REST Job Trends in the Midlands

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 175 138
Rank change year-on-year -34 -37 -17
Permanent jobs citing REST 45 44 198
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.37% 0.91% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.94% 6.15% 10.36%
Number of salaries quoted 27 40 140
10th Percentile £40,300 £39,875 £35,750
25th Percentile £44,375 £46,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +26.19% -12.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,313 £60,250
90th Percentile £77,000 £105,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 757 715 1,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.26% 14.76% 17.00%
Number of salaries quoted 604 581 1,634
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,525
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing REST relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

REST job vacancy trend in the Midlands

REST
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for REST in the Midlands

REST
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
West Midlands -20 31 £62,500 -10.71% 24
East Midlands -50 14 £51,250 -14.58% 35
REST
England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 5 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.44%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 19 (42.22%) Azure
2 15 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.89%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (8.89%) PowerApps
5 3 (6.67%) SaaS
5 3 (6.67%) Serverless
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.44%) Google Workspace
6 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.44%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (2.22%) Boomi
7 1 (2.22%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) SSL
2 2 (4.44%) Broadband
2 2 (4.44%) HTTP
3 1 (2.22%) FTP
3 1 (2.22%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Power BI
1 4 (8.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.44%) Redis
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (4.44%) TimescaleDB
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.22%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.22%) MySQL
3 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Git
2 7 (15.56%) Maven
3 6 (13.33%) JUnit
3 6 (13.33%) Mockito
4 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.22%) JIRA
5 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.22%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.22%) Subversion
General
1 20 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.89%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.89%) Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Games
6 2 (4.44%) Law
6 2 (4.44%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Automotive
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (73.33%) Developer
2 15 (33.33%) Senior
3 14 (31.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (31.11%) Senior Developer
4 9 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (13.33%) Java Developer
6 5 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Integration Specialist
7 4 (8.89%) Python Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Senior Python Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Integration Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Salesforce Developer
8 3 (6.67%) SAP Developer
8 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow Developer
9 2 (4.44%) .NET Developer
9 2 (4.44%) Senior Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (35.56%) React
2 10 (22.22%) SOAP
3 9 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 8 (17.78%) SAML
4 8 (17.78%) Spring
5 7 (15.56%) OAuth
6 6 (13.33%) Web Services
7 5 (11.11%) GraphQL
7 5 (11.11%) LDAP
7 5 (11.11%) Node.js
7 5 (11.11%) Spring Boot
8 4 (8.89%) .NET
8 4 (8.89%) Django
8 4 (8.89%) JSON
8 4 (8.89%) Middleware
9 3 (6.67%) BAPI
9 3 (6.67%) IBM Integration Bus
9 3 (6.67%) JDBC
9 3 (6.67%) JMS
9 3 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (15.56%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (13.33%) Management Information System
4 5 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (8.89%) Data Structures
6 2 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (4.44%) Cyberattack
6 2 (4.44%) Educational Technology
6 2 (4.44%) Legacy Code
7 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.22%) NHS
7 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Android
2 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Full-Stack Development
1 19 (42.22%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (26.67%) Agile
2 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 12 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 9 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 9 (20.00%) Microservices
3 9 (20.00%) SDLC
4 7 (15.56%) Computer Science
4 7 (15.56%) DevOps
4 7 (15.56%) Scrum
4 7 (15.56%) Service Delivery
4 7 (15.56%) Sprint Planning
5 6 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 6 (13.33%) Migration
5 6 (13.33%) Software Architecture
5 6 (13.33%) TDD
5 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 6 (13.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) SQL
2 17 (37.78%) Java
3 12 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.00%) Python
5 7 (15.56%) Bash
5 7 (15.56%) TypeScript
6 6 (13.33%) C
6 6 (13.33%) PL/SQL
7 4 (8.89%) R
7 4 (8.89%) T-SQL
8 3 (6.67%) Apex Code
8 3 (6.67%) C#
9 2 (4.44%) C++
9 2 (4.44%) PHP
9 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.22%) ActionScript
10 1 (2.22%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (2.22%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
1 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.44%) NCSC
2 2 (4.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.44%) Nagios
3 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.22%) MOM
4 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle
2 3 (6.67%) IBM
2 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 3 (6.67%) SAP
2 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.22%) Databricks
3 1 (2.22%) Epicor
3 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft