RESTful Contracts in the South East

RESTful
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 165 120
Rank change year-on-year -6 -45 -10
Contract jobs citing RESTful 30 46 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.81% 1.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.06% 4.69% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 35 89
10th Percentile £368 £406 £400
25th Percentile £400 £408 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -6.67% +10.98%
75th Percentile £480 £566 £550
90th Percentile £655 £617 £638
England median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile £36.75 - £62.44
Median hourly rate £38.50 - £64.13
75th Percentile £40.25 - £67.52
90th Percentile - - £68.23
England median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £63.25
% change year-on-year +6.67% +18.58% +15.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 advertised in the South East 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 739 980 1,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.09% 17.29% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 691 988
10th Percentile £313 £363 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +13.51%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £619
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 38 38
10th Percentile £35.00 £50.88 £29.60
25th Percentile £56.58 £55.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £67.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +50.00% -12.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.23
90th Percentile £74.75 £79.51 £67.55
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.22% +11.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RESTful in the South East.

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RESTful in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Hampshire -15 10 £470 +8.67% 5
Surrey +19 8 £450 -25.00% 5
West Sussex +12 6 £325 -35.00% 7
Thames Valley +12 5 £400 -23.81% 7
Berkshire -14 5 £400 -23.81% 1
East Sussex - 1 £400 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (20.00%) Confluence
2 4 (13.33%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Solr
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.33%) Jadu
3 1 (3.33%) JBoss
3 1 (3.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) Google App Engine
4 2 (6.67%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.33%) npm
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.00%) BGP
2 3 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (10.00%) IOS XR
3 2 (6.67%) HTTP
3 2 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.67%) BigQuery
3 2 (6.67%) MySQL
3 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.33%) Couchbase
4 1 (3.33%) Power BI
4 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Git
2 7 (23.33%) JIRA
3 6 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
5 4 (13.33%) Artifactory
6 3 (10.00%) Selenium
7 2 (6.67%) Android Studio
7 2 (6.67%) JMeter
7 2 (6.67%) JUnit
7 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
8 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
8 1 (3.33%) Gradle
8 1 (3.33%) Postman
8 1 (3.33%) SoapUI
8 1 (3.33%) SpecFlow
8 1 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (3.33%) WebDriver
8 1 (3.33%) Xcode
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Automotive
3 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Developer
2 9 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Development Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Development Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Test Development Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) PHP Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Android Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Applications Tester
7 1 (3.33%) Automation Tester
7 1 (3.33%) C# Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) .NET
2 9 (30.00%) AngularJS
3 7 (23.33%) REST
3 7 (23.33%) XML
4 6 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 6 (20.00%) JSON
4 6 (20.00%) SOAP
5 5 (16.67%) .NET Framework
6 4 (13.33%) Kafka
7 3 (10.00%) Blazor
7 3 (10.00%) Django
7 3 (10.00%) HTML
7 3 (10.00%) Node.js
7 3 (10.00%) YANG
8 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET
8 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (6.67%) CSS
8 2 (6.67%) Spring
8 2 (6.67%) WCF
8 2 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.67%) PKI
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (20.00%) Windows
3 4 (13.33%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (10.00%) Android
5 2 (6.67%) VMS
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Agile
2 11 (36.67%) Software Engineering
3 8 (26.67%) Microservices
3 8 (26.67%) Open Source
4 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
4 7 (23.33%) Scrum
4 7 (23.33%) Test Automation
5 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 6 (20.00%) SDLC
6 5 (16.67%) BDD
6 5 (16.67%) DevOps
6 5 (16.67%) Manual Testing
6 5 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (13.33%) API Testing
7 4 (13.33%) MVC
7 4 (13.33%) OO
7 4 (13.33%) Performance Management
7 4 (13.33%) Software Testing
7 4 (13.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) SQL
2 11 (36.67%) C#
2 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
3 7 (23.33%) Python
4 5 (16.67%) Java
5 4 (13.33%) C++
5 4 (13.33%) PL/SQL
5 4 (13.33%) T-SQL
6 3 (10.00%) Bash
6 3 (10.00%) PHP
7 2 (6.67%) Kotlin
7 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (13.33%) VirtualBox
2 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Ansible
2 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Cisco
2 3 (10.00%) TOWER Software
3 2 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft