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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 100 86
Rank change year-on-year +12 -14 -8
Permanent jobs citing REST 9 12 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.47% 0.78% 3.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.79% 3.74% 9.35%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 39
10th Percentile £48,375 £38,750 £41,227
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £71,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +1.79% +16.67%
75th Percentile £57,813 £78,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £68,875 £79,250 £117,236
South West median annual salary £52,750 £72,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year -27.24% +23.40% +6.82%

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 188 321 524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 9.87% 20.86% 33.19%
Number of salaries quoted 159 196 453
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £40,245
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £79,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,500 £91,592 £91,934
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +5.33%

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 15 December 2025.

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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Pulumi
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (11.11%) Boomi
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Run
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) BGP
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (33.33%) EIGRP
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) HSRP
1 3 (33.33%) IPsec
1 3 (33.33%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) TeamCity
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) C# Developer
3 2 (22.22%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) webMethods Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
2 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 2 (22.22%) Avalonia
2 2 (22.22%) Entity Framework
2 2 (22.22%) WPF
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) D3.js
3 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
3 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) PrimeNG
3 1 (11.11%) RxJS
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) API Development
2 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
4 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) OWASP
4 2 (22.22%) Secure Coding
4 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 2 (22.22%) UX Design
5 1 (11.11%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (11.11%) Data Science
5 1 (11.11%) IT Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
5 1 (11.11%) Product Backlog
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 2 (22.22%) XAML
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
1 3 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 3 (33.33%) Riverbed
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) SnapLogic
2 1 (11.11%) Software AG
2 1 (11.11%) webMethods