REST Jobs in Belfast

Representational State Transfer (REST)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 52 25
Rank change year-on-year +27 -27 +35
Permanent jobs citing REST 7 14 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 3.85% 2.57% 12.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.07% 9.59% 23.30%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 47
10th Percentile - £46,200 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £73,688 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £85,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +88.89% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £87,500 £52,875
90th Percentile £65,625 - £88,750
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £85,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -35.29% +88.89% +5.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 41 146 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 22.53% 26.79% 53.72%
Number of salaries quoted 16 76 272
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,188 £75,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £87,500 £65,000
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -0.99%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Belfast

REST
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for REST in Belfast

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 5 (71.43%) nginx
1 5 (71.43%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (71.43%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
1 6 (85.71%) Maven
2 5 (71.43%) Bitbucket
2 5 (71.43%) Cucumber
2 5 (71.43%) JUnit
2 5 (71.43%) Mockito
2 5 (71.43%) Postman
2 5 (71.43%) Selenium
2 5 (71.43%) SonarQube
2 5 (71.43%) TestNG
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Gradle
3 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
1 5 (71.43%) Manufacturing
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Java Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Kafka
1 6 (85.71%) Spring
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 5 (71.43%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (71.43%) Gherkin
2 5 (71.43%) Guice
2 5 (71.43%) JAX-RS
2 5 (71.43%) Mustache
2 5 (71.43%) OpenAPI
2 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 5 (71.43%) Swagger
2 5 (71.43%) WireMock
3 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
3 1 (14.29%) Grails
3 1 (14.29%) jQuery
3 1 (14.29%) Micronaut
3 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (14.29%) RxJava
3 1 (14.29%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) Unit Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Auto-Scaling
2 5 (71.43%) BDD
2 5 (71.43%) Code Quality
2 5 (71.43%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (71.43%) Innovative Thinking
2 5 (71.43%) Multithreading
2 5 (71.43%) MVC
2 5 (71.43%) OO
2 5 (71.43%) OOP
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) API Development
3 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
3 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Contract Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Groovy
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Kustomize
1 5 (71.43%) Packer
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat