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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 113 98
Rank change year-on-year -68 -15 -31
Permanent jobs citing REST 87 150 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.02% 2.59% 3.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.95% 12.30% 11.53%
Number of salaries quoted 71 67 137
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,250 £38,899
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £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 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 1,252 1,220 2,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.69% 21.10% 26.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,041 690 1,385
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +3.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,772 £78,750 £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

REST
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

REST
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

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 11 June 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 -41 30 £55,173 -8.05% 12
Warwickshire +22 25 £42,500 -33.59% 1
Staffordshire -41 15 £52,500 -12.50% 3
Solihull - 5 - -
Coventry +6 3 £58,500 +22.87%
Wolverhampton - 2 £72,500 -
Worcestershire -26 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 26 (29.89%) IIS
2 5 (5.75%) Umbraco
3 3 (3.45%) CMS
4 2 (2.30%) Liferay
4 2 (2.30%) Magnolia
4 2 (2.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Adobe XD
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Shopify
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (54.02%) Azure
2 16 (18.39%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (13.79%) AWS
4 10 (11.49%) Serverless
5 7 (8.05%) Contentful
5 7 (8.05%) Google Analytics
5 7 (8.05%) Google Tag Manager
5 7 (8.05%) Vercel
6 6 (6.90%) GitHub
7 4 (4.60%) Figma
7 4 (4.60%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.30%) npm
9 2 (2.30%) PaaS
10 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.15%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.15%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.79%) WAN
2 10 (11.49%) Firewall
3 3 (3.45%) DNS
3 3 (3.45%) HTTP
3 3 (3.45%) HTTPS
3 3 (3.45%) Internet
3 3 (3.45%) MQTT
3 3 (3.45%) SSL
3 3 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.15%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (45.98%) SQL Server
2 19 (21.84%) Relational Database
3 8 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.75%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.30%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (2.30%) DB2
5 2 (2.30%) DTS
5 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.15%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.15%) MySQL
6 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (32.18%) Git
2 10 (11.49%) Postman
3 6 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.75%) Jasmine
4 5 (5.75%) JIRA
4 5 (5.75%) Karma Test Runner
4 5 (5.75%) MSTest
4 5 (5.75%) SoapUI
5 4 (4.60%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.60%) ESLint
5 4 (4.60%) IntelliJ
5 4 (4.60%) JUnit
6 2 (2.30%) Bower
6 2 (2.30%) Fiddler
6 2 (2.30%) gulp
6 2 (2.30%) Moq
6 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.30%) Vite
7 1 (1.15%) Crashlytics
7 1 (1.15%) fastlane
General
1 11 (12.64%) Finance
2 9 (10.34%) Marketing
2 9 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.90%) Law
3 6 (6.90%) Retail
4 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.60%) Games
4 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.30%) Billing
5 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.15%) Automotive
6 1 (1.15%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 49 (56.32%) Developer
2 30 (34.48%) Senior
3 13 (14.94%) Lead
3 13 (14.94%) Senior Developer
3 13 (14.94%) Web Developer
4 10 (11.49%) C# Developer
5 8 (9.20%) .NET Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Senior .NET Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Lead Developer
7 5 (5.75%) React Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Applications Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (4.60%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Senior C# Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (51.72%) .NET
2 34 (39.08%) HTML
3 30 (34.48%) CSS
4 28 (32.18%) React
5 25 (28.74%) Web Services
6 23 (26.44%) XML
7 21 (24.14%) ASP.NET
7 21 (24.14%) JSON
8 18 (20.69%) Vue
9 17 (19.54%) AngularJS
9 17 (19.54%) Entity Framework
10 13 (14.94%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 12 (13.79%) ASP.NET MVC
11 12 (13.79%) GraphQL
11 12 (13.79%) Node.js
11 12 (13.79%) SOAP
11 12 (13.79%) WebRTC
12 11 (12.64%) jQuery
13 10 (11.49%) ASP.NET Web API
13 10 (11.49%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.79%) Clustering
2 8 (9.20%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (8.05%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.69%) Windows
2 5 (5.75%) VMS
3 3 (3.45%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.15%) Android
4 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.23%) Agile
2 32 (36.78%) DevOps
3 24 (27.59%) MVC
4 23 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (25.29%) Web Development
6 19 (21.84%) Full Stack Development
7 18 (20.69%) CI/CD
8 17 (19.54%) Design Patterns
8 17 (19.54%) SOLID
9 15 (17.24%) OO
10 14 (16.09%) Front End Development
11 13 (14.94%) API Design
11 13 (14.94%) OOP
11 13 (14.94%) Roadmaps
12 12 (13.79%) High Availability
12 12 (13.79%) Load Balancing
12 12 (13.79%) Mentoring
13 11 (12.64%) Clean Code
14 10 (11.49%) Test Automation
15 9 (10.34%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (74.71%) SQL
2 48 (55.17%) C#
3 39 (44.83%) JavaScript
4 21 (24.14%) TypeScript
5 20 (22.99%) T-SQL
6 13 (14.94%) VB.NET
7 9 (10.34%) Java
8 7 (8.05%) VB
9 6 (6.90%) C
10 5 (5.75%) VB6
10 5 (5.75%) XAML
11 4 (4.60%) PHP
11 4 (4.60%) Python
12 3 (3.45%) Go
13 2 (2.30%) Kotlin
13 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
13 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
14 1 (1.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.30%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) Accessibility
2 9 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 23 (26.44%) Docker
2 12 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (14.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (49.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.79%) VMware
3 8 (9.20%) Google
4 7 (8.05%) CheckPoint
5 4 (4.60%) Adobe
6 3 (3.45%) Telerik
6 3 (3.45%) UiPath
7 2 (2.30%) IFS
7 2 (2.30%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.30%) OpenText
7 2 (2.30%) Oracle
7 2 (2.30%) Pega
7 2 (2.30%) PeopleSoft
7 2 (2.30%) Sitecore
7 2 (2.30%) Workday