REST Contract Job Trends in Telford

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing REST 6 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 3.33% 5.19% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.63% 22.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £406 £434 -
25th Percentile £415 £434 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £435 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% - -
75th Percentile £430 £435 -
90th Percentile £430 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £429 £435 -
% change year-on-year -1.29% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 41 18 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 22.78% 23.38% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 15 1
10th Percentile £403 £435 -
25th Percentile £430 £448 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +9.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £547 £567 £525
90th Percentile £556 £571 -
Shropshire median daily rate £472 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -13.39% +9.00% -4.76%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

REST job vacancy trend in Telford

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing REST

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 5 (83.33%) WebLogic
2 4 (66.67%) Apache
2 4 (66.67%) JBoss
3 1 (16.67%) nginx
3 1 (16.67%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Eclipse
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) IntelliJ
1 4 (66.67%) JUnit
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) JSON
1 6 (100.00%) SOAP
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 5 (83.33%) XML
3 4 (66.67%) EJB
3 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
3 4 (66.67%) HTML5
3 4 (66.67%) J2EE
3 4 (66.67%) J2SE
3 4 (66.67%) Play Framework
4 1 (16.67%) OAuth
4 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
4 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
4 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (16.67%) Swagger
4 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Lean Software Development
3 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (66.67%) Open Source
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) Scala
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) Korn
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) webMethods
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Pega
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Trillium