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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 115 91
Rank change year-on-year +40 -24 -17
Permanent jobs citing REST 13 10 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.09% 0.47% 2.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.88% 2.67% 7.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 28
10th Percentile £48,750 £39,250 £53,375
25th Percentile £51,500 £43,125 £59,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,542
90th Percentile £90,250 £79,150 £123,439
South West median annual salary £53,000 £74,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -28.86% +14.62% +18.18%

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 165 374 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 13.85% 17.69% 29.35%
Number of salaries quoted 143 228 413
10th Percentile £37,150 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,875 £79,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £91,934
South West median annual salary £54,750 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.78% - +4.55%

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 23 October 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 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) Pulumi
4 1 (7.69%) Boomi
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Run
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) BGP
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (23.08%) EIGRP
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
1 3 (23.08%) HSRP
1 3 (23.08%) IPsec
1 3 (23.08%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
3 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Software Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) webMethods Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) .NET
1 5 (38.46%) .NET Core
1 5 (38.46%) .NET Framework
2 3 (23.08%) Entity Framework
3 2 (15.38%) Avalonia
3 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
3 2 (15.38%) SOAP
3 2 (15.38%) WPF
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (7.69%) D3.js
4 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.69%) OpenID
4 1 (7.69%) PrimeNG
4 1 (7.69%) RxJS
4 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
2 5 (38.46%) API Development
2 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 3 (23.08%) OWASP
3 3 (23.08%) Secure Coding
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) User Experience
3 3 (23.08%) UX Design
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
4 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) Microservices
4 2 (15.38%) Product Backlog
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) XAML
4 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) CheckPoint
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco
1 3 (23.08%) Palo Alto
1 3 (23.08%) Riverbed
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) SnapLogic
3 1 (7.69%) Software AG
3 1 (7.69%) webMethods