The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited REST over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 174 144 135
Rank change year-on-year
-30 -9
Permanent jobs citing REST 30 41 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.597% 0.900% 0.983%
As % of the Application Development category 1.474% 2.091% 2.623%
Number of salaries quoted 24 37 38
Average salary £32,500 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.77% -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £40,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £43,950 £105,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2035 1961 1563
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.47% 43.02% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1813 1757 1428
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
REST
England

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing REST across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Midlands REST Jobs Demand Trend

REST
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing REST across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands REST Salary Trend

REST
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing REST across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands REST Salary Histogram

REST
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Staffordshire +6 10 £31,250 -21.87%
Warwickshire -15 7 £57,500 +27.77%
Birmingham -19 6 £28,250 -73.09%
Coventry -24 3 £40,000 -
Walsall - 3 £30,000 -
Worcestershire - 1 £41,500 -
REST
England

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing REST also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited REST.

1 37 (64.91%) CSS
2 34 (59.65%) HTML
3 32 (56.14%) JavaScript
4 31 (54.39%) Web Services
5 29 (50.88%) SQL
6 28 (49.12%) MVC
7 23 (40.35%) .NET
8 21 (36.84%) Agile Software Development
9 20 (35.09%) Java
9 20 (35.09%) C#
9 20 (35.09%) SOAP
10 19 (33.33%) PHP
11 16 (28.07%) XML
11 16 (28.07%) Degree
12 15 (26.32%) TDD
12 15 (26.32%) ASP.NET
13 14 (24.56%) Ajax
14 13 (22.81%) Retail
14 13 (22.81%) jQuery
14 13 (22.81%) OO
14 13 (22.81%) Yii
15 12 (21.05%) Ninject
15 12 (21.05%) Windows Azure
15 12 (21.05%) ASP.NET MVC
15 12 (21.05%) HTML5
15 12 (21.05%) ASP.NET MVC 4
15 12 (21.05%) NHibernate
16 11 (19.30%) Unit Testing
16 11 (19.30%) J2EE
16 11 (19.30%) SQL Server

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing REST also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited REST. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 37 (64.91%) CSS
2 34 (59.65%) HTML
3 31 (54.39%) Web Services
4 23 (40.35%) .NET
5 20 (35.09%) SOAP
6 16 (28.07%) XML
7 15 (26.32%) ASP.NET
8 14 (24.56%) Ajax
9 13 (22.81%) jQuery
9 13 (22.81%) Yii
10 12 (21.05%) Ninject
10 12 (21.05%) ASP.NET MVC
10 12 (21.05%) HTML5
10 12 (21.05%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 12 (21.05%) NHibernate
11 11 (19.30%) J2EE
11 11 (19.30%) RESTful
12 10 (17.54%) CSS3
13 9 (15.79%) Razor View Engine
14 7 (12.28%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 12 (21.05%) Windows Azure
2 8 (14.04%) CMS
3 6 (10.53%) Amazon AWS
3 6 (10.53%) Drupal
4 2 (3.509%) Magento
4 2 (3.509%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.754%) IIS
5 1 (1.754%) Apache
5 1 (1.754%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.509%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.754%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.754%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.754%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) HTTP
1 8 (14.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) SQL Server
2 9 (15.79%) MySQL
3 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.018%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.509%) Big Data
6 1 (1.754%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.754%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Hudson
1 7 (12.28%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.53%) Selenium
3 4 (7.018%) NUnit
4 3 (5.263%) Eclipse
4 3 (5.263%) Xcode
5 2 (3.509%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.754%) Ant
6 1 (1.754%) JUnit
6 1 (1.754%) Maven
6 1 (1.754%) Eclipse RCP
6 1 (1.754%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 13 (22.81%) Retail
2 3 (5.263%) Back Office
2 3 (5.263%) Games
3 2 (3.509%) Marketing
3 2 (3.509%) Billing
Job Titles
1 47 (82.46%) Developer
2 20 (35.09%) .NET Developer
3 14 (24.56%) PHP Developer
4 12 (21.05%) ASP.NET Developer
5 11 (19.30%) Web Developer
6 10 (17.54%) C# .NET Developer
6 10 (17.54%) C# Developer
7 9 (15.79%) Lead Developer
8 7 (12.28%) .NET Web Developer
8 7 (12.28%) Lead PHP Developer
9 6 (10.53%) Front-End Developer
9 6 (10.53%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (10.53%) Java Developer
10 5 (8.772%) Junior
10 5 (8.772%) Software Engineer
10 5 (8.772%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (7.018%) Java/J2EE Developer
11 4 (7.018%) Senior Developer
12 3 (5.263%) Graduate
12 3 (5.263%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) W3C
2 3 (5.263%) iPhone
2 3 (5.263%) iPad
3 2 (3.509%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.509%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.754%) Web 2.0
4 1 (1.754%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.754%) Kindle
4 1 (1.754%) Social Media
4 1 (1.754%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Windows
2 4 (7.018%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.754%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) MVC
2 21 (36.84%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (26.32%) TDD
4 13 (22.81%) OO
5 11 (19.30%) Unit Testing
6 9 (15.79%) E-Commerce
7 7 (12.28%) SOA
7 7 (12.28%) Scrum
8 6 (10.53%) Domain-Driven Design
8 6 (10.53%) User Experience Design
9 5 (8.772%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (7.018%) Customer Engagement
10 4 (7.018%) Web Development
10 4 (7.018%) DSDM
11 3 (5.263%) OOP
12 2 (3.509%) ERP
13 1 (1.754%) Regression Testing
13 1 (1.754%) UML
13 1 (1.754%) Software Engineering
13 1 (1.754%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (56.14%) JavaScript
2 29 (50.88%) SQL
3 20 (35.09%) Java
3 20 (35.09%) C#
4 19 (33.33%) PHP
5 7 (12.28%) Ruby
6 3 (5.263%) Objective-C
7 2 (3.509%) XPath
8 1 (1.754%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.754%) C++
8 1 (1.754%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 16 (28.07%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.772%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (3.509%) Adobe
2 1 (1.754%) Apple
2 1 (1.754%) Oracle
2 1 (1.754%) JBoss
2 1 (1.754%) Alterian
2 1 (1.754%) Zend
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