JAX-RS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring JAX-RS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JAX-RS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.036% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 - -
England median daily rate £457 £638 £450
% change year-on-year -28.27% +41.67% -35.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

JAX-RS 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 551 252 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.90% 18.46% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 157 179
10th Percentile £373 £381 £311
25th Percentile £447 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -15.91%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £676 £705 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £19.02 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £26.25 £17.41
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -31.11% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £28.75 £44.06
90th Percentile £77.30 - £56.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

JAX-RS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JAX-RS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

JAX-RS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

JAX-RS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JAX-RS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JAX-RS

JAX-RS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JAX-RS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 March 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
Shropshire - 1 £671 - 1
JAX-RS
England

JAX-RS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Apigee
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance