REST Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 41 57
Rank change year-on-year -18 +16 +17
Contract jobs citing REST 25 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.39% 1.78% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.56% 11.39% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 6
10th Percentile £375 £318 £438
25th Percentile £395 £399 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -17.77% +5.51%
75th Percentile £553 £540 £592
90th Percentile £600 £590 £618
England median daily rate £506 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -0.78% -2.86% -4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 151 79 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.45% 15.58% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 65 80
10th Percentile £381 £257 £246
25th Percentile £402 £320 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £402 £430
Median % change year-on-year +23.69% -6.51% -
75th Percentile £578 £488 £575
90th Percentile £625 £537 £626
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £15.84 - -
25th Percentile £19.29 £21.67 £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.08 £23.41 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year +7.11% +5.10% -
75th Percentile £27.56 £25.16 £28.13
90th Percentile £29.02 - £33.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

REST job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

REST
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the East Midlands

REST
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 2026. 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
Northamptonshire -14 13 £425 +4.42% 7
Nottinghamshire -15 8 £500 +2.04% 8
Derbyshire - 3 £425 - 5
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 3
REST
England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (12.00%) Apache Superset
1 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) NetSuite
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.00%) OneDrive
3 3 (12.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (12.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Storage
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (8.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) AWS
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Parquet
2 5 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (16.00%) Big Data
4 3 (12.00%) Metabase
4 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
6 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (4.00%) Metadata
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Gatling
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
2 2 (8.00%) Gradle
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) JMeter
2 2 (8.00%) JUnit
2 2 (8.00%) Maven
2 2 (8.00%) Postman
2 2 (8.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (8.00%) TestNG
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Marketing
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Retail
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Software Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (12.00%) .NET Software Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Power Platform Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Rust Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Business Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Ab Initio Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Integration Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) SOAP
2 4 (16.00%) JSON
2 4 (16.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (12.00%) .NET
3 3 (12.00%) HTML
3 3 (12.00%) Middleware
3 3 (12.00%) Plotly
4 2 (8.00%) CSS
4 2 (8.00%) Node.js
4 2 (8.00%) OpenAPI
4 2 (8.00%) Playwright
4 2 (8.00%) Swagger
4 2 (8.00%) Visualforce
4 2 (8.00%) XML
5 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.00%) CSS3
5 1 (4.00%) HTML5
5 1 (4.00%) ISPF
5 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (12.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) MVS
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (32.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) Microservices
3 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.00%) DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) API Integration
5 4 (16.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (16.00%) Design Patterns
5 4 (16.00%) Event-Driven
5 4 (16.00%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (16.00%) Scrum
6 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (12.00%) CRM
6 3 (12.00%) Data Transformation
6 3 (12.00%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (12.00%) ETL
6 3 (12.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Rust
1 6 (24.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) Apex Code
3 3 (12.00%) C#
3 3 (12.00%) MATLAB
3 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.00%) Bicep
4 2 (8.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) SOQL
4 2 (8.00%) SOSL
5 1 (4.00%) JCL
5 1 (4.00%) REXX
5 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Ab Initio
4 1 (4.00%) BMC
4 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.00%) Epicor
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk