REST Contracts in the South West

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 98 98 90
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 -11
Contract jobs citing REST 61 62 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.85% 1.83% 2.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.50% 12.09% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 43 57
10th Percentile £338 £408 £403
25th Percentile £425 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +9.13% +3.38%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £630
90th Percentile £630 £725 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £578
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.76% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £67.55 - £51.85
25th Percentile £73.63 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £74.72 £50.00 £57.18
Median % change year-on-year +49.44% -12.56% -
75th Percentile £85.00 - £63.60
90th Percentile - - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 488 513 643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.79% 15.14% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 404 475
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +6.01%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £589
90th Percentile £700 £714 £658
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 22 27
10th Percentile £43.75 £52.63 £49.20
25th Percentile £45.00 £56.56 £54.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +2.20% +27.20%
75th Percentile - £78.00 £65.13
90th Percentile £85.00 - £75.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the South West.

Daily rate trend for REST in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for REST in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +15 33 £455 -1.62% 5
Devon +6 10 £575 - 4
Gloucestershire -1 8 £500 -28.57% 3
Dorset +8 4 £400 -27.27% 3
Wiltshire -19 3 £475 -13.64% 1
Somerset -7 2 £450 -33.82% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (16.39%) Apache
2 6 (9.84%) SharePoint
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.64%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.70%) Azure
2 9 (14.75%) OpenShift
3 8 (13.11%) AWS
3 8 (13.11%) GCP
4 7 (11.48%) GitHub
5 6 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (9.84%) Power Automate
5 6 (9.84%) Power Platform
5 6 (9.84%) PowerApps
6 5 (8.20%) Amazon Cognito
7 4 (6.56%) Azure Stack
7 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (4.92%) Serverless
9 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.39%) HTTP
2 5 (8.20%) Firewall
3 4 (6.56%) SAN
4 1 (1.64%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.20%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.20%) SQLite
2 5 (8.20%) Triplestore
3 4 (6.56%) CockroachDB
3 4 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.56%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (4.92%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) GitLab
2 9 (14.75%) Git
3 8 (13.11%) Maven
4 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
4 7 (11.48%) Selenium
5 5 (8.20%) Checkstyle
5 5 (8.20%) Cucumber
5 5 (8.20%) JUnit
5 5 (8.20%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.92%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (19.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.20%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.64%) Banking
4 1 (1.64%) Finance
4 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (49.18%) Developer
2 12 (19.67%) Java Developer
3 10 (16.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Senior
5 6 (9.84%) Architect
5 6 (9.84%) Software Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Applications Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Java Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Power Apps Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Power Platform Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Software Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Azure Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Data Architect
7 4 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Salesforce Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (4.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Angular Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (29.51%) CSS
2 15 (24.59%) Spring
3 14 (22.95%) Spring Boot
4 12 (19.67%) HTML
5 10 (16.39%) Apache NiFi
5 10 (16.39%) SAML
6 9 (14.75%) JSON
6 9 (14.75%) XML
7 8 (13.11%) AngularJS
8 7 (11.48%) .NET
8 7 (11.48%) GWT
8 7 (11.48%) JAX-RS
8 7 (11.48%) Restlet
9 6 (9.84%) GraphQL
9 6 (9.84%) Kafka
10 5 (8.20%) .NET Core
10 5 (8.20%) .NET Framework
10 5 (8.20%) Apache Jena
10 5 (8.20%) PostGIS
11 4 (6.56%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.56%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.56%) Insider Threat
2 4 (6.56%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.39%) Linux
2 9 (14.75%) Windows
3 4 (6.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.98%) Agile
2 21 (34.43%) DevOps
3 20 (32.79%) CI/CD
4 12 (19.67%) Microservices
5 11 (18.03%) Test Automation
6 10 (16.39%) Containerisation
6 10 (16.39%) Software Engineering
7 8 (13.11%) Data Modelling
7 8 (13.11%) TDD
7 8 (13.11%) Web Application Development
8 7 (11.48%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (11.48%) SDLC
9 6 (9.84%) Design Patterns
9 6 (9.84%) Event-Driven
10 5 (8.20%) Architectural Design
10 5 (8.20%) Code Quality
10 5 (8.20%) Front End Development
10 5 (8.20%) OO
10 5 (8.20%) User Experience
10 5 (8.20%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 21 (34.43%) Java
2 17 (27.87%) JavaScript
3 12 (19.67%) Python
4 6 (9.84%) C#
4 6 (9.84%) SQL
5 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
5 5 (8.20%) SPARQL
6 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.28%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.64%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.64%) C
8 1 (1.64%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (39.34%) Security Cleared
2 13 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.39%) DV Cleared
4 6 (9.84%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.56%) Degree
6 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.28%) HND
7 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Docker
2 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.56%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (24.59%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.75%) Ansible
2 9 (14.75%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (11.48%) Terraform
4 1 (1.64%) rkt
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) Google
3 5 (8.20%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.56%) CyberArk
4 4 (6.56%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.56%) VMware
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow