JAX-RS Contracts

Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JAX-RS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JAX-RS 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 531 655 754
Rank change year-on-year +124 +99 -77
Contract jobs citing JAX-RS 48 29 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.051% 0.099%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.53% 0.22% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 22 54
10th Percentile £304 £528 £474
25th Percentile £403 £653 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £700 £540
Median % change year-on-year -28.04% +29.63% +10.77%
75th Percentile £747 - £672
90th Percentile £750 £745 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -41.07% +7.69% +36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £63.95
25th Percentile - - £66.13
Median hourly rate - - £69.75
75th Percentile - - £73.38
90th Percentile - - £75.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £77.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JAX-RS 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 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 9,060 12,931 23,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.02% 22.94% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,282 9,442 17,368
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 148 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.53 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.48 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +18.18% +22.22%

JAX-RS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JAX-RS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JAX-RS.

Daily rate trend for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JAX-RS over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JAX-RS.

Hourly rate trend for JAX-RS in the UK

JAX-RS
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JAX-RS within the UK 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
England +108 40 £500 -28.57% 4
London +117 26 £725 +5.45% 2
Work from Home +114 16 £550 -21.43% 5
UK excluding London +42 11 £413 -41.07% 3
South West +16 7 £300 -57.14% 1
North of England +15 3 £450 -35.71% 1
Yorkshire +6 2 £450 -35.71%
North West - 1 £508 - 1
South East - 1 - -

JAX-RS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (2.08%) nginx
1 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) GCP
2 6 (12.50%) AWS
3 5 (10.42%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (2.08%) GitHub
7 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (39.58%) MongoDB
2 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.08%) MySQL
3 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (45.83%) Mockito
2 12 (25.00%) Maven
3 5 (10.42%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.42%) JUnit
3 5 (10.42%) TestNG
4 3 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.25%) GitLab
4 3 (6.25%) Selenium
5 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.17%) EasyMock
5 2 (4.17%) Git
5 2 (4.17%) Gradle
5 2 (4.17%) JMeter
5 2 (4.17%) Mocha
5 2 (4.17%) REST Assured
5 2 (4.17%) SoapUI
5 2 (4.17%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.08%) Postman
6 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.17%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (89.58%) Developer
2 40 (83.33%) Java Developer
3 16 (33.33%) Senior
3 16 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 16 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Digital Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Automation Tester
6 2 (4.17%) Backend Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Tester
7 1 (2.08%) Agile Developer
7 1 (2.08%) Agile Java Developer
7 1 (2.08%) Senior Agile Developer
7 1 (2.08%) Senior Agile Java Developer
7 1 (2.08%) Senior Backend Developer
7 1 (2.08%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (58.33%) REST
1 28 (58.33%) Spring
1 28 (58.33%) Spring Boot
2 23 (47.92%) Restlet
3 22 (45.83%) GWT
4 21 (43.75%) SAML
5 20 (41.67%) Kafka
6 19 (39.58%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (6.25%) Node.js
7 3 (6.25%) WireMock
8 2 (4.17%) Chai
8 2 (4.17%) HTML
8 2 (4.17%) JAXB
8 2 (4.17%) Middleware
8 2 (4.17%) SOAP
9 1 (2.08%) CSS
9 1 (2.08%) Guice
9 1 (2.08%) JSON
9 1 (2.08%) RESTful
9 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Insider Threat
2 2 (4.17%) Educational Technology
2 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (37.50%) Linux
1 18 (37.50%) Mac OS X
1 18 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (60.42%) Test Automation
2 26 (54.17%) TDD
3 22 (45.83%) Agile
4 21 (43.75%) BDD
4 21 (43.75%) Microservices
5 19 (39.58%) Web Development
6 18 (37.50%) Continuous Deployment
6 18 (37.50%) Pair Programming
7 17 (35.42%) Responsive Web Design
7 17 (35.42%) Web Design
8 7 (14.58%) Risk Assessment
9 6 (12.50%) Cloud Security
10 5 (10.42%) User Experience
11 4 (8.33%) UX Design
12 3 (6.25%) CI/CD
12 3 (6.25%) MVC
12 3 (6.25%) Strategic Thinking
13 2 (4.17%) Backlog Refinement
13 2 (4.17%) Sprint Planning
13 2 (4.17%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 48 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.17%) C
3 2 (4.17%) Python
3 2 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 14 (29.17%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (41.67%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.25%) Terraform
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) Kustomize
4 1 (2.08%) Packer
Vendors
1 23 (47.92%) Google
2 4 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.08%) Red Hat