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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 39 65
Rank change year-on-year -60 +26 +53
Permanent jobs citing REST 31 123 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.55% 7.05% 4.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.26% 26.45% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9 43 49
10th Percentile £62,000 £60,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +37.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile - £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,750 £84,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -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 153 465 467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.65% 26.65% 24.21%
Number of salaries quoted 82 279 330
10th Percentile £32,750 £45,000 £46,135
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.66% +1.92%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing REST relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

REST job vacancy trend 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 31 December 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 31 December 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 +10 24 £80,000 +23.08% 49
Slough -38 3 - - 105
Maidenhead - 3 £65,000 - 2
Ascot -1 1 £82,500 -
REST
South East

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (19.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 20 (64.52%) AWS
2 19 (61.29%) Amazon ECS
2 19 (61.29%) Amazon EKS
2 19 (61.29%) Serverless
3 13 (41.94%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (19.35%) Amazon S3
4 6 (19.35%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (16.13%) Azure
6 3 (9.68%) Power Automate
6 3 (9.68%) Zapier
7 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.23%) SaaS
8 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (3.23%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Internet
2 3 (9.68%) MQTT
2 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (61.29%) PostgreSQL
1 19 (61.29%) Relational Database
2 13 (41.94%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 20 (64.52%) Jenkins
2 14 (45.16%) JUnit
3 13 (41.94%) JMeter
3 13 (41.94%) Mockito
4 8 (25.81%) Git
5 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.23%) MSBuild
5 1 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (45.16%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (83.87%) Developer
2 23 (74.19%) Java Developer
3 16 (51.61%) Full-Stack Developer
3 16 (51.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 13 (41.94%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 6 (19.35%) Senior
5 6 (19.35%) Senior Developer
6 5 (16.13%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (9.68%) C# Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Integration Developer
9 1 (3.23%) Architect
9 1 (3.23%) Lead
9 1 (3.23%) Lead DevOps
9 1 (3.23%) Senior C# Developer
9 1 (3.23%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (74.19%) Spring Boot
2 19 (61.29%) Spring
3 18 (58.06%) Web Services
4 14 (45.16%) HTML
4 14 (45.16%) JSON
4 14 (45.16%) XML
5 13 (41.94%) ActiveMQ
5 13 (41.94%) Apache Camel
5 13 (41.94%) Hibernate
5 13 (41.94%) jQuery
5 13 (41.94%) WireMock
6 10 (32.26%) React
7 6 (19.35%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (19.35%) Kafka
7 6 (19.35%) Mustache
7 6 (19.35%) Node.js
8 4 (12.90%) .NET
8 4 (12.90%) Middleware
8 4 (12.90%) SOAP
9 3 (9.68%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 19 (61.29%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (22.58%) IoT
3 3 (9.68%) Life Science
3 3 (9.68%) LIMS
3 3 (9.68%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (80.65%) Microservices
2 20 (64.52%) Agile
2 20 (64.52%) CI/CD
3 19 (61.29%) TDD
4 18 (58.06%) SDLC
5 17 (54.84%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (41.94%) BDD
6 13 (41.94%) Process Management
6 13 (41.94%) Workflow
7 6 (19.35%) Scrum
8 3 (9.68%) Biotechnology
8 3 (9.68%) Computer Science
8 3 (9.68%) Data Integration
8 3 (9.68%) Data Management
8 3 (9.68%) DevOps
8 3 (9.68%) ERP
8 3 (9.68%) Informatics
8 3 (9.68%) Information Management
8 3 (9.68%) Telematics
8 3 (9.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) Java
2 21 (67.74%) JavaScript
3 17 (54.84%) Python
4 13 (41.94%) Shell Script
5 4 (12.90%) C#
5 4 (12.90%) SQL
6 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) Degree
3 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.68%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
2 3 (9.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 3 (9.68%) GxP
2 3 (9.68%) QA
3 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (64.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (74.19%) Kubernetes
2 13 (41.94%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) Dynatrace
1 13 (41.94%) Splunk
2 3 (9.68%) Agilent
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce