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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 74 107
Rank change year-on-year -73 +33 +16
Contract jobs citing RESTful 42 55 33
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.93% 2.45% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.25% 13.10% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 47 18
10th Percentile £412 £291 £362
25th Percentile £435 £374 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £463 £504
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -8.19% -4.05%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £611
90th Percentile £643 £553 £660
England median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +6.67%

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 672 420 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.80% 18.69% 15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 304 306
10th Percentile £358 £280 £304
25th Percentile £413 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.28% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £537 £613
90th Percentile £645 £616 £706
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 19 18
10th Percentile £15.92 £31.46 £10.90
25th Percentile £23.75 £33.91 £14.16
Median hourly rate £58.00 £50.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +90.48% -38.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 - £51.25
90th Percentile £67.60 - £57.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £58.15
% change year-on-year +12.80% -0.90% -10.54%

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 3 July 2026.

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 3 July 2026. 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 -65 23 £513 +2.50% 12
East Midlands -26 17 £445 +10.70% 4
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 3 (7.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 26 (61.90%) AWS
2 20 (47.62%) Azure
3 14 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 13 (30.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (30.95%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (30.95%) Amazon SQS
5 12 (28.57%) AWS KMS
5 12 (28.57%) Route 53
6 9 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (21.43%) Serverless
7 4 (9.52%) GitHub
8 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (2.38%) Apigee
10 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.38%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (47.62%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (42.86%) DynamoDB
3 17 (40.48%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (14.29%) Relational Database
6 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
7 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
8 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (40.48%) Git
2 13 (30.95%) Jenkins
2 13 (30.95%) JUnit
3 12 (28.57%) DbUnit
3 12 (28.57%) Maven
3 12 (28.57%) Mockito
3 12 (28.57%) SonarQube
4 11 (26.19%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (26.19%) jMock
5 2 (4.76%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.38%) MSTest
6 1 (2.38%) Storybook
6 1 (2.38%) Vite
6 1 (2.38%) webpack
General
1 16 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 13 (30.95%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Finance
5 3 (7.14%) Marketing
5 3 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 27 (64.29%) Developer
2 14 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 7 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 6 (14.29%) .NET Software Developer
4 6 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Architect
5 5 (11.90%) Senior
6 4 (9.52%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.38%) C# Software Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Lead
9 1 (2.38%) Lead Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Node.js Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (38.10%) REST
2 15 (35.71%) Spring
2 15 (35.71%) Spring Boot
3 13 (30.95%) AngularJS
3 13 (30.95%) Hibernate
4 12 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
4 12 (28.57%) JPA
4 12 (28.57%) SOAP
4 12 (28.57%) Spring Batch
4 12 (28.57%) Spring Integration
4 12 (28.57%) Web Services
5 11 (26.19%) .NET
5 11 (26.19%) Bootstrap
5 11 (26.19%) PowerMock
6 10 (23.81%) Spring Cloud
7 9 (21.43%) Node.js
8 5 (11.90%) Django
8 5 (11.90%) GraphQL
9 3 (7.14%) CSS
9 3 (7.14%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.95%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (71.43%) Agile
2 29 (69.05%) Microservices
3 25 (59.52%) DevOps
4 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
5 18 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 18 (42.86%) TDD
6 13 (30.95%) Scrum
7 12 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (28.57%) Open Source
8 11 (26.19%) BDD
8 11 (26.19%) Kanban
8 11 (26.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (21.43%) Decision-Making
10 8 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (14.29%) BPMN
12 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven
12 6 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
13 5 (11.90%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 21 (50.00%) Java
1 21 (50.00%) SQL
2 11 (26.19%) Python
3 10 (23.81%) C#
4 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (45.24%) Docker
2 9 (21.43%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Grafana
2 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 11 (26.19%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (7.14%) Adobe
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft