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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 38 59
Rank change year-on-year -24 +21 +18
Contract jobs citing REST 20 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.00% 2.10% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.82% 13.19% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 6
10th Percentile £341 £341 £438
25th Percentile £397 £358 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £433 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% -23.11% +5.93%
75th Percentile £481 £510 £677
90th Percentile £573 £528 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £536
% change year-on-year - -2.10% -2.50%

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 156 91 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.57% 15.91% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 72 72
10th Percentile £360 £313 £276
25th Percentile £401 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £448 £418
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% +6.99% -1.59%
75th Percentile £550 £523 £525
90th Percentile £625 £550 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £15.84 - -
25th Percentile £19.29 - £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £23.64
75th Percentile £25.13 - £29.88
90th Percentile £25.14 - £53.73
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -16 12 £430 +20.79% 3
Nottinghamshire -9 6 £523 +4.50% 5
Derbyshire - 1 - - 8
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 5
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 (15.00%) Confluence
1 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 4 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 4 (20.00%) Serverless
4 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.00%) OneDrive
4 3 (15.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (15.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Storage
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
1 3 (15.00%) Postman
2 2 (10.00%) Gatling
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Gradle
2 2 (10.00%) JMeter
2 2 (10.00%) JUnit
2 2 (10.00%) Maven
2 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (10.00%) TestNG
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Marketing
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Salesforce Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Power Platform Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Ab Initio Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Design Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Digital Design Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 1 (5.00%) Gen AI Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Integration Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
6 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) SOAP
2 5 (25.00%) Middleware
3 4 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (20.00%) Visualforce
4 3 (15.00%) Node.js
4 3 (15.00%) Playwright
5 2 (10.00%) HTML
5 2 (10.00%) JSON
5 2 (10.00%) OpenAPI
5 2 (10.00%) Swagger
5 2 (10.00%) Web Services
5 2 (10.00%) XML
6 1 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (5.00%) Enzyme
6 1 (5.00%) FastAPI
6 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (5.00%) Jest
6 1 (5.00%) React
6 1 (5.00%) Redux
6 1 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
1 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (30.00%) Design Patterns
2 6 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 4 (20.00%) Data Flow Diagram
4 4 (20.00%) Data Management
4 4 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 4 (20.00%) Data Security
4 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (20.00%) Microservices
4 4 (20.00%) Migration
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Apex Code
1 4 (20.00%) Java
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.00%) Bicep
3 2 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) C
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) C++
4 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) GDPR
2 4 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Ab Initio
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) Epicor
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Siemens