REST Contracts in the UK excluding London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 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 130 115 121
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 -18
Contract jobs citing REST 349 503 668
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.67% 2.19% 2.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.43% 12.08% 10.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 343 446
10th Percentile £363 £413 £382
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £613
90th Percentile £688 £700 £668
UK median daily rate £521 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.21% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 22
10th Percentile - £50.38 £50.03
25th Percentile £27.00 £50.94 £57.49
Median hourly rate £72.22 £53.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.36% -23.21% +40.00%
75th Percentile £79.38 £57.69 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £62.53 £80.65
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
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3,346 4,165 6,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.17% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,186 3,106 4,353
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £406 £420 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 87 136
10th Percentile £22.70 £22.39 £19.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £68.38 £75.00 £67.52
90th Percentile £74.45 £79.19 £77.16
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +31 84 £483 -3.50% 16
South East -33 84 £575 +4.55% 43
North of England -3 70 £525 -4.55% 59
South West +10 61 £508 -7.73% 20
North West -10 52 £525 -4.55% 36
Midlands 0 22 £488 -9.72% 30
East of England -3 20 £423 -15.50% 21
Yorkshire +14 18 £475 -9.52% 18
West Midlands -4 16 £475 -20.83% 14
Northern Ireland +10 11 £575 +35.29% 15
East Midlands +5 6 £577 +6.85% 16
North East +15 4 £480 -28.89% 7
Wales -4 1 - - 5
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (6.30%) Apache
2 17 (4.87%) Confluence
3 10 (2.87%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.15%) Mule
6 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.86%) IIS
6 3 (0.86%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.57%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) JBoss
8 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Trello
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.43%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.86%) Maximo
3 2 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 107 (30.66%) AWS
2 77 (22.06%) Azure
3 31 (8.88%) GitHub
4 29 (8.31%) Serverless
5 26 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (7.16%) OpenShift
7 19 (5.44%) Power Platform
8 17 (4.87%) Power Automate
9 16 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (4.30%) AWS CodePipeline
10 15 (4.30%) GCP
11 14 (4.01%) PowerApps
11 14 (4.01%) SaaS
12 13 (3.72%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.72%) Boomi
13 12 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (1.72%) AWS CodeDeploy
16 6 (1.72%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.44%) HTTP
2 10 (2.87%) BGP
3 7 (2.01%) Ethernet VPN
3 7 (2.01%) MPLS
3 7 (2.01%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (2.01%) SAN
3 7 (2.01%) VPN
4 5 (1.43%) Firewall
5 3 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (0.86%) IOS XR
5 3 (0.86%) NAS
5 3 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (19.20%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (7.45%) Relational Database
3 24 (6.88%) NoSQL
4 16 (4.58%) Oracle Database
5 12 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (3.44%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.87%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.58%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (2.29%) MySQL
9 6 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (1.43%) Couchbase
10 5 (1.43%) SQLite
10 5 (1.43%) Triplestore
11 4 (1.15%) CockroachDB
11 4 (1.15%) Power BI
12 3 (0.86%) GIS
13 2 (0.57%) Impala
13 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 72 (20.63%) Jenkins
2 65 (18.62%) Git
3 49 (14.04%) GitLab
3 49 (14.04%) JIRA
4 37 (10.60%) Cucumber
5 36 (10.32%) Selenium
6 29 (8.31%) JUnit
6 29 (8.31%) SonarQube
7 25 (7.16%) REST Assured
8 19 (5.44%) Maven
9 8 (2.29%) TestRail
9 8 (2.29%) Visual Studio
10 7 (2.01%) Artifactory
10 7 (2.01%) Postman
10 7 (2.01%) Robot Framework
11 5 (1.43%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.43%) Checkstyle
11 5 (1.43%) Subversion
12 4 (1.15%) Log4j
12 4 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 84 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.91%) Public Sector
3 47 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.74%) Finance
5 20 (5.73%) Law
6 14 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.72%) Police
8 9 (2.58%) Banking
8 9 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.29%) Back Office
10 7 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.43%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.43%) Marketing
12 4 (1.15%) German Language
13 3 (0.86%) Legal
13 3 (0.86%) Retail
14 2 (0.57%) Games
14 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.57%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.29%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 176 (50.43%) Developer
2 75 (21.49%) Java Developer
3 33 (9.46%) Java Engineer
4 31 (8.88%) Senior
5 30 (8.60%) Architect
6 24 (6.88%) Full Stack Developer
7 20 (5.73%) Software Engineer
8 19 (5.44%) Senior Developer
9 18 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.01%) Software Developer
11 13 (3.72%) Applications Developer
12 12 (3.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 11 (3.15%) Full Stack Engineer
13 11 (3.15%) Java Software Engineer
13 11 (3.15%) Lead
13 11 (3.15%) Test Engineer
14 10 (2.87%) Tester
15 9 (2.58%) Network Engineer
15 9 (2.58%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (28.08%) Spring Boot
2 92 (26.36%) Spring
3 72 (20.63%) CSS
4 64 (18.34%) HTML
5 54 (15.47%) SOAP
6 52 (14.90%) React
7 40 (11.46%) JSON
8 37 (10.60%) AngularJS
9 35 (10.03%) JPA
10 34 (9.74%) Kafka
11 31 (8.88%) Web Services
12 27 (7.74%) Hibernate
13 25 (7.16%) .NET
13 25 (7.16%) Java EE
14 24 (6.88%) XML
15 21 (6.02%) GraphQL
16 19 (5.44%) Node.js
17 14 (4.01%) HTML5
17 14 (4.01%) SAML
17 14 (4.01%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.58%) Linux Command Line
1 16 (4.58%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.01%) Public Cloud
3 10 (2.87%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.01%) Virtual Team
5 6 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.72%) Reference Data
5 6 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.15%) Insider Threat
7 4 (1.15%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.15%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.57%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.57%) CMDB
9 2 (0.57%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.17%) Linux
2 23 (6.59%) Windows
3 8 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.72%) Unix
5 3 (0.86%) Android
5 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (43.84%) Agile
2 117 (33.52%) DevOps
3 110 (31.52%) CI/CD
4 71 (20.34%) Microservices
5 62 (17.77%) Test Automation
6 61 (17.48%) Software Engineering
7 54 (15.47%) Continuous Integration
8 53 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (14.33%) Scrum
10 44 (12.61%) Full Stack Development
11 41 (11.75%) Decision-Making
11 41 (11.75%) TDD
12 38 (10.89%) Containerisation
13 34 (9.74%) SDLC
14 33 (9.46%) Front End Development
15 32 (9.17%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (9.17%) Unit Testing
16 31 (8.88%) Migration
17 29 (8.31%) Workflow
18 26 (7.45%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 165 (47.28%) Java
2 88 (25.21%) SQL
3 78 (22.35%) JavaScript
4 61 (17.48%) Python
5 47 (13.47%) TypeScript
6 26 (7.45%) C#
7 15 (4.30%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.72%) Go
9 10 (2.87%) Bash
10 9 (2.58%) Perl
11 7 (2.01%) C
12 6 (1.72%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.43%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.43%) SPARQL
14 4 (1.15%) ABAP
14 4 (1.15%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.15%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.15%) VB
14 4 (1.15%) VB6
Qualifications
1 109 (31.23%) Security Cleared
2 75 (21.49%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.89%) DV Cleared
4 16 (4.58%) Degree
5 12 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.01%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.57%) CISSP
7 2 (0.57%) HND
7 2 (0.57%) PMP
8 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.29%) CEH
8 1 (0.29%) CISM
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.16%) QA
2 12 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.58%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.29%) SLA
5 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (21.78%) Docker
2 4 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.15%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.86%) OpenAM
3 3 (0.86%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (16.62%) Kubernetes
2 51 (14.61%) Ansible
3 35 (10.03%) Terraform
4 12 (3.44%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (3.44%) Podman
5 10 (2.87%) Grafana
5 10 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.15%) Kibana
7 3 (0.86%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.86%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.29%) rkt
Vendors
1 31 (8.88%) Oracle
2 29 (8.31%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.16%) SAP
4 15 (4.30%) Google
5 14 (4.01%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.72%) Atlassian
7 10 (2.87%) IBM
8 7 (2.01%) Pega
9 6 (1.72%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.43%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.43%) EMC
10 5 (1.43%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.15%) Infragistics
11 4 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (1.15%) Splunk
11 4 (1.15%) VMware
12 3 (0.86%) Cisco
12 3 (0.86%) Nintex
12 3 (0.86%) TOWER Software
12 3 (0.86%) Veritas