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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 117 72
Rank change year-on-year +14 -45 +44
Permanent jobs citing REST 23 32 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.98% 1.06% 3.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.06% 6.74% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 15 20 39
10th Percentile £32,500 £42,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £71,250 £60,625
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £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 208 475 369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.87% 15.75% 24.10%
Number of salaries quoted 160 281 302
10th Percentile £36,125 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.79% +5.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 +21 14 £70,000 -6.67% 5
Northamptonshire +31 5 £58,000 - 4
Leicestershire +6 3 £35,000 -30.69% 3
Derbyshire -11 1 £40,000 +45.45% 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 (8.70%) JBoss
1 2 (8.70%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) Power Platform
4 3 (13.04%) SaaS
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub
5 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
5 2 (8.70%) PaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.35%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Metadata
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 5 (21.74%) Power BI
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (8.70%) FileMaker
4 2 (8.70%) MariaDB
4 2 (8.70%) MySQL
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
1 4 (17.39%) JUnit
2 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) GitLab
3 2 (8.70%) Gradle
3 2 (8.70%) Maven
3 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.35%) Appium
4 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.35%) JMeter
4 1 (4.35%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (4.35%) Mockito
4 1 (4.35%) REST Assured
4 1 (4.35%) Selenium
4 1 (4.35%) TestNG
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Games
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Senior
3 6 (26.09%) Architect
3 6 (26.09%) Oracle Architect
4 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Python Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Senior Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Python Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 3 (13.04%) Data Architect
6 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Oracle Data Architect
7 2 (8.70%) Analyst
7 2 (8.70%) Applications Analyst
7 2 (8.70%) IT Analyst
7 2 (8.70%) Junior
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Applications Analyst
7 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) SOAP
2 6 (26.09%) AngularJS
2 6 (26.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (26.09%) React
3 5 (21.74%) Django
4 4 (17.39%) CSS
4 4 (17.39%) HTML
5 3 (13.04%) Spring
5 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
6 2 (8.70%) .NET
6 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
6 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET
6 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (8.70%) CSS3
6 2 (8.70%) HTML5
6 2 (8.70%) Node.js
6 2 (8.70%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (8.70%) Spring MVC
7 1 (4.35%) Laravel
7 1 (4.35%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.35%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (30.43%) Web Development
4 6 (26.09%) Clean Code
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (21.74%) Data Architecture
5 5 (21.74%) ERP
5 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
6 4 (17.39%) Agile
6 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
6 4 (17.39%) DevOps
6 4 (17.39%) MVC
7 3 (13.04%) API Development
7 3 (13.04%) Data Security
7 3 (13.04%) Design Patterns
7 3 (13.04%) Microservices
7 3 (13.04%) Migration
7 3 (13.04%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) JavaScript
1 9 (39.13%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) Python
3 4 (17.39%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.35%) Groovy
6 1 (4.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft