REST Jobs in the West Midlands

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 124 97
Rank change year-on-year -33 -27 -36
Permanent jobs citing REST 93 165 221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.29% 2.45% 3.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.04% 10.83% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 78 79 134
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,159 £38,899
25th Percentile £46,875 £50,000 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £73,813
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,157 1,523 1,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.01% 22.64% 27.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,009 753 1,402
10th Percentile £33,650 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,164 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.78% +3.93% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,800 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
Warwickshire +61 31 £52,500 -17.97% 2
Birmingham -39 31 £55,173 -8.05% 9
Staffordshire -18 13 £52,500 -12.50% 3
Solihull - 5 - -
Coventry +18 4 £58,500 +22.87% 1
Wolverhampton - 2 £72,500 -
Worcestershire -16 1 £57,500 +6.98% 1
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 31 (33.33%) IIS
2 3 (3.23%) CMS
2 3 (3.23%) Umbraco
3 2 (2.15%) Liferay
3 2 (2.15%) Magnolia
3 2 (2.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 8 (8.60%) Shopify
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.08%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 55 (59.14%) Azure
2 16 (17.20%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (11.83%) AWS
4 9 (9.68%) Serverless
5 7 (7.53%) Contentful
5 7 (7.53%) Google Analytics
5 7 (7.53%) Google Tag Manager
5 7 (7.53%) Vercel
6 6 (6.45%) GitHub
7 3 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.23%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.15%) Figma
8 2 (2.15%) npm
8 2 (2.15%) PaaS
9 1 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.08%) Firebase
9 1 (1.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (20.43%) WAN
2 17 (18.28%) Firewall
3 4 (4.30%) MQTT
4 3 (3.23%) DNS
4 3 (3.23%) HTTP
4 3 (3.23%) HTTPS
4 3 (3.23%) Internet
4 3 (3.23%) SSL
4 3 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.08%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (48.39%) SQL Server
2 18 (19.35%) Relational Database
3 8 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.38%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.15%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (2.15%) DB2
5 2 (2.15%) DTS
5 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.08%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (27.96%) Git
2 10 (10.75%) Postman
3 6 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.38%) Jasmine
4 5 (5.38%) Karma Test Runner
4 5 (5.38%) MSTest
4 5 (5.38%) SoapUI
5 4 (4.30%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.30%) ESLint
5 4 (4.30%) IntelliJ
5 4 (4.30%) JIRA
5 4 (4.30%) JUnit
6 3 (3.23%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.15%) Bower
7 2 (2.15%) Fiddler
7 2 (2.15%) gulp
7 2 (2.15%) Moq
7 2 (2.15%) Vite
8 1 (1.08%) Crashlytics
8 1 (1.08%) fastlane
General
1 11 (11.83%) Finance
2 10 (10.75%) Marketing
3 6 (6.45%) Retail
3 6 (6.45%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.30%) Games
5 4 (4.30%) Law
6 2 (2.15%) Billing
6 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.08%) Automotive
7 1 (1.08%) Banking
7 1 (1.08%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 49 (52.69%) Developer
2 35 (37.63%) Senior
3 15 (16.13%) Lead
4 14 (15.05%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 14 (15.05%) Systems Engineer
5 11 (11.83%) C# Developer
5 11 (11.83%) Senior Developer
6 9 (9.68%) .NET Developer
6 9 (9.68%) Web Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Lead Developer
8 6 (6.45%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (5.38%) React Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Applications Architect
10 4 (4.30%) Architect
10 4 (4.30%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.30%) Senior C# Developer
10 4 (4.30%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (47.31%) .NET
2 31 (33.33%) HTML
3 30 (32.26%) React
4 27 (29.03%) CSS
5 26 (27.96%) Web Services
6 21 (22.58%) XML
7 20 (21.51%) ASP.NET
8 19 (20.43%) JSON
8 19 (20.43%) WebRTC
9 18 (19.35%) AngularJS
10 17 (18.28%) Entity Framework
11 16 (17.20%) Vue
12 13 (13.98%) GraphQL
12 13 (13.98%) Node.js
12 13 (13.98%) SOAP
13 12 (12.90%) jQuery
13 12 (12.90%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 11 (11.83%) ASP.NET MVC
15 10 (10.75%) ASP.NET Web API
16 8 (8.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.43%) Clustering
2 7 (7.53%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.05%) Windows
2 3 (3.23%) VMS
2 3 (3.23%) Windows 10
2 3 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.08%) Android
3 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.78%) Agile
2 30 (32.26%) DevOps
3 28 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (22.58%) CI/CD
4 21 (22.58%) MVC
5 20 (21.51%) Full Stack Development
6 19 (20.43%) High Availability
6 19 (20.43%) Load Balancing
7 18 (19.35%) Web Development
8 16 (17.20%) Design Patterns
8 16 (17.20%) SOLID
9 15 (16.13%) Validation
10 13 (13.98%) Roadmaps
11 12 (12.90%) Clean Code
11 12 (12.90%) Front End Development
11 12 (12.90%) OO
12 11 (11.83%) API Design
12 11 (11.83%) OOP
12 11 (11.83%) Test Automation
13 9 (9.68%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 70 (75.27%) SQL
2 47 (50.54%) C#
3 36 (38.71%) JavaScript
4 23 (24.73%) TypeScript
5 20 (21.51%) T-SQL
6 11 (11.83%) VB.NET
7 9 (9.68%) Java
8 7 (7.53%) VB
9 6 (6.45%) C
10 5 (5.38%) VB6
10 5 (5.38%) XAML
11 4 (4.30%) PHP
12 3 (3.23%) Go
12 3 (3.23%) Python
13 2 (2.15%) Kotlin
13 2 (2.15%) PL/SQL
13 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
14 1 (1.08%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (20.43%) SC Cleared
1 19 (20.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.15%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.68%) Accessibility
1 9 (9.68%) QA
System Software
1 25 (26.88%) Docker
2 19 (20.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (16.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 49 (52.69%) Microsoft
2 19 (20.43%) VMware
3 14 (15.05%) CheckPoint
4 8 (8.60%) Google
5 3 (3.23%) Telerik
5 3 (3.23%) UiPath
6 2 (2.15%) Adobe
6 2 (2.15%) IFS
6 2 (2.15%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.15%) OpenText
6 2 (2.15%) Oracle
6 2 (2.15%) Pega
6 2 (2.15%) PeopleSoft
6 2 (2.15%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.15%) Workday