REST Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing REST 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.52% - 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.90% - 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £334 - -
25th Percentile £376 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 - £550
75th Percentile £526 - £575
90th Percentile £567 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £423 £500
% change year-on-year +12.43% -15.50% -16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 29 2 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 21.97% 3.28% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 1 8
10th Percentile £399 - £306
25th Percentile £450 £425 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £873 £475 £538
90th Percentile £913 - £549
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.80% -9.09% +10.00%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

REST job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Staffordshire

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing REST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing REST

REST
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 2 £451 -
REST
West Midlands

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP MDG
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Boomi
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Architect
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) BAPI
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow