RESTful Contracts in the Midlands

RESTful
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for RESTful skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RESTful 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 111 126 99
Rank change year-on-year +15 -27 +7
Contract jobs citing RESTful 22 34 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.82% 1.04% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.61% 6.02% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 84
10th Percentile £368 £352 £363
25th Percentile £403 £362 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £498
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.53% +18.81%
75th Percentile £611 £606 £543
90th Percentile - £625 £595
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £61.63
% change year-on-year +6.67% +21.70% +12.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

RESTful 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 RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful 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 RESTful 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 +22 12 £607 +26.13% 23
East Midlands +6 10 £435 -19.07% 10
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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 2 (9.09%) CMS
1 2 (9.09%) Headless CMS
2 1 (4.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) Azure AKS
3 5 (22.73%) Azure App Service
3 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.09%) MySQL
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) DB2
4 1 (4.55%) Jackrabbit
4 1 (4.55%) OLAP
4 1 (4.55%) OLTP
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (9.09%) webpack
2 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Angular Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Backend Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) React Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Workday Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Workday Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) .NET
2 6 (27.27%) AngularJS
2 6 (27.27%) RAML
3 5 (22.73%) OpenAPI
3 5 (22.73%) Swagger
4 4 (18.18%) GraphQL
4 4 (18.18%) React
5 3 (13.64%) CSS
5 3 (13.64%) HTML
6 2 (9.09%) .NET Core
6 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
6 2 (9.09%) Apache Sling
6 2 (9.09%) Entity Framework
6 2 (9.09%) jQuery
6 2 (9.09%) Next.js
6 2 (9.09%) Node.js
6 2 (9.09%) OSGi
6 2 (9.09%) SOAP
7 1 (4.55%) Kafka
7 1 (4.55%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (22.73%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) DevOps
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Mentoring
2 7 (31.82%) Microservices
2 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (27.27%) Architectural Design
3 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (27.27%) User Experience
4 5 (22.73%) Critical Thinking
4 5 (22.73%) Project Delivery
4 5 (22.73%) UX Design
5 4 (18.18%) Service Delivery
6 3 (13.64%) MVC
7 2 (9.09%) Analytics
7 2 (9.09%) API Design
7 2 (9.09%) IT Strategy
7 2 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (9.09%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (9.09%) SDLC
7 2 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) C#
2 9 (40.91%) Java
3 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 8 (36.36%) TypeScript
4 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 5 (22.73%) Bicep
5 5 (22.73%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle