REST Contracts in the West Midlands

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 94 89
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 +48
Contract jobs citing REST 28 19 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.88% 0.93% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.48% 6.40% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 25
10th Percentile £404 - £420
25th Percentile £410 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £556 £725
90th Percentile £514 £608 £731
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +27.27% -21.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 244 297 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.41% 14.47% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 198 245
10th Percentile £375 £313 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £584 £643 £675
90th Percentile £688 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 1
10th Percentile - £14.23 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £39.92 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% -26.90%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £43.75
90th Percentile - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.18% -10.54% +23.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for REST in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for REST in the West Midlands

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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 REST within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. 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
Birmingham +8 11 £500 +2.56% 34
Solihull - 10 £420 -
Coventry +1 3 £387 -13.94% 16
Shropshire - 1 - - 13
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) JBoss
1 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
1 1 (3.57%) Tuxedo
1 1 (3.57%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 22 (78.57%) AWS
2 15 (53.57%) Amazon S3
3 14 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
4 10 (35.71%) AWS KMS
4 10 (35.71%) Route 53
5 8 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (17.86%) Azure
6 5 (17.86%) GitHub
7 2 (7.14%) GCP
7 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (7.14%) Nutanix
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.57%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (3.57%) Google Analytics
8 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (67.86%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (53.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (42.86%) DynamoDB
5 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.57%) MySQL
6 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (64.29%) Jenkins
2 16 (57.14%) Git
2 16 (57.14%) Maven
3 15 (53.57%) JUnit
4 11 (39.29%) Mockito
4 11 (39.29%) SonarQube
5 7 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 7 (25.00%) DbUnit
5 7 (25.00%) jMock
6 2 (7.14%) Android Studio
6 2 (7.14%) Gradle
6 2 (7.14%) JIRA
6 2 (7.14%) Xcode
7 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (46.43%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (3.57%) Automotive
5 1 (3.57%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (82.14%) Developer
2 17 (60.71%) Java Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Lead
3 6 (21.43%) Lead Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Lead Java Developer
3 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Developer
5 3 (10.71%) React Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Applications Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Citrix Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (3.57%) Java Applications Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Java Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (67.86%) Spring
1 19 (67.86%) Spring Boot
2 16 (57.14%) SOAP
2 16 (57.14%) Web Services
3 15 (53.57%) ActiveMQ
4 14 (50.00%) JPA
5 13 (46.43%) Hibernate
6 11 (39.29%) AngularJS
6 11 (39.29%) Bootstrap
6 11 (39.29%) Spring Batch
6 11 (39.29%) Spring Integration
7 10 (35.71%) RESTful
7 10 (35.71%) Spring Cloud
8 7 (25.00%) PowerMock
9 4 (14.29%) Redux
10 3 (10.71%) Jest
10 3 (10.71%) JSON
10 3 (10.71%) React
10 3 (10.71%) React Native
11 2 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.71%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Android
2 2 (7.14%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) Agile
2 20 (71.43%) Microservices
3 18 (64.29%) Scrum
3 18 (64.29%) TDD
4 11 (39.29%) DevOps
5 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 10 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (32.14%) BDD
6 9 (32.14%) Containerisation
7 8 (28.57%) Kanban
8 7 (25.00%) Open Source
8 7 (25.00%) Risk Management
8 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
10 4 (14.29%) SDLC
11 3 (10.71%) Design Patterns
12 2 (7.14%) API Development
12 2 (7.14%) Clean Code
12 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) Java
2 15 (53.57%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.14%) JSX
6 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.57%) Bash
7 1 (3.57%) C
7 1 (3.57%) C#
7 1 (3.57%) Korn
7 1 (3.57%) PHP
7 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 12 (42.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 18 (64.29%) Docker
2 8 (28.57%) Postfix
3 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Grafana
1 10 (35.71%) Prometheus
2 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (7.14%) Citrix
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Trillium
4 1 (3.57%) webMethods