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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 83 117
Rank change year-on-year -35 +34 +13
Contract jobs citing RESTful 56 35 16
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.63% 1.66% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.62% 9.14% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 14 13
10th Percentile £385 £371 £335
25th Percentile £412 £429 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £535 £611
90th Percentile £675 £550 -
England median daily rate £486 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.75% - -16.67%

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 650 383 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.89% 18.13% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 241 264
10th Percentile £365 £350 £288
25th Percentile £421 £400 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 11
10th Percentile £20.25 - -
25th Percentile £25.09 £26.25 £10.90
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +57.14% -11.01%
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £36.59
90th Percentile £77.25 - £56.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 3 February 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 February 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 -23 43 £494 +1.80% 16
East Midlands -19 12 £550 +37.50% 13
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 8 (14.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 7 (12.50%) CMS
3 5 (8.93%) Headless CMS
3 5 (8.93%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (8.93%) Umbraco
4 2 (3.57%) Confluence
4 2 (3.57%) Drupal
5 1 (1.79%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Adobe XD
1 5 (8.93%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 29 (51.79%) AWS
2 21 (37.50%) Serverless
3 18 (32.14%) GCP
4 14 (25.00%) Azure
5 7 (12.50%) Kontent
6 6 (10.71%) Figma
7 5 (8.93%) Contentful
8 4 (7.14%) AWS KMS
8 4 (7.14%) GitHub
9 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (5.36%) Kong
10 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.57%) Apigee
10 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.57%) Cloud Functions
11 1 (1.79%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.79%) SaaS
11 1 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) SSL
1 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (30.36%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 7 (12.50%) MySQL
4 5 (8.93%) MongoDB
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.57%) Redis
7 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.79%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (35.71%) Git
2 13 (23.21%) GitLab
3 12 (21.43%) Jenkins
4 10 (17.86%) Liquibase
5 4 (7.14%) JIRA
6 3 (5.36%) REST Assured
7 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.57%) JUnit
7 2 (3.57%) Mockito
8 1 (1.79%) Maven
8 1 (1.79%) Postman
8 1 (1.79%) Selenium
8 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.79%) Storybook
8 1 (1.79%) Vite
8 1 (1.79%) webpack
General
1 31 (55.36%) Social Skills
2 17 (30.36%) Finance
3 12 (21.43%) Banking
4 10 (17.86%) Financial Institution
4 10 (17.86%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Marketing
8 2 (3.57%) Legal
9 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (37.50%) Developer
2 11 (19.64%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (19.64%) Full-Stack Developer
2 11 (19.64%) Software Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Senior
4 9 (16.07%) GCP Engineer
5 8 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) CMS Developer
7 6 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Lead
8 5 (8.93%) AWS Software Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) C# Developer
8 5 (8.93%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 5 (8.93%) React Developer
9 4 (7.14%) Architect
9 4 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.93%) REST
2 17 (30.36%) AngularJS
3 16 (28.57%) CSS
3 16 (28.57%) React
4 15 (26.79%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (25.00%) HTML
6 11 (19.64%) .NET
7 8 (14.29%) .NET Framework
7 8 (14.29%) ASP.NET
8 7 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (10.71%) OAuth
9 6 (10.71%) Spring
9 6 (10.71%) Spring Boot
10 5 (8.93%) CSS3
10 5 (8.93%) HTML5
10 5 (8.93%) OAuth2
11 4 (7.14%) GraphQL
11 4 (7.14%) Swagger
12 3 (5.36%) OpenAPI
12 3 (5.36%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 13 (23.21%) Cloud Native
3 12 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (17.86%) Mobile App
5 7 (12.50%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (67.86%) Agile
2 33 (58.93%) CI/CD
3 26 (46.43%) Microservices
4 24 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 22 (39.29%) DevOps
6 18 (32.14%) User Experience
7 15 (26.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (25.00%) Computer Science
8 14 (25.00%) Cryptography
8 14 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 13 (23.21%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (19.64%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (19.64%) High Availability
11 10 (17.86%) Cost Optimisation
11 10 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (17.86%) Non-Functional Testing
12 9 (16.07%) Data Encryption
12 9 (16.07%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 22 (39.29%) JavaScript
2 21 (37.50%) Python
2 21 (37.50%) SQL
3 14 (25.00%) Go
4 13 (23.21%) Java
5 11 (19.64%) C#
6 3 (5.36%) PHP
6 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.57%) Groovy
7 2 (3.57%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.57%) Ruby
8 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (32.14%) Degree
2 16 (28.57%) Master's Degree
3 14 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.93%) WCAG
3 3 (5.36%) GDPR
4 2 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 23 (41.07%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (46.43%) Kubernetes
2 16 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 16 (28.57%) Terraform
3 15 (26.79%) Grafana
4 14 (25.00%) Ansible
5 1 (1.79%) Kibana
5 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Splunk
2 13 (23.21%) Adobe
3 10 (17.86%) Google
4 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 7 (12.50%) MuleSoft
5 5 (8.93%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.79%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.79%) Ping Identity