REST Jobs in the Midlands

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 145 109
Rank change year-on-year -31 -36 -14
Permanent jobs citing REST 70 212 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.02% 1.65% 3.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.88% 10.41% 13.30%
Number of salaries quoted 44 126 105
10th Percentile £39,500 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,813 £44,063 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,563 £62,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £99,000 £72,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.70%

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 788 2,037 2,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.49% 15.90% 23.04%
Number of salaries quoted 529 1,662 1,056
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £66,295 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.49% -11.11% +3.85%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for REST in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in the Midlands

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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 30 May 2025. 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 +18 46 £75,000 +42.86% 382
East Midlands -45 24 £67,500 +35.00% 287
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.29%) CMS
1 3 (4.29%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.43%) Mendix
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Oracle Smart View
1 2 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (58.57%) Azure
2 29 (41.43%) AWS
3 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (8.57%) PaaS
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.71%) IaaS
5 4 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.71%) Serverless
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 3 (4.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (2.86%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.86%) Contentful
7 2 (2.86%) GCP
7 2 (2.86%) OCI
7 2 (2.86%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (32.86%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.29%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.86%) Hazelcast
6 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.86%) Power BI
7 1 (1.43%) FileMaker
7 1 (1.43%) Power Query
7 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (30.00%) Maven
2 19 (27.14%) JIRA
2 19 (27.14%) SonarQube
3 18 (25.71%) GitLab
4 17 (24.29%) Bitbucket
4 17 (24.29%) Cucumber
4 17 (24.29%) Selenium
5 16 (22.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (18.57%) Git
7 6 (8.57%) JUnit
8 5 (7.14%) Jenkins
8 5 (7.14%) Mockito
9 2 (2.86%) Appium
9 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (2.86%) DbUnit
9 2 (2.86%) jMock
9 2 (2.86%) Storybook
10 1 (1.43%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (1.43%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.43%) TestRail
General
1 30 (42.86%) Finance
2 24 (34.29%) Social Skills
3 23 (32.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (24.29%) Banking
5 17 (24.29%) Retail
6 16 (22.86%) Corporate Banking
6 16 (22.86%) Investment Banking
7 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
8 5 (7.14%) Financial Institution
8 5 (7.14%) Law
9 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.86%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.86%) Local Government
9 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.43%) Automotive
10 1 (1.43%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 31 (44.29%) Developer
2 18 (25.71%) Software Engineer
3 11 (15.71%) Senior
4 9 (12.86%) Architect
5 8 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (10.00%) Integration Developer
6 7 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 6 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (8.57%) Integration Specialist
7 6 (8.57%) Lead
7 6 (8.57%) SAP Developer
7 6 (8.57%) Senior Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Senior Architect
8 5 (7.14%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.71%) Applications Support
10 3 (4.29%) AWS Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Salesforce Architect
10 3 (4.29%) Salesforce Solution Architect
11 2 (2.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 2 (2.86%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (37.14%) SOAP
2 24 (34.29%) Spring
3 23 (32.86%) HTML
4 22 (31.43%) CSS
4 22 (31.43%) React
5 21 (30.00%) RESTful
6 20 (28.57%) Spring Boot
7 19 (27.14%) CSS3
7 19 (27.14%) HTML5
7 19 (27.14%) JPA
8 17 (24.29%) Sass
9 16 (22.86%) Jest
9 16 (22.86%) Kafka
9 16 (22.86%) Redux
10 9 (12.86%) AngularJS
10 9 (12.86%) OAuth
11 8 (11.43%) .NET
11 8 (11.43%) BAPI
11 8 (11.43%) IBM Integration Bus
12 7 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (34.29%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (24.29%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.86%) IoT
5 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.86%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.43%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.43%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Android
2 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (50.00%) Agile
2 33 (47.14%) Microservices
3 32 (45.71%) DevOps
4 27 (38.57%) CI/CD
5 25 (35.71%) Migration
5 25 (35.71%) SDLC
6 24 (34.29%) Mentoring
7 23 (32.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (28.57%) Containerisation
8 20 (28.57%) Software Engineering
9 19 (27.14%) Front End Development
9 19 (27.14%) Test Automation
9 19 (27.14%) User Experience
10 18 (25.71%) Responsive Web Design
11 17 (24.29%) Strategic Thinking
12 16 (22.86%) Performance Optimisation
13 12 (17.14%) API Management
13 12 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (15.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 40 (57.14%) SQL
2 27 (38.57%) Java
2 27 (38.57%) JavaScript
3 23 (32.86%) TypeScript
4 7 (10.00%) C#
5 5 (7.14%) Python
6 4 (5.71%) Apex Code
6 4 (5.71%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.86%) Bash
8 1 (1.43%) Groovy
8 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.43%) PHP
8 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) Degree
4 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.86%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (25.71%) QA
2 16 (22.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (37.14%) Docker
2 2 (2.86%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (2.86%) Firmware
2 2 (2.86%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 22 (31.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.14%) Terraform
3 3 (4.29%) Grafana
3 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.43%) Marathon
Vendors
1 16 (22.86%) Solace
2 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.43%) IBM
3 8 (11.43%) Salesforce
3 8 (11.43%) SAP
4 4 (5.71%) Databricks
4 4 (5.71%) Oracle
5 2 (2.86%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.86%) Google
5 2 (2.86%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.43%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.43%) Snow
6 1 (1.43%) UiPath