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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 103 67
Rank change year-on-year -46 -36 -5
Permanent jobs citing REST 1,943 3,228 8,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.93% 3.28% 5.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.18% 10.84% 12.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,310 1,867 3,146
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £40,187
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% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,170 £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 21,177 29,778 67,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.98% 30.23% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,813 18,285 29,893
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,535 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.30% +15.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £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 23 May 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 23 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
England -46 1,672 £60,000 -14.29% 360
UK excluding London -30 1,325 £55,000 -8.33% 263
Work from Home -38 732 £60,000 -11.11% 212
London -53 581 £75,000 -3.62% 179
North of England +35 346 £55,173 -15.12% 54
South East -41 321 £57,500 +1.60% 110
North West +61 257 £60,000 -9.43% 29
Midlands -31 214 £52,500 -12.50% 23
Scotland -39 164 £56,318 -8.05% 14
South West -38 146 £53,500 -10.83% 18
East Midlands +5 125 £50,000 -4.76% 13
West Midlands -46 89 £52,500 -12.50% 10
East of England -30 80 £47,500 -17.39% 30
Yorkshire -13 74 £47,500 -17.39% 21
Wales -6 40 £52,500 -19.23% 3
Northern Ireland -32 16 £85,000 +88.89% 13
North East -32 15 £47,500 -24.00% 7
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

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
1 115 (5.92%) IIS
2 85 (4.37%) Apache
3 49 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 41 (2.11%) OpenStack
5 39 (2.01%) CMS
6 27 (1.39%) JBoss
7 26 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
7 26 (1.34%) Cloud Foundry
8 25 (1.29%) Confluence
9 23 (1.18%) SharePoint
10 22 (1.13%) Red Hat Fuse
11 21 (1.08%) GemFire
12 13 (0.67%) nginx
13 11 (0.57%) WordPress
14 10 (0.51%) EPiServer
15 6 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
16 5 (0.26%) Drupal
16 5 (0.26%) IBM Notes
16 5 (0.26%) Umbraco
17 4 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 15 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.51%) 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 15 (0.77%) Shopify
3 7 (0.36%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.31%) Maximo
4 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.26%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.15%) BusinessWorks
7 3 (0.15%) Magento
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.10%) SAP Business ByDesign
8 2 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.051%) HFM
9 1 (0.051%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.051%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle FAH
9 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.051%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 783 (40.30%) Azure
2 474 (24.40%) AWS
3 300 (15.44%) Azure DevOps
4 279 (14.36%) Serverless
5 243 (12.51%) IBM Cloud
6 145 (7.46%) Azure Service Bus
7 142 (7.31%) Azure Functions
8 133 (6.85%) GCP
9 130 (6.69%) Azure API Management
9 130 (6.69%) Azure Logic Apps
10 122 (6.28%) SaaS
11 108 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
12 82 (4.22%) GitHub
13 81 (4.17%) Power Platform
14 61 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
14 61 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
16 31 (1.60%) OpenShift
17 28 (1.44%) Power Automate
18 22 (1.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (3.40%) HTTP
2 59 (3.04%) Firewall
3 54 (2.78%) DNS
4 51 (2.62%) Internet
5 48 (2.47%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.54%) AMQP
7 23 (1.18%) SSL
8 19 (0.98%) WAN
9 18 (0.93%) Kerberos
9 18 (0.93%) SSH
10 17 (0.87%) MQTT
10 17 (0.87%) VPN
11 15 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.77%) Wireless
12 13 (0.67%) SNMP
13 12 (0.62%) 3G
13 12 (0.62%) 4G
13 12 (0.62%) RS-485
14 11 (0.57%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.57%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 468 (24.09%) PostgreSQL
2 390 (20.07%) NoSQL
3 321 (16.52%) MongoDB
4 319 (16.42%) SQL Server
5 279 (14.36%) Relational Database
6 240 (12.35%) DB2
7 111 (5.71%) MySQL
8 70 (3.60%) Redis
9 50 (2.57%) Power BI
10 47 (2.42%) Hadoop
11 41 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
12 38 (1.96%) Big Data
12 38 (1.96%) CockroachDB
13 33 (1.70%) DynamoDB
14 29 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
14 29 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 28 (1.44%) Cloudera CDH
15 28 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 23 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
17 22 (1.13%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 416 (21.41%) Git
2 222 (11.43%) Jenkins
3 126 (6.48%) JIRA
4 92 (4.73%) Postman
5 90 (4.63%) Selenium
6 85 (4.37%) Cucumber
7 74 (3.81%) Visual Studio
8 60 (3.09%) GitLab
9 59 (3.04%) JUnit
10 42 (2.16%) IntelliJ
11 37 (1.90%) Eclipse
11 37 (1.90%) Jasmine
11 37 (1.90%) Team Foundation Server
12 35 (1.80%) Maven
12 35 (1.80%) Oracle APEX
13 33 (1.70%) Karma Test Runner
14 31 (1.60%) TeamCity
15 30 (1.54%) Bitbucket
15 30 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
16 24 (1.24%) WebDriver
General
1 431 (22.18%) Finance
2 367 (18.89%) Social Skills
3 314 (16.16%) Public Sector
4 241 (12.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 155 (7.98%) Law
6 86 (4.43%) Banking
7 81 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
8 79 (4.07%) Marketing
9 66 (3.40%) Retail
10 49 (2.52%) Legal
11 40 (2.06%) Investment Banking
12 32 (1.65%) Financial Institution
13 30 (1.54%) Aerospace
14 28 (1.44%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.24%) Games
16 20 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (0.67%) Billing
18 13 (0.67%) Front Office
18 13 (0.67%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 1,019 (52.44%) Developer
2 410 (21.10%) Senior
3 278 (14.31%) Software Engineer
4 235 (12.09%) Lead
5 215 (11.07%) Senior Developer
6 213 (10.96%) Full Stack Developer
7 155 (7.98%) Full Stack Engineer
8 153 (7.87%) Java Developer
9 137 (7.05%) .NET Developer
10 134 (6.90%) Azure Developer
11 115 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
11 115 (5.92%) Java Engineer
12 94 (4.84%) Java Software Engineer
13 92 (4.73%) C# Developer
14 80 (4.12%) Software Developer
15 73 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
16 70 (3.60%) Lead Developer
17 67 (3.45%) Analyst
18 66 (3.40%) Architect
19 54 (2.78%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 701 (36.08%) .NET
2 697 (35.87%) Web Services
3 597 (30.73%) HTML
4 569 (29.28%) React
5 568 (29.23%) CSS
6 550 (28.31%) AngularJS
7 426 (21.92%) ASP.NET
8 353 (18.17%) JSON
9 342 (17.60%) SOAP
10 339 (17.45%) Vue
11 338 (17.40%) jQuery
12 302 (15.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 300 (15.44%) Spring
14 282 (14.51%) Node.js
15 281 (14.46%) XML
16 254 (13.07%) ASP.NET Core
17 238 (12.25%) Backbone.js
17 238 (12.25%) Ember.js
18 215 (11.07%) Spring Boot
19 164 (8.44%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 278 (14.31%) Algorithms
2 272 (14.00%) Data Structures
3 244 (12.56%) Blockchain
4 241 (12.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 115 (5.92%) e-Learning
6 96 (4.94%) Cloud Native
7 80 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
8 76 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
9 74 (3.81%) Management Information System
10 64 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
11 63 (3.24%) Product Ownership
12 62 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
13 35 (1.80%) Public Cloud
14 33 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
15 32 (1.65%) Mobile App
16 27 (1.39%) Blog
16 27 (1.39%) Replication
17 26 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 24 (1.24%) Clustering
18 24 (1.24%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 458 (23.57%) Linux
2 343 (17.65%) Windows
3 288 (14.82%) Android
4 266 (13.69%) Apple iOS
5 60 (3.09%) Unix
6 39 (2.01%) CentOS
7 36 (1.85%) Ubuntu
8 31 (1.60%) AIX
9 28 (1.44%) Debian
9 28 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (0.98%) Windows Server
11 17 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.41%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (48.58%) Agile
2 524 (26.97%) DevOps
3 486 (25.01%) Full Stack Development
4 450 (23.16%) MVC
5 426 (21.92%) CI/CD
6 416 (21.41%) Software Engineering
7 395 (20.33%) Design Patterns
8 393 (20.23%) Microservices
9 386 (19.87%) OO
10 370 (19.04%) User Experience
11 360 (18.53%) Web Development
12 330 (16.98%) OOP
13 328 (16.88%) SOLID
14 324 (16.68%) Artificial Intelligence
15 302 (15.54%) Mentoring
15 302 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
16 292 (15.03%) TDD
17 285 (14.67%) Scrum
18 278 (14.31%) MVVM
19 243 (12.51%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 941 (48.43%) SQL
2 844 (43.44%) JavaScript
3 725 (37.31%) Java
4 679 (34.95%) C#
5 435 (22.39%) Python
6 223 (11.48%) TypeScript
7 114 (5.87%) PHP
8 105 (5.40%) T-SQL
9 76 (3.91%) Go
10 75 (3.86%) PowerShell
11 73 (3.76%) VB.NET
12 58 (2.99%) C++
13 52 (2.68%) Apex Code
13 52 (2.68%) VB
14 49 (2.52%) C
15 45 (2.32%) Kotlin
16 37 (1.90%) Scala
17 36 (1.85%) PL/SQL
18 32 (1.65%) Groovy
19 28 (1.44%) VB6
Qualifications
1 175 (9.01%) Security Cleared
2 173 (8.90%) Degree
3 156 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 95 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 27 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 23 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 14 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 13 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.57%) ISEB
10 11 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.57%) PhD
11 9 (0.46%) CISSP
12 8 (0.41%) CISM
13 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.31%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.31%) GIAC
14 6 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (0.31%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (7.87%) QA
2 55 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.82%) GDPR
4 11 (0.57%) NIST
5 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.31%) COBIT
6 6 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.31%) MiFID
6 6 (0.31%) PMO
6 6 (0.31%) SLA
6 6 (0.31%) WCAG
6 6 (0.31%) Web Application Security Consortium
7 4 (0.21%) GRC
8 2 (0.10%) EMIR
8 2 (0.10%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.10%) ISO 9000
8 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.10%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.051%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.051%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 342 (17.60%) Docker
2 31 (1.60%) Hyper-V
3 21 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.98%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
5 16 (0.82%) HDFS
6 9 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.26%) Firmware
9 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.21%) vSphere
10 3 (0.15%) Varnish
10 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.051%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.051%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 310 (15.95%) Kubernetes
2 126 (6.48%) Terraform
3 91 (4.68%) Ansible
4 48 (2.47%) Grafana
5 33 (1.70%) Puppet
6 29 (1.49%) 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 6 (0.31%) CloudHub
12 6 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.31%) Packer
12 6 (0.31%) Rancher
13 4 (0.21%) cPanel
14 3 (0.15%) Argo
14 3 (0.15%) Consul
Vendors
1 268 (13.79%) Red Hat
2 250 (12.87%) IBM
2 250 (12.87%) Microsoft
3 141 (7.26%) Oracle
4 136 (7.00%) Google
5 62 (3.19%) Salesforce
6 59 (3.04%) Splunk
7 43 (2.21%) Dynatrace
8 41 (2.11%) WSO2
9 31 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 28 (1.44%) SaltStack
11 25 (1.29%) VMware
12 23 (1.18%) Databricks
13 16 (0.82%) Cloudera
14 13 (0.67%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.67%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.67%) UiPath
15 12 (0.62%) Adobe
16 11 (0.57%) Cisco
17 10 (0.51%) Sybase