REST Contracts in the South East

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 95 110
Rank change year-on-year -20 +15 -15
Contract jobs citing REST 85 124 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.48% 2.19% 2.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.26% 12.72% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 70 116
10th Percentile £355 £424 £353
25th Percentile £428 £481 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £678 £623 £650
90th Percentile £725 £704 £708
England median daily rate £525 £550 £578
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.76% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £24.03 £51.63 -
25th Percentile £25.94 £52.19 -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £53.75 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year -47.91% -20.20% +34.72%
75th Percentile £29.00 £54.69 -
90th Percentile - £54.88 -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +30.91% -21.43% +85.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

REST falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 755 975 1,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.12% 17.22% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 686 999
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £406 £414 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £522 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -0.62% +15.77%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £625
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 44 40 42
10th Percentile £35.00 £50.00 £27.80
25th Percentile £56.61 £55.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £68.75 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +48.65% -7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.30 £67.94
England median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
% change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for REST 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 REST in the South East.

Daily rate trend for REST in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST 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 REST in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for REST 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 REST within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley -10 47 £650 +26.83% 14
Berkshire -22 42 £650 +30.00% 9
West Sussex +18 14 £353 -38.96% 7
Hampshire -20 13 £525 -19.23% 8
Surrey +3 8 £535 -2.73% 11
Buckinghamshire +29 3 £438 - 3
Oxfordshire -8 2 £350 -41.67% 2
Kent - 2 £500 - 3
Sussex - 1 £350 - 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 7 (8.24%) Apache
2 6 (7.06%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.71%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (3.53%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.35%) Confluence
5 2 (2.35%) GeoServer
6 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.18%) JBoss
6 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (4.71%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (4.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.76%) Azure
2 21 (24.71%) AWS
3 9 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.41%) GitHub
5 6 (7.06%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (7.06%) Serverless
6 4 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.71%) Boomi
6 4 (4.71%) GCP
6 4 (4.71%) OCI
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.35%) SaaS
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.18%) Google App Engine
8 1 (1.18%) MailChimp
8 1 (1.18%) npm
8 1 (1.18%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.59%) BGP
1 9 (10.59%) HTTP
2 6 (7.06%) Ethernet VPN
2 6 (7.06%) MPLS
2 6 (7.06%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (7.06%) VPN
3 3 (3.53%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (3.53%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.35%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.12%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.41%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.24%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (4.71%) Couchbase
6 4 (4.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (4.71%) Oracle Discoverer
6 4 (4.71%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.71%) SQLPlus
7 2 (2.35%) GIS
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.18%) Power BI
8 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (42.35%) Jenkins
2 27 (31.76%) Cucumber
2 27 (31.76%) Selenium
3 26 (30.59%) JIRA
4 25 (29.41%) GitLab
5 24 (28.24%) REST Assured
5 24 (28.24%) SonarQube
6 13 (15.29%) Git
7 6 (7.06%) Robot Framework
7 6 (7.06%) TestRail
8 4 (4.71%) JUnit
8 4 (4.71%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (2.35%) JMeter
9 2 (2.35%) Subversion
9 2 (2.35%) VersionOne
10 1 (1.18%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.18%) Mockito
10 1 (1.18%) NWDI
10 1 (1.18%) NWDS
10 1 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 36 (42.35%) Social Skills
2 29 (34.12%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (23.53%) Law
4 13 (15.29%) Police
5 5 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.71%) Finance
6 4 (4.71%) German Language
7 2 (2.35%) Legal
7 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.35%) Retail
8 1 (1.18%) Automotive
8 1 (1.18%) Aviation
8 1 (1.18%) Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.18%) Publishing
8 1 (1.18%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (42.35%) Developer
2 18 (21.18%) Java Engineer
3 11 (12.94%) Java Developer
3 11 (12.94%) Senior
4 10 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) Network Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Java Software Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Oracle Developer
7 6 (7.06%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Coordinator
9 4 (4.71%) Integration Developer
9 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.41%) Java EE
2 17 (20.00%) SOAP
3 12 (14.12%) ARM Templates
4 11 (12.94%) Kafka
5 10 (11.76%) Spring
5 10 (11.76%) YANG
6 9 (10.59%) Spring Boot
7 8 (9.41%) HTML
7 8 (9.41%) Web Services
8 7 (8.24%) AngularJS
8 7 (8.24%) CSS
8 7 (8.24%) JSON
8 7 (8.24%) Node.js
8 7 (8.24%) React
8 7 (8.24%) RESTful
8 7 (8.24%) XML
9 6 (7.06%) NETCONF
9 6 (7.06%) RESTCONF
10 5 (5.88%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.71%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.35%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.18%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.18%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.18%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.24%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Windows
3 1 (1.18%) Android
3 1 (1.18%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (42.35%) DevOps
2 35 (41.18%) Test Automation
3 33 (38.82%) Agile
4 31 (36.47%) Continuous Integration
5 30 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (34.12%) Software Engineering
6 29 (34.12%) Technical Leadership
7 25 (29.41%) Decision-Making
7 25 (29.41%) Software Architecture
8 20 (23.53%) CI/CD
9 18 (21.18%) Containerisation
10 16 (18.82%) Scrum
11 13 (15.29%) Configuration Management
11 13 (15.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (12.94%) Unit Testing
12 11 (12.94%) Workflow
13 10 (11.76%) Microservices
13 10 (11.76%) Open Source
13 10 (11.76%) TDD
14 9 (10.59%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 43 (50.59%) Java
2 25 (29.41%) SQL
3 17 (20.00%) Python
4 15 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.76%) Go
6 6 (7.06%) PL/SQL
7 4 (4.71%) ABAP
7 4 (4.71%) T-SQL
8 3 (3.53%) Bash
9 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.18%) C#
10 1 (1.18%) C++
10 1 (1.18%) Groovy
10 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.18%) PHP
10 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (38.82%) SC Cleared
1 33 (38.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.71%) Degree
3 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.18%) CISM
3 1 (1.18%) CISSP
3 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.18%) QA
1 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (32.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (36.47%) Ansible
2 22 (25.88%) Kubernetes
3 14 (16.47%) Terraform
4 12 (14.12%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (14.12%) Podman
5 1 (1.18%) Kibana
5 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (11.76%) SAP
2 9 (10.59%) Oracle
3 4 (4.71%) Google
3 4 (4.71%) IBM
4 3 (3.53%) Cisco
4 3 (3.53%) TOWER Software
5 2 (2.35%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.18%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.18%) Dell
6 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.18%) Splunk