REST Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing REST 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 11.67% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £650 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.20% +11.11% -28.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 29 4 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 48.33% 16.67% 52.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 4 12
10th Percentile - £569 £514
25th Percentile £525 £653 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £750 £725 £584
90th Percentile £770 £770 £629
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% -13.64%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire.

REST job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing REST

REST
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 24 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
Ledbury - 7 £700 -
REST
West Midlands

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 7 (100.00%) Flask
1 7 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 7 (100.00%) gRPC
1 7 (100.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Go
1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft