RESTful Contracts in the UK excluding London

RESTful
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 203 254 146
Rank change year-on-year +51 -108 +6
Contract jobs citing RESTful 207 207 554
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.99% 0.90% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.19% 4.97% 9.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 142 387
10th Percentile £360 £375 £362
25th Percentile £400 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £518 £590 £569
90th Percentile £575 £636 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 18
10th Percentile £47.70 - £43.63
25th Percentile £65.00 - £49.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year - +26.48% +58.13%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £67.36
90th Percentile £87.00 - £71.23
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £62.88
% change year-on-year +6.67% +19.28% +49.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 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%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for RESTful in the UK excluding London

RESTful
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 RESTful 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
North of England +40 67 £463 -18.86% 73
Scotland +58 49 £410 -21.15% 16
North West +36 47 £463 -1.60% 35
South East -6 30 £450 -1.10% 35
Midlands +17 24 £495 -5.71% 39
East of England +9 20 £500 +3.90% 13
South West +12 14 £550 +15.79% 23
Yorkshire +9 14 £469 -19.87% 25
West Midlands +11 12 £607 +24.51% 28
East Midlands +7 12 £430 -27.23% 11
North East +15 6 £500 -18.37% 15
Wales +6 3 £438 -16.67% 10
RESTful
UK

RESTful
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 10 (4.83%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.86%) Confluence
3 5 (2.42%) Appian
4 4 (1.93%) Apache
4 4 (1.93%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.97%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.97%) CMS
5 2 (0.97%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.48%) Jadu
6 1 (0.48%) JBoss
6 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 75 (36.23%) AWS
2 56 (27.05%) Azure
3 24 (11.59%) GCP
4 17 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (6.28%) Serverless
6 9 (4.35%) GitHub
7 8 (3.86%) npm
8 6 (2.90%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.42%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.42%) Azure App Service
9 5 (2.42%) Unqork
10 4 (1.93%) BrowserStack
10 4 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.93%) PaaS
10 4 (1.93%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.45%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.45%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.45%) SaaS
11 3 (1.45%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.83%) HTTP
2 6 (2.90%) Kerberos
3 5 (2.42%) SSL
4 4 (1.93%) Firewall
4 4 (1.93%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.45%) BGP
5 3 (1.45%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.45%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.63%) NoSQL
2 19 (9.18%) SQL Server
3 16 (7.73%) MySQL
4 15 (7.25%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.90%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.93%) Power BI
8 4 (1.93%) Redis
9 3 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.45%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.45%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.97%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.48%) Big Data
11 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 43 (20.77%) Git
2 26 (12.56%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.73%) Android Studio
4 14 (6.76%) JIRA
4 14 (6.76%) Mockito
5 12 (5.80%) Bitbucket
6 11 (5.31%) JUnit
7 8 (3.86%) webpack
8 7 (3.38%) Selenium
9 5 (2.42%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.42%) Xcode
10 4 (1.93%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.93%) Maven
10 4 (1.93%) XCUITest
11 3 (1.45%) gulp
11 3 (1.45%) Jasmine
11 3 (1.45%) JMeter
11 3 (1.45%) Karma Test Runner
11 3 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.45%) WebDriver
General
1 40 (19.32%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.59%) Finance
3 16 (7.73%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.80%) Banking
6 8 (3.86%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.45%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.97%) Automotive
10 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.97%) Retail
11 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
11 1 (0.48%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 122 (58.94%) Developer
2 29 (14.01%) Software Engineer
3 27 (13.04%) Java Developer
4 19 (9.18%) Architect
5 15 (7.25%) Android Developer
6 14 (6.76%) Senior
7 12 (5.80%) .NET Developer
8 11 (5.31%) Senior Developer
9 8 (3.86%) Backend Developer
10 7 (3.38%) Full Stack Engineer
10 7 (3.38%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (2.90%) Angular Developer
11 6 (2.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (2.90%) iOS Developer
11 6 (2.90%) React Developer
11 6 (2.90%) Software Developer
12 5 (2.42%) Appian Architect
12 5 (2.42%) C# Developer
12 5 (2.42%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.42%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.77%) Spring
1 43 (20.77%) Spring Boot
2 33 (15.94%) .NET
2 33 (15.94%) React
3 32 (15.46%) Web Services
4 27 (13.04%) AngularJS
5 26 (12.56%) Node.js
6 22 (10.63%) CSS
7 20 (9.66%) Kafka
7 20 (9.66%) SOAP
8 19 (9.18%) HTML
8 19 (9.18%) XML
9 15 (7.25%) .NET Core
9 15 (7.25%) JSON
10 14 (6.76%) OAuth
10 14 (6.76%) OpenID
11 13 (6.28%) .NET Framework
12 11 (5.31%) GraphQL
12 11 (5.31%) Swagger
13 10 (4.83%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.63%) Mobile App
2 16 (7.73%) Data Structures
3 15 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.25%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.80%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.80%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.83%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.90%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.90%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.42%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.42%) Verilog
7 5 (2.42%) VHDL
8 3 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.97%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.97%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (0.97%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.97%) PKI
9 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.11%) Android
2 13 (6.28%) Linux
3 12 (5.80%) Apple iOS
4 11 (5.31%) Windows
5 7 (3.38%) VMS
6 6 (2.90%) Unix
7 4 (1.93%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (1.45%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.27%) Agile
2 58 (28.02%) Microservices
3 46 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 38 (18.36%) CI/CD
4 38 (18.36%) Continuous Integration
5 36 (17.39%) DevOps
6 28 (13.53%) SDLC
7 27 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (13.04%) Test Automation
8 24 (11.59%) TDD
9 21 (10.14%) Scrum
10 20 (9.66%) Design Patterns
10 20 (9.66%) OO
10 20 (9.66%) User Experience
11 19 (9.18%) Containerisation
11 19 (9.18%) End-to-End Testing
12 18 (8.70%) Unit Testing
13 17 (8.21%) BDD
14 16 (7.73%) Android Development
15 14 (6.76%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 94 (45.41%) Java
2 58 (28.02%) SQL
3 54 (26.09%) JavaScript
4 37 (17.87%) C#
5 34 (16.43%) Python
6 33 (15.94%) TypeScript
7 28 (13.53%) Kotlin
8 17 (8.21%) C
9 16 (7.73%) Scala
10 10 (4.83%) C++
11 7 (3.38%) Go
12 6 (2.90%) PHP
12 6 (2.90%) Swift
12 6 (2.90%) T-SQL
13 5 (2.42%) Bicep
14 4 (1.93%) Bash
14 4 (1.93%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.93%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.97%) Dart
16 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (9.18%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.28%) Degree
3 12 (5.80%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.90%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.28%) QA
2 8 (3.86%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.42%) GDPR
3 5 (2.42%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.97%) WCAG
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (20.77%) Docker
2 11 (5.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.93%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 34 (16.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.35%) Ansible
2 9 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 8 (3.86%) Zipkin
4 7 (3.38%) Grafana
5 5 (2.42%) Terraform
6 1 (0.48%) Anchore
6 1 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.48%) Kibana
6 1 (0.48%) Nagios
6 1 (0.48%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (7.73%) Oracle
2 14 (6.76%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.28%) Google
4 6 (2.90%) Cadence
5 5 (2.42%) IBM
5 5 (2.42%) OpenText
5 5 (2.42%) Pega
6 3 (1.45%) Cisco
6 3 (1.45%) TOWER Software
7 2 (0.97%) Adobe
7 2 (0.97%) SAP
7 2 (0.97%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.48%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.48%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.48%) Genesys
8 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.48%) Typelevel