REST Job Trends in Cheshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire 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 54 63 54
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +52
Permanent jobs citing REST 41 15 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.43% 1.33% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.16% 8.62% 10.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile - £57,500 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £60,313 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £62,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +30.21% +37.14%
75th Percentile £67,125 £64,688 £65,250
90th Percentile £81,150 £67,500 £72,600
North West median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 185 174 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.50% 15.45% 16.87%
Number of salaries quoted 38 119 62
10th Percentile £39,750 £29,300 £40,575
25th Percentile £52,188 £32,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £45,096 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% -24.84% +20.00%
75th Percentile £74,688 £55,000 £73,063
90th Percentile £85,225 £65,000 £82,548
North West median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Cheshire

REST
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Cheshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in Cheshire

REST
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chester - 6 - - 2
Warrington +12 4 £42,500 - 1
Northwich -4 2 - -
Runcorn - 2 - -
Crewe - 2 - -
Ellesmere Port - 2 - -
Knutsford - 2 £87,000 - 2
Macclesfield - 2 - -
Widnes - 2 - -
Wilmslow - 2 - -
Winsford - 1 - -
Middlewich - 1 - -
Sandbach - 1 - -
Congleton - 1 - -
REST
North West

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (9.76%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 36 (87.80%) Azure
2 34 (82.93%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (82.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (92.68%) Bitbucket
1 38 (92.68%) GitLab
1 38 (92.68%) SonarQube
1 38 (92.68%) Sonatype Nexus
2 34 (82.93%) Cucumber
2 34 (82.93%) JIRA
2 34 (82.93%) Maven
2 34 (82.93%) Selenium
3 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (87.80%) Retail
2 34 (82.93%) Banking
2 34 (82.93%) Corporate Banking
2 34 (82.93%) Finance
2 34 (82.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (82.93%) Investment Banking
3 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Games
Job Titles
1 34 (82.93%) Software Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Developer
3 4 (9.76%) Backend Developer
3 4 (9.76%) Software Developer
4 1 (2.44%) .NET Developer
4 1 (2.44%) Product Owner
4 1 (2.44%) Systems Developer
4 1 (2.44%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (87.80%) CSS
1 36 (87.80%) HTML
1 36 (87.80%) React
2 34 (82.93%) CSS3
2 34 (82.93%) HTML5
2 34 (82.93%) Jest
2 34 (82.93%) JPA
2 34 (82.93%) Kafka
2 34 (82.93%) Redux
2 34 (82.93%) RESTful
2 34 (82.93%) Sass
2 34 (82.93%) Spring
2 34 (82.93%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.88%) Blazor
3 2 (4.88%) Web Services
4 1 (2.44%) .NET
4 1 (2.44%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (85.37%) Product Ownership
2 34 (82.93%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (95.12%) Strategic Thinking
2 38 (92.68%) DevOps
3 35 (85.37%) Agile
4 34 (82.93%) CI/CD
4 34 (82.93%) Containerisation
4 34 (82.93%) Front End Development
4 34 (82.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 34 (82.93%) Mentoring
4 34 (82.93%) Microservices
4 34 (82.93%) Migration
4 34 (82.93%) Performance Optimisation
4 34 (82.93%) Responsive Web Design
4 34 (82.93%) SDLC
4 34 (82.93%) Software Engineering
4 34 (82.93%) Test Automation
4 34 (82.93%) User Experience
5 4 (9.76%) Code Quality
5 4 (9.76%) Decision-Making
5 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (9.76%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 38 (92.68%) Java
1 38 (92.68%) SQL
2 36 (87.80%) JavaScript
3 34 (82.93%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (82.93%) Accessibility
1 34 (82.93%) QA
System Software
1 34 (82.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (82.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (82.93%) Solace