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 citing REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 54 62
Rank change year-on-year -26 +8 -11
Permanent jobs citing REST 8 41 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.45% 5.32% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.00% 21.24% 6.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile - - £45,625
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £42,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +72.94% -32.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,125 £66,563
90th Percentile - £81,150 £67,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +8.33% +6.67% -10.00%

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 citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cheshire.

6 months to
26 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 100 193 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.56% 25.03% 16.21%
Number of salaries quoted 77 45 94
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year - +23.08% -25.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £83,550 £63,750
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year - +17.12% -7.50%

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 26 October 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 26 October 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington -23 5 £80,000 +88.24%
Crewe 0 2 £32,500 - 1
Alderley Edge - 1 £73,500 -
REST
North West

REST Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1.NET62.5%5
2Nuxt37.5%3
2RESTful37.5%3
2SOAP37.5%3
2Vue37.5%3
6CSS25.0%2
6HTML25.0%2
6Laravel25.0%2
6React25.0%2
6Spring25.0%2
6Spring Boot25.0%2
12.NET Core12.5%1
12EDI12.5%1
12JSON12.5%1
12Middleware12.5%1
12XML12.5%1