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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 84 90
Rank change year-on-year -68 +6 +38
Contract jobs citing RESTful 43 58 42
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.90% 2.27% 1.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.73% 10.88% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 52 19
10th Percentile £402 £279 £356
25th Percentile £413 £377 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -12.94% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £506
90th Percentile - £537 £714
England median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
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% +12.04%

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 751 533 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.80% 20.88% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 381 328
10th Percentile £363 £305 £325
25th Percentile £413 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -11.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £623
90th Percentile £640 £633 £725
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 22 3
10th Percentile £35.69 - £22.40
25th Percentile £58.43 £33.91 £34.63
Median hourly rate £63.14 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.27% -9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £71.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%

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 September 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 1 September 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 -46 27 £488 -2.50% 20
East Midlands -33 15 £435 +8.21% 17
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 (6.98%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (72.09%) AWS
2 21 (48.84%) Amazon S3
3 17 (39.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 17 (39.53%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (39.53%) AWS Lambda
3 17 (39.53%) Serverless
4 11 (25.58%) Azure
4 11 (25.58%) GitHub
5 10 (23.26%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (23.26%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (20.93%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (18.60%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (16.28%) AWS KMS
8 7 (16.28%) Route 53
9 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.33%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (39.53%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (25.58%) DynamoDB
3 8 (18.60%) Relational Database
4 7 (16.28%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (16.28%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (48.84%) Jenkins
2 14 (32.56%) Git
3 11 (25.58%) Maven
3 11 (25.58%) SonarQube
4 10 (23.26%) JUnit
4 10 (23.26%) Mockito
5 7 (16.28%) DbUnit
6 6 (13.95%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (13.95%) jMock
7 3 (6.98%) JIRA
8 1 (2.33%) GitLab
8 1 (2.33%) Gradle
8 1 (2.33%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.23%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (27.91%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.30%) Publishing
5 2 (4.65%) Finance
5 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
6 1 (2.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 22 (51.16%) Developer
2 12 (27.91%) Java Developer
3 9 (20.93%) Scrum Master
4 6 (13.95%) Software Developer
5 5 (11.63%) .NET Developer
5 5 (11.63%) .NET Software Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Java Scrum Master
7 3 (6.98%) Lead
8 2 (4.65%) Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Scala Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Technical Leader
9 1 (2.33%) C# Software Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Lead Developer
9 1 (2.33%) Lead Java Developer
9 1 (2.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (53.49%) Spring
1 23 (53.49%) Spring Boot
2 12 (27.91%) AngularJS
2 12 (27.91%) Hibernate
2 12 (27.91%) REST
2 12 (27.91%) Web Services
3 11 (25.58%) JPA
3 11 (25.58%) SOAP
4 10 (23.26%) ActiveMQ
5 9 (20.93%) .NET
6 8 (18.60%) Spring Cloud
7 7 (16.28%) Spring Batch
7 7 (16.28%) Spring Integration
8 6 (13.95%) Bootstrap
8 6 (13.95%) PowerMock
9 5 (11.63%) Node.js
10 3 (6.98%) .NET Core
10 3 (6.98%) CSS
10 3 (6.98%) HTML
10 3 (6.98%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 22 (51.16%) Cloud Native
2 11 (25.58%) Product Ownership
3 10 (23.26%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (9.30%) Reference Data
5 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (86.05%) Microservices
2 34 (79.07%) Agile
2 34 (79.07%) CI/CD
3 32 (74.42%) DevOps
4 23 (53.49%) Scrum
5 18 (41.86%) Containerisation
6 15 (34.88%) Code Quality
6 15 (34.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (30.23%) Clean Code
7 13 (30.23%) Observability
7 13 (30.23%) Sprint Planning
7 13 (30.23%) Test Automation
8 12 (27.91%) Deployment Automation
8 12 (27.91%) Design Patterns
8 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (27.91%) TDD
8 12 (27.91%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (25.58%) Backlog Refinement
9 11 (25.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (23.26%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 25 (58.14%) Java
2 15 (34.88%) SQL
3 8 (18.60%) C#
4 6 (13.95%) Python
5 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.65%) Scala
8 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (41.86%) Security Cleared
2 17 (39.53%) SC Cleared
3 11 (25.58%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) HL7
2 1 (2.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (53.49%) Docker
2 5 (11.63%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Grafana
2 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Atlassian
2 6 (13.95%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle