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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 70 110
Rank change year-on-year -41 +40 -16
Permanent jobs citing REST 18 15 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.54% 1.31% 0.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.59% 8.52% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 16 9 10
10th Percentile £56,875 £48,750 £40,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £51,500 £45,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £53,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% -10.17% -17.19%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £76,563
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,250 £78,850
South West median annual salary £70,000 £53,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +32.08% -21.48% +1.12%

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 237 176 467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 7.17% 15.33% 20.84%
Number of salaries quoted 174 153 309
10th Percentile £41,625 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,625 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%

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 8 October 2026.

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 (11.11%) NServiceBus
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure AI
2 3 (16.67%) GCP
2 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Run
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) NoSQL
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.56%) Power BI
5 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.56%) Claude Code
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) Storybook
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Automotive
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Lead
3 4 (22.22%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Python Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Magento Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Magento Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 7 (38.89%) React
3 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
3 5 (27.78%) Flutter
3 5 (27.78%) React Native
4 4 (22.22%) .NET
5 3 (16.67%) Kafka
5 3 (16.67%) Node.js
5 3 (16.67%) Terraform
6 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
6 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (11.11%) CSS
6 2 (11.11%) FastAPI
6 2 (11.11%) HTML
6 2 (11.11%) Playwright
6 2 (11.11%) Spring
6 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 2 (11.11%) Vue
7 1 (5.56%) Next.js
7 1 (5.56%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) AI Agents
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.56%) CUDA
4 1 (5.56%) IoT
4 1 (5.56%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (5.56%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Android
1 5 (27.78%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 9 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (44.44%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (44.44%) User Experience
5 7 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (38.89%) Software Architecture
6 6 (33.33%) Code Quality
6 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 6 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 5 (27.78%) Analytical Thinking
7 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
7 5 (27.78%) Customer-Centricity
7 5 (27.78%) DevOps
7 5 (27.78%) IT Strategy
7 5 (27.78%) Mobile Application Development
7 5 (27.78%) Mobile Development
7 5 (27.78%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 4 (22.22%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) Go
6 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Foundry
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Google