REST Contracts in Leicester

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing REST 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 1.22% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £495 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
75th Percentile £585 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £540 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leicester

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 Leicester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 18 12 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 21.95% 13.04% 23.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 26
10th Percentile £394 £283 £300
25th Percentile £456 £304 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £325 £450
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% -27.78% +2.27%
75th Percentile £488 £375 £530
90th Percentile £565 £434 £553
Leicestershire median daily rate £463 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +32.14% -17.65% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -61.54% +271.43%
Leicestershire median hourly rate £20.50 £25.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -18.00% -61.54% +261.11%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Leicester

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing REST

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce