REST Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Representational State Transfer (REST)
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing REST 16 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 15.24% 15.00% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 40.00% 47.37% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £479 - -
25th Percentile £503 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £420 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% - -
75th Percentile £628 £448 -
90th Percentile £656 £479 -
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +14.52% -16.00% -16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 40 19 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 38.10% 31.67% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 3
10th Percentile £456 £258 £217
25th Percentile £459 £410 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £345
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +30.43% -
75th Percentile £541 £594 -
90th Percentile £625 £600 -
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £485 £525
% change year-on-year -0.82% -7.62% +5.00%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

REST job vacancy trend in Solihull

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing REST

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Daily Rate Histogram in Solihull

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Solihull over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Solihull

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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 (18.75%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 12 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 12 (75.00%) Amazon SQS
3 11 (68.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (68.75%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (68.75%) AWS KMS
3 11 (68.75%) Route 53
4 6 (37.50%) Azure
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) iPaaS
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (93.75%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (68.75%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (81.25%) Git
1 13 (81.25%) Jenkins
2 12 (75.00%) JUnit
2 12 (75.00%) Maven
2 12 (75.00%) Mockito
2 12 (75.00%) SonarQube
3 11 (68.75%) DbUnit
3 11 (68.75%) jMock
4 9 (56.25%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 12 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (56.25%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Developer
1 15 (93.75%) Java Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Data Integration Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Integration Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (93.75%) Spring
1 15 (93.75%) Spring Boot
2 14 (87.50%) Hibernate
2 14 (87.50%) JPA
2 14 (87.50%) SOAP
2 14 (87.50%) Web Services
3 13 (81.25%) Spring Batch
3 13 (81.25%) Spring Integration
4 12 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
4 12 (75.00%) AngularJS
5 11 (68.75%) PowerMock
5 11 (68.75%) Spring Cloud
6 9 (56.25%) Bootstrap
6 9 (56.25%) RESTful
7 7 (43.75%) Node.js
8 2 (12.50%) Kafka
9 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
9 1 (6.25%) React
9 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Microservices
2 13 (81.25%) Agile
2 13 (81.25%) Scrum
2 13 (81.25%) TDD
3 12 (75.00%) Kanban
4 11 (68.75%) BDD
4 11 (68.75%) Containerisation
5 9 (56.25%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (56.25%) Decision-Making
5 9 (56.25%) DevOps
5 9 (56.25%) Open Source
5 9 (56.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (43.75%) Biometrics
6 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
7 6 (37.50%) BPMN
7 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
9 2 (12.50%) Database Tuning
9 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
9 2 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Java
2 11 (68.75%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) AWS Certification
3 5 (31.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) Docker
2 9 (56.25%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Grafana
2 5 (31.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Atlassian
1 11 (68.75%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks