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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 32 57
Rank change year-on-year -21 +25 +4
Contract jobs citing REST 29 39 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.34% 5.12% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.86% 20.74% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 36 5
10th Percentile £375 £274 £435
25th Percentile £400 £358 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £375 £577
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -35.01% +2.58%
75th Percentile £500 £448 £598
90th Percentile £575 £516 £622
England median daily rate £520 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +5.59% -6.29% -6.71%

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 172 188 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.87% 24.67% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 159 103
10th Percentile £381 £266 £306
25th Percentile £411 £355 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £481 £544
90th Percentile £600 £569 £622
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.39 -
25th Percentile £20.63 £20.60 £22.50
Median hourly rate £23.75 £21.96 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -12.18% -61.54%
75th Percentile £26.88 £24.05 £27.50
90th Percentile £28.75 £24.71 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £61.80
% change year-on-year +18.32% -11.10% -4.92%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 12 £401 +8.97% 1
Nottinghamshire -12 10 £450 -9.55% 5
Derbyshire -4 4 £425 - 1
Leicestershire -8 2 £500 -7.41% 1
Lincolnshire - 1 £538 -
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 (10.34%) Apache Superset
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.45%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) NetSuite
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (6.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) AWS
1 5 (17.24%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 4 (13.79%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (10.34%) Serverless
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (6.90%) OCI
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
1 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Parquet
1 6 (20.69%) Relational Database
2 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (10.34%) Big Data
4 3 (10.34%) Metabase
4 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) GitLab
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.45%) Gatling
3 1 (3.45%) git-flow
3 1 (3.45%) Gradle
3 1 (3.45%) JMeter
3 1 (3.45%) JUnit
3 1 (3.45%) Maven
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.45%) Postman
3 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.45%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (3.45%) TestNG
General
1 7 (24.14%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Retail
3 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Local Government
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Software Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Consultant
3 4 (13.79%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Salesforce Developer
4 3 (10.34%) .NET Developer
4 3 (10.34%) .NET Software Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Rust Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Business Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (6.90%) DBA
5 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Lead Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (6.90%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) SOAP
2 4 (13.79%) .NET
2 4 (13.79%) JSON
2 4 (13.79%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (13.79%) Node.js
2 4 (13.79%) RESTful
2 4 (13.79%) Spring
2 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
3 3 (10.34%) Middleware
3 3 (10.34%) OAuth
3 3 (10.34%) Plotly
3 3 (10.34%) Web Services
4 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.90%) CSS
4 2 (6.90%) Hibernate
4 2 (6.90%) HTML
4 2 (6.90%) Kafka
4 2 (6.90%) OAuth2
4 2 (6.90%) OpenID
4 2 (6.90%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) MVS
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
1 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
2 10 (34.48%) Microservices
3 7 (24.14%) Agile
3 7 (24.14%) DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
4 6 (20.69%) ERP
4 6 (20.69%) Event-Driven
5 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
5 5 (17.24%) E-Commerce
5 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (13.79%) CRM
6 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
6 4 (13.79%) Software Testing
6 4 (13.79%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
7 3 (10.34%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (10.34%) Order Management
7 3 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (10.34%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Rust
2 5 (17.24%) Java
3 4 (13.79%) C#
3 4 (13.79%) SQL
4 3 (10.34%) Apex Code
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.34%) MATLAB
4 3 (10.34%) SOQL
4 3 (10.34%) SOSL
5 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.45%) Bicep
6 1 (3.45%) JCL
6 1 (3.45%) Python
6 1 (3.45%) REXX
6 1 (3.45%) X++
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
1 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.45%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Salesforce
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.45%) BMC
4 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk