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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 79 80
Rank change year-on-year -38 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing REST 30 92 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.30% 2.32% 2.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.30% 15.41% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 18 18 37
10th Percentile £26,819 £37,125 £34,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.65% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61,750 £73,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,075 £82,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £58,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.69% -17.14% +3.70%

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 244 597 398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.59% 15.06% 22.77%
Number of salaries quoted 147 336 336
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -15.25% +12.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £72,500
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% +3.85%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the East Midlands

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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 September 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in the East Midlands

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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 September 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
Leicestershire -10 9 £47,500 -4.52% 2
Northamptonshire +19 6 £58,000 +16.00% 7
Derbyshire +4 6 £61,250 +58.06% 7
Nottinghamshire +1 6 £31,250 -51.92% 8
Lincolnshire - 3 £35,438 - 2
REST
England

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) JBoss
1 2 (6.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.33%) Mendix
Cloud Services
1 18 (60.00%) Azure
2 11 (36.67%) AWS
3 8 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 4 (13.33%) IaaS
5 4 (13.33%) PaaS
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.67%) SaaS
7 1 (3.33%) GCP
7 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) Power BI
3 3 (10.00%) FileMaker
4 2 (6.67%) MariaDB
4 2 (6.67%) Metadata
4 2 (6.67%) MySQL
4 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) 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 6 (20.00%) Git
5 5 (16.67%) Bitbucket
5 5 (16.67%) JUnit
5 5 (16.67%) SonarQube
6 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
7 2 (6.67%) Appium
7 2 (6.67%) Gradle
7 2 (6.67%) JMeter
7 2 (6.67%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
7 2 (6.67%) TestNG
8 1 (3.33%) Mockito
8 1 (3.33%) NUnit
General
1 12 (40.00%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Retail
4 4 (13.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Applications Support
3 4 (13.33%) Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Junior
3 4 (13.33%) Junior Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Applications Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Database Developer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Applications Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Senior C# Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior 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%) React
5 6 (20.00%) Redux
5 6 (20.00%) Sass
6 5 (16.67%) Kafka
7 4 (13.33%) .NET
7 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
7 4 (13.33%) YAML
8 3 (10.00%) .NET Core
9 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (6.67%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (13.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) DevOps
2 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 12 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 11 (36.67%) Agile
4 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (33.33%) Microservices
6 9 (30.00%) Test Automation
7 8 (26.67%) Front End Development
8 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (20.00%) Clean Code
9 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (20.00%) Migration
9 6 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
9 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 6 (20.00%) User Experience
10 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (16.67%) SDLC
10 5 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) SQL
2 12 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (36.67%) Java
4 9 (30.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (13.33%) C#
6 3 (10.00%) Python
7 2 (6.67%) Groovy
7 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) QA
2 5 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) Marathon
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Salesforce
2 6 (20.00%) Databricks
2 6 (20.00%) Oracle
3 5 (16.67%) Solace
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Snow