RESTful Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

RESTful
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring RESTful skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 49 66
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 +6
Contract jobs citing RESTful 12 20 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.98% 2.78% 0.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.90% 12.42% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 4
10th Percentile £401 £531 £408
25th Percentile £459 £578 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £679 £525
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% +29.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £545 £756 £600
90th Percentile £857 £813 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% -2.50%
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 93 161 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.37% 22.39% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 103 111
10th Percentile £350 £375 £319
25th Percentile £413 £446 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +18.92% -14.55%
75th Percentile £615 £669 £641
90th Percentile £688 £748 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £489
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.53% -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -9.09% +214.29% -69.83%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing RESTful

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 6 (50.00%) Serverless
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon S3
3 5 (41.67%) AWS KMS
3 5 (41.67%) Route 53
4 4 (33.33%) GCP
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (16.67%) Azure
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (41.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (41.67%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (41.67%) DynamoDB
3 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (41.67%) Git
2 5 (41.67%) JUnit
2 5 (41.67%) Maven
2 5 (41.67%) SonarQube
3 4 (33.33%) Liquibase
4 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (25.00%) DbUnit
4 3 (25.00%) jMock
4 3 (25.00%) Mockito
5 2 (16.67%) GitLab
6 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (16.67%) AWS Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Lead
5 2 (16.67%) Lead Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) REST
2 6 (50.00%) SOAP
3 5 (41.67%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (41.67%) Hibernate
3 5 (41.67%) JPA
3 5 (41.67%) Spring
3 5 (41.67%) Spring Batch
3 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
3 5 (41.67%) Spring Integration
3 5 (41.67%) Web Services
4 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 4 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (25.00%) Bootstrap
5 3 (25.00%) PowerMock
5 3 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (16.67%) React
7 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
7 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
7 1 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (33.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
1 10 (83.33%) Microservices
2 9 (75.00%) DevOps
3 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
4 7 (58.33%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
6 5 (41.67%) Scrum
6 5 (41.67%) TDD
7 4 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (33.33%) Cryptography
7 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
8 3 (25.00%) BDD
8 3 (25.00%) High Availability
8 3 (25.00%) Kanban
8 3 (25.00%) Open Source
9 2 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (41.67%) Python
4 4 (33.33%) Go
5 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 1 (8.33%) C#
6 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
2 3 (25.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Grafana
1 7 (58.33%) Prometheus
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Splunk
2 3 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Pega