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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 104 123
Rank change year-on-year +27 +19 -42
Contract jobs citing RESTful 54 33 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.42% 1.12% 0.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.95% 7.22% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 18 22
10th Percentile £289 £362 £351
25th Percentile £377 £398 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% -4.05% -1.18%
75th Percentile £500 £611 £598
90th Percentile £556 £660 £625
England median daily rate £475 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
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% +18.58%

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 417 457 574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.67% 15.44% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 303 447
10th Percentile £280 £304 £313
25th Percentile £363 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £537 £611 £588
90th Percentile £617 £709 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 1
10th Percentile £31.46 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £14.16 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +90.48% -38.24% +82.80%
75th Percentile - £51.25 £43.75
90th Percentile - £57.38 -
England median hourly rate £58.88 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.99% -10.31% +22.64%

RESTful
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 2 July 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 2 July 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
East Midlands +17 28 £402 -6.51% 80
West Midlands +17 26 £500 -17.63% 98
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England

RESTful
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 (5.56%) Moodle
1 3 (5.56%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (1.85%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.19%) AWS
2 14 (25.93%) Azure
3 12 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 10 (18.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (16.67%) AWS KMS
5 9 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (16.67%) Route 53
6 6 (11.11%) Serverless
7 3 (5.56%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.56%) Azure API Management
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Functions
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) HTTP
1 3 (5.56%) HTTPS
1 3 (5.56%) SSL
2 2 (3.70%) DMZ
2 2 (3.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) DynamoDB
2 9 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 5 (9.26%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.56%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.85%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 32 (59.26%) Git
2 19 (35.19%) Jenkins
3 15 (27.78%) Maven
4 12 (22.22%) JUnit
5 10 (18.52%) Mockito
5 10 (18.52%) SonarQube
6 7 (12.96%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (12.96%) DbUnit
6 7 (12.96%) jMock
7 6 (11.11%) Postman
8 5 (9.26%) Gradle
9 3 (5.56%) Cucumber
9 3 (5.56%) JIRA
9 3 (5.56%) PHPUnit
10 2 (3.70%) Cypress.io
10 2 (3.70%) Grunt
10 2 (3.70%) Jasmine
10 2 (3.70%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (3.70%) Mocha
10 2 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Finance
3 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Banking
6 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.85%) Automotive
7 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (81.48%) Developer
2 21 (38.89%) Java Developer
3 8 (14.81%) Senior
3 8 (14.81%) Senior Developer
4 6 (11.11%) Android Developer
4 6 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (9.26%) Angular Developer
5 5 (9.26%) Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Automation Tester
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Junior
7 3 (5.56%) Junior Automation Tester
7 3 (5.56%) Junior Tester
7 3 (5.56%) Lead Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Moodle Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (38.89%) Spring
2 19 (35.19%) Spring Boot
2 19 (35.19%) Web Services
3 16 (29.63%) AngularJS
4 15 (27.78%) REST
5 13 (24.07%) Hibernate
6 12 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
6 12 (22.22%) HTML
6 12 (22.22%) JPA
6 12 (22.22%) SOAP
6 12 (22.22%) Spring Batch
7 11 (20.37%) CSS
8 9 (16.67%) Bootstrap
8 9 (16.67%) Spring Integration
9 8 (14.81%) Spring Cloud
10 7 (12.96%) PowerMock
11 6 (11.11%) Android Jetpack
11 6 (11.11%) CSS3
11 6 (11.11%) HTML5
11 6 (11.11%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.56%) e-Learning
3 3 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.56%) State Machine
3 3 (5.56%) VLE
4 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Linux
2 6 (11.11%) Android
3 2 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (51.85%) Agile
2 25 (46.30%) CI/CD
3 21 (38.89%) DevOps
3 21 (38.89%) Microservices
3 21 (38.89%) TDD
4 17 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (29.63%) Scrum
6 13 (24.07%) Containerisation
7 12 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 11 (20.37%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (14.81%) API Development
9 8 (14.81%) Front End Development
9 8 (14.81%) Open Source
9 8 (14.81%) Unit Testing
10 7 (12.96%) BDD
10 7 (12.96%) Code Quality
10 7 (12.96%) Kanban
10 7 (12.96%) Mentoring
11 6 (11.11%) Design Patterns
11 6 (11.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (55.56%) Java
2 24 (44.44%) SQL
3 18 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 8 (14.81%) TypeScript
5 6 (11.11%) Kotlin
6 4 (7.41%) PHP
7 3 (5.56%) C#
7 3 (5.56%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.56%) Python
7 3 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 23 (42.59%) Docker
2 7 (12.96%) Postfix
3 3 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.85%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (12.96%) Grafana
1 7 (12.96%) Prometheus
2 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Atlassian
1 7 (12.96%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) Adobe
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.85%) Sybase