RESTful Contracts in Birmingham

RESTful
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 62 71
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing RESTful 9 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.72% 0.65% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.59% 4.17% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £433 £373 £415
25th Percentile £444 £393 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% - -6.74%
75th Percentile £501 £488 £509
90th Percentile £531 £495 £530
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £607 £450
% change year-on-year -15.57% +34.89% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

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 in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 85 120 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.28% 15.52% 18.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 87 123
10th Percentile £380 £223 £330
25th Percentile £425 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £700
90th Percentile £700 £700 -
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.91 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year -15.23% - -

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in Birmingham

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in Birmingham

RESTful
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Magento
1 2 (22.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Route 53
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JUnit
1 4 (44.44%) Maven
1 4 (44.44%) Mockito
2 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 3 (33.33%) Gradle
3 2 (22.22%) Postman
4 1 (11.11%) Ant
4 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (11.11%) DbUnit
4 1 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (11.11%) jMock
4 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) ABAP Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (22.22%) SAP Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Spring
2 4 (44.44%) SOAP
3 3 (33.33%) REST
3 3 (33.33%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) Ajax
4 2 (22.22%) BAPI
4 2 (22.22%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) CSS3
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) HTML5
4 2 (22.22%) IDoc
4 2 (22.22%) KnockoutJS
4 2 (22.22%) Node.js
4 2 (22.22%) RequireJS
4 2 (22.22%) SAP Smart Forms
4 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
5 1 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 1 (11.11%) J2EE
5 1 (11.11%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 4 (44.44%) TDD
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Change Control
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
3 2 (22.22%) ERP
3 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) OO
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 2 (22.22%) SAP Implementation
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) API Development
4 1 (11.11%) API Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) ABAP
3 2 (22.22%) COBOL
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Adobe
2 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 1 (11.11%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (11.11%) Sybase