REST Contracts in the Midlands

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 118 163
Rank change year-on-year +3 +45 -37
Contract jobs citing REST 18 42 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.67% 1.28% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.59% 7.43% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 34 24
10th Percentile £419 £422 £363
25th Percentile £425 £500 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +2.86% +23.53%
75th Percentile £585 £688 £578
90th Percentile £625 £731 £642
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +12.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 392 565 897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.56% 17.21% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 443 685
10th Percentile £280 £313 £360
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile £621 £588 £550
90th Percentile £720 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 10
10th Percentile £10.90 - £16.70
25th Percentile £14.16 - £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.25 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £39.98 - £46.25
90th Percentile £56.25 - £47.95
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for REST in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +7 12 £475 -20.83% 10
East Midlands +8 6 £577 +6.85% 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (5.56%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Boomi
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) iPaaS
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (5.56%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MySQL
1 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Android Studio
1 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
1 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) JMeter
1 1 (5.56%) Postman
1 1 (5.56%) TestRail
1 1 (5.56%) Xcode
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Integration Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Android Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Angular Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Business Integration Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Integration Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) iOS Developer
5 1 (5.56%) React Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Full Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior iOS Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) JSON
2 6 (33.33%) SOAP
2 6 (33.33%) XML
3 3 (16.67%) OAuth
3 3 (16.67%) OAuth2
3 3 (16.67%) OpenID
3 3 (16.67%) SAML
3 3 (16.67%) WSDL
3 3 (16.67%) XSD
3 3 (16.67%) XSLT
4 2 (11.11%) Jest
4 2 (11.11%) React
5 1 (5.56%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (5.56%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (5.56%) Blazor
5 1 (5.56%) NestJS
5 1 (5.56%) Next.js
5 1 (5.56%) NgRx
5 1 (5.56%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) CRM
4 4 (22.22%) ERP
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 2 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 2 (11.11%) TDD
7 1 (5.56%) Android Development
7 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.56%) Data Integration
7 1 (5.56%) Data Mapping
7 1 (5.56%) Data Transformation
7 1 (5.56%) iOS Development
7 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (5.56%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) BeanShell
2 3 (16.67%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) Groovy
4 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Swift
4 1 (5.56%) X++
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) OpenAM
1 3 (16.67%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 3 (16.67%) ForgeRock
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Jitterbit
4 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) SnapLogic
4 1 (5.56%) Software AG
4 1 (5.56%) Talend
4 1 (5.56%) TIBCO