JAX-RS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)
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 JAX-RS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JAX-RS 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 333 447 590
Rank change year-on-year +114 +143 -116
Contract jobs citing JAX-RS 16 12 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.050% 0.081%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.44% 0.20% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 26
10th Percentile £450 - £450
25th Percentile £463 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £495
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +41.41% -
75th Percentile £750 £713 £540
90th Percentile - £750 £675
UK median daily rate £504 £700 £540
% change year-on-year -28.04% +29.63% +10.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
UK median hourly rate - - £69.75

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

JAX-RS 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%

JAX-RS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

JAX-RS trend for jobs with a WFH option

JAX-RS
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 JAX-RS.

JAX-RS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

JAX-RS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

JAX-RS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JAX-RS
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 1 (6.25%) nginx
1 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) GCP
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Maven
2 4 (25.00%) Mockito
3 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
3 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (18.75%) JUnit
3 3 (18.75%) Selenium
3 3 (18.75%) TestNG
4 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 2 (12.50%) Git
4 2 (12.50%) GitLab
4 2 (12.50%) Gradle
4 2 (12.50%) JMeter
4 2 (12.50%) Mocha
4 2 (12.50%) REST Assured
4 2 (12.50%) SoapUI
4 2 (12.50%) WebDriver
5 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (6.25%) EasyMock
5 1 (6.25%) Postman
5 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
1 12 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Senior Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 2 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Salesforce Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Agile Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Agile Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Backend Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Developer
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Agile Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Agile Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) REST
1 13 (81.25%) Spring
1 13 (81.25%) Spring Boot
2 10 (62.50%) Restlet
2 10 (62.50%) SAML
3 9 (56.25%) GWT
4 4 (25.00%) Kafka
5 3 (18.75%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (12.50%) Chai
6 2 (12.50%) JAXB
6 2 (12.50%) Middleware
6 2 (12.50%) Node.js
6 2 (12.50%) SOAP
7 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
7 1 (6.25%) Guice
7 1 (6.25%) Mustache
7 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
7 1 (6.25%) Swagger
7 1 (6.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (12.50%) Insider Threat
2 1 (6.25%) Educational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Mac OS X
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
2 6 (37.50%) TDD
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) BDD
3 5 (31.25%) Microservices
3 5 (31.25%) Pair Programming
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (18.75%) Responsive Web Design
4 3 (18.75%) Web Design
4 3 (18.75%) Web Development
5 2 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 2 (12.50%) CRM
5 2 (12.50%) OOP
5 2 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (12.50%) SDET
5 2 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (12.50%) Sprint Review
5 2 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) C
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Kustomize
3 1 (6.25%) Packer
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Google
2 4 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat