RESTful Job Trends in the Midlands

RESTful
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring RESTful skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 152 137
Rank change year-on-year -79 -15 +34
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 25 55 185
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.22% 1.14% 1.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.33% 7.79% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 20 48 168
10th Percentile £45,750 £35,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,063 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,000 £81,703 £72,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -12.82%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

RESTful 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 751 706 1,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.52% 14.66% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 601 575 1,618
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,705
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
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 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in the Midlands

RESTful
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing RESTful.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing RESTful

RESTful
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for RESTful in the Midlands

RESTful
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 RESTful within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
East Midlands -61 15 £63,500 +27.00% 5
West Midlands -38 10 £60,000 -4.00% 18
RESTful
England

RESTful
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 2 (8.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.00%) Magento
1 1 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (4.00%) SAP Business One
1 1 (4.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (64.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) GCP
4 3 (12.00%) GitHub
4 3 (12.00%) SaaS
5 2 (8.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (8.00%) Serverless
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.00%) ChatGPT
6 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) MySQL
2 3 (12.00%) Redis
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.00%) InfluxDB
4 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) XCUITest
3 3 (12.00%) Storybook
4 2 (8.00%) GitLab
4 2 (8.00%) JIRA
5 1 (4.00%) Babel
5 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.00%) JUnit
5 1 (4.00%) Mockito
5 1 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (4.00%) Vite
5 1 (4.00%) webpack
General
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Marketing
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Developer
2 9 (36.00%) Senior
3 7 (28.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Software Developer
5 3 (12.00%) iOS Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior iOS Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Backend Developer
7 1 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead Mobile Developer
7 1 (4.00%) PHP Developer
7 1 (4.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 1 (4.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) CSS
1 10 (40.00%) HTML
2 7 (28.00%) React
3 5 (20.00%) Laravel
3 5 (20.00%) SwiftUI
4 4 (16.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (16.00%) HTML5
5 3 (12.00%) .NET
5 3 (12.00%) Node.js
5 3 (12.00%) Sass
5 3 (12.00%) Vue
6 2 (8.00%) FastAPI
6 2 (8.00%) jQuery
6 2 (8.00%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
7 1 (4.00%) CSS3
7 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
7 1 (4.00%) JSON
7 1 (4.00%) OAuth
7 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 5 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Code
3 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (40.00%) DevOps
3 8 (32.00%) User Experience
4 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (28.00%) Scrum
5 6 (24.00%) AI
5 6 (24.00%) Code Quality
6 5 (20.00%) API Design
6 5 (20.00%) API Integration
6 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (16.00%) Design Patterns
7 4 (16.00%) Microservices
7 4 (16.00%) SOLID
7 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Unit Testing
8 3 (12.00%) iOS Development
8 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
8 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (28.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (20.00%) PHP
3 5 (20.00%) Swift
4 4 (16.00%) Python
4 4 (16.00%) SQL
5 3 (12.00%) C#
5 3 (12.00%) Java
6 1 (4.00%) C
6 1 (4.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Nagios
1 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Apple
2 3 (12.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (8.00%) Zend
4 1 (4.00%) HubSpot
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) SAP