Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 105 65
Rank change year-on-year -49 -40 -5
Permanent jobs citing REST 1,940 3,041 9,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.84% 3.21% 5.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.00% 11.01% 12.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,301 1,788 3,165
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +15.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 21,566 27,616 70,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 29.13% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16,031 17,933 29,817
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,650 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the UK

REST
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST.

Salary trend for REST in the UK

REST
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for REST in the UK

REST
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England -45 1,676 £60,000 -14.29% 329
UK excluding London -41 1,328 £55,000 -8.33% 203
Work from Home -46 724 £60,000 -9.43% 170
London -51 570 £75,000 -3.23% 152
North of England +27 359 £55,173 -15.12% 57
South East -50 317 £57,500 +3.25% 42
North West +59 270 £60,000 -11.11% 34
Midlands -29 212 £52,500 -12.50% 32
Scotland -38 157 £56,318 -6.14% 15
South West -42 151 £53,500 -10.83% 20
East Midlands -7 125 £50,000 -2.44% 17
West Midlands -58 87 £52,500 -12.50% 15
East of England -33 81 £47,500 -13.64% 21
Yorkshire -23 73 £47,500 -17.39% 18
Wales -11 39 £52,500 -19.23% 5
North East -36 16 £47,500 -24.00% 7
Northern Ireland -36 14 £85,000 +88.89% 15
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 113 (5.82%) IIS
2 85 (4.38%) Apache
3 47 (2.42%) Apache Spark
4 41 (2.11%) CMS
5 36 (1.86%) OpenStack
6 26 (1.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 26 (1.34%) Confluence
7 24 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
8 22 (1.13%) SharePoint
9 21 (1.08%) GemFire
10 15 (0.77%) JBoss
11 14 (0.72%) nginx
12 11 (0.57%) WordPress
13 10 (0.52%) EPiServer
13 10 (0.52%) Red Hat Fuse
14 6 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.26%) Drupal
15 5 (0.26%) IBM Notes
15 5 (0.26%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.46%) Trello
4 5 (0.26%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.72%) Shopify
3 6 (0.31%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.31%) Maximo
4 5 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.26%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.15%) Magento
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.10%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 2 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.052%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.052%) HFM
8 1 (0.052%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.052%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.052%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.052%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 776 (40.00%) Azure
2 489 (25.21%) AWS
3 299 (15.41%) Azure DevOps
4 273 (14.07%) Serverless
5 242 (12.47%) IBM Cloud
6 145 (7.47%) Azure Service Bus
7 143 (7.37%) Azure Functions
8 132 (6.80%) GCP
9 130 (6.70%) Azure API Management
9 130 (6.70%) Azure Logic Apps
10 114 (5.88%) SaaS
11 101 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
12 89 (4.59%) GitHub
13 80 (4.12%) Power Platform
14 61 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
15 55 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
16 34 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
17 33 (1.70%) Amazon Kinesis
18 32 (1.65%) OpenShift
19 29 (1.49%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 66 (3.40%) HTTP
2 59 (3.04%) Firewall
3 55 (2.84%) DNS
4 50 (2.58%) Internet
5 48 (2.47%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.60%) AMQP
7 23 (1.19%) SSL
8 18 (0.93%) Kerberos
8 18 (0.93%) SSH
8 18 (0.93%) WAN
9 17 (0.88%) MQTT
9 17 (0.88%) VPN
10 16 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.82%) Wireless
11 13 (0.67%) 3G
11 13 (0.67%) 4G
11 13 (0.67%) RS-485
11 13 (0.67%) SNMP
12 11 (0.57%) BGP
12 11 (0.57%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 475 (24.48%) PostgreSQL
2 397 (20.46%) NoSQL
3 321 (16.55%) MongoDB
4 317 (16.34%) SQL Server
5 272 (14.02%) Relational Database
6 240 (12.37%) DB2
7 112 (5.77%) MySQL
8 77 (3.97%) Redis
9 54 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 48 (2.47%) Power BI
11 46 (2.37%) Hadoop
12 45 (2.32%) DynamoDB
13 39 (2.01%) Big Data
14 38 (1.96%) CockroachDB
15 29 (1.49%) Cloudera CDH
16 28 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
17 27 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 26 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 24 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
20 22 (1.13%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 413 (21.29%) Git
2 207 (10.67%) Jenkins
3 128 (6.60%) JIRA
4 87 (4.48%) Postman
4 87 (4.48%) Selenium
5 82 (4.23%) Cucumber
6 77 (3.97%) Visual Studio
7 68 (3.51%) GitLab
8 59 (3.04%) JUnit
9 37 (1.91%) Eclipse
9 37 (1.91%) Jasmine
9 37 (1.91%) Team Foundation Server
10 34 (1.75%) Oracle APEX
11 33 (1.70%) Karma Test Runner
11 33 (1.70%) Maven
12 31 (1.60%) IntelliJ
13 30 (1.55%) Bitbucket
13 30 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
13 30 (1.55%) TeamCity
14 24 (1.24%) WebDriver
General
1 427 (22.01%) Finance
2 381 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 299 (15.41%) Public Sector
4 235 (12.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 149 (7.68%) Law
6 84 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
7 79 (4.07%) Banking
7 79 (4.07%) Marketing
8 71 (3.66%) Retail
9 46 (2.37%) Legal
10 38 (1.96%) Investment Banking
11 31 (1.60%) Aerospace
12 28 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 28 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.24%) Games
14 22 (1.13%) Billing
15 20 (1.03%) Electronics
15 20 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (0.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,018 (52.47%) Developer
2 409 (21.08%) Senior
3 282 (14.54%) Software Engineer
4 239 (12.32%) Lead
5 222 (11.44%) Senior Developer
6 210 (10.82%) Full Stack Developer
7 154 (7.94%) Full Stack Engineer
8 147 (7.58%) Java Developer
9 139 (7.16%) .NET Developer
10 133 (6.86%) Azure Developer
11 115 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
12 100 (5.15%) Java Engineer
13 93 (4.79%) C# Developer
14 80 (4.12%) Software Developer
15 78 (4.02%) Java Software Engineer
16 73 (3.76%) Lead Developer
17 67 (3.45%) Architect
17 67 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
18 66 (3.40%) Analyst
19 53 (2.73%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 704 (36.29%) .NET
2 701 (36.13%) Web Services
3 605 (31.19%) HTML
4 574 (29.59%) CSS
4 574 (29.59%) React
5 536 (27.63%) AngularJS
6 427 (22.01%) ASP.NET
7 343 (17.68%) Vue
8 340 (17.53%) jQuery
9 332 (17.11%) JSON
10 329 (16.96%) SOAP
11 302 (15.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 279 (14.38%) Spring
13 276 (14.23%) Node.js
14 260 (13.40%) XML
15 254 (13.09%) ASP.NET Core
16 238 (12.27%) Backbone.js
16 238 (12.27%) Ember.js
17 208 (10.72%) Spring Boot
18 182 (9.38%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 279 (14.38%) Algorithms
2 271 (13.97%) Data Structures
3 244 (12.58%) Blockchain
4 241 (12.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 115 (5.93%) e-Learning
6 96 (4.95%) Cloud Native
7 89 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
8 80 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
9 74 (3.81%) Management Information System
10 62 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
10 62 (3.20%) Product Ownership
11 59 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
12 39 (2.01%) Blog
13 33 (1.70%) Mobile App
13 33 (1.70%) Public Cloud
14 30 (1.55%) Media Streaming
15 29 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
16 26 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 26 (1.34%) Replication
17 24 (1.24%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 465 (23.97%) Linux
2 343 (17.68%) Windows
3 289 (14.90%) Android
4 267 (13.76%) Apple iOS
5 59 (3.04%) Unix
6 40 (2.06%) CentOS
7 37 (1.91%) Ubuntu
8 31 (1.60%) AIX
9 29 (1.49%) Debian
9 29 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (0.98%) Windows Server
11 18 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.41%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 943 (48.61%) Agile
2 528 (27.22%) DevOps
3 490 (25.26%) Full Stack Development
4 451 (23.25%) MVC
5 420 (21.65%) Software Engineering
6 418 (21.55%) CI/CD
7 396 (20.41%) Design Patterns
8 390 (20.10%) OO
9 386 (19.90%) Microservices
10 361 (18.61%) Web Development
11 357 (18.40%) User Experience
12 335 (17.27%) OOP
13 330 (17.01%) SOLID
14 319 (16.44%) Artificial Intelligence
15 301 (15.52%) Mentoring
16 294 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
17 284 (14.64%) TDD
18 281 (14.48%) Scrum
19 278 (14.33%) MVVM
20 243 (12.53%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 929 (47.89%) SQL
2 842 (43.40%) JavaScript
3 712 (36.70%) Java
4 680 (35.05%) C#
5 429 (22.11%) Python
6 226 (11.65%) TypeScript
7 114 (5.88%) PHP
8 105 (5.41%) T-SQL
9 77 (3.97%) Go
10 74 (3.81%) PowerShell
11 73 (3.76%) VB.NET
12 59 (3.04%) C++
13 54 (2.78%) Scala
14 53 (2.73%) Apex Code
15 52 (2.68%) VB
16 50 (2.58%) C
16 50 (2.58%) Kotlin
17 35 (1.80%) PL/SQL
18 32 (1.65%) Groovy
19 28 (1.44%) VB6
Qualifications
1 181 (9.33%) Degree
2 155 (7.99%) Security Cleared
3 137 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 104 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.24%) Azure Certification
6 24 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 14 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 11 (0.57%) PhD
9 10 (0.52%) ISEB
9 10 (0.52%) ISTQB
10 9 (0.46%) CISSP
11 8 (0.41%) CISM
11 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.31%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.31%) GIAC
12 6 (0.31%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.31%) SANS
13 5 (0.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (7.68%) QA
2 51 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 17 (0.88%) GDPR
4 11 (0.57%) NIST
5 7 (0.36%) MiFID
6 6 (0.31%) COBIT
6 6 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.31%) PMO
6 6 (0.31%) SLA
6 6 (0.31%) Web Application Security Consortium
7 5 (0.26%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.26%) WCAG
8 4 (0.21%) GRC
9 3 (0.15%) EMIR
10 2 (0.10%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.10%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.10%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.052%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.052%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 341 (17.58%) Docker
2 25 (1.29%) Hyper-V
3 20 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
3 20 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.98%) Active Directory
5 14 (0.72%) HDFS
6 9 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.26%) Firmware
7 5 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.21%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Varnish
9 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.052%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.052%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 305 (15.72%) Kubernetes
2 123 (6.34%) Terraform
3 86 (4.43%) Ansible
4 46 (2.37%) Grafana
5 34 (1.75%) Puppet
6 30 (1.55%) Kibana
7 25 (1.29%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.08%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.08%) Zipkin
9 15 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.67%) WMI
11 11 (0.57%) Nmap
12 7 (0.36%) Packer
13 6 (0.31%) CloudHub
13 6 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.31%) Rancher
14 4 (0.21%) cPanel
15 3 (0.15%) Argo
15 3 (0.15%) Consul
Vendors
1 270 (13.92%) Red Hat
2 249 (12.84%) IBM
3 248 (12.78%) Microsoft
4 138 (7.11%) Oracle
5 132 (6.80%) Google
6 64 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 58 (2.99%) Splunk
8 42 (2.16%) Dynatrace
9 36 (1.86%) WSO2
10 29 (1.49%) SaltStack
10 29 (1.49%) ServiceNow
11 24 (1.24%) VMware
12 20 (1.03%) Databricks
13 14 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.72%) Cloudera
14 13 (0.67%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.67%) UiPath
15 12 (0.62%) Adobe
15 12 (0.62%) Sybase
16 11 (0.57%) Cisco