REST Contracts with Work from Home Options

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 92 79 73
Rank change year-on-year -13 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing REST 343 667 1,441
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.34% 2.75% 3.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.38% 11.01% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 461 970
10th Percentile £404 £413 £406
25th Percentile £457 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £521 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.21% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 16
10th Percentile - £43.13 £49.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £51.56 £54.38
Median hourly rate £23.50 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.27% -21.43% +75.00%
75th Percentile £24.25 £58.44 £76.26
90th Percentile - £62.25 £77.50
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,657 6,059 13,124
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.97% 24.99% 29.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,580 4,544 9,747
10th Percentile £343 £399 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% +10.55%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £741
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 77 110
10th Percentile £24.23 £24.45 £22.50
25th Percentile - £46.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £66.64
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.10 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

REST trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing REST.

REST daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing REST over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

REST daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing REST.

REST hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 17 (4.96%) Confluence
2 9 (2.62%) CMS
3 8 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.04%) Apache
5 6 (1.75%) Anypoint
5 6 (1.75%) Mule
6 5 (1.46%) Mule ESB
7 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.58%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.58%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.58%) JBoss
9 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.58%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.29%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.46%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.58%) Shopify
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%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 102 (29.74%) Azure
2 86 (25.07%) AWS
3 36 (10.50%) GitHub
4 29 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (8.45%) GCP
5 23 (6.71%) Serverless
6 18 (5.25%) OpenShift
7 15 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (3.79%) Power Platform
9 12 (3.50%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.50%) PaaS
9 12 (3.50%) Power Automate
9 12 (3.50%) PowerApps
10 11 (3.21%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (3.21%) Azure Stack
11 10 (2.92%) Azure API Management
11 10 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (2.92%) Entra ID
11 10 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (2.92%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.08%) HTTP
2 5 (1.46%) Firewall
2 5 (1.46%) SAN
2 5 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.87%) BGP
3 3 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (0.87%) Internet
3 3 (0.87%) IOS XR
4 2 (0.58%) DNS
5 1 (0.29%) DHCP
5 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.29%) MQTT
5 1 (0.29%) NAS
5 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.33%) SQL Server
2 31 (9.04%) NoSQL
2 31 (9.04%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (4.96%) Relational Database
4 11 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.21%) MySQL
4 11 (3.21%) Snowflake Schema
5 9 (2.62%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.75%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.46%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.17%) CockroachDB
9 4 (1.17%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.87%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.87%) Triplestore
11 2 (0.58%) GIS
11 2 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (17.20%) Git
2 54 (15.74%) Jenkins
3 45 (13.12%) JIRA
4 28 (8.16%) GitLab
5 26 (7.58%) Maven
6 23 (6.71%) Selenium
7 22 (6.41%) Cucumber
8 15 (4.37%) SonarQube
9 13 (3.79%) REST Assured
10 12 (3.50%) JUnit
11 11 (3.21%) Visual Studio
12 9 (2.62%) JMeter
13 8 (2.33%) Postman
13 8 (2.33%) webpack
14 6 (1.75%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.75%) Cypress.io
14 6 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (1.46%) Bitbucket
15 5 (1.46%) TeamCity
15 5 (1.46%) WiX
General
1 75 (21.87%) Social Skills
2 37 (10.79%) Finance
3 35 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.66%) Banking
6 10 (2.92%) Retail
7 9 (2.62%) Law
8 8 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.04%) Front Office
9 7 (2.04%) Police
9 7 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.46%) Back Office
10 5 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.46%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.87%) Marketing
11 3 (0.87%) Publishing
12 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.29%) Automotive
13 1 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 183 (53.35%) Developer
2 54 (15.74%) Senior
3 44 (12.83%) Architect
3 44 (12.83%) Java Developer
4 29 (8.45%) Senior Developer
5 28 (8.16%) Full Stack Developer
6 27 (7.87%) Software Engineer
7 23 (6.71%) Java Engineer
8 15 (4.37%) Applications Developer
8 15 (4.37%) Java Software Engineer
9 13 (3.79%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 13 (3.79%) Software Developer
10 12 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (3.50%) Technical Architect
11 11 (3.21%) Azure Developer
11 11 (3.21%) C# Developer
11 11 (3.21%) Data Architect
12 10 (2.92%) Python Developer
12 10 (2.92%) React Developer
12 10 (2.92%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (18.95%) Spring Boot
2 64 (18.66%) Spring
3 63 (18.37%) CSS
4 58 (16.91%) HTML
5 57 (16.62%) SOAP
6 55 (16.03%) Web Services
7 54 (15.74%) .NET
7 54 (15.74%) JSON
8 45 (13.12%) React
9 44 (12.83%) Node.js
10 41 (11.95%) AngularJS
11 38 (11.08%) GraphQL
12 37 (10.79%) XML
13 25 (7.29%) SAML
14 23 (6.71%) OAuth
15 21 (6.12%) Kafka
16 19 (5.54%) Swagger
17 18 (5.25%) YAML
18 17 (4.96%) RESTful
19 16 (4.66%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.66%) Data Structures
2 10 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (2.92%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (2.62%) Reference Data
4 8 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.75%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.46%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.46%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.46%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.46%) Web 2.0
7 4 (1.17%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.87%) Linux
2 21 (6.12%) Windows
3 12 (3.50%) Android
3 12 (3.50%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.04%) Unix
5 6 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (38.48%) Agile
2 92 (26.82%) CI/CD
3 83 (24.20%) DevOps
4 72 (20.99%) Microservices
5 66 (19.24%) Software Engineering
6 57 (16.62%) Test Automation
7 42 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (11.66%) TDD
9 39 (11.37%) Full Stack Development
10 34 (9.91%) Design Patterns
11 30 (8.75%) OO
12 29 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (8.45%) Scrum
13 28 (8.16%) Continuous Integration
14 26 (7.58%) Containerisation
14 26 (7.58%) Web Development
15 25 (7.29%) Configuration Management
15 25 (7.29%) Data Modelling
16 24 (7.00%) API Management
16 24 (7.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 112 (32.65%) Java
2 108 (31.49%) JavaScript
3 76 (22.16%) SQL
4 54 (15.74%) C#
5 42 (12.24%) Python
6 40 (11.66%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.66%) Go
8 11 (3.21%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.92%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.33%) C
10 8 (2.33%) C++
11 5 (1.46%) ABAP
11 5 (1.46%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.17%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.17%) Bash
12 4 (1.17%) BeanShell
12 4 (1.17%) Ruby
13 3 (0.87%) Rust
13 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.87%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 63 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 48 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.29%) Degree
4 12 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.87%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.29%) CISSP
9 1 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.04%) QA
2 16 (4.66%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.87%) GDPR
4 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.87%) WCAG
5 2 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.58%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
6 1 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 66 (19.24%) Docker
2 9 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.04%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.87%) vCloud
5 3 (0.87%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.29%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 49 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 35 (10.20%) Terraform
3 28 (8.16%) Ansible
4 14 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (3.50%) Grafana
6 8 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
6 8 (2.33%) Podman
7 5 (1.46%) CloudHub
7 5 (1.46%) Kibana
8 4 (1.17%) PingFederate
8 4 (1.17%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.17%) Puppet
9 3 (0.87%) Autotask
10 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.29%) Control-M
11 1 (0.29%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.29%) logstash
11 1 (0.29%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (9.91%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.00%) Google
3 20 (5.83%) Salesforce
4 19 (5.54%) Oracle
5 14 (4.08%) MuleSoft
5 14 (4.08%) SAP
6 11 (3.21%) Atlassian
6 11 (3.21%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.33%) Pega
8 7 (2.04%) VMware
9 6 (1.75%) IBM
9 6 (1.75%) TOWER Software
10 5 (1.46%) BMC
10 5 (1.46%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.46%) Genesys
10 5 (1.46%) Ping Identity
10 5 (1.46%) Splunk
11 3 (0.87%) Arista
11 3 (0.87%) Avaya
11 3 (0.87%) Sitecore