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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 85 121
Rank change year-on-year -6 +36 -29
Contract jobs citing RESTful 59 50 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.22% 1.83% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.05% 10.31% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 21 12
10th Percentile £284 £356 £356
25th Percentile £380 £440 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £490 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £553
90th Percentile £545 £711 £600
England median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -31.25% +4.53% +17.74%

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 534 485 497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.11% 17.73% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 310 364
10th Percentile £308 £322 £321
25th Percentile £379 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £612 £573
90th Percentile £650 £725 £688
England median daily rate £512 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -6.86% -0.90% -3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 4
10th Percentile - £22.40 £17.24
25th Percentile £33.91 £34.63 £17.41
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +83.33% +52.56%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £49.06
90th Percentile - £71.00 £58.63
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.19% +5.59% -5.40%

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

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +12 34 £402 -17.96% 12
West Midlands -11 25 £500 -9.09% 20
RESTful
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 (5.08%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (3.39%) Moodle
3 1 (1.69%) Camunda
3 1 (1.69%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.68%) AWS
2 19 (32.20%) Serverless
3 17 (28.81%) Azure
4 13 (22.03%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon S3
6 8 (13.56%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (13.56%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (13.56%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (11.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (11.86%) AWS KMS
7 7 (11.86%) GCP
7 7 (11.86%) Route 53
8 4 (6.78%) Azure Functions
9 3 (5.08%) Azure API Management
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (5.08%) GitHub
10 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) HTTP
1 3 (5.08%) HTTPS
1 3 (5.08%) SSL
2 2 (3.39%) DMZ
2 2 (3.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) DynamoDB
2 12 (20.34%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (16.95%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (11.86%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (10.17%) NoSQL
6 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
7 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
8 3 (5.08%) Oracle Database
8 3 (5.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.69%) MySQL
10 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (50.85%) Git
2 17 (28.81%) Jenkins
3 10 (16.95%) Maven
3 10 (16.95%) SonarQube
4 7 (11.86%) JUnit
5 5 (8.47%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (8.47%) DbUnit
5 5 (8.47%) jMock
5 5 (8.47%) Mockito
5 5 (8.47%) Postman
6 4 (6.78%) Liquibase
7 2 (3.39%) GitLab
7 2 (3.39%) Gradle
7 2 (3.39%) Grunt
7 2 (3.39%) gulp
7 2 (3.39%) Jasmine
7 2 (3.39%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (3.39%) Mocha
7 2 (3.39%) Protractor
7 2 (3.39%) webpack
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Public Sector
3 8 (13.56%) Finance
4 5 (8.47%) Banking
5 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 43 (72.88%) Developer
2 17 (28.81%) Java Developer
3 8 (13.56%) Android Developer
4 7 (11.86%) Senior
5 6 (10.17%) Lead
6 5 (8.47%) Angular Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Architect
7 4 (6.78%) Integration Developer
7 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Automation Tester
8 3 (5.08%) AWS Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Junior
8 3 (5.08%) Junior Automation Tester
8 3 (5.08%) Junior Tester
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.51%) Spring Boot
2 17 (28.81%) REST
2 17 (28.81%) Spring
2 17 (28.81%) Web Services
3 16 (27.12%) AngularJS
4 11 (18.64%) CSS
4 11 (18.64%) Hibernate
5 10 (16.95%) HTML
5 10 (16.95%) JPA
5 10 (16.95%) SOAP
5 10 (16.95%) Spring Batch
6 9 (15.25%) ActiveMQ
7 8 (13.56%) Android Jetpack
7 8 (13.56%) Jetpack Compose
8 7 (11.86%) Bootstrap
8 7 (11.86%) Spring Integration
9 6 (10.17%) GraphQL
9 6 (10.17%) React
9 6 (10.17%) Spring Cloud
10 5 (8.47%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (13.56%) Mobile App
3 7 (11.86%) Cloud Native
4 6 (10.17%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.08%) State Machine
6 2 (3.39%) e-Learning
6 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.39%) VLE
7 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.25%) Linux
2 8 (13.56%) Android
3 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (57.63%) Agile
2 32 (54.24%) CI/CD
3 27 (45.76%) DevOps
4 23 (38.98%) Microservices
5 22 (37.29%) TDD
6 19 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (30.51%) Containerisation
8 16 (27.12%) Scrum
9 13 (22.03%) Test Automation
10 12 (20.34%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (16.95%) Unit Testing
12 9 (15.25%) API Integration
13 8 (13.56%) Android Development
13 8 (13.56%) Clean Code
13 8 (13.56%) Mentoring
13 8 (13.56%) SDLC
14 7 (11.86%) Front End Development
14 7 (11.86%) User Experience
15 6 (10.17%) API Development
15 6 (10.17%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.07%) Java
2 21 (35.59%) SQL
3 14 (23.73%) JavaScript
4 10 (16.95%) Python
5 8 (13.56%) Kotlin
5 8 (13.56%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.78%) C#
6 4 (6.78%) Go
7 3 (5.08%) PHP
7 3 (5.08%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Degree
2 6 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (42.37%) Docker
2 5 (8.47%) Postfix
3 3 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (16.95%) Grafana
1 10 (16.95%) Prometheus
2 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.78%) Ansible
3 4 (6.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.47%) Atlassian
1 5 (8.47%) Jaspersoft
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) Oracle
2 4 (6.78%) Splunk
3 3 (5.08%) Google
4 2 (3.39%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.69%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.69%) Pega