REST Jobs in Leicester

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicester requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 38 69
Rank change year-on-year +16 +31 -33
Permanent jobs citing REST 8 22 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 4.44% 4.73% 2.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.78% 17.46% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 10
10th Percentile - £43,125 £32,250
25th Percentile - £45,938 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +23.53% -29.17%
75th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £53,438
90th Percentile £65,000 £83,125 £84,250
Leicestershire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -22.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 23 126 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 12.78% 27.10% 24.34%
Number of salaries quoted 15 64 66
10th Percentile £39,700 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,375 £42,188 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,650 £70,000 £68,125
Leicestershire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Leicester

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Salary Trend in Leicester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST in Leicester.

Salary trend for REST in Leicester

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Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Leicester over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in Leicester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) IaaS
3 4 (50.00%) PaaS
4 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Appium
1 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JMeter
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
1 2 (25.00%) Katalon Studio
1 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) TestNG
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) IT Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Applications Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) SOAP
2 4 (50.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Application Security
2 4 (50.00%) CRM
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) API Testing
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Change Control
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Groovy
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Databricks
1 6 (75.00%) Salesforce