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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 46 63
Rank change year-on-year -7 +17 +16
Contract jobs citing REST 24 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.52% 1.62% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.00% 10.98% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 4
10th Percentile £320 £343 -
25th Percentile £360 £356 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 £433 £619
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% -30.10% +18.53%
75th Percentile £458 £514 £713
90th Percentile £477 £533 -
England median daily rate £503 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.73% -3.25%

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 160 82 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.79% 14.75% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 64 81
10th Percentile £357 £340 £300
25th Percentile £393 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £531 £538
90th Percentile £638 £554 £650
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £25.05 - £10.90
25th Percentile £25.07 - £13.38
Median hourly rate £25.11 - £26.39
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.19%
75th Percentile £25.14 - £50.31
90th Percentile £25.15 - £60.50
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -0.80% +14.09% -15.72%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -5 19 £402 +13.03% 12
Nottinghamshire -11 3 £483 -3.40% 15
Derbyshire - 2 - - 13
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 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.33%) Mule
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Teamcenter
2 1 (4.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 6 (25.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.50%) OneDrive
3 3 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 3 (12.50%) PowerApps
3 3 (12.50%) Serverless
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (8.33%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.33%) MariaDB
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git
1 3 (12.50%) LoadRunner
2 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Postman
3 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 7 (29.17%) Marketing
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Salesforce Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Power Platform Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Design Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Digital Design Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Gen AI Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Performance Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Performance Test Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) SOAP
2 7 (29.17%) Middleware
3 6 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 6 (25.00%) Visualforce
4 3 (12.50%) Kafka
4 3 (12.50%) Spring
5 2 (8.33%) FastAPI
5 2 (8.33%) Flask
5 2 (8.33%) J2EE
5 2 (8.33%) RAML
5 2 (8.33%) Spring Batch
5 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (8.33%) Swagger
6 1 (4.17%) Enzyme
6 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
6 1 (4.17%) Jest
6 1 (4.17%) Playwright
6 1 (4.17%) React
6 1 (4.17%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (37.50%) Agile
2 9 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
3 8 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 8 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 7 (29.17%) Data Governance
4 7 (29.17%) Migration
4 7 (29.17%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
5 6 (25.00%) Data Flow Diagram
5 6 (25.00%) Data Management
5 6 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 6 (25.00%) Data Security
5 6 (25.00%) DevOps
5 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 6 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (20.83%) Microservices
7 4 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) Apex Code
3 4 (16.67%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (8.33%) C
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) C++
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) GDPR
2 6 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) AppDynamics
3 3 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 3 (12.50%) Google
3 3 (12.50%) New Relic
3 3 (12.50%) Splunk
4 2 (8.33%) Checkmarx
4 2 (8.33%) Siemens
5 1 (4.17%) Ab Initio
5 1 (4.17%) Adobe
5 1 (4.17%) Dell
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (4.17%) Workday