RESTful Contracts in England

RESTful
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RESTful over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 205 135
Rank change year-on-year +3 -70 -7
Contract jobs citing RESTful 443 613 1,431
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.18% 1.30% 2.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.65% 5.75% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 446 1,018
10th Percentile £368 £381 £385
25th Percentile £443 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £711 £650
90th Percentile £725 £813 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 24
10th Percentile £47.70 £62.70 £41.33
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £49.63
Median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £63.43
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +18.24% +20.82%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £68.19
90th Percentile £87.00 £79.62 £76.40
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £63.25
% change year-on-year +6.67% +18.58% +50.60%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

RESTful falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,836 10,653 18,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.89% 22.65% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,490 7,931 14,067
10th Percentile £350 £394 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 136 204
10th Percentile £22.73 £32.88 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £76.89
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in England

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RESTful in England.

Daily rate trend for RESTful in England

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in England

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RESTful in England.

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in England

RESTful
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing RESTful in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for RESTful in England

RESTful
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London -13 261 £553 -11.48% 141
North of England +33 67 £456 -15.12% 71
North West +34 46 £463 -1.60% 31
Midlands +14 30 £495 -5.71% 41
South East -1 30 £450 -1.10% 43
East of England +6 22 £500 +2.56% 17
West Midlands +17 16 £607 +15.62% 30
East Midlands +6 14 £430 -27.23% 11
South West +4 14 £550 +15.79% 18
Yorkshire +6 13 £437 -23.38% 30
North East +14 8 £525 -14.29% 12
RESTful
UK

RESTful
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (3.61%) Confluence
2 9 (2.03%) Apache
2 9 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.35%) CMS
4 5 (1.13%) Appian
5 3 (0.68%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.45%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.45%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Jadu
6 2 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.23%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.35%) NEC Housing
2 5 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.45%) Shopify
5 1 (0.23%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.23%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.23%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 191 (43.12%) AWS
2 121 (27.31%) Azure
3 88 (19.86%) GCP
4 43 (9.71%) Serverless
5 36 (8.13%) GitHub
6 27 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (5.42%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (2.93%) npm
11 12 (2.71%) AWS Step Functions
11 12 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.03%) PaaS
13 9 (2.03%) Power Platform
14 8 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (1.81%) Azure Functions
15 7 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (12.64%) HTTP
2 10 (2.26%) Firewall
3 7 (1.58%) SSL
4 6 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.13%) BGP
5 5 (1.13%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.68%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.68%) IOS XR
7 2 (0.45%) DMVPN
7 2 (0.45%) DNS
7 2 (0.45%) HSRP
7 2 (0.45%) MPLS
7 2 (0.45%) Network Security
7 2 (0.45%) OSPF
7 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.45%) SNMP
7 2 (0.45%) Spanning Tree
7 2 (0.45%) VLAN
7 2 (0.45%) VPN
7 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (15.80%) NoSQL
2 40 (9.03%) Apache Cassandra
3 39 (8.80%) SQL Server
4 37 (8.35%) MongoDB
5 34 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (7.22%) MySQL
7 24 (5.42%) Relational Database
8 16 (3.61%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (2.48%) Redis
10 8 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.81%) Power BI
11 6 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.13%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.90%) Big Data
13 4 (0.90%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.90%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 84 (18.96%) Git
2 32 (7.22%) Jenkins
3 24 (5.42%) JIRA
4 18 (4.06%) Mockito
5 16 (3.61%) Android Studio
6 14 (3.16%) Selenium
7 13 (2.93%) TeamCity
8 12 (2.71%) JUnit
8 12 (2.71%) Maven
8 12 (2.71%) webpack
9 11 (2.48%) CircleCI
9 11 (2.48%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.48%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.26%) Cypress.io
11 9 (2.03%) GitLab
11 9 (2.03%) Moq
12 8 (1.81%) NUnit
12 8 (1.81%) Postman
12 8 (1.81%) Visual Studio
13 7 (1.58%) Gradle
General
1 114 (25.73%) Social Skills
2 60 (13.54%) Finance
3 44 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (6.55%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.42%) Banking
6 12 (2.71%) Front Office
6 12 (2.71%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.81%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.81%) Retail
8 7 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.13%) Marketing
11 4 (0.90%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.68%) Advertising
12 3 (0.68%) Back Office
12 3 (0.68%) Electronics
12 3 (0.68%) Law
12 3 (0.68%) Publishing
13 2 (0.45%) French Language
13 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 266 (60.05%) Developer
2 52 (11.74%) Senior
3 42 (9.48%) Scala Developer
4 41 (9.26%) Software Engineer
5 39 (8.80%) Architect
6 29 (6.55%) Senior Developer
7 28 (6.32%) Java Developer
8 25 (5.64%) Software Developer
9 23 (5.19%) Full Stack Developer
10 21 (4.74%) Python Developer
11 20 (4.51%) Lead
12 19 (4.29%) .NET Developer
13 18 (4.06%) Android Developer
13 18 (4.06%) C# Developer
14 17 (3.84%) React Developer
15 13 (2.93%) Angular Developer
15 13 (2.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 12 (2.71%) Python Engineer
16 12 (2.71%) Site Engineer
16 12 (2.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (18.06%) Kafka
2 71 (16.03%) .NET
3 70 (15.80%) React
4 67 (15.12%) Node.js
5 54 (12.19%) Spring
5 54 (12.19%) Web Services
6 51 (11.51%) CSS
7 50 (11.29%) HTML
8 47 (10.61%) AngularJS
9 44 (9.93%) Akka
9 44 (9.93%) SOAP
10 41 (9.26%) Spring Boot
11 33 (7.45%) JSON
12 30 (6.77%) .NET Core
12 30 (6.77%) XML
13 27 (6.09%) OAuth
14 26 (5.87%) REST
15 25 (5.64%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (4.97%) GraphQL
17 19 (4.29%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (5.87%) Greenfield Project
2 26 (5.87%) Mobile App
3 25 (5.64%) Data Structures
4 22 (4.97%) Product Ownership
5 20 (4.51%) Algorithms
6 15 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.26%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.58%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.58%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.13%) Verilog
10 5 (1.13%) VHDL
11 4 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.90%) PKI
12 3 (0.68%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.45%) Linux
2 27 (6.09%) Android
3 17 (3.84%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.71%) Windows
5 8 (1.81%) Unix
6 4 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.90%) VMS
7 3 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (37.92%) Agile
2 150 (33.86%) Microservices
3 128 (28.89%) DevOps
4 94 (21.22%) TDD
5 92 (20.77%) CI/CD
6 87 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (14.22%) Software Engineering
8 60 (13.54%) Unit Testing
9 58 (13.09%) Test Automation
10 55 (12.42%) Continuous Integration
11 43 (9.71%) Clean Code
11 43 (9.71%) Containerisation
12 42 (9.48%) API Development
13 41 (9.26%) Full Stack Development
13 41 (9.26%) User Experience
14 39 (8.80%) Pair Programming
15 38 (8.58%) Scrum
16 37 (8.35%) BDD
17 36 (8.13%) Machine Learning
18 35 (7.90%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 136 (30.70%) Java
2 121 (27.31%) SQL
3 109 (24.60%) JavaScript
3 109 (24.60%) Python
4 73 (16.48%) C#
5 51 (11.51%) TypeScript
6 47 (10.61%) Scala
7 21 (4.74%) Kotlin
8 20 (4.51%) C++
9 15 (3.39%) Shell Script
10 14 (3.16%) Go
11 13 (2.93%) PHP
11 13 (2.93%) PowerShell
12 11 (2.48%) C
13 10 (2.26%) Swift
14 6 (1.35%) Bash
14 6 (1.35%) Bicep
15 5 (1.13%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.90%) Ruby
16 4 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (11.74%) Security Cleared
2 44 (9.93%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.58%) Degree
4 25 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.58%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.13%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CCNP
9 1 (0.23%) CEH
9 1 (0.23%) CISSP
9 1 (0.23%) GCIA
9 1 (0.23%) GCIH
9 1 (0.23%) GIAC
9 1 (0.23%) GSEC
9 1 (0.23%) ISEB
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.51%) QA
2 14 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.58%) GDPR
5 6 (1.35%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.45%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (21.22%) Docker
2 12 (2.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.90%) VirtualBox
5 3 (0.68%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 114 (25.73%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.09%) Grafana
3 23 (5.19%) Terraform
4 18 (4.06%) Ansible
5 17 (3.84%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.71%) Consul
7 6 (1.35%) Kibana
8 2 (0.45%) logstash
9 1 (0.23%) Anchore
9 1 (0.23%) Argo
9 1 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.23%) Nagios
9 1 (0.23%) Packer
9 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.22%) Oracle
3 23 (5.19%) Typelevel
4 22 (4.97%) Google
5 14 (3.16%) SaltStack
6 13 (2.93%) SAP
7 11 (2.48%) IBM
8 10 (2.26%) TIBCO
9 9 (2.03%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.81%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.35%) NEC
12 5 (1.13%) Checkmarx
12 5 (1.13%) Cisco
12 5 (1.13%) OpenText
12 5 (1.13%) Pega
13 4 (0.90%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.90%) Sitecore
14 3 (0.68%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.68%) Micro Focus
14 3 (0.68%) TOWER Software