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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 53 60
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing REST 21 41 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 1.14% 5.57% 1.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.94% 22.04% 9.47%
Number of salaries quoted 21 3 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60,000 £41,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £42,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +72.94% -32.00% +30.21%
75th Percentile £75,250 £67,125 £63,750
90th Percentile - £81,150 £67,500
North West median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -15.38%

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 124 186 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.74% 25.27% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 104 36 121
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +21.05% -20.83%
75th Percentile £75,250 £73,750 £56,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,875 £65,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £56,509
% change year-on-year - +15.03% -5.82%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing REST relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

REST job vacancy trend 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 14 September 2026.

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 14 September 2026. 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
Alderley Edge - 17 £73,500 -
Crewe -3 2 £32,500 - 1
Warrington -20 2 £80,000 +88.24% 2
REST
North West

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 13 (61.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (80.95%) Boomi
1 17 (80.95%) Dynamics 365
1 17 (80.95%) Power Platform
2 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 12 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (57.14%) GitHub
3 5 (23.81%) Power Automate
3 5 (23.81%) PowerApps
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) Anthropic Claude
4 2 (9.52%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (9.52%) SaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (80.95%) Power BI
2 12 (57.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.52%) MariaDB
3 2 (9.52%) MySQL
3 2 (9.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Claude Code
2 2 (9.52%) Git
General
1 17 (80.95%) Analytical Skills
1 17 (80.95%) Retail
2 12 (57.14%) Marketing
2 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 5 (23.81%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Developer
1 14 (66.67%) Senior
2 12 (57.14%) Senior Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (80.95%) Middleware
2 12 (57.14%) EDI
2 12 (57.14%) JSON
2 12 (57.14%) SOAP
2 12 (57.14%) XML
3 2 (9.52%) .NET
3 2 (9.52%) Laravel
3 2 (9.52%) Nuxt
3 2 (9.52%) React
3 2 (9.52%) RESTful
3 2 (9.52%) Spring
3 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (61.90%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) CRM
1 17 (80.95%) ERP
2 14 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (57.14%) API Integration
3 12 (57.14%) B2B
3 12 (57.14%) Change Advisory Board
3 12 (57.14%) Collaborative Working
3 12 (57.14%) Customer Insight
3 12 (57.14%) Customer Service
3 12 (57.14%) Development Roadmap
3 12 (57.14%) DevOps
3 12 (57.14%) Issue Tracking
3 12 (57.14%) Release Management
3 12 (57.14%) Roadmaps
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (23.81%) Data Governance
4 5 (23.81%) GAP Analysis
4 5 (23.81%) Migration
4 5 (23.81%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (23.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.52%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (80.95%) TickIT
2 5 (23.81%) PMO
3 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) OpenAI