RESTful Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

RESTful
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring RESTful skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 87 127
Rank change year-on-year -3 +40 -23
Contract jobs citing RESTful 69 48 14
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 2.35% 1.79% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.02% 10.00% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 19 10
10th Percentile £271 £353 £320
25th Percentile £380 £440 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +3.16% -11.63%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £584
90th Percentile £625 £714 £619
England median daily rate £480 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% -6.78%

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 626 480 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 21.29% 17.93% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 294 341
10th Percentile £315 £340 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £569
90th Percentile £673 £721 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 1 6
10th Percentile £25.06 - £17.31
25th Percentile £27.21 £65.00 £18.33
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £32.39
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +116.13% +64.70%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £52.94
90th Percentile - - £60.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in the Midlands

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing RESTful.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing RESTful

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the Midlands

RESTful
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing RESTful.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing RESTful

RESTful
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 7 November 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 -27 35 £500 -16.67% 32
East Midlands +1 34 £396 -10.81% 16
RESTful
England

RESTful
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.14%) CMS
2 5 (7.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (7.25%) Headless CMS
2 5 (7.25%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (7.25%) Umbraco
3 3 (4.35%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (2.90%) Drupal
4 2 (2.90%) nginx
5 1 (1.45%) Camunda
5 1 (1.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 35 (50.72%) AWS
2 26 (37.68%) Serverless
3 19 (27.54%) GCP
4 14 (20.29%) Azure
5 10 (14.49%) AWS KMS
6 7 (10.14%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (10.14%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (10.14%) Kontent
7 6 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.70%) Route 53
8 5 (7.25%) Contentful
9 4 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.90%) Apigee
10 2 (2.90%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.90%) GitHub
11 1 (1.45%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (1.45%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) HTTP
1 3 (4.35%) HTTPS
1 3 (4.35%) SSL
2 2 (2.90%) DMZ
2 2 (2.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (23.19%) NoSQL
3 12 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (15.94%) DynamoDB
5 6 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (7.25%) MySQL
7 4 (5.80%) MongoDB
8 3 (4.35%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.45%) Redis
10 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (47.83%) Git
2 23 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 12 (17.39%) GitLab
4 10 (14.49%) Liquibase
5 9 (13.04%) Maven
5 9 (13.04%) SonarQube
6 7 (10.14%) JUnit
7 5 (7.25%) Mockito
8 4 (5.80%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (5.80%) DbUnit
8 4 (5.80%) JIRA
8 4 (5.80%) jMock
8 4 (5.80%) Postman
9 2 (2.90%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.90%) Gradle
9 2 (2.90%) Grunt
9 2 (2.90%) Jasmine
9 2 (2.90%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (2.90%) Mocha
9 2 (2.90%) webpack
General
1 31 (44.93%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.64%) Finance
3 12 (17.39%) Banking
4 11 (15.94%) Financial Institution
5 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 41 (59.42%) Developer
2 15 (21.74%) Java Developer
3 11 (15.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (14.49%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (14.49%) Software Engineer
5 9 (13.04%) GCP Engineer
6 8 (11.59%) Senior
7 7 (10.14%) CMS Developer
7 7 (10.14%) Lead
7 7 (10.14%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (8.70%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Android Developer
9 5 (7.25%) AWS Software Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) C# Developer
9 5 (7.25%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 5 (7.25%) React Developer
10 4 (5.80%) Angular Developer
10 4 (5.80%) GCP Software Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (37.68%) REST
2 22 (31.88%) AngularJS
3 18 (26.09%) Spring Boot
4 17 (24.64%) Spring
5 16 (23.19%) CSS
6 15 (21.74%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (21.74%) HTML
6 15 (21.74%) Web Services
7 13 (18.84%) React
8 10 (14.49%) SOAP
9 9 (13.04%) JPA
9 9 (13.04%) Spring Batch
10 8 (11.59%) .NET
10 8 (11.59%) .NET Framework
10 8 (11.59%) Hibernate
11 7 (10.14%) ASP.NET
11 7 (10.14%) ASP.NET MVC
11 7 (10.14%) GraphQL
12 6 (8.70%) Bootstrap
12 6 (8.70%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (20.29%) Public Cloud
3 13 (18.84%) Cloud Native
3 13 (18.84%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.35%) State Machine
5 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.43%) Linux
2 5 (7.25%) Android
3 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (62.32%) Agile
2 36 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 32 (46.38%) Microservices
4 30 (43.48%) DevOps
5 28 (40.58%) Containerisation
6 20 (28.99%) TDD
7 18 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (23.19%) Computer Science
8 16 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (21.74%) Scrum
10 14 (20.29%) Cryptography
10 14 (20.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (20.29%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (18.84%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (18.84%) Test Automation
11 13 (18.84%) User Experience
12 12 (17.39%) High Availability
12 12 (17.39%) Software Engineering
13 10 (14.49%) Cybersecurity
13 10 (14.49%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (42.03%) SQL
2 26 (37.68%) Java
3 23 (33.33%) Python
4 19 (27.54%) JavaScript
5 14 (20.29%) Go
6 8 (11.59%) C#
7 7 (10.14%) Kotlin
8 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.35%) PHP
9 3 (4.35%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.90%) Groovy
10 2 (2.90%) Ruby
10 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (24.64%) Degree
2 16 (23.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (17.39%) Master's Degree
4 7 (10.14%) Security Cleared
5 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (47.83%) Docker
2 4 (5.80%) Postfix
3 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 20 (28.99%) Prometheus
3 19 (27.54%) Grafana
4 15 (21.74%) Terraform
5 14 (20.29%) Ansible
6 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (20.29%) Splunk
2 10 (14.49%) Google
3 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.25%) Adobe
4 5 (7.25%) Sitecore
5 4 (5.80%) Atlassian
5 4 (5.80%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (5.80%) Oracle
6 2 (2.90%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.45%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.45%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.45%) Pega
7 1 (1.45%) Ping Identity