REST Jobs in the UK excluding London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 118 113
Rank change year-on-year -36 -5 -25
Permanent jobs citing REST 1,317 1,710 2,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.86% 2.84% 2.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.20% 10.36% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 795 851 1,259
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 14,309 16,513 23,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.18% 27.45% 32.68%
Number of salaries quoted 10,306 9,119 14,398
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East -48 326 £57,500 - 43
North of England +26 325 £55,173 -15.12% 65
North West +60 240 £60,000 -14.29% 36
Midlands -17 218 £52,500 -12.50% 17
Scotland -48 169 £56,318 -5.77% 11
South West -43 147 £52,500 -10.64% 19
East Midlands +4 130 £50,000 -2.44% 8
West Midlands -48 88 £52,500 -12.50% 9
East of England -20 78 £47,500 -20.83% 28
Yorkshire -3 71 £47,500 -17.39% 22
Wales -13 40 £52,500 -19.23% 4
Northern Ireland -29 16 £85,000 +88.89% 14
North East -33 14 £47,500 -20.83% 7
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 2
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 90 (6.83%) IIS
2 67 (5.09%) Apache
3 42 (3.19%) Apache Spark
4 35 (2.66%) OpenStack
5 21 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (1.59%) GemFire
6 20 (1.52%) JBoss
6 20 (1.52%) Red Hat Fuse
7 17 (1.29%) Cloud Foundry
8 16 (1.21%) CMS
9 14 (1.06%) SharePoint
10 8 (0.61%) WordPress
11 6 (0.46%) Confluence
12 4 (0.30%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.23%) nginx
13 3 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
13 3 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
13 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.15%) Liferay
14 2 (0.15%) Magnolia
Applications
1 14 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.68%) Trello
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 15 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 15 (1.14%) Shopify
2 10 (0.76%) Maximo
3 3 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.076%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.076%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 588 (44.65%) Azure
2 317 (24.07%) AWS
3 234 (17.77%) IBM Cloud
4 222 (16.86%) Serverless
5 206 (15.64%) Azure DevOps
6 127 (9.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 119 (9.04%) Azure Functions
8 118 (8.96%) Azure API Management
9 117 (8.88%) Azure Logic Apps
10 90 (6.83%) Amazon EKS
11 73 (5.54%) GCP
12 58 (4.40%) GitHub
13 53 (4.02%) Power Platform
14 50 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
15 47 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (3.11%) SaaS
17 28 (2.13%) OpenShift
18 26 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
19 25 (1.90%) Power Automate
20 18 (1.37%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.25%) Firewall
2 46 (3.49%) DNS
3 44 (3.34%) TCP/IP
4 27 (2.05%) AMQP
4 27 (2.05%) HTTP
5 23 (1.75%) WAN
6 19 (1.44%) SSL
7 17 (1.29%) Kerberos
7 17 (1.29%) MQTT
8 13 (0.99%) SNMP
8 13 (0.99%) SSH
9 12 (0.91%) 3G
9 12 (0.91%) 4G
9 12 (0.91%) RS-485
9 12 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.91%) Wireless
10 10 (0.76%) Internet
11 3 (0.23%) DMZ
11 3 (0.23%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (28.85%) PostgreSQL
2 324 (24.60%) NoSQL
3 279 (21.18%) MongoDB
4 230 (17.46%) DB2
5 225 (17.08%) Relational Database
6 219 (16.63%) SQL Server
7 88 (6.68%) MySQL
8 43 (3.26%) Hadoop
9 38 (2.89%) CockroachDB
10 33 (2.51%) Big Data
11 29 (2.20%) Power BI
12 26 (1.97%) Cloudera CDH
13 24 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
14 23 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
15 21 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
15 21 (1.59%) Hazelcast
16 20 (1.52%) Redis
17 19 (1.44%) GIS
18 16 (1.21%) Apache Hive
18 16 (1.21%) HBase
Development Applications
1 298 (22.63%) Git
2 133 (10.10%) Jenkins
3 75 (5.69%) JIRA
4 53 (4.02%) JUnit
5 35 (2.66%) GitLab
5 35 (2.66%) IntelliJ
5 35 (2.66%) Postman
6 34 (2.58%) Selenium
7 33 (2.51%) Eclipse
8 32 (2.43%) Jasmine
9 30 (2.28%) Maven
9 30 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
10 28 (2.13%) Karma Test Runner
11 27 (2.05%) Octopus Deploy
11 27 (2.05%) Visual Studio
12 21 (1.59%) Cucumber
12 21 (1.59%) Jaeger
13 19 (1.44%) Bitbucket
14 18 (1.37%) TeamCity
15 17 (1.29%) Mockito
General
1 289 (21.94%) Public Sector
2 282 (21.41%) Finance
3 222 (16.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 205 (15.57%) Social Skills
5 128 (9.72%) Law
6 68 (5.16%) Marketing
7 62 (4.71%) Banking
8 48 (3.64%) Retail
9 47 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
10 34 (2.58%) Investment Banking
11 29 (2.20%) Legal
12 26 (1.97%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.82%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.75%) Games
15 14 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.99%) Telecoms
17 12 (0.91%) Mandarin Language
18 10 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
19 6 (0.46%) Private Banking
20 5 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 745 (56.57%) Developer
2 229 (17.39%) Senior
3 198 (15.03%) Software Engineer
4 157 (11.92%) Full Stack Developer
5 147 (11.16%) Full Stack Engineer
6 139 (10.55%) Lead
7 132 (10.02%) Senior Developer
8 121 (9.19%) Java Developer
9 119 (9.04%) Azure Developer
10 110 (8.35%) Azure Engineer
11 109 (8.28%) Java Engineer
12 92 (6.99%) .NET Developer
13 90 (6.83%) Java Software Engineer
14 76 (5.77%) Software Developer
15 62 (4.71%) C# Developer
16 59 (4.48%) Lead Developer
17 49 (3.72%) PHP Developer
18 42 (3.19%) Lead Java Engineer
18 42 (3.19%) Support Engineer
19 40 (3.04%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 532 (40.39%) .NET
2 518 (39.33%) Web Services
3 474 (35.99%) HTML
4 468 (35.54%) AngularJS
5 463 (35.16%) CSS
6 449 (34.09%) React
7 338 (25.66%) ASP.NET
8 308 (23.39%) Vue
9 293 (22.25%) jQuery
10 275 (20.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 261 (19.82%) Spring
12 243 (18.45%) Node.js
13 240 (18.22%) ASP.NET Core
14 230 (17.46%) SOAP
15 228 (17.31%) Backbone.js
15 228 (17.31%) Ember.js
16 220 (16.70%) JSON
17 186 (14.12%) XML
18 181 (13.74%) Spring Boot
19 119 (9.04%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 260 (19.74%) Algorithms
2 236 (17.92%) Data Structures
3 230 (17.46%) Blockchain
3 230 (17.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 114 (8.66%) e-Learning
5 79 (6.00%) Cloud Native
6 61 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
8 50 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
9 46 (3.49%) Management Information System
10 34 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
11 32 (2.43%) Public Cloud
12 28 (2.13%) Clustering
12 28 (2.13%) Product Ownership
13 26 (1.97%) Replication
14 21 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 19 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
16 14 (1.06%) CMDB
17 12 (0.91%) Mobile App
18 11 (0.84%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 379 (28.78%) Linux
2 304 (23.08%) Windows
3 263 (19.97%) Android
4 248 (18.83%) Apple iOS
5 34 (2.58%) Ubuntu
6 32 (2.43%) Unix
7 26 (1.97%) CentOS
7 26 (1.97%) Debian
7 26 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.90%) AIX
9 17 (1.29%) Embedded Linux
10 11 (0.84%) Windows Server
11 3 (0.23%) VMS
11 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (52.09%) Agile
2 385 (29.23%) MVC
3 377 (28.63%) Full Stack Development
4 341 (25.89%) OO
5 333 (25.28%) Design Patterns
6 329 (24.98%) DevOps
6 329 (24.98%) Web Development
7 324 (24.60%) User Experience
8 310 (23.54%) OOP
9 290 (22.02%) SOLID
10 289 (21.94%) Artificial Intelligence
11 283 (21.49%) Software Engineering
12 277 (21.03%) Microservices
13 253 (19.21%) MVVM
14 245 (18.60%) CI/CD
15 234 (17.77%) Mentoring
16 232 (17.62%) Responsive Web Design
17 228 (17.31%) Co-Creation
17 228 (17.31%) Design Thinking
18 208 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 699 (53.08%) SQL
2 651 (49.43%) JavaScript
3 530 (40.24%) Java
4 505 (38.34%) C#
5 290 (22.02%) Python
6 166 (12.60%) TypeScript
7 78 (5.92%) PHP
8 66 (5.01%) T-SQL
9 64 (4.86%) VB.NET
10 52 (3.95%) C++
11 51 (3.87%) VB
12 48 (3.64%) Go
13 46 (3.49%) C
14 31 (2.35%) PowerShell
15 30 (2.28%) Apex Code
16 28 (2.13%) VB6
17 26 (1.97%) Groovy
18 21 (1.59%) Kotlin
18 21 (1.59%) XAML
19 18 (1.37%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 142 (10.78%) Security Cleared
2 132 (10.02%) SC Cleared
3 86 (6.53%) Degree
4 37 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (2.58%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 11 (0.84%) ISEB
7 11 (0.84%) ISTQB
7 11 (0.84%) PhD
8 10 (0.76%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.46%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.23%) MCPD
13 2 (0.15%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.076%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.076%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (6.61%) QA
2 32 (2.43%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.21%) GDPR
4 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.23%) NIST
5 1 (0.076%) GRC
5 1 (0.076%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 244 (18.53%) Docker
2 27 (2.05%) Hyper-V
3 23 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
5 16 (1.21%) HDFS
6 11 (0.84%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.38%) Firmware
8 4 (0.30%) Active Directory
8 4 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.23%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 198 (15.03%) Kubernetes
2 93 (7.06%) Terraform
3 74 (5.62%) Ansible
4 40 (3.04%) Grafana
5 29 (2.20%) Puppet
6 26 (1.97%) Kibana
7 22 (1.67%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.59%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.59%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.59%) Zipkin
9 13 (0.99%) WMI
10 6 (0.46%) Rancher
11 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.15%) cPanel
13 1 (0.076%) Istio
13 1 (0.076%) Packer
13 1 (0.076%) Podman
Vendors
1 256 (19.44%) Red Hat
2 244 (18.53%) IBM
3 199 (15.11%) Microsoft
4 98 (7.44%) Google
5 84 (6.38%) Oracle
6 59 (4.48%) Splunk
7 42 (3.19%) Dynatrace
8 39 (2.96%) Salesforce
9 35 (2.66%) WSO2
10 27 (2.05%) VMware
11 26 (1.97%) SaltStack
12 19 (1.44%) Databricks
13 16 (1.21%) Cloudera
14 12 (0.91%) CheckPoint
15 9 (0.68%) ServiceNow
16 6 (0.46%) Adobe
16 6 (0.46%) Guidewire
17 4 (0.30%) Confluent
17 4 (0.30%) ForgeRock
17 4 (0.30%) WooCommerce