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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 116 96
Rank change year-on-year -18 -20 -24
Permanent jobs citing REST 45 33 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.67% 1.43% 1.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.76% 12.94% 12.08%
Number of salaries quoted 21 17 18
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £35,375
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -17.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £73,750
90th Percentile - £74,600 £82,500
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 461 255 596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.89% 11.02% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 334 148 314
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,125 £32,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £75,875
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -16 14 £54,000 +72.80% 11
Derbyshire -3 11 £45,000 -26.53% 2
Northamptonshire -11 8 £60,000 +3.45% 9
Lincolnshire -6 7 £46,250 +8.82% 3
Leicestershire -44 5 - -
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 3 (6.67%) CMS
2 2 (4.44%) Headless CMS
2 2 (4.44%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.22%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 11 (24.44%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) AWS
3 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.33%) iPaaS
3 6 (13.33%) SaaS
4 4 (8.89%) Supabase
5 1 (2.22%) Algolia
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub
5 1 (2.22%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) DNS
1 2 (4.44%) SSL
2 1 (2.22%) HTTP
2 1 (2.22%) Internet
2 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.89%) MySQL
2 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.44%) Redis
3 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (8.89%) GitLab
2 4 (8.89%) Storybook
3 2 (4.44%) Subversion
4 1 (2.22%) Claude Code
4 1 (2.22%) gulp
4 1 (2.22%) Postman
4 1 (2.22%) Vite
4 1 (2.22%) webpack
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Finance
4 7 (15.56%) Marketing
5 6 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.67%) Law
6 3 (6.67%) Legal
6 3 (6.67%) Retail
7 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (46.67%) Developer
2 8 (17.78%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 8 (17.78%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
2 8 (17.78%) 2nd Line Support
2 8 (17.78%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 8 (17.78%) Analyst
2 8 (17.78%) Full-Stack Developer
2 8 (17.78%) Support Analyst
3 6 (13.33%) Consultant
3 6 (13.33%) Technical Consultant
4 5 (11.11%) Lead
5 4 (8.89%) Senior
5 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) .NET Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) React Developer
6 3 (6.67%) SAP Developer
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.44%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.00%) CSS
2 13 (28.89%) SOAP
3 11 (24.44%) React
4 10 (22.22%) .NET
5 9 (20.00%) OAuth
6 8 (17.78%) HTML
7 6 (13.33%) ASP.NET
7 6 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
7 6 (13.33%) JWT
7 6 (13.33%) Middleware
8 5 (11.11%) .NET Framework
8 5 (11.11%) Entity Framework
8 5 (11.11%) RESTful
8 5 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (8.89%) AngularJS
9 4 (8.89%) Next.js
9 4 (8.89%) Vitest
10 3 (6.67%) Blazor
10 3 (6.67%) MobX
10 3 (6.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) CMDB
2 6 (13.33%) Marketing Technology
2 6 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 6 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 5 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.22%) Digital Signage
6 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 14 (31.11%) CI/CD
4 11 (24.44%) Agile
4 11 (24.44%) Analytics
5 10 (22.22%) AI
5 10 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 9 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
7 8 (17.78%) Asset Management
7 8 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (17.78%) DevOps
7 8 (17.78%) ITIL
7 8 (17.78%) ITSM
7 8 (17.78%) Knowledge Management
7 8 (17.78%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (17.78%) SDLC
7 8 (17.78%) Technical Architecture
7 8 (17.78%) Workflow
8 7 (15.56%) Digital Marketing
8 7 (15.56%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 27 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (22.22%) C#
2 10 (22.22%) Python
2 10 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 9 (20.00%) SQL
4 4 (8.89%) Go
5 3 (6.67%) ABAP
5 3 (6.67%) Java
5 3 (6.67%) PHP
6 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.22%) Bash
7 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) Accessibility
1 4 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (8.89%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) iManage
3 3 (6.67%) SAP
4 2 (4.44%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) WooCommerce