REST Job Trends in the East Midlands

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 124 69
Rank change year-on-year +18 -55 +44
Permanent jobs citing REST 24 30 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.07% 0.88% 2.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.37% 5.91% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 15 18 38
10th Percentile £33,500 £41,375 £36,100
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63,125 £73,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

REST falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 211 508 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.42% 14.87% 24.50%
Number of salaries quoted 149 290 324
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +2.27%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing REST relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

REST job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

REST
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in the East Midlands

REST
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire +12 11 £52,500 -30.00% 11
Leicestershire +14 6 £47,500 -5.94%
Northamptonshire +32 5 £58,000 - 7
Derbyshire -11 1 £40,000 +45.45% 1
Lincolnshire - 1 £42,500 - 1
REST
England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) JBoss
1 2 (8.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) AWS
3 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
4 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) SaaS
5 3 (12.50%) PaaS
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub
6 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.17%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
7 1 (4.17%) IaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) Metadata
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (20.83%) Power BI
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (8.33%) FileMaker
4 2 (8.33%) MariaDB
4 2 (8.33%) MySQL
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
1 5 (20.83%) JUnit
2 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) JIRA
3 3 (12.50%) Maven
4 2 (8.33%) Appium
4 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (8.33%) GitLab
4 2 (8.33%) Gradle
4 2 (8.33%) JMeter
4 2 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
4 2 (8.33%) Selenium
4 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (8.33%) TestNG
5 1 (4.17%) Mockito
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Architect
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle Architect
2 6 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle Data Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Applications Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) C# Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Database Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (8.33%) IT Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Applications Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Senior C# Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) SOAP
2 6 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (16.67%) CSS
3 4 (16.67%) HTML
4 3 (12.50%) .NET
4 3 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 3 (12.50%) Django
4 3 (12.50%) React
4 3 (12.50%) Spring
4 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
5 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (8.33%) CSS3
5 2 (8.33%) HTML5
5 2 (8.33%) RESTful
5 2 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (8.33%) Spring MVC
6 1 (4.17%) J2EE
6 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 7 (29.17%) DevOps
3 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.83%) Data Architecture
5 5 (20.83%) ERP
6 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 4 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 4 (16.67%) Microservices
6 4 (16.67%) MVC
6 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Web Development
7 3 (12.50%) API Development
7 3 (12.50%) Data Security
7 3 (12.50%) Migration
7 3 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.83%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) Python
4 4 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 3 (12.50%) C#
6 2 (8.33%) Groovy
6 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
6 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) Databricks
2 3 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft