RESTful Contracts

RESTful
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RESTful 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 185 199 135
Rank change year-on-year +14 -64 -8
Contract jobs citing RESTful 546 751 1,747
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.25% 1.35% 2.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.92% 5.90% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 538 1,226
10th Percentile £363 £385 £396
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £719 £800 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 27
10th Percentile £47.70 £62.70 £44.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +18.58% +50.60%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £67.75
90th Percentile £87.00 £79.62 £75.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £63.25
% change year-on-year - - +58.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

RESTful 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing RESTful over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the UK 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
England +3 443 £514 -14.33% 340
London -13 261 £553 -11.48% 141
Work from Home +37 218 £500 -4.76% 245
UK excluding London +32 213 £450 -10.00% 221
North of England +33 67 £456 -15.12% 71
Scotland +63 47 £400 -21.57% 18
North West +34 46 £463 -1.60% 31
Midlands +14 30 £495 -5.71% 40
South East -1 30 £450 -1.10% 42
East of England +6 22 £500 +2.56% 17
West Midlands +17 16 £607 +15.62% 29
East Midlands +6 14 £430 -27.23% 11
South West +4 14 £550 +15.79% 18
Yorkshire +6 13 £437 -23.38% 30
North East +14 8 £525 -14.29% 12
Wales +8 3 £438 -18.41% 12

RESTful
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 17 (3.11%) Confluence
2 12 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.65%) Apache
5 7 (1.28%) CMS
6 5 (0.92%) Appian
7 3 (0.55%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.37%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.37%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.37%) Jadu
8 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.37%) WordPress
9 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.18%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.28%) NEC Housing
2 5 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.37%) Shopify
6 1 (0.18%) Aareon QL
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.18%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 231 (42.31%) AWS
2 147 (26.92%) Azure
3 102 (18.68%) GCP
4 47 (8.61%) Serverless
5 40 (7.33%) GitHub
6 36 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 19 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
12 13 (2.38%) npm
13 12 (2.20%) Power Platform
14 11 (2.01%) PaaS
15 10 (1.83%) Azure Functions
16 9 (1.65%) SaaS
17 8 (1.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 69 (12.64%) HTTP
2 11 (2.01%) Firewall
3 9 (1.65%) SSL
4 7 (1.28%) Kerberos
5 6 (1.10%) BGP
5 6 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.92%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.55%) DHCP
7 3 (0.55%) DMVPN
7 3 (0.55%) DNS
7 3 (0.55%) HSRP
7 3 (0.55%) MPLS
7 3 (0.55%) Network Security
7 3 (0.55%) OSPF
7 3 (0.55%) SNMP
7 3 (0.55%) VLAN
7 3 (0.55%) VPN
7 3 (0.55%) WAN
7 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (15.20%) NoSQL
2 48 (8.79%) MongoDB
3 47 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (8.42%) SQL Server
5 45 (8.24%) MySQL
6 42 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 36 (6.59%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.93%) DynamoDB
9 12 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.01%) Power BI
10 11 (2.01%) Redis
11 8 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.92%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.92%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.73%) Big Data
14 4 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 107 (19.60%) Git
2 51 (9.34%) Jenkins
3 32 (5.86%) JIRA
4 19 (3.48%) Mockito
5 17 (3.11%) Selenium
6 16 (2.93%) Android Studio
7 15 (2.75%) webpack
8 14 (2.56%) JUnit
8 14 (2.56%) Maven
9 13 (2.38%) Cucumber
9 13 (2.38%) SonarQube
9 13 (2.38%) TeamCity
10 12 (2.20%) Bitbucket
10 12 (2.20%) GitLab
11 11 (2.01%) CircleCI
12 10 (1.83%) Cypress.io
13 9 (1.65%) Moq
13 9 (1.65%) Postman
14 8 (1.47%) Gradle
14 8 (1.47%) NUnit
General
1 138 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 66 (12.09%) Finance
3 54 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.88%) Public Sector
5 36 (6.59%) Banking
6 14 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 12 (2.20%) Front Office
8 10 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 10 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.65%) Retail
10 8 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.28%) Marketing
12 5 (0.92%) Electronics
12 5 (0.92%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.55%) Advertising
13 3 (0.55%) Back Office
13 3 (0.55%) Law
13 3 (0.55%) Publishing
14 2 (0.37%) Automotive
14 2 (0.37%) French Language
Job Titles
1 342 (62.64%) Developer
2 64 (11.72%) Senior
3 54 (9.89%) Scala Developer
4 51 (9.34%) Java Developer
5 44 (8.06%) Software Engineer
6 42 (7.69%) Architect
7 39 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 32 (5.86%) Software Developer
9 30 (5.49%) Python Developer
10 28 (5.13%) .NET Developer
11 27 (4.95%) Full Stack Developer
12 23 (4.21%) Lead
13 20 (3.66%) React Developer
14 19 (3.48%) C# Developer
15 18 (3.30%) Android Developer
16 17 (3.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 15 (2.75%) AWS Developer
18 14 (2.56%) Senior Java Developer
19 13 (2.38%) Angular Developer
20 12 (2.20%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (16.67%) Kafka
1 91 (16.67%) React
2 84 (15.38%) .NET
3 81 (14.84%) Node.js
4 76 (13.92%) Spring
5 74 (13.55%) CSS
6 70 (12.82%) HTML
6 70 (12.82%) Web Services
7 65 (11.90%) Spring Boot
8 59 (10.81%) AngularJS
9 56 (10.26%) Akka
10 52 (9.52%) SOAP
11 44 (8.06%) JSON
12 42 (7.69%) XML
13 35 (6.41%) .NET Core
14 33 (6.04%) OAuth
15 32 (5.86%) REST
16 25 (4.58%) RabbitMQ
17 24 (4.40%) GraphQL
18 22 (4.03%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 50 (9.16%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (6.78%) Data Structures
3 31 (5.68%) Mobile App
4 26 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (4.03%) Algorithms
5 22 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.11%) Cloud Native
7 15 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.47%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.10%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.92%) PKI
11 5 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.92%) Verilog
11 5 (0.92%) VHDL
12 4 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.41%) Linux
2 29 (5.31%) Android
3 18 (3.30%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.38%) Unix
5 12 (2.20%) Windows
6 8 (1.47%) VMS
7 4 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.55%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (39.74%) Agile
2 191 (34.98%) Microservices
3 149 (27.29%) DevOps
4 130 (23.81%) CI/CD
5 117 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (17.95%) TDD
7 78 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 77 (14.10%) Software Engineering
9 73 (13.37%) Continuous Integration
10 72 (13.19%) Unit Testing
11 61 (11.17%) Clean Code
12 60 (10.99%) API Development
13 57 (10.44%) User Experience
14 52 (9.52%) Full Stack Development
15 51 (9.34%) Containerisation
16 50 (9.16%) Scrum
17 43 (7.88%) Code Quality
17 43 (7.88%) Machine Learning
17 43 (7.88%) SDLC
18 42 (7.69%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 168 (30.77%) Java
2 148 (27.11%) SQL
3 133 (24.36%) JavaScript
4 128 (23.44%) Python
5 77 (14.10%) C#
6 71 (13.00%) Scala
7 60 (10.99%) TypeScript
8 34 (6.23%) Kotlin
9 23 (4.21%) Go
10 20 (3.66%) C++
11 17 (3.11%) C
11 17 (3.11%) PowerShell
12 16 (2.93%) Shell Script
13 14 (2.56%) PHP
14 10 (1.83%) Swift
15 7 (1.28%) Bash
15 7 (1.28%) Ruby
16 6 (1.10%) Bicep
16 6 (1.10%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 65 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.88%) Degree
4 30 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.47%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (0.92%) Azure Certification
6 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.55%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.18%) CCNP
9 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.18%) CISSP
9 1 (0.18%) GCIA
9 1 (0.18%) GCIH
9 1 (0.18%) GIAC
9 1 (0.18%) GSEC
9 1 (0.18%) ISEB
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.58%) QA
2 21 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.65%) GDPR
4 8 (1.47%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.10%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.55%) NCSC
6 3 (0.55%) WCAG
7 2 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.37%) PSD2
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
8 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 112 (20.51%) Docker
2 12 (2.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 11 (2.01%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.73%) VirtualBox
6 3 (0.55%) vCloud
6 3 (0.55%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.55%) vSphere
7 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 129 (23.63%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.49%) Terraform
3 28 (5.13%) Grafana
4 25 (4.58%) Prometheus
5 23 (4.21%) Ansible
6 12 (2.20%) Consul
7 8 (1.47%) Zipkin
8 6 (1.10%) Kibana
9 3 (0.55%) Autotask
9 3 (0.55%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.55%) Puppet
10 2 (0.37%) logstash
11 1 (0.18%) Anchore
11 1 (0.18%) Argo
11 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.18%) Nagios
11 1 (0.18%) Packer
11 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (8.61%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.78%) Oracle
3 27 (4.95%) Google
4 23 (4.21%) Typelevel
5 17 (3.11%) OpenAI
5 17 (3.11%) SAP
6 14 (2.56%) SaltStack
7 11 (2.01%) IBM
8 10 (1.83%) TIBCO
9 9 (1.65%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.28%) NEC
11 6 (1.10%) Cadence
11 6 (1.10%) Checkmarx
11 6 (1.10%) Cisco
11 6 (1.10%) TOWER Software
12 5 (0.92%) OpenText
12 5 (0.92%) Pega
12 5 (0.92%) VMware
13 4 (0.73%) Adobe
13 4 (0.73%) Sitecore