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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 115 79
Rank change year-on-year -23 -36 -6
Permanent jobs citing REST 35 34 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.59% 1.46% 2.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.29% 12.59% 17.06%
Number of salaries quoted 17 22 28
10th Percentile £39,250 £27,606 £37,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,000 £83,375 £68,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +20.69% -17.14%

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 422 270 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.12% 11.61% 14.45%
Number of salaries quoted 294 170 402
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,388 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £74,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,425 £82,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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
Derbyshire +7 13 £45,000 -26.53% 1
Nottinghamshire -15 9 £57,000 +62.86% 5
Northamptonshire -2 5 £70,000 +20.69% 1
Lincolnshire -19 5 £40,000 -34.69%
Leicestershire -42 3 £45,000 -5.26%
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 (2.86%) CMS
1 1 (2.86%) Headless CMS
1 1 (2.86%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.86%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) SaaS
4 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.43%) Supabase
5 1 (2.86%) Algolia
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.86%) Boomi
5 1 (2.86%) PaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
1 2 (5.71%) SSL
2 1 (2.86%) HTTP
2 1 (2.86%) Internet
2 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) MySQL
3 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.71%) Redis
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Git
2 4 (11.43%) GitLab
2 4 (11.43%) Storybook
3 3 (8.57%) Subversion
4 1 (2.86%) gulp
4 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.86%) Vite
4 1 (2.86%) webpack
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Law
4 3 (8.57%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Legal
4 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.57%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Developer
2 8 (22.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 8 (22.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
2 8 (22.86%) 2nd Line Support
2 8 (22.86%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 8 (22.86%) Analyst
2 8 (22.86%) Support Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Lead
4 3 (8.57%) Lead Software Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) React Developer
4 3 (8.57%) SAP Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Software Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Leader
6 1 (2.86%) C# Developer
6 1 (2.86%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (37.14%) SOAP
2 9 (25.71%) CSS
3 7 (20.00%) .NET
3 7 (20.00%) React
4 5 (14.29%) HTML
4 5 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
5 4 (11.43%) ASP.NET
5 4 (11.43%) Next.js
5 4 (11.43%) Vitest
6 3 (8.57%) .NET Framework
6 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
6 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (8.57%) Blazor
6 3 (8.57%) JDBC
6 3 (8.57%) MobX
6 3 (8.57%) OAuth
6 3 (8.57%) React Native
6 3 (8.57%) Redux
6 3 (8.57%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (8.57%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) CMDB
2 6 (17.14%) Mobile App
3 4 (11.43%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (8.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.86%) Digital Signage
5 1 (2.86%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (34.29%) Analytics
2 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
3 11 (31.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (25.71%) Agile
5 8 (22.86%) Asset Management
5 8 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (22.86%) ITIL
5 8 (22.86%) ITSM
5 8 (22.86%) Knowledge Management
5 8 (22.86%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (22.86%) SDLC
6 7 (20.00%) Workflow
7 6 (17.14%) Clean Code
7 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
7 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
7 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
8 5 (14.29%) DevOps
8 5 (14.29%) Unit Testing
9 4 (11.43%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) JavaScript
2 10 (28.57%) SQL
3 8 (22.86%) TypeScript
4 7 (20.00%) C#
5 4 (11.43%) Python
6 3 (8.57%) ABAP
6 3 (8.57%) Go
6 3 (8.57%) Java
7 2 (5.71%) PHP
7 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.86%) Bash
8 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Accessibility
1 4 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (11.43%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) iManage
3 3 (8.57%) SAP
4 2 (5.71%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.86%) Databricks
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) WooCommerce