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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 86 121
Rank change year-on-year -21 +35 -8
Contract jobs citing RESTful 58 45 15
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.91% 1.76% 0.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.43% 10.11% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 18 11
10th Percentile £304 £415 £325
25th Percentile £398 £452 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £569
90th Percentile £625 £715 £600
England median daily rate £488 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -2.50% -6.98% -10.42%

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 615 445 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.30% 17.44% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 277 311
10th Percentile £358 £350 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £550
90th Percentile £680 £725 £688
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 7
10th Percentile £22.64 - £17.35
25th Percentile £26.70 £26.25 £19.16
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -9.84% +55.10%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £49.88
90th Percentile - - £59.60
England median hourly rate £59.75 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -8.08% +23.22% -18.85%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 -20 36 £500 -13.04% 24
East Midlands 0 22 £413 -15.82% 6
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 (12.07%) CMS
2 5 (8.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (8.62%) Headless CMS
2 5 (8.62%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (8.62%) Umbraco
3 2 (3.45%) Confluence
3 2 (3.45%) Drupal
3 2 (3.45%) nginx
4 1 (1.72%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 32 (55.17%) AWS
2 26 (44.83%) Serverless
3 19 (32.76%) GCP
4 10 (17.24%) Azure
5 7 (12.07%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (12.07%) Kontent
6 5 (8.62%) AWS KMS
6 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.62%) Contentful
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.17%) GitHub
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.45%) Apigee
8 2 (3.45%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (3.45%) Kong
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) SSL
1 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.03%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (29.31%) NoSQL
3 9 (15.52%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (12.07%) MySQL
5 6 (10.34%) DynamoDB
6 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.45%) Redis
7 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.72%) DocumentDB
8 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (36.21%) Git
2 13 (22.41%) GitLab
2 13 (22.41%) Jenkins
3 10 (17.24%) Liquibase
4 5 (8.62%) JIRA
5 4 (6.90%) SonarQube
6 3 (5.17%) JUnit
6 3 (5.17%) Maven
6 3 (5.17%) Mockito
7 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.45%) Grunt
7 2 (3.45%) gulp
7 2 (3.45%) webpack
8 1 (1.72%) DbUnit
8 1 (1.72%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.72%) jMock
8 1 (1.72%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.72%) Selenium
8 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.59%) Finance
3 12 (20.69%) Banking
4 11 (18.97%) Financial Institution
5 9 (15.52%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (53.45%) Developer
2 11 (18.97%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (18.97%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (17.24%) Software Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) GCP Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) Java Developer
5 8 (13.79%) Senior
6 7 (12.07%) CMS Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) AWS Software Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) C# Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Lead
8 5 (8.62%) React Developer
9 4 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) GCP Software Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (32.76%) REST
2 15 (25.86%) AngularJS
2 15 (25.86%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (22.41%) Spring Boot
4 12 (20.69%) Spring
5 11 (18.97%) CSS
6 10 (17.24%) HTML
6 10 (17.24%) React
7 8 (13.79%) .NET
7 8 (13.79%) .NET Framework
8 7 (12.07%) ASP.NET
8 7 (12.07%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (12.07%) GraphQL
9 6 (10.34%) Django
9 6 (10.34%) OAuth
10 5 (8.62%) OAuth2
10 5 (8.62%) SOAP
10 5 (8.62%) Web Services
11 4 (6.90%) Hibernate
11 4 (6.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.86%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (24.14%) Public Cloud
3 13 (22.41%) Cloud Native
4 11 (18.97%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.03%) Linux
2 3 (5.17%) Android
3 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (70.69%) Agile
2 31 (53.45%) CI/CD
3 25 (43.10%) DevOps
3 25 (43.10%) Microservices
4 24 (41.38%) Containerisation
5 16 (27.59%) Computer Science
6 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (24.14%) Cryptography
7 14 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (24.14%) Root Cause Analysis
8 13 (22.41%) TDD
8 13 (22.41%) User Experience
9 12 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (20.69%) High Availability
9 12 (20.69%) Software Engineering
10 10 (17.24%) Cost Optimisation
10 10 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (17.24%) Non-Functional Testing
11 9 (15.52%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.10%) Python
2 22 (37.93%) SQL
3 17 (29.31%) Java
3 17 (29.31%) JavaScript
4 14 (24.14%) Go
5 8 (13.79%) C#
6 5 (8.62%) Kotlin
7 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
8 3 (5.17%) PHP
8 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.45%) Groovy
9 2 (3.45%) Ruby
10 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (29.31%) Degree
2 16 (27.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (20.69%) Master's Degree
4 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
5 4 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (41.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 24 (41.38%) Kubernetes
2 17 (29.31%) Prometheus
3 16 (27.59%) Grafana
4 15 (25.86%) Terraform
5 14 (24.14%) Ansible
6 1 (1.72%) Kibana
6 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (24.14%) Splunk
2 10 (17.24%) Google
3 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.62%) Adobe
4 5 (8.62%) Sitecore
5 2 (3.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.72%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.72%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) Pega
6 1 (1.72%) Ping Identity