RESTful Contracts with Work from Home Options

RESTful
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 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 158 176 117
Rank change year-on-year +18 -59 +11
Contract jobs citing RESTful 206 365 951
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.39% 1.48% 2.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.68% 5.86% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 286 683
10th Percentile £373 £367 £398
25th Percentile £431 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £549 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% +4.52% +6.06%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £615
90th Percentile £667 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £503 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -12.61% +5.50% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 17
10th Percentile - £66.05 £48.50
25th Percentile £75.00 £68.38 £52.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £73.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% +22.50% +50.00%
75th Percentile £87.50 £77.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £89.00 £78.95 £71.73
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
Work from Home

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 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 3,629 6,225 12,985
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.52% 25.26% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,545 4,638 9,580
10th Percentile £339 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £645
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 77 124
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.30
25th Percentile - £45.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

RESTful
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

RESTful trend for jobs with a WFH option

RESTful
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 RESTful.

RESTful daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing RESTful over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

RESTful daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

RESTful
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 RESTful.

RESTful hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

RESTful
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 5 (2.43%) Confluence
1 5 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.46%) Apache
3 3 (1.46%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.46%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.97%) CMS
4 2 (0.97%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.97%) WordPress
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.49%) Drupal
5 1 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.43%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.43%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.49%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 82 (39.81%) AWS
2 49 (23.79%) Azure
3 24 (11.65%) GCP
4 17 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (7.77%) Serverless
6 8 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (3.88%) Amazon S3
6 8 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (3.88%) npm
7 7 (3.40%) GitHub
8 6 (2.91%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.43%) PaaS
10 4 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.94%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.94%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.94%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.94%) SaaS
11 3 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.65%) HTTP
2 3 (1.46%) BGP
2 3 (1.46%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (1.46%) Firewall
2 3 (1.46%) IOS XR
2 3 (1.46%) SSL
2 3 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.62%) SQL Server
2 23 (11.17%) MongoDB
3 21 (10.19%) NoSQL
3 21 (10.19%) Relational Database
4 16 (7.77%) MySQL
5 11 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (3.40%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.94%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.94%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.94%) Power BI
8 4 (1.94%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.46%) Redis
10 2 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.97%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (0.97%) Tableau
11 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 35 (16.99%) Git
2 15 (7.28%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.28%) JIRA
3 9 (4.37%) Android Studio
4 8 (3.88%) GitLab
4 8 (3.88%) Mockito
5 6 (2.91%) Selenium
6 5 (2.43%) CircleCI
6 5 (2.43%) Xcode
6 5 (2.43%) XCUITest
7 4 (1.94%) Babel
7 4 (1.94%) webpack
8 3 (1.46%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.46%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.46%) HP UFT
8 3 (1.46%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (0.97%) Maven
9 2 (0.97%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (12.14%) Finance
4 22 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.80%) Banking
5 14 (6.80%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.94%) Electronics
6 4 (1.94%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.94%) Marketing
7 2 (0.97%) Front Office
8 1 (0.49%) Advertising
8 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Publishing
8 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (48.54%) Developer
2 29 (14.08%) Software Engineer
3 24 (11.65%) Senior
4 18 (8.74%) Architect
5 13 (6.31%) Software Developer
6 12 (5.83%) Scala Developer
7 11 (5.34%) Python Developer
7 11 (5.34%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.85%) Java Developer
8 10 (4.85%) Lead
8 10 (4.85%) Python Engineer
9 9 (4.37%) .NET Developer
9 9 (4.37%) Android Developer
9 9 (4.37%) Full Stack Developer
9 9 (4.37%) Site Engineer
9 9 (4.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 8 (3.88%) AWS Developer
10 8 (3.88%) Consultant
10 8 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.45%) Node.js
2 34 (16.50%) CSS
3 33 (16.02%) HTML
4 28 (13.59%) .NET
4 28 (13.59%) React
5 27 (13.11%) Web Services
6 23 (11.17%) Kafka
7 22 (10.68%) AngularJS
8 20 (9.71%) SOAP
9 19 (9.22%) Spring
9 19 (9.22%) Spring Boot
10 16 (7.77%) JSON
10 16 (7.77%) OAuth
10 16 (7.77%) XML
11 15 (7.28%) jQuery
11 15 (7.28%) REST
12 14 (6.80%) FastAPI
13 13 (6.31%) Akka
14 10 (4.85%) OpenID
14 10 (4.85%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.19%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (9.71%) Mobile App
3 14 (6.80%) Data Structures
4 10 (4.85%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.43%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.43%) IVR
5 5 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.94%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.46%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.46%) Verilog
7 3 (1.46%) VHDL
8 2 (0.97%) Contactless
8 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.97%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (0.97%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.49%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.22%) Linux
2 13 (6.31%) Android
3 7 (3.40%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.43%) Windows
5 3 (1.46%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (1.46%) Unix
6 2 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.97%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (34.47%) Agile
2 54 (26.21%) CI/CD
3 51 (24.76%) Microservices
4 44 (21.36%) DevOps
5 43 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (19.90%) Software Engineering
7 32 (15.53%) Unit Testing
8 29 (14.08%) User Experience
9 27 (13.11%) API Development
10 22 (10.68%) Clean Code
10 22 (10.68%) Full Stack Development
10 22 (10.68%) UX Design
11 21 (10.19%) Scrum
12 20 (9.71%) SDLC
13 19 (9.22%) Test Automation
14 17 (8.25%) End-to-End Testing
14 17 (8.25%) Front End Development
15 16 (7.77%) Computer Science
16 15 (7.28%) Code Quality
16 15 (7.28%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 59 (28.64%) Java
2 58 (28.16%) JavaScript
3 54 (26.21%) Python
4 45 (21.84%) SQL
5 25 (12.14%) C#
6 21 (10.19%) TypeScript
7 19 (9.22%) Scala
8 14 (6.80%) Kotlin
9 12 (5.83%) C++
10 11 (5.34%) Shell Script
11 9 (4.37%) Go
12 7 (3.40%) C
12 7 (3.40%) PHP
13 6 (2.91%) Ruby
14 5 (2.43%) Swift
15 4 (1.94%) Bash
15 4 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (1.94%) PowerShell
16 3 (1.46%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.49%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 36 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.22%) Degree
4 10 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.94%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.83%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.40%) QA
3 4 (1.94%) GDPR
4 2 (0.97%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.97%) PSD2
4 2 (0.97%) WCAG
5 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.49%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (13.11%) Docker
2 9 (4.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.46%) vCloud
3 3 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.46%) VirtualBox
3 3 (1.46%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (15.53%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.31%) Prometheus
3 11 (5.34%) Terraform
4 10 (4.85%) Grafana
5 9 (4.37%) Ansible
5 9 (4.37%) Consul
6 3 (1.46%) Autotask
6 3 (1.46%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.46%) Puppet
6 3 (1.46%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (8.25%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.28%) Oracle
3 13 (6.31%) OpenAI
4 12 (5.83%) Google
5 9 (4.37%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.91%) TOWER Software
7 5 (2.43%) Genesys
7 5 (2.43%) SAP
8 4 (1.94%) IBM
9 3 (1.46%) Arista
9 3 (1.46%) BMC
9 3 (1.46%) Cisco
9 3 (1.46%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.46%) Remedy
9 3 (1.46%) VMware
10 2 (0.97%) Adobe
10 2 (0.97%) Avaya
10 2 (0.97%) Informatica
10 2 (0.97%) Typelevel