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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 63 69
Rank change year-on-year +31 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing REST 29 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.48% 0.94% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.00% 5.56% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 9
10th Percentile £276 £413 £478
25th Percentile £358 £438 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 £488 £540
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -9.72% +22.73%
75th Percentile £463 £587 -
90th Percentile £538 £614 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -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 145 144 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.38% 16.90% 23.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 94 215
10th Percentile £257 £237 £308
25th Percentile £315 £319 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% -4.44% -
75th Percentile £478 £564 £540
90th Percentile £535 £624 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.67 £10.90 -
Median hourly rate £23.41 £21.73 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -
75th Percentile £25.16 £27.50 -
90th Percentile - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.22%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +16 23 £364 -37.00% 19
Nottinghamshire +7 5 £490 +15.29% 17
Leicestershire - 1 £540 - 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (6.90%) JBoss
2 2 (6.90%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.45%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.45%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) AWS CodeBuild
3 4 (13.79%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Apigee
5 1 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (3.45%) Kong
5 1 (3.45%) npm
5 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) HTTP
1 3 (10.34%) HTTPS
1 3 (10.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) MySQL
1 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.45%) DB2
3 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (48.28%) Git
2 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
3 5 (17.24%) JIRA
4 4 (13.79%) Cucumber
4 4 (13.79%) REST Assured
4 4 (13.79%) Selenium
5 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket
5 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (6.90%) Jasmine
5 2 (6.90%) Karma Test Runner
5 2 (6.90%) Maven
5 2 (6.90%) Mocha
5 2 (6.90%) Protractor
5 2 (6.90%) Subversion
6 1 (3.45%) GitLab
6 1 (3.45%) Gradle
6 1 (3.45%) gulp
6 1 (3.45%) JUnit
6 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Banking
4 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Angular Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.90%) Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Tester
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Developer
6 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft Architect
6 1 (3.45%) React Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) React
2 8 (27.59%) AngularJS
2 8 (27.59%) CSS
2 8 (27.59%) HTML
3 6 (20.69%) Spring
4 5 (17.24%) HTML5
4 5 (17.24%) jQuery
4 5 (17.24%) RAML
4 5 (17.24%) RESTful
4 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
5 4 (13.79%) .NET
5 4 (13.79%) LDAP
5 4 (13.79%) SOAP
5 4 (13.79%) Web Services
6 3 (10.34%) .NET Core
6 3 (10.34%) CSS3
6 3 (10.34%) JPA
6 3 (10.34%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (10.34%) Spring Batch
7 2 (6.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) State Machine
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Agile
2 11 (37.93%) Microservices
3 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
3 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.69%) Design Patterns
4 6 (20.69%) Scrum
4 6 (20.69%) SDLC
5 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
6 4 (13.79%) API Development
6 4 (13.79%) Biometrics
6 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
6 4 (13.79%) Facial Recognition
6 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (13.79%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (13.79%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 4 (13.79%) Project Management
6 4 (13.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Java
2 11 (37.93%) JavaScript
3 9 (31.03%) SQL
3 9 (31.03%) TypeScript
4 4 (13.79%) C#
5 3 (10.34%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.90%) Apex Code
6 2 (6.90%) Python
7 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) MuleSoft
2 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) Adobe
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Perforce
3 1 (3.45%) Solace
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk