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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 111 68
Rank change year-on-year -32 -43 -1
Permanent jobs citing REST 16 20 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.35% 1.09% 3.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.83% 7.81% 17.92%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 57
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,194 £34,950
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,188 £56,250
90th Percentile - £84,625 £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 331 256 720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.29% 13.92% 17.03%
Number of salaries quoted 230 193 590
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £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 £73,750 £71,250
England median annual salary £65,500 £66,268 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.16% +10.45% -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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -10 7 £70,000 +75.00% 11
Derbyshire -14 3 £45,000 -45.45% 8
Northamptonshire +7 2 £63,750 -5.56% 3
Lincolnshire -21 2 - - 1
Leicestershire -41 2 £45,000 -12.62% 1
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 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 3 (18.75%) SaaS
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
4 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.25%) Boomi
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Broadband
1 2 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 1 (6.25%) Subversion
General
1 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Games
2 2 (12.50%) Law
2 2 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Python Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Architect
6 1 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (6.25%) React Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) React
2 5 (31.25%) AngularJS
3 4 (25.00%) Django
3 4 (25.00%) SOAP
4 3 (18.75%) .NET
4 3 (18.75%) CSS
4 3 (18.75%) HTML
5 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 2 (12.50%) Deno
5 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
5 2 (12.50%) Laravel
5 2 (12.50%) LDAP
5 2 (12.50%) Node.js
5 2 (12.50%) OAuth
5 2 (12.50%) OpenID
5 2 (12.50%) SAML
5 2 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (12.50%) Vue
5 2 (12.50%) WPF
5 2 (12.50%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (12.50%) Cyberattack
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Code
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Full-Stack Development
1 7 (43.75%) Web Development
2 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
4 3 (18.75%) Front End Development
4 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) SDLC
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) API Integration
5 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (12.50%) Change Control
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
5 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
5 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (12.50%) Software Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 4 (25.00%) T-SQL
5 3 (18.75%) C#
5 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
6 2 (12.50%) Bash
6 2 (12.50%) PHP
6 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (6.25%) Go
7 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NCSC
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Epicor
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle