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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 104 77
Rank change year-on-year -9 -27 +43
Permanent jobs citing REST 20 29 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.80% 1.29% 2.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.52% 7.88% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 11 20 35
10th Percentile £32,500 £42,125 £35,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,063 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,125 £58,750
90th Percentile - £75,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -

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 210 368 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.37% 16.33% 22.52%
Number of salaries quoted 156 211 335
10th Percentile £36,875 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,625 £75,000 £78,350
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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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

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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

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Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

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 4 January 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 +24 13 £70,000 -6.67% 10
Northamptonshire - 5 £57,500 - 9
Leicestershire -10 1 - - 5
Derbyshire - 1 - - 12
REST
England

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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 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) JBoss
2 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) SaaS
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) PaaS
4 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.00%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (5.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Metadata
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (10.00%) MariaDB
3 2 (10.00%) MySQL
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle ODI
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI
3 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) JUnit
3 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) Appium
4 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.00%) Gradle
4 1 (5.00%) JMeter
4 1 (5.00%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (5.00%) Maven
4 1 (5.00%) Mockito
4 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (5.00%) Selenium
4 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (5.00%) TestNG
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Games
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle Architect
2 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Data Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle Data Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) React
2 6 (30.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (30.00%) SOAP
3 5 (25.00%) CSS
3 5 (25.00%) HTML
4 4 (20.00%) Django
5 3 (15.00%) Node.js
6 2 (10.00%) .NET
6 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
6 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (10.00%) CSS3
6 2 (10.00%) HTML5
6 2 (10.00%) Laravel
6 2 (10.00%) Spring
6 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (10.00%) Vue
6 2 (10.00%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (40.00%) Web Development
2 7 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 5 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (20.00%) ERP
6 3 (15.00%) Agile
6 3 (15.00%) Analytics
6 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
6 3 (15.00%) Data Security
6 3 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (15.00%) Logistics
6 3 (15.00%) Metadata Management
6 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 3 (15.00%) MVC
6 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) PHP
5 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) Groovy
6 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) NCSC
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) MOM
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Epicor
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft