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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 57 61
Rank change year-on-year +23 +4 +19
Contract jobs citing REST 43 10 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 5.07% 1.30% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.82% 7.58% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 9 9
10th Percentile £278 £347 £459
25th Percentile £358 £356 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -29.17% +14.94%
75th Percentile £447 £510 £675
90th Percentile £496 £518 £713
England median daily rate £498 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -6.13% -7.83% -0.86%

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 217 132 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.59% 17.21% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 100 128
10th Percentile £270 £309 £300
25th Percentile £359 £340 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £433 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -8.95% -
75th Percentile £496 £510 £538
90th Percentile £605 £583 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £20.74 - £56.90
25th Percentile £21.48 - £58.25
Median hourly rate £22.83 - £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +207.65%
75th Percentile £24.05 - £62.75
90th Percentile £24.71 - £64.10
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.92% +13.04% -11.54%

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 17 October 2025.

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 17 October 2025. 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 +21 36 £367 +3.16% 3
Nottinghamshire -4 5 £498 +1.53% 5
Derbyshire - 2 - - 1
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 (6.98%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (4.65%) JBoss
2 2 (4.65%) Mule
2 2 (4.65%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Teamcenter
2 1 (2.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (37.21%) AWS
2 8 (18.60%) Azure
2 8 (18.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 8 (18.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 4 (9.30%) AWS CodeBuild
3 4 (9.30%) GCP
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.98%) Serverless
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (4.65%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.33%) Apigee
6 1 (2.33%) AtomSphere
6 1 (2.33%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.33%) Boomi
6 1 (2.33%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) HTTP
2 3 (6.98%) HTTPS
2 3 (6.98%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) DynamoDB
1 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
1 3 (6.98%) MySQL
1 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle Database
1 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.65%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.33%) DB2
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (34.88%) Git
2 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.63%) JIRA
4 4 (9.30%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (9.30%) Cucumber
4 4 (9.30%) Selenium
5 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.98%) LoadRunner
5 3 (6.98%) REST Assured
6 2 (4.65%) Jasmine
6 2 (4.65%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (4.65%) Mocha
6 2 (4.65%) Protractor
6 2 (4.65%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.65%) Subversion
7 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.33%) GitLab
7 1 (2.33%) Gradle
7 1 (2.33%) Postman
7 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Marketing
3 6 (13.95%) Finance
4 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Developer
2 9 (20.93%) Architect
3 7 (16.28%) Java Developer
3 7 (16.28%) Salesforce Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Angular Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Automation Tester
7 2 (4.65%) Design Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Digital Design Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Gen AI Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Performance Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Performance Test Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Test Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.91%) SOAP
2 9 (20.93%) Middleware
2 9 (20.93%) Spring
3 8 (18.60%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (18.60%) React
3 8 (18.60%) Visualforce
4 7 (16.28%) AngularJS
4 7 (16.28%) CSS
4 7 (16.28%) HTML
4 7 (16.28%) RAML
4 7 (16.28%) Spring Boot
5 5 (11.63%) jQuery
5 5 (11.63%) Kafka
5 5 (11.63%) RESTful
5 5 (11.63%) Spring Batch
5 5 (11.63%) Web Services
6 4 (9.30%) .NET
6 4 (9.30%) HTML5
6 4 (9.30%) LDAP
7 3 (6.98%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.30%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.98%) State Machine
4 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (44.19%) Agile
2 17 (39.53%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (32.56%) Design Patterns
3 14 (32.56%) Microservices
4 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
4 12 (27.91%) Integration Patterns
5 9 (20.93%) Migration
6 8 (18.60%) Architecture Roadmap
6 8 (18.60%) Data Flow Diagram
6 8 (18.60%) Data Governance
6 8 (18.60%) Data Migration
6 8 (18.60%) Data Modelling
6 8 (18.60%) Data Security
6 8 (18.60%) Roadmaps
6 8 (18.60%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (16.28%) DevOps
7 7 (16.28%) Mentoring
7 7 (16.28%) SDLC
7 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
7 7 (16.28%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) Java
1 15 (34.88%) SQL
2 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
3 8 (18.60%) Apex Code
3 8 (18.60%) TypeScript
4 6 (13.95%) Python
5 5 (11.63%) C#
6 3 (6.98%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.65%) C
7 2 (4.65%) C++
8 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Degree
2 5 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (11.63%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 8 (18.60%) GDPR
2 7 (16.28%) Data Quality
3 5 (11.63%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Kibana
1 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Oracle
1 9 (20.93%) Salesforce
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.30%) Splunk
4 3 (6.98%) AppDynamics
4 3 (6.98%) Dynatrace
4 3 (6.98%) Google
4 3 (6.98%) New Relic
5 2 (4.65%) Checkmarx
5 2 (4.65%) Siemens
6 1 (2.33%) Adobe
6 1 (2.33%) Dell
6 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.33%) SAP
6 1 (2.33%) Solace
6 1 (2.33%) Workday