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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 128 74
Rank change year-on-year +23 -54 +32
Permanent jobs citing REST 25 28 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.14% 0.81% 2.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.63% 5.48% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 14 16 39
10th Percentile £33,250 £40,625 £35,350
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +7.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61,750 £75,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £69,875 £87,500 £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 215 511 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.84% 14.77% 23.50%
Number of salaries quoted 142 290 315
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £47,533
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £79,688 £62,500 £70,000
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

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +10 9 £31,250 -58.33% 21
Northamptonshire +37 6 £58,000 - 7
Leicestershire +15 6 £47,500 -5.94%
Derbyshire -7 3 £40,000 +45.45% 4
Lincolnshire - 1 £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 (8.00%) JBoss
1 2 (8.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) SaaS
5 3 (12.00%) PaaS
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub
6 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.00%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (4.00%) IaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
7 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.00%) Metadata
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (20.00%) Power BI
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (8.00%) FileMaker
4 2 (8.00%) MariaDB
4 2 (8.00%) MySQL
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) JUnit
2 5 (20.00%) Maven
3 4 (16.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (16.00%) GitLab
3 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (16.00%) Selenium
3 4 (16.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (8.00%) Appium
4 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (8.00%) Gradle
4 2 (8.00%) JMeter
4 2 (8.00%) Katalon Studio
4 2 (8.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.00%) TestNG
5 1 (4.00%) Mockito
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Law
3 2 (8.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Architect
3 6 (24.00%) Oracle Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Data Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Oracle Data Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Applications Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) C# Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Database Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Junior
6 2 (8.00%) Junior Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Senior C# Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) SOAP
2 6 (24.00%) CSS
2 6 (24.00%) HTML
2 6 (24.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (20.00%) Spring
3 5 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (16.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (16.00%) CSS3
4 4 (16.00%) HTML5
4 4 (16.00%) RESTful
5 3 (12.00%) .NET
5 3 (12.00%) .NET Core
5 3 (12.00%) Jest
5 3 (12.00%) JPA
5 3 (12.00%) React
5 3 (12.00%) Redux
5 3 (12.00%) Sass
6 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (8.00%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (8.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (36.00%) DevOps
3 8 (32.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (28.00%) Agile
4 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (24.00%) Clean Code
5 6 (24.00%) Microservices
5 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (20.00%) Data Architecture
6 5 (20.00%) ERP
6 5 (20.00%) Migration
7 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
7 4 (16.00%) Design Patterns
7 4 (16.00%) Front End Development
7 4 (16.00%) MVC
7 4 (16.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (16.00%) User Experience
8 3 (12.00%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (28.00%) Java
4 6 (24.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (12.00%) C#
5 3 (12.00%) Python
6 2 (8.00%) Groovy
6 2 (8.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (8.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (12.00%) Databricks
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.00%) Solace