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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 88 121
Rank change year-on-year -19 +33 +8
Contract jobs citing RESTful 56 39 11
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.75% 1.77% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.97% 9.65% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 17 8
10th Percentile £368 £386 £310
25th Percentile £400 £440 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £413
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +18.79% -21.43%
75th Percentile £548 £550 £506
90th Percentile £635 £580 £600
England median daily rate £488 £498 £525
% change year-on-year -2.01% -5.24% -12.50%

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 624 404 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 19.55% 18.30% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 255 254
10th Percentile £360 £351 £308
25th Percentile £410 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £564
90th Percentile £688 £725 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 6
10th Percentile £20.25 - £17.31
25th Percentile £25.09 £26.25 £18.33
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +4.22% +34.19%
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £50.31
90th Percentile £77.25 - £60.50
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -2.40% +20.45% -20.17%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -29 40 £475 -9.52% 33
East Midlands -16 16 £495 +6.00% 23
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 (12.50%) CMS
2 5 (8.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (8.93%) Headless CMS
2 5 (8.93%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (8.93%) Umbraco
3 2 (3.57%) Confluence
3 2 (3.57%) Drupal
3 2 (3.57%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Adobe XD
1 5 (8.93%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 30 (53.57%) AWS
2 26 (46.43%) Serverless
3 19 (33.93%) GCP
4 10 (17.86%) Azure
5 7 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (12.50%) Kontent
6 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.93%) Contentful
6 5 (8.93%) Figma
7 4 (7.14%) AWS KMS
8 3 (5.36%) GitHub
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.57%) Apigee
9 2 (3.57%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (3.57%) Kong
10 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.79%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.79%) SaaS
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 8 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (12.50%) MySQL
5 5 (8.93%) DynamoDB
6 4 (7.14%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.57%) Redis
7 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.79%) DocumentDB
8 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (37.50%) Git
2 13 (23.21%) GitLab
3 12 (21.43%) Jenkins
4 10 (17.86%) Liquibase
5 5 (8.93%) JIRA
6 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.57%) JUnit
6 2 (3.57%) Mockito
6 2 (3.57%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.79%) Maven
7 1 (1.79%) Postman
7 1 (1.79%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.79%) Selenium
General
1 30 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Finance
3 11 (19.64%) Banking
4 10 (17.86%) Financial Institution
5 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
6 6 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Legal
8 1 (1.79%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (42.86%) Developer
2 11 (19.64%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (17.86%) Software Engineer
4 9 (16.07%) GCP Engineer
4 9 (16.07%) Lead
5 8 (14.29%) Senior
6 7 (12.50%) CMS Developer
6 7 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Cloud Software Engineer
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%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) GCP Software 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 18 (32.14%) REST
2 17 (30.36%) AngularJS
3 15 (26.79%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (26.79%) React
4 14 (25.00%) CSS
5 13 (23.21%) HTML
6 8 (14.29%) .NET
6 8 (14.29%) .NET Framework
6 8 (14.29%) Spring
6 8 (14.29%) Spring Boot
7 7 (12.50%) ASP.NET
7 7 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 7 (12.50%) GraphQL
8 6 (10.71%) Django
8 6 (10.71%) OAuth
9 5 (8.93%) CSS3
9 5 (8.93%) HTML5
9 5 (8.93%) OAuth2
10 4 (7.14%) Swagger
11 3 (5.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 13 (23.21%) Cloud Native
2 13 (23.21%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (23.21%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.36%) Linux
2 3 (5.36%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (76.79%) Agile
2 33 (58.93%) CI/CD
3 23 (41.07%) Containerisation
3 23 (41.07%) Microservices
4 22 (39.29%) DevOps
5 16 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 16 (28.57%) User Experience
6 15 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (25.00%) Cryptography
7 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 13 (23.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (21.43%) High Availability
9 12 (21.43%) Software Engineering
10 11 (19.64%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (17.86%) Cost Optimisation
11 10 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (17.86%) Non-Functional Testing
11 10 (17.86%) TDD
12 9 (16.07%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 25 (44.64%) Python
2 21 (37.50%) SQL
3 19 (33.93%) JavaScript
4 14 (25.00%) Go
5 12 (21.43%) Java
6 8 (14.29%) C#
7 5 (8.93%) Kotlin
8 3 (5.36%) PHP
8 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
8 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.57%) Groovy
9 2 (3.57%) Ruby
10 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (35.71%) Degree
2 16 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (28.57%) Master's Degree
3 6 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (39.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 16 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 15 (26.79%) Grafana
3 15 (26.79%) Terraform
4 14 (25.00%) Ansible
5 1 (1.79%) Kibana
5 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Splunk
2 10 (17.86%) Adobe
2 10 (17.86%) Google
3 7 (12.50%) MuleSoft
4 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
5 5 (8.93%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.79%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.79%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle
6 1 (1.79%) Pega
6 1 (1.79%) Ping Identity