REST Job Trends in Berkshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring REST skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 79 76
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +32
Permanent jobs citing REST 78 67 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.79% 2.75% 3.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.67% 14.76% 13.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18 25 43
10th Percentile £80,125 £48,758 £37,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +33.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile - £91,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 225 454 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.94% 18.65% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 112 290 419
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,011 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £50,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £105,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £56,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.66% -6.24% +4.35%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Berkshire

REST
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 September 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in Berkshire

REST
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 September 2025. 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
Reading +46 49 £82,500 +22.22% 5
Ascot +5 7 £82,500 -
Windsor -50 7 £80,000 -3.03% 3
Maidenhead - 7 £60,000 - 1
Slough - 6 - - 13
Bracknell +15 1 £85,000 +1.49% 4
REST
South East

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 7 (8.97%) JBoss
1 7 (8.97%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (3.85%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.28%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 39 (50.00%) AWS
2 34 (43.59%) Amazon ECS
2 34 (43.59%) Amazon EKS
2 34 (43.59%) Serverless
3 28 (35.90%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (23.08%) Azure
4 18 (23.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 16 (20.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 16 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (20.51%) Azure Service Bus
5 16 (20.51%) SonarCloud
6 7 (8.97%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.85%) AWS KMS
9 2 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.56%) OCI
9 2 (2.56%) Route 53
9 2 (2.56%) SaaS
10 1 (1.28%) iPaaS
10 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (43.59%) Relational Database
3 24 (30.77%) RDBMS
4 16 (20.51%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.56%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 39 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 36 (46.15%) JUnit
3 30 (38.46%) Git
4 28 (35.90%) Mockito
5 24 (30.77%) JMeter
6 16 (20.51%) MSBuild
6 16 (20.51%) Octopus Deploy
6 16 (20.51%) Team Foundation Server
6 16 (20.51%) Visual Studio
7 5 (6.41%) Maven
8 4 (5.13%) SonarQube
9 3 (3.85%) DbUnit
9 3 (3.85%) jMock
10 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 35 (44.87%) Public Sector
2 21 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 18 (23.08%) Law
3 18 (23.08%) Marketing
4 15 (19.23%) Retail
5 3 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.85%) Finance
5 3 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (48.72%) Developer
2 37 (47.44%) Java Developer
3 34 (43.59%) Architect
4 18 (23.08%) Enterprise Architect
4 18 (23.08%) Salesforce Architect
5 16 (20.51%) Technical Architect
6 15 (19.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (19.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (11.54%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Senior
9 3 (3.85%) Analyst
9 3 (3.85%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.56%) Lead
10 2 (2.56%) Lead Developer
10 2 (2.56%) Lead Java Developer
10 2 (2.56%) Oracle Analyst
10 2 (2.56%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (2.56%) Technical Analyst
11 1 (1.28%) Applications Engineer
11 1 (1.28%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (51.28%) HTML
2 39 (50.00%) Spring
2 39 (50.00%) Web Services
3 38 (48.72%) Spring Boot
4 36 (46.15%) JSON
4 36 (46.15%) XML
5 33 (42.31%) SOAP
6 31 (39.74%) Apache Camel
7 29 (37.18%) ActiveMQ
8 28 (35.90%) Hibernate
9 24 (30.77%) jQuery
9 24 (30.77%) WireMock
10 20 (25.64%) Bootstrap
10 20 (25.64%) Middleware
11 18 (23.08%) Lightning Web Components
12 17 (21.79%) .NET
13 16 (20.51%) ASP.NET
13 16 (20.51%) CSS
13 16 (20.51%) gRPC
14 10 (12.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (47.44%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.85%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.28%) IoT
4 1 (1.28%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.56%) Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Android
2 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (93.59%) Microservices
2 59 (75.64%) Agile
3 47 (60.26%) CI/CD
4 43 (55.13%) DevOps
5 40 (51.28%) TDD
6 34 (43.59%) BDD
6 34 (43.59%) Design Patterns
7 33 (42.31%) Technical Leadership
8 25 (32.05%) Workflow
9 24 (30.77%) Process Management
10 22 (28.21%) Scrum
11 21 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (24.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (23.08%) Data Management
13 18 (23.08%) Data Privacy
13 18 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
13 18 (23.08%) Master Data Management
13 18 (23.08%) Software Delivery
13 18 (23.08%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 44 (56.41%) JavaScript
2 39 (50.00%) Java
3 24 (30.77%) Python
3 24 (30.77%) Shell Script
4 23 (29.49%) SQL
5 18 (23.08%) Apex Code
6 17 (21.79%) C#
7 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 18 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (23.08%) Degree
2 18 (23.08%) Master's Degree
3 15 (19.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (23.08%) Data Quality
1 18 (23.08%) GDPR
2 7 (8.97%) SLA
3 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (69.23%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 34 (43.59%) Kubernetes
2 24 (30.77%) Kibana
3 7 (8.97%) Ansible
4 2 (2.56%) Grafana
4 2 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (30.77%) Dynatrace
1 24 (30.77%) Splunk
2 18 (23.08%) Salesforce
2 18 (23.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 3 (3.85%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (3.85%) Oracle
4 2 (2.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.28%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow