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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 73 107
Rank change year-on-year -16 +34 -32
Permanent jobs citing REST 25 16 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.93% 1.48% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.02% 7.55% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 23 7 47
10th Percentile £44,000 £49,911 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,698 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +33.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £88,125 £59,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £96,500 £69,000
South West median annual salary £60,000 £57,443 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.45% +4.44% -8.33%

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 192 212 633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 7.14% 19.67% 19.84%
Number of salaries quoted 163 170 506
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,698 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £68,500 £85,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £85,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

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 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for REST in Bristol

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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 4 (16.00%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) GCP
2 6 (24.00%) SaaS
3 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub
4 2 (8.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (8.00%) Redis
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
6 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Claude Code
2 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (4.00%) Vite
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Automotive
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Software Developer
3 6 (24.00%) Python Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) .NET Developer
5 3 (12.00%) CUDA Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior
6 2 (8.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Data Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (56.00%) .NET
2 10 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 9 (36.00%) AngularJS
4 7 (28.00%) HTML
5 6 (24.00%) CSS
6 5 (20.00%) Django
6 5 (20.00%) FastAPI
6 5 (20.00%) GraphQL
7 4 (16.00%) .NET Core
7 4 (16.00%) Flask
7 4 (16.00%) React
8 3 (12.00%) .NET Framework
8 3 (12.00%) Entity Framework
8 3 (12.00%) Flutter
8 3 (12.00%) Kafka
8 3 (12.00%) React Native
8 3 (12.00%) SQLAlchemy
9 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (8.00%) Node.js
9 2 (8.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) CUDA
2 4 (16.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.00%) IoT
4 1 (4.00%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (4.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Android
1 3 (12.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (40.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 9 (36.00%) Clean Code
4 7 (28.00%) Analytics
4 7 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (24.00%) API Development
5 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (20.00%) Code Quality
6 5 (20.00%) Scrum
7 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (16.00%) Data Science
7 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
7 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (16.00%) Microservices
7 4 (16.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) C#
2 10 (40.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 9 (36.00%) Python
4 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (24.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.00%) OpenAI