4 6 (11.76%) Cucumber
4 6 (11.76%) Selenium
5 5 (9.80%) EasyMock
6 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.88%) Cypress.io
6 3 (5.88%) Git
6 3 (5.88%) GitLab
6 3 (5.88%) Gradle
6 3 (5.88%) JMeter
6 3 (5.88%) Mocha
6 3 (5.88%) Postman
6 3 (5.88%) REST Assured
6 3 (5.88%) SoapUI
6 3 (5.88%) SonarQube
6 3 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 2 (3.92%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (88.24%) Developer
2 41 (80.39%) Java Developer
3 15 (29.41%) Senior
3 15 (29.41%) Senior Developer
3 15 (29.41%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (9.80%) Digital Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Backend Developer
5 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Java Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Automation Tester
7 2 (3.92%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Tester
8 1 (1.96%) Agile Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Agile Java Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Senior Agile Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Senior Agile Java Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Senior Backend Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (62.75%) REST
1 32 (62.75%) Spring Boot
2 31 (60.78%) Spring
3 23 (45.10%) Restlet
4 22 (43.14%) GWT
5 21 (41.18%) Kafka
5 21 (41.18%) SAML
6 18 (35.29%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (11.76%) WireMock
8 3 (5.88%) Chai
8 3 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (5.88%) Gherkin
8 3 (5.88%) Guice
8 3 (5.88%) JAXB
8 3 (5.88%) Middleware
8 3 (5.88%) Mustache
8 3 (5.88%) Node.js
8 3 (5.88%) OpenAPI
8 3 (5.88%) SOAP
8 3 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Insider Threat
2 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.92%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (33.33%) Linux
1 17 (33.33%) Mac OS X
1 17 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (60.78%) Test Automation
2 25 (49.02%) TDD
3 22 (43.14%) Agile
4 21 (41.18%) BDD
4 21 (41.18%) Microservices
5 18 (35.29%) Pair Programming
5 18 (35.29%) Web Development
6 17 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 16 (31.37%) Responsive Web Design
7 16 (31.37%) Web Design
8 7 (13.73%) Risk Assessment
9 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
9 6 (11.76%) Cloud Security
9 6 (11.76%) MVC
10 5 (9.80%) User Experience
11 4 (7.84%) UX Design
12 3 (5.88%) Dependency Injection
12 3 (5.88%) Multithreading
12 3 (5.88%) OOP
12 3 (5.88%) Performance Improvement
Programming Languages
1 51 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.88%) Python
3 3 (5.88%) SQL
4 2 (3.92%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 17 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (39.22%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.76%) Terraform
4 3 (5.88%) Ansible
4 3 (5.88%) Kustomize
4 3 (5.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 23 (45.10%) Google
2 4 (7.84%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.88%) Oracle
3 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.92%) SAP