REST Job Trends in Bristol

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 79 99
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 -31
Permanent jobs citing REST 27 12 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.98% 1.11% 1.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.92% 6.22% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25 4 42
10th Percentile £46,000 £67,375 £40,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £74,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £86,250 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.54% +67.48% -16.26%
75th Percentile £82,500 £94,063 £58,000
90th Percentile - £101,375 £67,250
South West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +7.48% -10.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 209 193 508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 7.61% 17.79% 18.63%
Number of salaries quoted 174 154 410
10th Percentile £37,375 £37,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,438 £47,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £68,063 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £99,250 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

REST job vacancy trend in Bristol

REST
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Bristol over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Salary histogram for REST in Bristol

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (11.11%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) GCP
2 6 (22.22%) SaaS
3 4 (14.81%) AWS
4 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) SQL Server
2 7 (25.93%) NoSQL
2 7 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
4 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.41%) Redis
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Claude Code
2 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (3.70%) Vite
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 1 (3.70%) Automotive
3 1 (3.70%) Marketing
3 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Python Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Software Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Lead
4 4 (14.81%) .NET Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) CUDA Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Data Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (48.15%) .NET
2 9 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 8 (29.63%) AngularJS
4 7 (25.93%) GraphQL
5 6 (22.22%) HTML
6 5 (18.52%) CSS
6 5 (18.52%) Django
6 5 (18.52%) FastAPI
6 5 (18.52%) Flutter
6 5 (18.52%) React Native
7 4 (14.81%) .NET Core
7 4 (14.81%) Flask
7 4 (14.81%) Kafka
7 4 (14.81%) React
8 3 (11.11%) .NET Framework
8 3 (11.11%) Entity Framework
8 3 (11.11%) SQLAlchemy
9 2 (7.41%) Dapper ORM
9 2 (7.41%) Node.js
9 2 (7.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 6 (22.22%) Mobile App
3 4 (14.81%) CUDA
4 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.70%) IoT
5 1 (3.70%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (3.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Android
1 5 (18.52%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 12 (44.44%) Agile
3 11 (40.74%) Software Engineering
4 10 (37.04%) Clean Code
4 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 7 (25.93%) Analytics
6 7 (25.93%) Code Quality
7 6 (22.22%) Decision-Making
7 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (22.22%) User Experience
8 5 (18.52%) Analytical Thinking
8 5 (18.52%) API Development
8 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (18.52%) Customer-Centricity
8 5 (18.52%) IT Strategy
8 5 (18.52%) Mobile Application Development
8 5 (18.52%) Mobile Development
8 5 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) C#
2 12 (44.44%) SQL
3 9 (33.33%) Python
3 9 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) Go
5 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.70%) OpenAI