REST Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 22 27
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 -
Contract jobs citing REST 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 2.41% 1.49% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.59% 9.52% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £444 £471 -
25th Percentile - £471 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +16.47% -
75th Percentile £545 £521 £438
90th Percentile £608 £524 -
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £407 £570
% change year-on-year +10.57% -28.57% +7.30%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Nottinghamshire

REST 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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 34 21 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 11.72% 15.67% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 15
10th Percentile £395 £201 £313
25th Percentile £444 £350 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £483 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% +13.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £566 £524 £500
90th Percentile £603 £550 £650
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -0.58%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

REST job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Nottinghamshire

REST
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 April 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
Nottingham -9 7 £500 +1.01% 5
REST
East Midlands

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Storage
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Gatling
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Gradle
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) JUnit
2 2 (28.57%) Maven
2 2 (28.57%) Postman
2 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
2 2 (28.57%) TestNG
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Technical Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Salesforce Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
1 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
1 2 (28.57%) Playwright
1 2 (28.57%) SOAP
1 2 (28.57%) Swagger
1 2 (28.57%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) CSS3
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) API Integration
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Change Management
4 2 (28.57%) Code Coverage
4 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
4 2 (28.57%) ERP
4 2 (28.57%) OOP
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Apex Code
1 2 (28.57%) Bicep
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) SOQL
1 2 (28.57%) SOSL
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud