REST Contracts in the West Midlands

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 96 103 145
Rank change year-on-year +7 +42 -32
Contract jobs citing REST 12 31 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.63% 1.37% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.63% 9.04% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 14
10th Percentile - £422 £383
25th Percentile £425 £500 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £539
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +11.37% +26.76%
75th Percentile £559 £713 £634
90th Percentile £625 £731 £674
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +12.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West 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 West 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 259 343 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.70% 15.16% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 237 442
10th Percentile £313 £360 £363
25th Percentile £375 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +3.54% +23.75%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £649
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £14.21 - -
25th Percentile £33.50 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £39.96 - £58.00
75th Percentile £55.31 - £59.50
90th Percentile £56.25 - -
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 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 16 May 2024.

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 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
Birmingham +3 7 £500 -25.93% 7
Coventry - 2 £450 -
Warwickshire -5 1 £525 -4.55% 1
Worcestershire - 1 £475 -
Staffordshire - 1 - - 2
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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 (8.33%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Boomi
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) iPaaS
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (8.33%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MySQL
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Android Studio
1 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) JMeter
1 1 (8.33%) Postman
1 1 (8.33%) TestRail
1 1 (8.33%) Xcode
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Integration Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Android Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Angular Developer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Integration Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) iOS Developer
3 1 (8.33%) React Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Android Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior iOS Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) JSON
1 5 (41.67%) SOAP
1 5 (41.67%) XML
2 3 (25.00%) WSDL
2 3 (25.00%) XSD
2 3 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (8.33%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (8.33%) CSS3
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (8.33%) iOS SDK
3 1 (8.33%) Jest
3 1 (8.33%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (8.33%) NgRx
3 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) RxJS
3 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (33.33%) CRM
3 4 (33.33%) ERP
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
6 1 (8.33%) Android Development
6 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (8.33%) Data Integration
6 1 (8.33%) Data Mapping
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Integration Testing
6 1 (8.33%) iOS Development
6 1 (8.33%) Load Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Project Planning
6 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) Groovy
3 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Jitterbit
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) SnapLogic
3 1 (8.33%) Software AG
3 1 (8.33%) Talend
3 1 (8.33%) TIBCO