REST Jobs in the West Midlands

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 158 124
Rank change year-on-year -15 -34 -26
Permanent jobs citing REST 27 94 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.60% 1.30% 2.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.45% 8.10% 10.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24 79 78
10th Percentile £41,625 £41,250 £44,983
25th Percentile £49,813 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.48% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,813 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £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
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 495 1,160 1,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.08% 16.02% 22.52%
Number of salaries quoted 366 1,011 744
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £69,438
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,950
England median annual salary £66,253 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in the West Midlands

REST
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for REST in the West Midlands

REST
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in the West Midlands

REST
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +20 13 £80,000 +45.00% 24
Staffordshire +22 6 £45,000 -16.28% 10
Solihull +2 1 £70,000 -
Warwickshire -54 1 £53,500 +1.90% 4
Shropshire - 1 £50,000 - 9
REST
England

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 2 (7.41%) CMS
1 2 (7.41%) Headless CMS
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) AWS
3 6 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (18.52%) Serverless
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Functions
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (7.41%) Contentful
5 2 (7.41%) Figma
5 2 (7.41%) GCP
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (3.70%) Boomi
6 1 (3.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) HTTPS
1 1 (3.70%) MQTT
1 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) JUnit
2 2 (7.41%) Mockito
2 2 (7.41%) Storybook
3 1 (3.70%) Appium
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.70%) Subversion
3 1 (3.70%) TestRail
General
1 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (11.11%) Law
4 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.41%) Finance
6 1 (3.70%) Automotive
6 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Developer
2 12 (44.44%) Senior
3 7 (25.93%) Senior Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (14.81%) Integration Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Integration Specialist
5 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 2 (7.41%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (7.41%) SAP Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) .NET
2 5 (18.52%) HTML
2 5 (18.52%) SOAP
3 4 (14.81%) BAPI
3 4 (14.81%) CSS
3 4 (14.81%) IBM Integration Bus
3 4 (14.81%) Vue
4 3 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 3 (11.11%) CSS3
4 3 (11.11%) HTML5
4 3 (11.11%) JMS
4 3 (11.11%) Middleware
4 3 (11.11%) Node.js
4 3 (11.11%) OAuth
4 3 (11.11%) React
4 3 (11.11%) RESTful
4 3 (11.11%) SAML
4 3 (11.11%) WCF
4 3 (11.11%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Mobile App
2 4 (14.81%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.11%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.70%) IoT
4 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Android
2 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) API Management
2 8 (29.63%) Microservices
3 7 (25.93%) SDLC
4 6 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (22.22%) Scrum
4 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) API Development
5 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
5 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
5 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (18.52%) Sprint Planning
5 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (14.81%) Software Testing
6 4 (14.81%) TDD
7 3 (11.11%) Migration
7 3 (11.11%) MVC
7 3 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (22.22%) C#
4 3 (11.11%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.41%) Bash
5 2 (7.41%) PL/SQL
5 2 (7.41%) Python
6 1 (3.70%) Dart
6 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.70%) PHP
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
1 2 (7.41%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (7.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) IBM
2 4 (14.81%) SAP
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (7.41%) Google
5 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.70%) Telerik