REST Contracts in the North of England

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST 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 111 103 96
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 -6
Contract jobs citing REST 74 106 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.53% 1.95% 2.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.06% 10.08% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 82 134
10th Percentile £365 £463 £400
25th Percentile £420 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £590 £585 £569
90th Percentile £668 £635 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £578
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.76% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £81.00
England median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +30.91% -21.43% +85.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

REST 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 918 1,052 1,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.95% 19.33% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 819 1,183
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +2.44% +14.40%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 6 35
10th Percentile £13.87 £37.77 £14.25
25th Percentile £37.63 £39.89 £31.75
Median hourly rate £46.18 £54.34 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.02% -16.40% +132.14%
75th Percentile £70.81 £63.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £72.70 £66.88 £79.60
England median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
% change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for REST in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for REST in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the North of 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
North West -8 54 £525 -4.55% 35
Yorkshire +11 20 £475 -8.21% 20
North East +12 4 £480 -28.89% 10
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (5.41%) Mule
2 3 (4.05%) IIS
3 1 (1.35%) Apache
3 1 (1.35%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.68%) AWS
2 13 (17.57%) Azure
3 6 (8.11%) Azure Stack
3 6 (8.11%) Boomi
3 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (5.41%) SaaS
4 4 (5.41%) Serverless
5 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.05%) GCP
5 3 (4.05%) GitHub
5 3 (4.05%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.70%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.35%) Figma
7 1 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.35%) Kong
7 1 (1.35%) Miro
7 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
1 14 (18.92%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (8.11%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (2.70%) MySQL
3 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.35%) Flink
4 1 (1.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (25.68%) Git
2 14 (18.92%) JUnit
3 13 (17.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.41%) JIRA
4 4 (5.41%) Liquibase
4 4 (5.41%) Log4j
5 2 (2.70%) GitLab
5 2 (2.70%) Selenium
5 2 (2.70%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.35%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.35%) CocoaPods
6 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.35%) ESLint
6 1 (1.35%) Gradle
6 1 (1.35%) Postman
6 1 (1.35%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.35%) Xcode
General
1 18 (24.32%) Public Sector
2 9 (12.16%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.11%) Finance
4 2 (2.70%) Banking
5 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Marketing
5 1 (1.35%) Publishing
5 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (55.41%) Developer
2 25 (33.78%) Java Developer
3 17 (22.97%) Architect
4 8 (10.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 7 (9.46%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (8.11%) Data Architect
6 6 (8.11%) Integration Architect
6 6 (8.11%) Lead
7 5 (6.76%) Automation Tester
7 5 (6.76%) Lead Developer
7 5 (6.76%) Tester
8 4 (5.41%) AWS Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Junior
8 4 (5.41%) Junior Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Junior Java Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (5.41%) Pega Architect
8 4 (5.41%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Full Stack Developer
9 3 (4.05%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (33.78%) Hibernate
2 22 (29.73%) Spring
2 22 (29.73%) Spring Boot
3 20 (27.03%) JPA
4 16 (21.62%) JSON
4 16 (21.62%) React
5 12 (16.22%) SOAP
6 8 (10.81%) Spring Security
7 7 (9.46%) HTML
8 6 (8.11%) .NET
8 6 (8.11%) CSS
8 6 (8.11%) RAML
8 6 (8.11%) XML
9 5 (6.76%) .NET Framework
9 5 (6.76%) GraphQL
10 4 (5.41%) Kafka
10 4 (5.41%) Web Services
11 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
11 3 (4.05%) HTML5
11 3 (4.05%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.11%) Data Structures
2 6 (8.11%) Reference Data
3 5 (6.76%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.41%) Low-Code
5 3 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Android
2 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (68.92%) Agile
2 26 (35.14%) Microservices
3 25 (33.78%) DevOps
4 22 (29.73%) CI/CD
5 20 (27.03%) Front End Development
6 18 (24.32%) Scrum
7 17 (22.97%) Mentoring
8 16 (21.62%) Unit Testing
9 12 (16.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 12 (16.22%) High Availability
10 9 (12.16%) API Management
11 8 (10.81%) Observability
11 8 (10.81%) OO
12 7 (9.46%) Change Management
12 7 (9.46%) Data Architecture
12 7 (9.46%) Data Mapping
12 7 (9.46%) Data Modelling
12 7 (9.46%) Event-Driven
12 7 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (9.46%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 34 (45.95%) Java
2 15 (20.27%) TypeScript
3 11 (14.86%) JavaScript
3 11 (14.86%) Python
4 7 (9.46%) C#
5 6 (8.11%) Bash
5 6 (8.11%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.76%) Perl
7 4 (5.41%) SQL
8 2 (2.70%) C
8 2 (2.70%) C++
9 1 (1.35%) Groovy
9 1 (1.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (39.19%) Security Cleared
2 24 (32.43%) SC Cleared
3 15 (20.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.35%) CEH
4 1 (1.35%) CISSP
4 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.76%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.76%) QA
System Software
1 16 (21.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 15 (20.27%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.81%) Ansible
3 4 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (9.46%) Pega
2 5 (6.76%) EMC
2 5 (6.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.05%) IBM
3 3 (4.05%) Nintex
3 3 (4.05%) SAP
4 2 (2.70%) Splunk
5 1 (1.35%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.35%) Google
5 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Tanium
5 1 (1.35%) Zscaler