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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 112 73
Rank change year-on-year -1 -39 +26
Permanent jobs citing REST 30 49 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.30% 1.38% 2.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.40% 9.23% 12.14%
Number of salaries quoted 15 16 38
10th Percentile £28,750 £40,625 £35,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.63% +7.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61,000 £75,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £69,000 £87,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +1.45%

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 242 531 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.48% 15.00% 22.78%
Number of salaries quoted 139 289 326
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £38,375
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £61,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 +7 9 £27,500 -63.33% 2
Leicestershire -2 8 £47,500 -5.94% 3
Northamptonshire +28 6 £58,000 - 3
Derbyshire -2 5 £40,000 +45.45% 1
Lincolnshire - 2 £42,500 - 3
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 (6.67%) JBoss
1 2 (6.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (16.67%) PaaS
3 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 4 (13.33%) SaaS
5 3 (10.00%) IaaS
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.33%) GCP
7 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (43.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) Metadata
2 5 (16.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (16.67%) Power BI
3 3 (10.00%) FileMaker
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (6.67%) MariaDB
4 2 (6.67%) MySQL
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) JIRA
2 8 (26.67%) Maven
3 7 (23.33%) Cucumber
3 7 (23.33%) GitLab
3 7 (23.33%) Selenium
3 7 (23.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 5 (16.67%) Git
4 5 (16.67%) JUnit
4 5 (16.67%) SonarQube
5 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (6.67%) Appium
6 2 (6.67%) Gradle
6 2 (6.67%) JMeter
6 2 (6.67%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
6 2 (6.67%) TestNG
7 1 (3.33%) Mockito
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Retail
4 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Law
6 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Architect
3 6 (20.00%) Oracle Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Senior
6 3 (10.00%) Applications Support
6 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Data Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Junior
6 3 (10.00%) Junior Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Oracle Data Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Database Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Lead
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) SOAP
2 9 (30.00%) CSS
2 9 (30.00%) HTML
3 8 (26.67%) Spring
3 8 (26.67%) Spring Boot
4 7 (23.33%) CSS3
4 7 (23.33%) HTML5
4 7 (23.33%) RESTful
5 6 (20.00%) Jest
5 6 (20.00%) JPA
5 6 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (20.00%) React
5 6 (20.00%) Redux
5 6 (20.00%) Sass
6 5 (16.67%) Kafka
7 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
8 3 (10.00%) .NET
8 3 (10.00%) .NET Core
8 3 (10.00%) YAML
9 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) DevOps
2 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 10 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (30.00%) Agile
4 9 (30.00%) Microservices
4 9 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 8 (26.67%) Migration
6 7 (23.33%) Front End Development
7 6 (20.00%) Clean Code
7 6 (20.00%) ERP
7 6 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
7 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 6 (20.00%) User Experience
8 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (16.67%) Data Architecture
8 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) SQL
2 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
3 10 (33.33%) Java
4 9 (30.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.00%) C#
5 3 (10.00%) Python
6 2 (6.67%) Groovy
6 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) QA
2 5 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Oracle
2 6 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 5 (16.67%) Databricks
3 5 (16.67%) Solace
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft