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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 92 121
Rank change year-on-year -8 +29 -12
Contract jobs citing RESTful 66 45 15
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 2.15% 1.70% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.38% 9.57% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 18 11
10th Percentile £296 £351 £325
25th Percentile £395 £441 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £569
90th Percentile £625 £715 £600
England median daily rate £488 £500 £545
% change year-on-year -2.50% -8.26% -9.17%

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 636 470 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.74% 17.76% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 288 326
10th Percentile £354 £350 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £725 £681
England median daily rate £507 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 3 6
10th Percentile £25.05 - £17.31
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £18.33
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £32.39
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -15.09% +64.70%
75th Percentile - £51.88 £52.94
90th Percentile - £65.75 £60.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -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 21 November 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 21 November 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 -13 40 £500 -16.67% 29
East Midlands 0 26 £404 -13.60% 11
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 (10.61%) CMS
2 5 (7.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (7.58%) Headless CMS
2 5 (7.58%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (7.58%) Umbraco
3 2 (3.03%) Drupal
3 2 (3.03%) nginx
4 1 (1.52%) Camunda
4 1 (1.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 36 (54.55%) AWS
2 26 (39.39%) Serverless
3 19 (28.79%) GCP
4 11 (16.67%) Azure
5 10 (15.15%) AWS KMS
6 8 (12.12%) Amazon S3
7 7 (10.61%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (10.61%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (10.61%) Kontent
8 6 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (9.09%) Route 53
9 5 (7.58%) Contentful
10 4 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.03%) Apigee
11 2 (3.03%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (3.03%) GitHub
12 1 (1.52%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (34.85%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (24.24%) NoSQL
3 14 (21.21%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (16.67%) DynamoDB
5 7 (10.61%) MySQL
6 6 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (4.55%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.52%) Redis
9 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (42.42%) Git
2 18 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 13 (19.70%) GitLab
4 10 (15.15%) Liquibase
5 9 (13.64%) SonarQube
6 8 (12.12%) JUnit
6 8 (12.12%) Maven
7 6 (9.09%) Mockito
8 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (6.06%) DbUnit
8 4 (6.06%) JIRA
8 4 (6.06%) jMock
9 2 (3.03%) Cucumber
9 2 (3.03%) gulp
9 2 (3.03%) Jasmine
9 2 (3.03%) Karma Test Runner
9 2 (3.03%) Mocha
9 2 (3.03%) Postman
9 2 (3.03%) Protractor
9 2 (3.03%) webpack
General
1 29 (43.94%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.76%) Finance
3 12 (18.18%) Banking
4 11 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 11 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Legal
7 1 (1.52%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (57.58%) Developer
2 13 (19.70%) Java Developer
3 11 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (15.15%) Software Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) GCP Engineer
5 9 (13.64%) Senior
6 7 (10.61%) CMS Developer
6 7 (10.61%) Lead
6 7 (10.61%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) AWS Software Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) C# Developer
8 5 (7.58%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 5 (7.58%) React Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Android Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Angular Developer
9 4 (6.06%) GCP Software Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (37.88%) REST
2 20 (30.30%) AngularJS
3 17 (25.76%) Spring Boot
4 16 (24.24%) Spring
5 15 (22.73%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (19.70%) CSS
7 12 (18.18%) HTML
8 10 (15.15%) React
8 10 (15.15%) SOAP
8 10 (15.15%) Web Services
9 9 (13.64%) Hibernate
10 8 (12.12%) .NET
10 8 (12.12%) .NET Framework
11 7 (10.61%) ASP.NET
11 7 (10.61%) ASP.NET MVC
11 7 (10.61%) GraphQL
11 7 (10.61%) JPA
12 6 (9.09%) Bootstrap
12 6 (9.09%) Spring Batch
12 6 (9.09%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 18 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (21.21%) Public Cloud
3 13 (19.70%) Cloud Native
4 12 (18.18%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (31.82%) Linux
2 4 (6.06%) Android
3 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (71.21%) Agile
2 31 (46.97%) CI/CD
3 29 (43.94%) DevOps
3 29 (43.94%) Microservices
4 26 (39.39%) Containerisation
5 19 (28.79%) TDD
6 17 (25.76%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (24.24%) Computer Science
8 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (22.73%) Scrum
9 14 (21.21%) Cryptography
9 14 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (21.21%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (19.70%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (19.70%) User Experience
11 12 (18.18%) High Availability
11 12 (18.18%) Software Engineering
12 11 (16.67%) Test Automation
13 10 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
13 10 (15.15%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (42.42%) SQL
2 25 (37.88%) Python
3 23 (34.85%) Java
4 18 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 14 (21.21%) Go
6 8 (12.12%) C#
7 6 (9.09%) Kotlin
8 5 (7.58%) TypeScript
9 4 (6.06%) Shell Script
10 3 (4.55%) PHP
11 2 (3.03%) Groovy
11 2 (3.03%) Ruby
12 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (25.76%) Degree
2 16 (24.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (18.18%) Master's Degree
4 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
5 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 4 (6.06%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (42.42%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Postfix
3 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (34.85%) Kubernetes
2 20 (30.30%) Prometheus
3 19 (28.79%) Grafana
4 15 (22.73%) Terraform
5 14 (21.21%) Ansible
6 1 (1.52%) Kibana
6 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (21.21%) Splunk
2 10 (15.15%) Google
3 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.58%) Adobe
4 5 (7.58%) Sitecore
5 4 (6.06%) Atlassian
5 4 (6.06%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (3.03%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.52%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.52%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle
7 1 (1.52%) Pega
7 1 (1.52%) Ping Identity