REST Contracts in the South West

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 102 92
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 -4
Contract jobs citing REST 61 60 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.88% 1.77% 2.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.98% 11.56% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 44 53
10th Percentile £344 £408 £413
25th Percentile £425 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +9.13% +6.11%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £625
90th Percentile £623 £725 £656
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £65.90 - £51.85
25th Percentile £73.47 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £50.00 £57.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -12.56% -
75th Percentile £85.00 - £63.60
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.22 £56.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +28.39% -19.64% +85.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 advertised in the South West 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 470 519 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.48% 15.30% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 410 480
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £406 £427 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £658 £625 £588
90th Percentile £700 £715 £650
England median daily rate £550 £556 £570
% change year-on-year -0.99% -2.54% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 22 27
10th Percentile £43.75 £50.25 £49.05
25th Percentile £45.00 £53.75 £53.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year - +2.36% +27.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £65.13
90th Percentile £85.00 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -25.49% +23.81% +11.70%

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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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +21 31 £455 -1.62% 5
Devon +8 12 £550 - 1
Gloucestershire -2 8 £500 -28.57% 6
Dorset +6 4 £400 -27.27% 3
Wiltshire -7 3 £475 -13.64% 2
Somerset -7 2 £450 -33.82% 2
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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 9 (14.75%) 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 22 (36.07%) Azure
2 9 (14.75%) AWS
2 9 (14.75%) OpenShift
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 9 (14.75%) 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%) MySQL
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (14.75%) Git
1 9 (14.75%) GitLab
2 7 (11.48%) Maven
3 6 (9.84%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.84%) Selenium
4 5 (8.20%) Checkstyle
4 5 (8.20%) SonarQube
5 4 (6.56%) Cucumber
5 4 (6.56%) JUnit
6 3 (4.92%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
General
1 13 (21.31%) 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 31 (50.82%) Developer
2 11 (18.03%) Java Developer
3 9 (14.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Architect
4 6 (9.84%) Senior
4 6 (9.84%) Software Developer
4 6 (9.84%) Software Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Applications Developer
5 5 (8.20%) Java Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Power Apps Developer
5 5 (8.20%) Power Platform Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Azure Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Salesforce Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Angular Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Full Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (31.15%) CSS
2 14 (22.95%) Spring
3 13 (21.31%) HTML
3 13 (21.31%) Spring Boot
4 10 (16.39%) SAML
5 9 (14.75%) Apache NiFi
5 9 (14.75%) JSON
5 9 (14.75%) XML
6 7 (11.48%) .NET
6 7 (11.48%) AngularJS
6 7 (11.48%) GWT
6 7 (11.48%) JAX-RS
6 7 (11.48%) Restlet
7 6 (9.84%) GraphQL
7 6 (9.84%) Kafka
8 5 (8.20%) .NET Core
8 5 (8.20%) Apache Jena
8 5 (8.20%) Flask
8 5 (8.20%) PostGIS
8 5 (8.20%) React
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 8 (13.11%) Windows
3 4 (6.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) Agile
2 20 (32.79%) DevOps
3 19 (31.15%) 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%) SDLC
9 6 (9.84%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (9.84%) Design Patterns
9 6 (9.84%) Event-Driven
9 6 (9.84%) Front End Development
10 5 (8.20%) API Development
10 5 (8.20%) Architectural Design
10 5 (8.20%) Code Quality
10 5 (8.20%) OO
11 4 (6.56%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.79%) Java
2 18 (29.51%) JavaScript
3 12 (19.67%) Python
4 6 (9.84%) C#
4 6 (9.84%) SQL
5 5 (8.20%) SPARQL
6 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
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
8 1 (1.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (37.70%) Security Cleared
2 13 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.75%) 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 5 (8.20%) 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 14 (22.95%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.75%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (13.11%) Ansible
4 6 (9.84%) Terraform
5 1 (1.64%) rkt
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) Google
3 4 (6.56%) CyberArk
3 4 (6.56%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.56%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.56%) VMware
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle
4 1 (1.64%) SAP
4 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow