REST Contracts with Work from Home Options

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 82 75
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing REST 349 661 1,452
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.38% 2.76% 3.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.46% 11.05% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 452 985
10th Percentile £406 £413 £401
25th Percentile £456 £460 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £518 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.91% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 15
10th Percentile - £43.13 £49.45
25th Percentile £22.75 £51.56 £53.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.27% -21.43% +75.00%
75th Percentile £24.25 £58.44 £76.67
90th Percentile - £62.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +55.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,691 5,982 13,176
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.18% 25.00% 29.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 4,484 9,777
10th Percentile £344 £390 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 78 111
10th Percentile £23.88 £24.78 £22.50
25th Percentile - £47.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £63.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.02% +20.48% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £66.27
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.20 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

REST trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing REST.

REST daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing REST over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

REST daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing REST.

REST hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 18 (5.16%) Confluence
2 10 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.58%) CMS
4 7 (2.01%) Apache
5 6 (1.72%) Anypoint
5 6 (1.72%) Mule
6 5 (1.43%) Mule ESB
7 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.86%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.57%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.57%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.57%) JBoss
9 2 (0.57%) SAS
9 2 (0.57%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.29%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.57%) Shopify
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 100 (28.65%) Azure
2 84 (24.07%) AWS
3 37 (10.60%) GitHub
4 29 (8.31%) GCP
5 28 (8.02%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (6.30%) Serverless
7 18 (5.16%) OpenShift
8 15 (4.30%) Power Platform
9 14 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.01%) Power Automate
9 14 (4.01%) PowerApps
10 11 (3.15%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.15%) Azure Stack
11 10 (2.87%) Azure API Management
11 10 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (2.87%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (2.87%) npm
11 10 (2.87%) PaaS
12 9 (2.58%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.30%) HTTP
2 5 (1.43%) Firewall
2 5 (1.43%) SAN
3 4 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.86%) BGP
4 3 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (0.86%) Internet
4 3 (0.86%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.57%) DNS
6 1 (0.29%) DHCP
6 1 (0.29%) FTP
6 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.29%) MQTT
6 1 (0.29%) NAS
6 1 (0.29%) SSH
6 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.17%) SQL Server
2 31 (8.88%) NoSQL
3 30 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (5.16%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.15%) Snowflake Schema
6 10 (2.87%) MySQL
7 9 (2.58%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.43%) Couchbase
9 5 (1.43%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.43%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.15%) CockroachDB
11 3 (0.86%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.86%) Triplestore
12 2 (0.57%) GIS
12 2 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 58 (16.62%) Git
2 52 (14.90%) Jenkins
3 46 (13.18%) JIRA
4 27 (7.74%) GitLab
5 24 (6.88%) Maven
6 22 (6.30%) Selenium
7 20 (5.73%) Cucumber
8 14 (4.01%) SonarQube
9 12 (3.44%) REST Assured
10 11 (3.15%) JUnit
11 10 (2.87%) Visual Studio
12 8 (2.29%) JMeter
12 8 (2.29%) Postman
12 8 (2.29%) webpack
13 6 (1.72%) CircleCI
14 5 (1.43%) Cypress.io
14 5 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (1.43%) TeamCity
14 5 (1.43%) TestRail
14 5 (1.43%) WiX
General
1 77 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 38 (10.89%) Finance
3 36 (10.32%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.30%) Banking
6 11 (3.15%) Retail
7 10 (2.87%) Law
8 8 (2.29%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.01%) Front Office
9 7 (2.01%) Police
9 7 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.43%) Back Office
11 5 (1.43%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.86%) Marketing
12 3 (0.86%) Publishing
13 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.29%) German Language
Job Titles
1 187 (53.58%) Developer
2 56 (16.05%) Senior
3 46 (13.18%) Architect
4 44 (12.61%) Java Developer
5 30 (8.60%) Senior Developer
6 28 (8.02%) Full Stack Developer
7 26 (7.45%) Software Engineer
8 22 (6.30%) Java Engineer
9 18 (5.16%) Applications Developer
10 14 (4.01%) Java Software Engineer
11 13 (3.72%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 13 (3.72%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (3.72%) Software Developer
12 11 (3.15%) Azure Developer
12 11 (3.15%) C# Developer
12 11 (3.15%) Data Architect
12 11 (3.15%) Technical Architect
13 10 (2.87%) Python Developer
13 10 (2.87%) React Developer
13 10 (2.87%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.91%) CSS
2 64 (18.34%) Spring
3 63 (18.05%) Spring Boot
4 61 (17.48%) HTML
5 56 (16.05%) SOAP
6 54 (15.47%) JSON
6 54 (15.47%) Web Services
7 53 (15.19%) .NET
8 46 (13.18%) React
9 43 (12.32%) Node.js
10 40 (11.46%) AngularJS
11 39 (11.17%) GraphQL
11 39 (11.17%) XML
12 24 (6.88%) SAML
13 21 (6.02%) Kafka
13 21 (6.02%) OAuth
14 19 (5.44%) Swagger
15 18 (5.16%) YAML
16 17 (4.87%) RESTful
17 16 (4.58%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.87%) Data Structures
2 10 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (2.87%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (2.58%) Reference Data
4 8 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.29%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.43%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.43%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.43%) CMDB
6 5 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.43%) Web 2.0
7 4 (1.15%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (8.02%) Linux
2 23 (6.59%) Windows
3 12 (3.44%) Android
3 12 (3.44%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.01%) Unix
6 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.57%) zOS
7 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (38.68%) Agile
2 89 (25.50%) CI/CD
3 82 (23.50%) DevOps
4 69 (19.77%) Microservices
5 66 (18.91%) Software Engineering
6 57 (16.33%) Test Automation
7 43 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (11.75%) TDD
9 39 (11.17%) Full Stack Development
10 34 (9.74%) Design Patterns
11 31 (8.88%) OO
12 29 (8.31%) Data Modelling
12 29 (8.31%) Scrum
13 28 (8.02%) Continuous Integration
13 28 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (7.74%) Web Development
15 26 (7.45%) Containerisation
16 25 (7.16%) Configuration Management
17 24 (6.88%) Analytics
17 24 (6.88%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 111 (31.81%) Java
2 110 (31.52%) JavaScript
3 77 (22.06%) SQL
4 53 (15.19%) C#
5 40 (11.46%) Python
5 40 (11.46%) TypeScript
6 16 (4.58%) Go
7 11 (3.15%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.87%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.58%) C++
10 8 (2.29%) C
11 5 (1.43%) ABAP
11 5 (1.43%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.43%) Ruby
12 4 (1.15%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.15%) Bash
12 4 (1.15%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.86%) Rust
13 3 (0.86%) SPARQL
13 3 (0.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 62 (17.77%) Security Cleared
2 47 (13.47%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.31%) Degree
4 12 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.15%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.86%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.29%) CISSP
9 1 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.88%) QA
2 16 (4.58%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.44%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.86%) GDPR
4 3 (0.86%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.86%) WCAG
5 2 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.57%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
6 1 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 65 (18.62%) Docker
2 9 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.01%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.86%) vCloud
5 3 (0.86%) vSphere
6 2 (0.57%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.29%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.29%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 48 (13.75%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.46%) Terraform
3 27 (7.74%) Ansible
4 14 (4.01%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (3.15%) Grafana
6 8 (2.29%) Docker Swarm
6 8 (2.29%) Podman
7 5 (1.43%) CloudHub
7 5 (1.43%) Kibana
8 4 (1.15%) PingFederate
8 4 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.15%) Puppet
9 3 (0.86%) Autotask
9 3 (0.86%) Control-M
10 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.29%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.29%) logstash
11 1 (0.29%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 33 (9.46%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.88%) Google
3 19 (5.44%) Oracle
3 19 (5.44%) Salesforce
4 16 (4.58%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.72%) MuleSoft
5 13 (3.72%) SAP
6 12 (3.44%) Atlassian
7 8 (2.29%) Pega
8 7 (2.01%) BMC
8 7 (2.01%) CyberArk
8 7 (2.01%) VMware
9 6 (1.72%) IBM
9 6 (1.72%) Splunk
9 6 (1.72%) TOWER Software
10 5 (1.43%) Genesys
10 5 (1.43%) Ping Identity
11 3 (0.86%) Avaya
11 3 (0.86%) Cisco
11 3 (0.86%) Remedy