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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 92 113
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 -32
Contract jobs citing RESTful 19 20 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.10% 1.07% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.20% 6.33% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 9
10th Percentile £458 £430 £393
25th Percentile £479 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £604 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.18% +15.00% -2.37%
75th Percentile £519 £722 £600
90th Percentile £564 £788 £638
England median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £82.81
% change year-on-year -31.25% -3.39% +27.40%

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 264 316 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.33% 16.90% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 204 233
10th Percentile £359 £331 £353
25th Percentile £413 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +10.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £600
90th Percentile £679 £750 £700
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 1
10th Percentile - £29.65 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £39.96 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +29.41% -26.72%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £43.75
90th Percentile - £63.75 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 7 £488 -25.86% 10
Coventry - 3 £495 - 1
Solihull - 3 £500 -
Shropshire - 2 - - 2
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 2 (10.53%) Moodle
2 1 (5.26%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 9 (47.37%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (47.37%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (42.11%) Amazon S3
3 8 (42.11%) AWS KMS
3 8 (42.11%) Route 53
4 6 (31.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (26.32%) Serverless
6 3 (15.79%) Azure
6 3 (15.79%) Azure API Management
6 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Functions
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (15.79%) GitHub
7 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (47.37%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (42.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (42.11%) DynamoDB
3 5 (26.32%) Relational Database
4 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
5 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Git
1 10 (52.63%) Jenkins
2 8 (42.11%) JUnit
2 8 (42.11%) Maven
2 8 (42.11%) SonarQube
3 6 (31.58%) Bitbucket Server
3 6 (31.58%) DbUnit
3 6 (31.58%) jMock
3 6 (31.58%) Mockito
4 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
4 2 (10.53%) PHPUnit
4 2 (10.53%) Postman
5 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 8 (42.11%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) Developer
2 9 (47.37%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (10.53%) Integration Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Moodle Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Performance Test Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) Web Services
2 9 (47.37%) REST
2 9 (47.37%) SOAP
2 9 (47.37%) Spring
2 9 (47.37%) Spring Boot
3 8 (42.11%) ActiveMQ
3 8 (42.11%) Hibernate
3 8 (42.11%) JPA
3 8 (42.11%) Spring Batch
3 8 (42.11%) Spring Integration
4 7 (36.84%) AngularJS
5 6 (31.58%) Bootstrap
5 6 (31.58%) PowerMock
5 6 (31.58%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (15.79%) .NET
6 3 (15.79%) JSON
6 3 (15.79%) XML
7 2 (10.53%) CSS
7 2 (10.53%) HTML
7 2 (10.53%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.53%) e-Learning
2 2 (10.53%) VLE
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Agile
2 12 (63.16%) Microservices
3 10 (52.63%) DevOps
4 9 (47.37%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (47.37%) Scrum
4 9 (47.37%) TDD
5 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
5 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
6 6 (31.58%) BDD
6 6 (31.58%) Kanban
6 6 (31.58%) Open Source
7 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.79%) Analytics
8 3 (15.79%) API Design
8 3 (15.79%) API Management
8 3 (15.79%) Data Integration
8 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
8 3 (15.79%) ETL
8 3 (15.79%) Log Analytics
8 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) SQL
2 10 (52.63%) Java
3 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.53%) PHP
6 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Docker
2 6 (31.58%) Postfix
3 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Grafana
1 6 (31.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Atlassian
1 6 (31.58%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (5.26%) Adobe
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Pega