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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 97 72
Rank change year-on-year -49 -25 -5
Permanent jobs citing REST 1,972 3,583 7,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.00% 3.45% 4.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.35% 11.42% 12.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,361 2,105 3,143
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +2.88% +12.50%
75th Percentile £78,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 21,099 31,386 62,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.42% 30.20% 40.41%
Number of salaries quoted 15,769 19,360 30,350
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £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 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for REST in the UK

REST
Top 17 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 30 April 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 -44 1,689 £60,000 -14.29% 348
UK excluding London -36 1,329 £55,000 -8.33% 228
Work from Home -46 766 £60,000 -11.11% 207
London -49 607 £75,000 -6.25% 139
North of England +15 324 £55,173 -8.05% 69
South East -42 324 £57,500 - 52
North West +60 236 £60,000 -14.29% 40
Midlands -20 219 £52,500 -12.50% 25
Scotland -48 175 £56,318 -5.39% 15
South West -35 151 £52,500 -8.70% 22
East Midlands -4 125 £50,000 -4.76% 7
West Midlands -35 94 £52,500 -12.50% 18
East of England -24 80 £47,500 -26.92% 35
Yorkshire -7 73 £47,500 -13.64% 24
Wales -13 39 £52,500 -12.50% 5
Northern Ireland -26 18 £85,000 +88.89% 6
North East -33 15 £47,500 -20.83% 5

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
1 120 (6.09%) IIS
2 80 (4.06%) Apache
3 45 (2.28%) Apache Spark
4 44 (2.23%) JBoss
5 42 (2.13%) OpenStack
6 40 (2.03%) CMS
6 40 (2.03%) Red Hat Fuse
7 33 (1.67%) SharePoint
8 25 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
9 23 (1.17%) Confluence
10 22 (1.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 21 (1.06%) GemFire
12 13 (0.66%) nginx
13 11 (0.56%) WordPress
14 10 (0.51%) EPiServer
15 6 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
16 5 (0.25%) Drupal
16 5 (0.25%) IBM Notes
16 5 (0.25%) Umbraco
17 4 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.46%) Trello
4 4 (0.20%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.81%) Shopify
3 11 (0.56%) Maximo
4 10 (0.51%) Elite 3E
5 9 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.30%) BusinessWorks
7 5 (0.25%) Temenos T24
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.10%) Magento
10 2 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.051%) Infor M3
11 1 (0.051%) NetSuite
11 1 (0.051%) Oracle FAH
11 1 (0.051%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
11 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
11 1 (0.051%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 783 (39.71%) Azure
2 451 (22.87%) AWS
3 301 (15.26%) Azure DevOps
4 267 (13.54%) Serverless
5 231 (11.71%) IBM Cloud
6 144 (7.30%) Azure Service Bus
7 143 (7.25%) SaaS
8 138 (7.00%) Azure Functions
9 129 (6.54%) GCP
10 126 (6.39%) Azure API Management
11 125 (6.34%) Azure Logic Apps
12 107 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
13 88 (4.46%) Power Platform
14 82 (4.16%) GitHub
15 62 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
16 58 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
17 30 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
18 28 (1.42%) OpenShift
18 28 (1.42%) Power Automate
19 24 (1.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.30%) HTTP
2 63 (3.19%) Firewall
3 55 (2.79%) Internet
4 54 (2.74%) DNS
5 48 (2.43%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.37%) AMQP
6 27 (1.37%) WAN
7 23 (1.17%) SSL
8 18 (0.91%) Kerberos
9 17 (0.86%) MQTT
9 17 (0.86%) SSH
9 17 (0.86%) VPN
10 15 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.76%) Wireless
11 13 (0.66%) 3G
11 13 (0.66%) SNMP
12 12 (0.61%) 4G
12 12 (0.61%) RS-485
13 11 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.56%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 443 (22.46%) PostgreSQL
2 365 (18.51%) NoSQL
3 340 (17.24%) SQL Server
4 305 (15.47%) MongoDB
5 273 (13.84%) Relational Database
6 228 (11.56%) DB2
7 117 (5.93%) MySQL
8 62 (3.14%) Redis
9 49 (2.48%) Power BI
10 43 (2.18%) Hadoop
11 38 (1.93%) CockroachDB
12 34 (1.72%) Big Data
13 33 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
14 29 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 29 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 26 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
16 25 (1.27%) Cloudera CDH
17 24 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
17 24 (1.22%) Oracle Database
18 22 (1.12%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 410 (20.79%) Git
2 252 (12.78%) Jenkins
3 130 (6.59%) JIRA
4 120 (6.09%) Postman
5 110 (5.58%) Cucumber
6 109 (5.53%) Selenium
7 70 (3.55%) Visual Studio
8 66 (3.35%) JUnit
9 62 (3.14%) IntelliJ
10 56 (2.84%) GitLab
11 38 (1.93%) Team Foundation Server
12 37 (1.88%) Eclipse
12 37 (1.88%) Jasmine
12 37 (1.88%) Maven
12 37 (1.88%) TeamCity
13 36 (1.83%) Oracle APEX
14 33 (1.67%) Karma Test Runner
15 30 (1.52%) Bitbucket
16 27 (1.37%) Cypress.io
16 27 (1.37%) WebDriver
General
1 421 (21.35%) Finance
2 351 (17.80%) Social Skills
3 323 (16.38%) Public Sector
4 234 (11.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 156 (7.91%) Law
6 89 (4.51%) Banking
7 79 (4.01%) Analytical Skills
8 77 (3.90%) Marketing
9 63 (3.19%) Retail
10 51 (2.59%) Legal
11 39 (1.98%) Investment Banking
12 32 (1.62%) Financial Institution
13 28 (1.42%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.37%) Aerospace
15 23 (1.17%) Games
16 21 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (0.66%) Mandarin Language
19 9 (0.46%) Front Office
20 8 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,031 (52.28%) Developer
2 431 (21.86%) Senior
3 273 (13.84%) Software Engineer
4 241 (12.22%) Lead
5 214 (10.85%) Senior Developer
6 208 (10.55%) Full Stack Developer
7 161 (8.16%) Java Developer
8 145 (7.35%) Full Stack Engineer
9 142 (7.20%) .NET Developer
10 132 (6.69%) Java Engineer
11 127 (6.44%) Azure Developer
12 111 (5.63%) Java Software Engineer
13 108 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
14 87 (4.41%) C# Developer
15 81 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
16 80 (4.06%) Software Developer
17 76 (3.85%) Architect
17 76 (3.85%) Lead Developer
18 64 (3.25%) Analyst
19 58 (2.94%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 692 (35.09%) .NET
2 673 (34.13%) Web Services
3 586 (29.72%) HTML
4 557 (28.25%) React
5 556 (28.19%) CSS
6 551 (27.94%) AngularJS
7 416 (21.10%) ASP.NET
8 369 (18.71%) JSON
8 369 (18.71%) SOAP
9 331 (16.78%) jQuery
10 324 (16.43%) Spring
11 323 (16.38%) Vue
12 302 (15.31%) XML
13 288 (14.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 278 (14.10%) Node.js
15 241 (12.22%) ASP.NET Core
16 225 (11.41%) Backbone.js
16 225 (11.41%) Ember.js
17 220 (11.16%) Spring Boot
18 154 (7.81%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 264 (13.39%) Algorithms
2 260 (13.18%) Data Structures
3 231 (11.71%) Blockchain
4 228 (11.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 106 (5.38%) e-Learning
6 92 (4.67%) Cloud Native
7 77 (3.90%) Management Information System
8 72 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
9 71 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
9 71 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
10 68 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
11 61 (3.09%) Product Ownership
12 38 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
13 35 (1.77%) Public Cloud
14 32 (1.62%) Clustering
15 31 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 28 (1.42%) Mobile App
17 27 (1.37%) Replication
18 25 (1.27%) IoT
19 22 (1.12%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 439 (22.26%) Linux
2 324 (16.43%) Windows
3 275 (13.95%) Android
4 252 (12.78%) Apple iOS
5 58 (2.94%) Unix
6 36 (1.83%) CentOS
7 34 (1.72%) Ubuntu
8 31 (1.57%) AIX
9 25 (1.27%) Debian
9 25 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (0.96%) Windows Server
11 17 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.41%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.20%) VMS
14 1 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (47.87%) Agile
2 514 (26.06%) DevOps
3 469 (23.78%) Full Stack Development
4 437 (22.16%) CI/CD
5 435 (22.06%) MVC
6 410 (20.79%) Software Engineering
7 384 (19.47%) Design Patterns
8 381 (19.32%) Microservices
9 380 (19.27%) User Experience
10 371 (18.81%) OO
11 346 (17.55%) Web Development
12 319 (16.18%) SOLID
13 314 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
14 313 (15.87%) OOP
15 311 (15.77%) Artificial Intelligence
16 301 (15.26%) Mentoring
17 279 (14.15%) Scrum
17 279 (14.15%) TDD
18 264 (13.39%) MVVM
19 232 (11.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 936 (47.46%) SQL
2 852 (43.20%) JavaScript
3 743 (37.68%) Java
4 675 (34.23%) C#
5 432 (21.91%) Python
6 229 (11.61%) TypeScript
7 117 (5.93%) PHP
8 111 (5.63%) T-SQL
9 80 (4.06%) PowerShell
10 75 (3.80%) VB.NET
11 74 (3.75%) Go
12 58 (2.94%) C++
13 52 (2.64%) VB
14 49 (2.48%) Apex Code
15 48 (2.43%) C
16 45 (2.28%) PL/SQL
17 38 (1.93%) Kotlin
18 31 (1.57%) Groovy
19 28 (1.42%) VB6
20 26 (1.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 204 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 186 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 164 (8.32%) Degree
4 87 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 27 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 22 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 19 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.61%) ISEB
10 12 (0.61%) ISTQB
11 11 (0.56%) PhD
12 9 (0.46%) CISSP
13 8 (0.41%) CISM
13 8 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.30%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.30%) GIAC
15 6 (0.30%) SANS
16 5 (0.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (8.82%) QA
2 60 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.81%) GDPR
4 11 (0.56%) NIST
5 9 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.46%) WCAG
6 6 (0.30%) COBIT
6 6 (0.30%) PMO
6 6 (0.30%) SLA
6 6 (0.30%) Web Application Security Consortium
7 5 (0.25%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.20%) GRC
8 4 (0.20%) MiFID
9 3 (0.15%) ISO 9000
9 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.051%) EMIR
11 1 (0.051%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.051%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.051%) NCSC
System Software
1 341 (17.29%) Docker
2 31 (1.57%) Hyper-V
3 30 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.96%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
5 16 (0.81%) HDFS
6 13 (0.66%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.25%) Firmware
8 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.20%) vSphere
10 3 (0.15%) Varnish
10 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.051%) KVM
11 1 (0.051%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.051%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 309 (15.67%) Kubernetes
2 122 (6.19%) Terraform
3 88 (4.46%) Ansible
4 48 (2.43%) Grafana
5 31 (1.57%) Puppet
6 29 (1.47%) Kibana
7 25 (1.27%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.06%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.06%) Zipkin
9 15 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.66%) WMI
11 9 (0.46%) Nmap
12 8 (0.41%) Packer
13 6 (0.30%) CloudHub
13 6 (0.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.30%) Rancher
14 5 (0.25%) Consul
15 4 (0.20%) cPanel
16 3 (0.15%) Argo
Vendors
1 266 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 254 (12.88%) Red Hat
3 244 (12.37%) IBM
4 150 (7.61%) Oracle
5 137 (6.95%) Google
6 60 (3.04%) Salesforce
7 59 (2.99%) Splunk
8 43 (2.18%) Dynatrace
9 42 (2.13%) WSO2
10 36 (1.83%) ServiceNow
11 34 (1.72%) VMware
12 25 (1.27%) SaltStack
13 23 (1.17%) Databricks
14 16 (0.81%) Cloudera
15 15 (0.76%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.71%) CheckPoint
16 14 (0.71%) UiPath
17 12 (0.61%) MuleSoft
18 11 (0.56%) Blue Prism
18 11 (0.56%) Cisco