RESTful Contracts in the West Midlands

RESTful
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 100 118
Rank change year-on-year +26 +18 -18
Contract jobs citing RESTful 23 11 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.71% 0.56% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.09% 4.26% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 11
10th Percentile £433 £412 £410
25th Percentile £451 £500 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £607 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +34.89% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £547
90th Percentile £678 £616 £550
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -31.25% +6.67% +25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

RESTful 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 228 258 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.95% 13.25% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 189 247
10th Percentile £384 £310 £360
25th Percentile £422 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile - £29.60 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.92 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% - -
75th Percentile - £55.63 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the West Midlands

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the West Midlands

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the West Midlands

RESTful
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 RESTful within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +21 9 £470 +4.44% 22
Coventry - 4 £450 -
Solihull - 3 £500 -
Herefordshire - 2 £700 -
Worcestershire - 2 £700 - 2
Warwickshire -1 1 - - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £550 - 17
RESTful
England

RESTful
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 3 (13.04%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Magento
1 2 (8.70%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (13.04%) AWS KMS
4 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 3 (13.04%) Route 53
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (13.04%) DynamoDB
3 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
3 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.35%) MySQL
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.35%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) Git
2 6 (26.09%) JUnit
2 6 (26.09%) Maven
2 6 (26.09%) Mockito
3 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
3 5 (21.74%) Postman
4 3 (13.04%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
4 3 (13.04%) DbUnit
4 3 (13.04%) Gradle
4 3 (13.04%) JIRA
4 3 (13.04%) jMock
4 3 (13.04%) PHPUnit
4 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
5 2 (8.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.35%) Ant
General
1 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Automotive
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (78.26%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Senior
3 7 (30.43%) Java Developer
3 7 (30.43%) Senior Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Moodle Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.70%) ABAP Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) SAP Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Performance Test Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Spring
2 6 (26.09%) REST
2 6 (26.09%) SOAP
3 5 (21.74%) HTML
3 5 (21.74%) Web Services
4 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
4 4 (17.39%) CSS
4 4 (17.39%) Node.js
4 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
5 3 (13.04%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (13.04%) Behat
5 3 (13.04%) Bootstrap
5 3 (13.04%) Hibernate
5 3 (13.04%) JPA
5 3 (13.04%) JSON
5 3 (13.04%) PowerMock
5 3 (13.04%) Spring Batch
5 3 (13.04%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (13.04%) Spring Integration
5 3 (13.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (13.04%) e-Learning
1 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
1 3 (13.04%) VLE
2 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps
2 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (30.43%) TDD
3 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) Code Quality
3 6 (26.09%) Microservices
4 5 (21.74%) API Development
4 5 (21.74%) OO
4 5 (21.74%) Open Source
4 5 (21.74%) Scrum
5 4 (17.39%) API Design
5 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
5 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (17.39%) Data Management
5 4 (17.39%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
5 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (17.39%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) JavaScript
1 13 (56.52%) SQL
2 8 (34.78%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) Python
4 4 (17.39%) PHP
4 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.70%) ABAP
5 2 (8.70%) COBOL
5 2 (8.70%) Go
5 2 (8.70%) Ruby
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) Postfix
3 1 (4.35%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (4.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Grafana
1 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Adobe
2 3 (13.04%) Atlassian
2 3 (13.04%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (8.70%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Siemens
4 1 (4.35%) Sybase