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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 88 134
Rank change year-on-year -16 +46 -7
Contract jobs citing REST 32 55 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.20% 1.98% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.77% 12.36% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 40 46
10th Percentile £357 £400 £396
25th Percentile £434 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £531 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% -5.13% +17.89%
75th Percentile £519 £656 £638
90th Percentile £570 £714 £694
England median daily rate £535 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% -0.87% +4.55%
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 £70.00 £76.53 £60.00
% change year-on-year -8.53% +27.55% -3.23%

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 473 445 940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.76% 16.01% 19.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 336 675
10th Percentile £340 £313 £351
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £597 £569 £578
90th Percentile £725 £675 £630
England median daily rate £550 £550 £578
% change year-on-year - -4.80% +7.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 9
10th Percentile £30.13 £17.31 £17.77
25th Percentile £35.94 £18.33 £18.58
Median hourly rate £48.75 £32.39 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year +50.52% +64.70% -6.36%
75th Percentile £63.44 £52.94 £59.50
90th Percentile £70.38 £60.50 £59.94
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +32.65%

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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 14 November 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 14 November 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 -19 21 £500 +9.59% 14
East Midlands +3 11 £456 -23.96% 11
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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 4 (12.50%) NetWeaver
2 2 (6.25%) SAS
3 1 (3.13%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (9.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) SAP PSCD
2 3 (9.38%) NetSuite
3 2 (6.25%) SAP ERP
3 2 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) AWS CodeBuild
3 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) GCP
3 4 (12.50%) SaaS
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (9.38%) Boomi
4 3 (9.38%) Serverless
5 2 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.13%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (15.63%) MySQL
2 5 (15.63%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Git
2 8 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.13%) GitLab
General
1 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
2 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Consultant
3 6 (18.75%) SAP Consultant
3 6 (18.75%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) SAP PI Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) AWS Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Integration Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Integration Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) SAP Integration Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) NetSuite Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (40.63%) SOAP
2 6 (18.75%) React
3 5 (15.63%) .NET
3 5 (15.63%) .NET Core
3 5 (15.63%) JSON
3 5 (15.63%) XML
4 4 (12.50%) IDoc
4 4 (12.50%) JDBC
4 4 (12.50%) SAP PI
5 3 (9.38%) Express.js
5 3 (9.38%) Fastify
5 3 (9.38%) koa
5 3 (9.38%) NestJS
5 3 (9.38%) Node.js
5 3 (9.38%) OpenAPI
5 3 (9.38%) RESTful
5 3 (9.38%) Socket.IO
5 3 (9.38%) Swagger
5 3 (9.38%) WebSockets
6 2 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (6.25%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Unix
2 3 (9.38%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.25%) zOS
4 1 (3.13%) Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Agile
2 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
3 9 (28.13%) Microservices
4 7 (21.88%) API Development
4 7 (21.88%) CRM
4 7 (21.88%) DevOps
4 7 (21.88%) ERP
5 6 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 4 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (12.50%) Functional Testing
6 4 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (12.50%) OO
6 4 (12.50%) Process Improvement
7 3 (9.38%) Design Patterns
7 3 (9.38%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) JavaScript
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 6 (18.75%) Java
4 5 (15.63%) C#
4 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
5 4 (12.50%) ABAP
5 4 (12.50%) SQL
6 2 (6.25%) JCL
6 2 (6.25%) REXX
7 1 (3.13%) PHP
7 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Control-M
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle
1 6 (18.75%) SAP
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 4 (12.50%) webMethods
4 2 (6.25%) Ariba
4 2 (6.25%) BMC
4 2 (6.25%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.25%) Dell
4 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.25%) Splunk
5 1 (3.13%) Google