REST Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Representational State Transfer (REST)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 54 46
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 +12
Contract jobs citing REST 28 14 23
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.88% 2.03% 3.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.05% 8.92% 17.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 7 19
10th Percentile £468 £460 £400
25th Percentile £500 £483 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% - -9.91%
75th Percentile £675 £531 £688
90th Percentile £892 £593 £730
West Midlands median daily rate £523 £500 £473
% change year-on-year +4.50% +5.82% -14.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.75 - -
Median hourly rate £76.50 - -
75th Percentile £77.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £75.75 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 133 157 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.45% 22.75% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 99 102
10th Percentile £400 £375 £288
25th Percentile £468 £446 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £575
90th Percentile £688 £750 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £456
% change year-on-year -4.55% +20.55% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £25.80 - -
25th Percentile £34.13 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.13 - -
90th Percentile £71.60 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% +57.14% +16.67%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

REST job vacancy trend in Birmingham

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Birmingham

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) SAS
2 1 (3.57%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) AWS
2 15 (53.57%) GCP
2 15 (53.57%) Serverless
3 5 (17.86%) AWS KMS
4 3 (10.71%) Azure
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub
5 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) OCI
6 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 10 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.57%) Metadata
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (53.57%) GitLab
1 15 (53.57%) Jenkins
2 10 (35.71%) Liquibase
3 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 2 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (3.57%) JIRA
4 1 (3.57%) Selenium
General
1 23 (82.14%) Social Skills
2 20 (71.43%) Finance
3 11 (39.29%) Banking
4 10 (35.71%) Financial Institution
5 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
6 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (10.71%) Marketing
6 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
7 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.57%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (39.29%) Senior
3 10 (35.71%) GCP Engineer
4 9 (32.14%) Software Engineer
5 7 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (21.43%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 5 (17.86%) AWS Software Engineer
8 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (14.29%) GCP Software Engineer
8 4 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (10.71%) Architect
9 3 (10.71%) Consultant
9 3 (10.71%) Developer
9 3 (10.71%) Pega Architect
9 3 (10.71%) Pega Consultant
9 3 (10.71%) Senior Architect
9 3 (10.71%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (53.57%) RESTful
2 14 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (14.29%) SOAP
4 2 (7.14%) Enzyme
4 2 (7.14%) Jest
4 2 (7.14%) Node.js
4 2 (7.14%) React
5 1 (3.57%) HTML
5 1 (3.57%) JSON
5 1 (3.57%) OAuth
5 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (3.57%) PySpark
5 1 (3.57%) pytest
5 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 13 (46.43%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.71%) Taxonomies
4 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) Replication
5 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.57%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) Agile
2 20 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 19 (67.86%) Containerisation
4 18 (64.29%) DevOps
5 16 (57.14%) Computer Science
5 16 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
6 14 (50.00%) Cryptography
7 13 (46.43%) Microservices
8 11 (39.29%) Cost Optimisation
8 11 (39.29%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (39.29%) High Availability
9 10 (35.71%) Non-Functional Testing
9 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
10 9 (32.14%) Change Management
10 9 (32.14%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (32.14%) Data Encryption
10 9 (32.14%) Data Security
11 8 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
12 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) Python
2 16 (57.14%) Go
3 5 (17.86%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.57%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 16 (57.14%) Degree
2 13 (46.43%) Master's Degree
3 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) Terraform
2 16 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 14 (50.00%) Grafana
3 14 (50.00%) Prometheus
4 13 (46.43%) Ansible
5 2 (7.14%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) Splunk
2 7 (25.00%) Google
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
4 4 (14.29%) Pega
5 2 (7.14%) Dell
5 2 (7.14%) Isilon
6 1 (3.57%) Databricks
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle