RESTful Contracts in the Midlands

RESTful
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RESTful 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 78 114 128
Rank change year-on-year +36 +14 -16
Contract jobs citing RESTful 33 19 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.72% 0.69% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.34% 4.95% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 27
10th Percentile £403 £368 £353
25th Percentile £450 £409 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £550 £611 £595
90th Percentile £615 - £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -31.25% +6.67% +25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

RESTful 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful 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 RESTful 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 +26 23 £513 -15.57% 34
East Midlands +12 10 £463 +0.11% 24
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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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.09%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Magento
1 2 (6.06%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Azure
3 7 (21.21%) Amazon S3
4 6 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon Glacier
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (9.09%) AWS KMS
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (9.09%) GCP
6 3 (9.09%) Route 53
6 3 (9.09%) Serverless
7 2 (6.06%) GitHub
7 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.06%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (3.03%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 5 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 3 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.03%) MySQL
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.03%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 15 (45.45%) Git
2 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
3 6 (18.18%) JUnit
3 6 (18.18%) Maven
3 6 (18.18%) Mockito
4 5 (15.15%) Postman
5 3 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (9.09%) Cucumber
5 3 (9.09%) DbUnit
5 3 (9.09%) Gradle
5 3 (9.09%) JIRA
5 3 (9.09%) jMock
5 3 (9.09%) PHPUnit
5 3 (9.09%) SonarQube
6 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.03%) Ant
General
1 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Automotive
5 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (75.76%) Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Java Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Senior
3 7 (21.21%) Senior Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Android Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Moodle Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.06%) ABAP Developer
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Architect
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (6.06%) Java Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Java Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Lead
7 2 (6.06%) SAP Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) Spring
2 7 (21.21%) HTML
3 6 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 6 (18.18%) CSS
3 6 (18.18%) REST
3 6 (18.18%) SOAP
3 6 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 6 (18.18%) Web Services
4 5 (15.15%) Hibernate
5 4 (12.12%) Android Jetpack
5 4 (12.12%) Jetpack Compose
5 4 (12.12%) Node.js
6 3 (9.09%) Behat
6 3 (9.09%) Bootstrap
6 3 (9.09%) Kafka
6 3 (9.09%) PowerMock
6 3 (9.09%) Spring Batch
6 3 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (9.09%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Mobile App
1 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.09%) e-Learning
2 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) VLE
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Android
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) Agile
2 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
3 11 (33.33%) DevOps
3 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (33.33%) TDD
4 9 (27.27%) Microservices
4 9 (27.27%) Scrum
5 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
5 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
6 6 (18.18%) Code Quality
6 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (15.15%) API Development
7 5 (15.15%) API Integration
7 5 (15.15%) Front End Development
7 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
7 5 (15.15%) OO
7 5 (15.15%) Open Source
7 5 (15.15%) SDLC
8 4 (12.12%) Data Management
8 4 (12.12%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) Java
1 13 (39.39%) JavaScript
1 13 (39.39%) SQL
2 6 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 5 (15.15%) Python
4 4 (12.12%) Kotlin
4 4 (12.12%) PHP
5 2 (6.06%) ABAP
5 2 (6.06%) COBOL
5 2 (6.06%) Go
5 2 (6.06%) Ruby
5 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 12 (36.36%) Docker
2 3 (9.09%) Postfix
3 1 (3.03%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (3.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Grafana
1 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Adobe
2 3 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 3 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (6.06%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Siemens
4 1 (3.03%) Sybase