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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 84 115
Rank change year-on-year -57 +31 +9
Contract jobs citing RESTful 47 33 19
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.10% 1.72% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.12% 10.34% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 23 15
10th Percentile £396 £403 £368
25th Percentile £412 £450 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £611
90th Percentile £625 £615 -
England median daily rate £497 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.70% -4.76% -11.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -34.38% +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 660 319 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.46% 16.66% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 231 270
10th Percentile £375 £320 £275
25th Percentile £413 £400 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £622
90th Percentile £645 £656 £725
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 17
10th Percentile £14.00 £23.96 £10.90
25th Percentile £30.00 £26.25 £14.13
Median hourly rate £58.00 £30.71 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% +11.65% -
75th Percentile £77.25 £33.91 £40.00
90th Percentile £77.50 - £56.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -54 30 £488 -4.88% 12
East Midlands -26 16 £498 +7.68% 7
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 4 (8.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.13%) CMS
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.13%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (2.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Adobe XD
1 5 (10.64%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 25 (53.19%) AWS
2 18 (38.30%) Azure
3 12 (25.53%) Amazon S3
4 10 (21.28%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (19.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (19.15%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (19.15%) AWS KMS
5 9 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (19.15%) Route 53
6 7 (14.89%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (14.89%) Serverless
7 6 (12.77%) Figma
8 4 (8.51%) GitHub
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
9 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.26%) Kong
10 1 (2.13%) Apigee
10 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) SSL
1 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.17%) Amazon RDS
1 17 (36.17%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (34.04%) DynamoDB
3 9 (19.15%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (12.77%) Relational Database
5 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
6 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (4.26%) MySQL
8 1 (2.13%) DocumentDB
8 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (46.81%) Git
2 11 (23.40%) JUnit
3 10 (21.28%) Maven
3 10 (21.28%) Mockito
4 9 (19.15%) Bitbucket Server
4 9 (19.15%) DbUnit
4 9 (19.15%) Jenkins
4 9 (19.15%) jMock
4 9 (19.15%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.26%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.13%) GitLab
6 1 (2.13%) JIRA
6 1 (2.13%) MSTest
6 1 (2.13%) Storybook
6 1 (2.13%) Vite
6 1 (2.13%) webpack
General
1 20 (42.55%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.91%) Public Sector
3 11 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Finance
4 6 (12.77%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Marketing
6 2 (4.26%) Legal
7 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (51.06%) Developer
2 11 (23.40%) Java Developer
3 7 (14.89%) .NET Developer
4 6 (12.77%) .NET Software Developer
4 6 (12.77%) Software Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Lead
5 5 (10.64%) Senior
6 4 (8.51%) Architect
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.26%) AWS Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Designer
8 2 (4.26%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Lead Designer
8 2 (4.26%) Lead UX Designer
8 2 (4.26%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (38.30%) AngularJS
2 14 (29.79%) REST
3 13 (27.66%) Spring
3 13 (27.66%) Spring Boot
4 11 (23.40%) .NET
4 11 (23.40%) Hibernate
5 10 (21.28%) JPA
6 9 (19.15%) ActiveMQ
6 9 (19.15%) Bootstrap
6 9 (19.15%) CSS
6 9 (19.15%) HTML
6 9 (19.15%) PowerMock
6 9 (19.15%) SOAP
6 9 (19.15%) Spring Batch
6 9 (19.15%) Spring Cloud
6 9 (19.15%) Spring Integration
6 9 (19.15%) Web Services
7 7 (14.89%) React
8 6 (12.77%) GraphQL
8 6 (12.77%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (14.89%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.38%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (76.60%) Agile
2 26 (55.32%) CI/CD
2 26 (55.32%) Microservices
3 20 (42.55%) DevOps
4 16 (34.04%) Containerisation
4 16 (34.04%) TDD
5 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (23.40%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (21.28%) Open Source
7 10 (21.28%) Scrum
8 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (17.02%) BDD
9 8 (17.02%) Kanban
9 8 (17.02%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (17.02%) User Experience
10 7 (14.89%) Decision-Making
10 7 (14.89%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (12.77%) Pair Programming
11 6 (12.77%) Responsive Web Design
11 6 (12.77%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 21 (44.68%) SQL
2 19 (40.43%) Java
3 13 (27.66%) JavaScript
3 13 (27.66%) Python
4 11 (23.40%) C#
5 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.13%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.02%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.51%) Degree
3 4 (8.51%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) Accessibility
2 5 (10.64%) WCAG
3 3 (6.38%) GDPR
4 2 (4.26%) QA
System Software
1 15 (31.91%) Docker
2 8 (17.02%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 11 (23.40%) Kubernetes
2 9 (19.15%) Grafana
3 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.26%) Terraform
5 1 (2.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Adobe
1 9 (19.15%) Atlassian
1 9 (19.15%) Jaspersoft
2 5 (10.64%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.13%) Sitecore