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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 103 92
Rank change year-on-year +34 -11 -24
Permanent jobs citing REST 16 27 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 1.42% 1.10% 2.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.25% 6.05% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8 25 30
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £50,813 £46,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £58,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% -17.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £84,375 £67,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £92,250 £69,000 £135,915
South West median annual salary £53,000 £58,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year -8.62% -15.33% +14.17%

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 173 446 459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 15.41% 18.17% 27.73%
Number of salaries quoted 146 304 398
10th Percentile £40,625 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -7.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £86,625
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for REST 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Pulumi
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Run
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) BGP
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (18.75%) EIGRP
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
1 3 (18.75%) HSRP
1 3 (18.75%) IPsec
1 3 (18.75%) OSPF
2 2 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) GitLab
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
4 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Software Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Software Developer
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 2 (12.50%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Identity Management Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) webMethods Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) .NET
1 7 (43.75%) .NET Core
1 7 (43.75%) .NET Framework
2 4 (25.00%) OAuth
2 4 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 4 (25.00%) OpenID
2 4 (25.00%) SOAP
3 3 (18.75%) Entity Framework
4 2 (12.50%) Avalonia
4 2 (12.50%) JSON
4 2 (12.50%) JWT
4 2 (12.50%) Keycloak
4 2 (12.50%) LDAP
4 2 (12.50%) SAML
4 2 (12.50%) WPF
5 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
5 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
5 1 (6.25%) PrimeNG
5 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) PKI
1 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
4 5 (31.25%) OWASP
5 4 (25.00%) API Development
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) Microservices
5 4 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) Secure Coding
6 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (18.75%) User Experience
6 3 (18.75%) UX Design
7 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) XAML
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) Argo
3 2 (12.50%) Graylog
3 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco
2 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
2 3 (18.75%) Riverbed
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Software AG
4 1 (6.25%) webMethods