REST Job Trends in the West Midlands

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 135 171
Rank change year-on-year -27 +36 -48
Permanent jobs citing REST 39 41 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.46% 1.28% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.74% 8.10% 7.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18 24 75
10th Percentile £44,525 £41,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,219 £49,813 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £73,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.56% +40.48% -12.50%
75th Percentile £74,375 £78,438 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £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
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 446 506 1,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.31% 15.84% 15.71%
Number of salaries quoted 368 369 1,005
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,313 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,200
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

REST job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

REST
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

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 12 May 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
Birmingham 0 27 £63,750 -15.00% 8
Warwickshire -12 3 £67,500 +26.17% 4
Coventry - 3 £80,000 - 1
Wolverhampton - 3 £59,250 -
Worcestershire - 2 £59,000 - 3
Shropshire -28 1 £62,500 +25.00%
REST
England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 (12.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) JBoss
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (43.59%) AWS
2 15 (38.46%) Azure
3 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.13%) SaaS
4 2 (5.13%) Serverless
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.56%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.56%) Meta Ads
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) SSL
2 1 (2.56%) FTP
2 1 (2.56%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Power BI
2 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Redis
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.13%) TimescaleDB
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.56%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.56%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Maven
2 7 (17.95%) JUnit
2 7 (17.95%) Mockito
3 6 (15.38%) Git
4 3 (7.69%) JIRA
5 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 14 (35.90%) Finance
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Banking
2 7 (17.95%) Investment Banking
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.56%) Automotive
4 1 (2.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (56.41%) Developer
2 12 (30.77%) Senior
3 11 (28.21%) Senior Developer
4 8 (20.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (17.95%) Java Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Java Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (10.26%) Lead
8 3 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (7.69%) Integration Specialist
8 3 (7.69%) Product Owner
8 3 (7.69%) Salesforce Developer
8 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Java Team Leader
9 2 (5.13%) SAP Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (51.28%) React
2 11 (28.21%) Spring
3 8 (20.51%) AngularJS
4 7 (17.95%) Spring Boot
5 6 (15.38%) Node.js
6 5 (12.82%) SAML
6 5 (12.82%) SOAP
7 4 (10.26%) Middleware
7 4 (10.26%) OAuth
8 3 (7.69%) .NET
8 3 (7.69%) GraphQL
8 3 (7.69%) JDBC
8 3 (7.69%) JSON
8 3 (7.69%) LDAP
8 3 (7.69%) Playwright
8 3 (7.69%) Visualforce
8 3 (7.69%) Web Services
9 2 (5.13%) EDI
9 2 (5.13%) JMS
9 2 (5.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
4 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.13%) Educational Technology
5 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.56%) NHS
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Android
2 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Mentoring
1 17 (43.59%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (41.03%) Full-Stack Development
3 15 (38.46%) Agile
4 14 (35.90%) CI/CD
5 12 (30.77%) SDLC
6 11 (28.21%) Scrum
7 10 (25.64%) Decision-Making
7 10 (25.64%) Microservices
7 10 (25.64%) Sprint Planning
7 10 (25.64%) Test Automation
8 9 (23.08%) TDD
9 8 (20.51%) Containerisation
9 8 (20.51%) DevOps
9 8 (20.51%) Observability
9 8 (20.51%) Time Management
10 7 (17.95%) Architectural Patterns
10 7 (17.95%) Design Patterns
10 7 (17.95%) Secure Coding
10 7 (17.95%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) Java
2 12 (30.77%) SQL
3 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.95%) PL/SQL
5 6 (15.38%) C
5 6 (15.38%) Python
5 6 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 5 (12.82%) Bash
7 4 (10.26%) R
8 3 (7.69%) Apex Code
9 2 (5.13%) C#
9 2 (5.13%) C++
10 1 (2.56%) ActionScript
10 1 (2.56%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.21%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.13%) Nagios
3 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.13%) IBM
3 2 (5.13%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft