REST Contracts in the Midlands

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 114 124
Rank change year-on-year +38 +10 +49
Contract jobs citing REST 35 19 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.83% 0.69% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.97% 4.95% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 32
10th Percentile £366 £421 £433
25th Percentile £410 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -5.09% +8.00%
75th Percentile £541 £593 £694
90th Percentile £600 £629 £731
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 319 384 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.67% 13.93% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 272 464
10th Percentile £319 £276 £313
25th Percentile £400 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £588
90th Percentile £660 £725 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 0
10th Percentile £23.96 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £30.71 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% - -
75th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for REST in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +23 22 £500 - 45
East Midlands +17 13 £490 -15.08% 45
REST
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (48.57%) AWS
2 7 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 7 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (17.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (17.14%) AWS KMS
3 6 (17.14%) Route 53
4 5 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
5 4 (11.43%) GitHub
6 2 (5.71%) Azure
6 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.86%) Apigee
7 1 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.86%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.86%) Kong
7 1 (2.86%) npm
7 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) HTTP
2 1 (2.86%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (22.86%) Relational Database
3 7 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (20.00%) DynamoDB
4 6 (17.14%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (14.29%) MySQL
6 3 (8.57%) RDBMS
7 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Jenkins
2 10 (28.57%) Git
3 9 (25.71%) JUnit
4 7 (20.00%) Maven
4 7 (20.00%) Mockito
5 6 (17.14%) JIRA
6 4 (11.43%) SonarQube
7 3 (8.57%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (8.57%) DbUnit
7 3 (8.57%) jMock
8 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
8 2 (5.71%) Postman
8 2 (5.71%) REST Assured
8 2 (5.71%) Selenium
9 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.86%) GitLab
9 1 (2.86%) Grunt
9 1 (2.86%) gulp
General
1 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Automotive
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Developer
2 9 (25.71%) Java Developer
3 7 (20.00%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Architect
4 4 (11.43%) SAP Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Integration Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) SOAP
2 11 (31.43%) Web Services
3 10 (28.57%) Spring
3 10 (28.57%) Spring Boot
4 9 (25.71%) Hibernate
5 7 (20.00%) React
6 6 (17.14%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (17.14%) AngularJS
6 6 (17.14%) JPA
6 6 (17.14%) RESTful
7 5 (14.29%) .NET
7 5 (14.29%) Bootstrap
7 5 (14.29%) HTML
7 5 (14.29%) IDoc
7 5 (14.29%) Spring Batch
7 5 (14.29%) Spring Integration
8 4 (11.43%) jQuery
8 4 (11.43%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (8.57%) J2EE
9 3 (8.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Agile
2 17 (48.57%) Microservices
3 13 (37.14%) CI/CD
4 11 (31.43%) TDD
5 9 (25.71%) Scrum
6 7 (20.00%) DevOps
7 6 (17.14%) BDD
7 6 (17.14%) Kanban
8 5 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 4 (11.43%) Analytics
9 4 (11.43%) API Management
9 4 (11.43%) Decision-Making
9 4 (11.43%) OO
10 3 (8.57%) B2B
10 3 (8.57%) Data Modelling
10 3 (8.57%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Java
1 15 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 9 (25.71%) SQL
3 6 (17.14%) TypeScript
4 5 (14.29%) ABAP
4 5 (14.29%) C#
5 3 (8.57%) COBOL
5 3 (8.57%) Groovy
6 2 (5.71%) Apex Code
6 2 (5.71%) PHP
7 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 3 (8.57%) SAP Certification
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Docker
2 4 (11.43%) Postfix
3 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.86%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Grafana
1 4 (11.43%) Prometheus
2 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Jaspersoft
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle
1 5 (14.29%) SAP
2 3 (8.57%) Adobe
2 3 (8.57%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.71%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.71%) Talend
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Perforce
4 1 (2.86%) Splunk