REST Contracts in the East Midlands

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 60 74
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing REST 13 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.43% 0.78% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.48% 4.92% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 9
10th Percentile £359 £433 £478
25th Percentile £399 £463 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £577 £540
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% +6.85% +23.08%
75th Percentile £540 £598 -
90th Percentile £599 £622 -
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%

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 84 122 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.67% 15.78% 22.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 81 224
10th Percentile £259 £250 £308
25th Percentile £320 £325 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £538
90th Percentile £540 £625 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.67 £10.90 -
Median hourly rate £23.41 £23.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% - -
75th Percentile £25.16 £28.44 -
90th Percentile - £35.93 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for REST in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the East Midlands

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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 1 May 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 +2 7 £407 -29.46% 8
Nottinghamshire +12 5 £490 +15.29% 18
Leicestershire - 1 £540 - 10
REST
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) AWS CodeBuild
3 2 (15.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Apigee
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Kong
4 1 (7.69%) npm
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
1 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 4 (30.77%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) REST Assured
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
4 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) Grunt
4 1 (7.69%) gulp
4 1 (7.69%) Maven
4 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior C# Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) React
2 4 (30.77%) .NET
3 3 (23.08%) .NET Core
4 2 (15.38%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (15.38%) Node.js
4 2 (15.38%) OAuth
4 2 (15.38%) Playwright
4 2 (15.38%) Sass
4 2 (15.38%) SOAP
5 1 (7.69%) Ajax
5 1 (7.69%) CSS
5 1 (7.69%) HTML
5 1 (7.69%) HTML5
5 1 (7.69%) jQuery
5 1 (7.69%) JSON
5 1 (7.69%) Kafka
5 1 (7.69%) OpenID
5 1 (7.69%) SAML
5 1 (7.69%) Visualforce
5 1 (7.69%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Credit Risk
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) Microservices
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (23.08%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) API Design
4 2 (15.38%) API Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Acquisition
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Experience
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) API Integration
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Data Privacy
5 1 (7.69%) Front End Development
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 4 (30.77%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) Java
5 2 (15.38%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) MuleSoft
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) Perforce
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk