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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 28 56
Rank change year-on-year -41 +28 +5
Contract jobs citing REST 19 44 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.38% 5.30% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.50% 20.09% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 40 9
10th Percentile £400 £279 £347
25th Percentile £407 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.33% -11.76% -29.17%
75th Percentile £522 £447 £510
90th Percentile £591 £511 £518
England median daily rate £525 £491 £532
% change year-on-year +6.92% -7.62% -7.57%

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 152 219 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.06% 26.39% 18.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 185 104
10th Percentile £381 £268 £307
25th Percentile £410 £358 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £419
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -0.90% -11.84%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £506
90th Percentile £605 £610 £581
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +8.33%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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
Nottinghamshire -12 7 £450 -8.16% 22
Northamptonshire -10 6 £432 +17.46% 10
Derbyshire -10 3 £500 - 5
Leicestershire - 2 £500 - 6
Lincolnshire - 1 £538 - 7
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 2 (10.53%) WebLogic
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.79%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 3 (15.79%) Serverless
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (10.53%) OCI
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) SSL
2 1 (5.26%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (5.26%) git-flow
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (5.26%) ScriptRunner
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Retail
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Local Government
5 1 (5.26%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (10.53%) DBA
3 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Lead Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (10.53%) Salesforce Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 1 (5.26%) JIRA Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) SOAP
2 4 (21.05%) Node.js
2 4 (21.05%) RESTful
2 4 (21.05%) Spring
2 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
3 3 (15.79%) Middleware
3 3 (15.79%) OAuth
3 3 (15.79%) Web Services
4 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.53%) CSS
4 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
4 2 (10.53%) HTML
4 2 (10.53%) Kafka
4 2 (10.53%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (10.53%) OAuth2
4 2 (10.53%) OpenID
4 2 (10.53%) SAML
5 1 (5.26%) FHIR
5 1 (5.26%) JWT
5 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) PKI
2 1 (5.26%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.26%) MVS
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
2 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (26.32%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
2 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) ERP
3 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
3 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
3 4 (21.05%) Microservices
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) API Integration
4 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
4 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
4 3 (15.79%) E-Commerce
4 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (15.79%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) Apex Code
4 1 (5.26%) Bicep
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) JCL
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) REXX
4 1 (5.26%) SOQL
4 1 (5.26%) SOSL
4 1 (5.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) CISM
2 1 (5.26%) CISSP
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
1 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) HL7
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Control-M
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.26%) BMC
4 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) VMware