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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 167 128
Rank change year-on-year +9 -39 -33
Permanent jobs citing REST 41 87 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.95% 1.18% 2.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.88% 7.51% 10.94%
Number of salaries quoted 24 74 73
10th Percentile £41,625 £41,250 £46,159
25th Percentile £49,813 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.48% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £78,438 £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 520 1,158 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.11% 15.71% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 363 1,004 715
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,435 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,625 £67,500 £69,625
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,600 £79,600
England median annual salary £66,225 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.38% -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

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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

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in the West Midlands

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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 14 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 +32 15 £75,000 +35.94% 23
Staffordshire +27 15 £45,000 -14.29% 8
Solihull +12 3 £72,500 - 5
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Warwickshire -29 1 £53,500 +1.90% 3
Shropshire - 1 £50,000 - 4
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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 (4.88%) CMS
1 2 (4.88%) Headless CMS
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (60.98%) Azure
2 21 (51.22%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (12.20%) Serverless
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.88%) Contentful
6 2 (4.88%) Figma
6 2 (4.88%) GCP
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.44%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (2.44%) Boomi
7 1 (2.44%) OCI
7 1 (2.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (34.15%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.20%) NoSQL
2 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.44%) Hazelcast
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (34.15%) Maven
2 13 (31.71%) JIRA
2 13 (31.71%) SonarQube
3 12 (29.27%) Bitbucket
3 12 (29.27%) GitLab
4 11 (26.83%) Cucumber
4 11 (26.83%) Selenium
4 11 (26.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (21.95%) Git
6 4 (9.76%) JUnit
6 4 (9.76%) Mockito
7 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
8 2 (4.88%) Storybook
9 1 (2.44%) Appium
9 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (2.44%) DbUnit
9 1 (2.44%) jMock
9 1 (2.44%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (2.44%) Subversion
9 1 (2.44%) TestRail
General
1 16 (39.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (36.59%) Finance
3 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
4 12 (29.27%) Banking
4 12 (29.27%) Retail
5 11 (26.83%) Corporate Banking
5 11 (26.83%) Investment Banking
6 9 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (7.32%) Law
7 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
7 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.44%) Automotive
8 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 19 (46.34%) Developer
2 14 (34.15%) Software Engineer
3 10 (24.39%) Senior
4 5 (12.20%) Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (12.20%) Java Developer
4 5 (12.20%) Senior Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Senior Developer
4 5 (12.20%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (9.76%) Integration Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Integration Specialist
6 3 (7.32%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Lead
7 2 (4.88%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.88%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (4.88%) SAP Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (41.46%) HTML
1 17 (41.46%) Spring
2 16 (39.02%) CSS
3 15 (36.59%) React
3 15 (36.59%) RESTful
4 14 (34.15%) CSS3
4 14 (34.15%) HTML5
4 14 (34.15%) Spring Boot
5 13 (31.71%) JPA
6 11 (26.83%) Jest
6 11 (26.83%) Kafka
6 11 (26.83%) Redux
6 11 (26.83%) Sass
7 8 (19.51%) SOAP
8 7 (17.07%) .NET
9 5 (12.20%) AngularJS
9 5 (12.20%) Vue
9 5 (12.20%) Web Services
10 4 (9.76%) BAPI
10 4 (9.76%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 15 (36.59%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (26.83%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.76%) Mobile App
4 3 (7.32%) Driving Licence
5 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.44%) IoT
6 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Android
2 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (65.85%) Agile
2 23 (56.10%) Microservices
3 18 (43.90%) SDLC
4 17 (41.46%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (39.02%) CI/CD
5 16 (39.02%) Mentoring
6 15 (36.59%) DevOps
6 15 (36.59%) Software Engineering
7 14 (34.15%) Migration
8 13 (31.71%) Containerisation
9 12 (29.27%) Front End Development
9 12 (29.27%) Responsive Web Design
9 12 (29.27%) Strategic Thinking
9 12 (29.27%) Test Automation
9 12 (29.27%) User Experience
10 11 (26.83%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (21.95%) Scrum
12 8 (19.51%) API Management
12 8 (19.51%) TDD
13 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (56.10%) SQL
2 20 (48.78%) JavaScript
3 18 (43.90%) Java
4 14 (34.15%) TypeScript
5 6 (14.63%) C#
6 3 (7.32%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.88%) Bash
7 2 (4.88%) Python
8 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.44%) PHP
8 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (29.27%) QA
2 11 (26.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (41.46%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (4.88%) Firmware
3 1 (2.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (36.59%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.88%) Grafana
2 2 (4.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Solace
2 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.76%) IBM
3 4 (9.76%) SAP
4 3 (7.32%) Oracle
5 2 (4.88%) Google
6 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft