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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 124 100
Rank change year-on-year -36 -24 -38
Permanent jobs citing REST 89 158 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.22% 2.47% 3.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.71% 10.89% 11.43%
Number of salaries quoted 76 72 136
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,836 £38,899
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,938 £43,750
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 £75,000
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 1,154 1,451 1,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.88% 22.69% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,004 715 1,388
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +13.40%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

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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 7 May 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 7 May 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
Birmingham -42 30 £55,173 -9.55% 9
Warwickshire +49 27 £52,500 -17.97%
Staffordshire -23 14 £53,750 -10.42% 2
Solihull - 5 - -
Coventry +16 4 £58,500 +22.87%
Wolverhampton - 2 £72,500 -
Worcestershire -20 1 £57,500 +6.98% 1
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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 29 (32.58%) IIS
2 3 (3.37%) CMS
2 3 (3.37%) Umbraco
3 2 (2.25%) Liferay
3 2 (2.25%) Magnolia
3 2 (2.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.25%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 8 (8.99%) Shopify
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (58.43%) Azure
2 15 (16.85%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (12.36%) AWS
4 9 (10.11%) Serverless
5 7 (7.87%) Contentful
5 7 (7.87%) Google Analytics
5 7 (7.87%) Google Tag Manager
5 7 (7.87%) Vercel
6 6 (6.74%) GitHub
7 3 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.37%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.25%) Figma
8 2 (2.25%) npm
8 2 (2.25%) PaaS
9 1 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.12%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 17 (19.10%) WAN
2 15 (16.85%) Firewall
3 4 (4.49%) MQTT
4 3 (3.37%) DNS
4 3 (3.37%) HTTP
4 3 (3.37%) HTTPS
4 3 (3.37%) Internet
4 3 (3.37%) SSL
4 3 (3.37%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.12%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (48.31%) SQL Server
2 18 (20.22%) Relational Database
3 8 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.62%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.25%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (2.25%) DB2
5 2 (2.25%) DTS
5 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.12%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (29.21%) Git
2 10 (11.24%) Postman
3 6 (6.74%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.62%) Jasmine
4 5 (5.62%) Karma Test Runner
4 5 (5.62%) MSTest
4 5 (5.62%) SoapUI
5 4 (4.49%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.49%) ESLint
5 4 (4.49%) IntelliJ
5 4 (4.49%) JIRA
5 4 (4.49%) JUnit
6 3 (3.37%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.25%) Bower
7 2 (2.25%) Fiddler
7 2 (2.25%) gulp
7 2 (2.25%) Moq
7 2 (2.25%) Vite
8 1 (1.12%) Crashlytics
8 1 (1.12%) fastlane
General
1 11 (12.36%) Finance
2 10 (11.24%) Marketing
3 6 (6.74%) Retail
3 6 (6.74%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.62%) Law
5 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.49%) Games
5 4 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.25%) Billing
6 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.12%) Automotive
7 1 (1.12%) Banking
7 1 (1.12%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 47 (52.81%) Developer
2 34 (38.20%) Senior
3 13 (14.61%) Lead
4 12 (13.48%) Senior Developer
4 12 (13.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 12 (13.48%) Systems Engineer
5 11 (12.36%) C# Developer
6 10 (11.24%) Web Developer
7 8 (8.99%) .NET Developer
8 6 (6.74%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Lead Developer
9 5 (5.62%) React Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Applications Architect
10 4 (4.49%) Architect
10 4 (4.49%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Senior C# Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (49.44%) .NET
2 32 (35.96%) HTML
3 29 (32.58%) React
4 28 (31.46%) CSS
5 26 (29.21%) Web Services
6 21 (23.60%) ASP.NET
6 21 (23.60%) XML
7 19 (21.35%) JSON
8 18 (20.22%) AngularJS
9 17 (19.10%) Entity Framework
9 17 (19.10%) WebRTC
10 16 (17.98%) Vue
11 13 (14.61%) GraphQL
11 13 (14.61%) Node.js
11 13 (14.61%) SOAP
12 12 (13.48%) ASP.NET MVC
12 12 (13.48%) jQuery
12 12 (13.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 10 (11.24%) ASP.NET Web API
14 9 (10.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.10%) Clustering
2 7 (7.87%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.74%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.85%) Windows
2 3 (3.37%) VMS
2 3 (3.37%) Windows 10
2 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.12%) Android
3 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (39.33%) Agile
2 30 (33.71%) DevOps
3 26 (29.21%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (24.72%) MVC
5 20 (22.47%) Full Stack Development
6 19 (21.35%) Web Development
7 18 (20.22%) CI/CD
8 17 (19.10%) High Availability
8 17 (19.10%) Load Balancing
9 16 (17.98%) Design Patterns
9 16 (17.98%) SOLID
10 13 (14.61%) Front End Development
10 13 (14.61%) OO
10 13 (14.61%) Roadmaps
10 13 (14.61%) Validation
11 12 (13.48%) API Design
11 12 (13.48%) OOP
12 11 (12.36%) Clean Code
12 11 (12.36%) Test Automation
13 9 (10.11%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 68 (76.40%) SQL
2 47 (52.81%) C#
3 37 (41.57%) JavaScript
4 22 (24.72%) TypeScript
5 20 (22.47%) T-SQL
6 12 (13.48%) VB.NET
7 9 (10.11%) Java
8 7 (7.87%) VB
9 6 (6.74%) C
10 5 (5.62%) VB6
10 5 (5.62%) XAML
11 4 (4.49%) PHP
12 3 (3.37%) Go
12 3 (3.37%) Python
13 2 (2.25%) Kotlin
13 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
13 2 (2.25%) PowerShell
14 1 (1.12%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (19.10%) SC Cleared
1 17 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.11%) Accessibility
1 9 (10.11%) QA
System Software
1 23 (25.84%) Docker
2 17 (19.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (14.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 48 (53.93%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.10%) VMware
3 12 (13.48%) CheckPoint
4 8 (8.99%) Google
5 3 (3.37%) Telerik
5 3 (3.37%) UiPath
6 2 (2.25%) Adobe
6 2 (2.25%) IFS
6 2 (2.25%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.25%) OpenText
6 2 (2.25%) Oracle
6 2 (2.25%) Pega
6 2 (2.25%) PeopleSoft
6 2 (2.25%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.25%) Workday