REST Contracts in the Midlands

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 110 168
Rank change year-on-year -5 +58 -46
Contract jobs citing REST 24 46 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.82% 1.43% 0.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.49% 7.97% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 35 22
10th Percentile £413 £416 £366
25th Percentile £425 £500 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £540 £531
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% +1.65% +25.00%
75th Percentile £578 £688 £599
90th Percentile £625 £731 £636
England median daily rate £525 £550 £576
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.56% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +30.91% -21.43% +85.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

REST 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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 577 903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.98% 17.90% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 452 680
10th Percentile £288 £313 £360
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -0.52% +19.38%
75th Percentile £613 £592 £563
90th Percentile £706 £700 £625
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 9
10th Percentile £10.90 - £16.65
25th Percentile £14.16 - £18.58
Median hourly rate £26.25 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.20%
75th Percentile £51.25 - £27.50
90th Percentile £57.38 - £59.58
England median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -24.67% +23.22% +14.67%

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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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -1 16 £475 -20.83% 15
East Midlands +8 8 £488 -9.72% 16
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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 (8.33%) Apache
1 2 (8.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) NetSuite
2 1 (4.17%) SAP ERP
2 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Boomi
3 3 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Serverless
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (8.33%) iPaaS
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
4 2 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.17%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) MySQL
1 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Artifactory
1 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Android Studio
2 1 (4.17%) JMeter
2 1 (4.17%) Postman
2 1 (4.17%) TestRail
2 1 (4.17%) Xcode
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Integration Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Integration Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Android Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Business Integration Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) iOS Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Full Stack Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) JSON
2 8 (33.33%) SOAP
3 7 (29.17%) XML
4 3 (12.50%) OAuth
4 3 (12.50%) OAuth2
4 3 (12.50%) OpenID
4 3 (12.50%) SAML
4 3 (12.50%) WSDL
4 3 (12.50%) XSD
4 3 (12.50%) XSLT
5 2 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (8.33%) CSS
5 2 (8.33%) HTML
5 2 (8.33%) ISPF
5 2 (8.33%) Jest
5 2 (8.33%) OpenAPI
5 2 (8.33%) React
5 2 (8.33%) Swagger
6 1 (4.17%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (4.17%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (12.50%) Virtual Team
2 2 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (8.33%) zOS
3 1 (4.17%) Android
3 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Agile
2 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (25.00%) DevOps
2 6 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (20.83%) ERP
3 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) CRM
5 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 3 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) TDD
6 2 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 2 (8.33%) Design Patterns
6 2 (8.33%) Front End Development
6 2 (8.33%) Integration Testing
6 2 (8.33%) Load Testing
6 2 (8.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Python
4 3 (12.50%) BeanShell
4 3 (12.50%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.33%) C#
5 2 (8.33%) JCL
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.33%) REXX
6 1 (4.17%) Groovy
6 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.17%) Swift
6 1 (4.17%) X++
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) OpenAM
1 3 (12.50%) OpenIDM
2 2 (8.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
1 2 (8.33%) Control-M
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 3 (12.50%) ForgeRock
2 3 (12.50%) SAP
2 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.33%) BMC
3 2 (8.33%) CA
3 2 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.33%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) Ariba
4 1 (4.17%) Jitterbit
4 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.17%) SnapLogic
4 1 (4.17%) Software AG
4 1 (4.17%) Talend
4 1 (4.17%) TIBCO