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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 74 89
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 -14
Permanent jobs citing REST 20 18 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.70% 1.86% 2.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.43% 6.55% 9.36%
Number of salaries quoted 18 6 65
10th Percentile £43,375 £49,464 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,698 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,721 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% +21.37% -12.50%
75th Percentile £66,250 £78,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,125 £84,375 £78,450
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,443 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.25% +9.41% -8.70%

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 212 275 737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 7.42% 28.38% 25.33%
Number of salaries quoted 172 215 607
10th Percentile £29,775 £42,500 £39,900
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -3.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £90,774
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 21 April 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 3 (15.00%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) GCP
2 6 (30.00%) SaaS
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (55.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI
5 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Vite
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Software Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Python Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (15.00%) CUDA Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) .NET
2 9 (45.00%) ASP.NET
3 8 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 8 (40.00%) HTML
4 7 (35.00%) CSS
5 4 (20.00%) .NET Core
5 4 (20.00%) Django
5 4 (20.00%) FastAPI
5 4 (20.00%) Flask
6 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (15.00%) Entity Framework
6 3 (15.00%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (10.00%) Dapper ORM
7 2 (10.00%) Flutter
7 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
7 2 (10.00%) React
7 2 (10.00%) React Native
8 1 (5.00%) Blazor
8 1 (5.00%) JWT
8 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (20.00%) CUDA
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Android
1 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) API Development
3 6 (30.00%) Clean Code
3 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Analytics
5 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (20.00%) Data Science
5 4 (20.00%) Microservices
5 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (15.00%) Performance Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Scrum
7 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) C#
2 10 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (40.00%) SQL
5 6 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft