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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 88 71
Rank change year-on-year -61 -17 -2
Permanent jobs citing REST 13 17 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.30% 1.10% 3.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.02% 7.73% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 59
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,281 £35,350
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £56,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +12.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,563 £56,250
90th Percentile - £84,375 £62,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% 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 323 220 751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.39% 14.29% 18.17%
Number of salaries quoted 225 197 599
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

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 26 April 2026.

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 26 April 2026. 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 6 £70,000 +75.00% 6
Derbyshire -24 3 £45,000 -45.45% 14
Leicestershire -33 2 £45,000 -12.62% 1
Northamptonshire -14 1 £57,500 -14.81% 3
Lincolnshire -30 1 - - 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 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
4 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 2 (15.38%) Google Workspace
4 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
4 2 (15.38%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.69%) Boomi
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Broadband
1 2 (15.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
3 1 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 3 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Games
2 2 (15.38%) Law
2 2 (15.38%) Marketing
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Senior
3 5 (38.46%) Senior Developer
4 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 4 (30.77%) Python Developer
4 4 (30.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (30.77%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
6 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
6 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (7.69%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) IAM Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Mid Level C# .NET Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Mid Level C# Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) React
2 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
2 4 (30.77%) Django
3 3 (23.08%) SOAP
4 2 (15.38%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
4 2 (15.38%) CSS
4 2 (15.38%) Deno
4 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
4 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 2 (15.38%) Laravel
4 2 (15.38%) LDAP
4 2 (15.38%) Node.js
4 2 (15.38%) OAuth
4 2 (15.38%) OpenID
4 2 (15.38%) SAML
4 2 (15.38%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (15.38%) Vue
4 2 (15.38%) WPF
4 2 (15.38%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (15.38%) Cyberattack
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Code
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (46.15%) Web Development
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Front End Development
4 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) API Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Change Control
5 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
5 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Programme Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Software Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) Python
4 4 (30.77%) T-SQL
5 2 (15.38%) Bash
5 2 (15.38%) C#
5 2 (15.38%) PHP
5 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 1 (7.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (15.38%) NCSC
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) MOM
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Epicor