RESTful Job Trends in the West Midlands

RESTful
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring RESTful skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 144 133
Rank change year-on-year -43 -11 +21
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 10 30 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.90% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.30% 6.21% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 9 24 111
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,625 £39,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,750 £76,250 £75,772
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

RESTful 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 434 483 1,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.51% 14.47% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 375 373 1,024
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,998 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £67,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

RESTful
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing RESTful

RESTful
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for RESTful in the West Midlands

RESTful
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 RESTful within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 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 -11 6 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Coventry -19 2 £67,500 - 1
Halesowen - 2 £47,500 - 1
RESTful
England

RESTful
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 2 (20.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Magento
1 2 (20.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Redis
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (10.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (20.00%) IT Manager
4 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) SEO Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) React
2 4 (40.00%) Node.js
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
3 3 (30.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) FastAPI
4 2 (20.00%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (10.00%) .NET
5 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) API Design
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) AI
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) B2B
3 2 (20.00%) Content Management
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (20.00%) ERP
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (20.00%) LLM
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) C
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Nagios
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) OpenAI