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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 168 120
Rank change year-on-year +17 -48 -19
Permanent jobs citing REST 46 87 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.10% 1.10% 2.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.93% 7.17% 11.60%
Number of salaries quoted 29 73 68
10th Percentile £47,850 £41,250 £44,983
25th Percentile £62,500 £46,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £70,625
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 515 1,214 1,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.31% 15.38% 21.73%
Number of salaries quoted 362 1,037 693
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,563 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -6.14% +3.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £69,250
90th Percentile £78,625 £76,450 £79,000
England median annual salary £66,274 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.46% -11.11% +3.85%

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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 31 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 31 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 +29 20 £75,000 +35.94% 24
Staffordshire +21 13 £47,500 -9.52% 8
Solihull +8 4 £75,000 - 4
Worcestershire +25 2 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Warwickshire -21 1 £53,500 +25.88% 6
Shropshire - 1 £50,000 - 4
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England

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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 (4.35%) CMS
1 2 (4.35%) Headless CMS
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (15.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (54.35%) Azure
2 22 (47.83%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
4 4 (8.70%) Serverless
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.35%) AWS KMS
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.35%) Contentful
6 2 (4.35%) Figma
6 2 (4.35%) GCP
6 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.35%) Route 53
7 1 (2.17%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.87%) NoSQL
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.52%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.35%) Hazelcast
6 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.17%) Power BI
7 1 (2.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 15 (32.61%) Maven
2 14 (30.43%) SonarQube
3 13 (28.26%) GitLab
3 13 (28.26%) JIRA
4 12 (26.09%) Bitbucket
5 11 (23.91%) Cucumber
5 11 (23.91%) Selenium
5 11 (23.91%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (21.74%) Git
7 5 (10.87%) JUnit
7 5 (10.87%) Mockito
8 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
9 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (4.35%) DbUnit
9 2 (4.35%) jMock
9 2 (4.35%) Storybook
10 1 (2.17%) Appium
10 1 (2.17%) Subversion
10 1 (2.17%) TestRail
General
1 20 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 17 (36.96%) Finance
3 16 (34.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (28.26%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (26.09%) Banking
5 12 (26.09%) Retail
6 11 (23.91%) Corporate Banking
6 11 (23.91%) Investment Banking
7 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.17%) Automotive
9 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.17%) Law
9 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (54.35%) Developer
2 12 (26.09%) Software Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Senior
4 7 (15.22%) Integration Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Java Developer
5 6 (13.04%) Integration Specialist
5 6 (13.04%) SAP Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Architect
6 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Senior Architect
6 5 (10.87%) Senior Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 5 (10.87%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.52%) AWS Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Lead
8 2 (4.35%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (41.30%) Spring
2 17 (36.96%) HTML
3 16 (34.78%) CSS
3 16 (34.78%) React
4 15 (32.61%) RESTful
4 15 (32.61%) Spring Boot
5 14 (30.43%) CSS3
5 14 (30.43%) HTML5
5 14 (30.43%) JPA
5 14 (30.43%) SOAP
6 11 (23.91%) Jest
6 11 (23.91%) Kafka
6 11 (23.91%) Redux
6 11 (23.91%) Sass
7 8 (17.39%) BAPI
7 8 (17.39%) IBM Integration Bus
8 7 (15.22%) JMS
8 7 (15.22%) Middleware
8 7 (15.22%) OAuth
8 7 (15.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (41.30%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (23.91%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.70%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.35%) IoT
5 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.17%) Life Science
6 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Android
2 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) Agile
2 25 (54.35%) Microservices
3 18 (39.13%) DevOps
3 18 (39.13%) Migration
3 18 (39.13%) SDLC
4 17 (36.96%) CI/CD
4 17 (36.96%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (34.78%) Mentoring
6 14 (30.43%) Containerisation
6 14 (30.43%) User Experience
7 13 (28.26%) Software Engineering
8 12 (26.09%) API Management
8 12 (26.09%) Front End Development
8 12 (26.09%) Responsive Web Design
8 12 (26.09%) Strategic Thinking
8 12 (26.09%) Test Automation
9 11 (23.91%) Performance Optimisation
10 10 (21.74%) TDD
11 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (15.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 25 (54.35%) SQL
2 20 (43.48%) Java
3 19 (41.30%) JavaScript
4 14 (30.43%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.70%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.52%) C#
6 3 (6.52%) Python
7 2 (4.35%) Bash
8 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.17%) PHP
8 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.09%) QA
2 11 (23.91%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (39.13%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (4.35%) Firmware
2 2 (4.35%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 16 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.52%) Grafana
2 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Solace
2 10 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.39%) IBM
3 8 (17.39%) SAP
4 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.35%) Google
4 2 (4.35%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (2.17%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.17%) UiPath