RESTful Job Trends in Cheshire

RESTful
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring RESTful 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 50 72 52
Rank change year-on-year +22 -20 +18
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 46 6 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.09% 0.53% 2.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.86% 3.45% 13.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £53,750 £50,250 £50,020
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,125 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,500 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% -4.19% +44.13%
75th Percentile £58,750 £73,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £60,625 - -
North West median annual salary £63,750 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.91% +4.76% +2.44%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

RESTful 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%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in Cheshire

RESTful
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing RESTful.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing RESTful

RESTful
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful 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
Knutsford +10 10 £57,500 -
Crewe - 4 £56,250 -
Warrington +17 3 - - 1
Widnes - 2 - -
Wilmslow - 2 - -
Ellesmere Port - 2 - - 2
Chester - 2 - - 4
Macclesfield - 2 - -
Northwich - 2 - -
Runcorn - 2 - -
Sandbach - 1 - -
Middlewich - 1 - -
Congleton - 1 - -
Winsford - 1 - -
RESTful
North West

RESTful
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:

Cloud Services
1 36 (78.26%) AWS
1 36 (78.26%) Azure
2 1 (2.17%) Azure App Service
2 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (2.17%) GCP
2 1 (2.17%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (76.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.17%) MySQL
3 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (73.91%) Bitbucket
1 34 (73.91%) Cucumber
1 34 (73.91%) GitLab
1 34 (73.91%) JIRA
1 34 (73.91%) Maven
1 34 (73.91%) Selenium
1 34 (73.91%) SonarQube
1 34 (73.91%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (4.35%) Babel
2 2 (4.35%) webpack
3 1 (2.17%) Git
General
1 38 (82.61%) Finance
2 34 (73.91%) Banking
2 34 (73.91%) Corporate Banking
2 34 (73.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (73.91%) Investment Banking
2 34 (73.91%) Retail
3 1 (2.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (76.09%) Software Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Developer
3 6 (13.04%) Java Developer
4 2 (4.35%) React Developer
4 2 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (2.17%) C# Developer
5 1 (2.17%) Digital Transformation
5 1 (2.17%) Digital Transformation Specialist
5 1 (2.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (2.17%) Java Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Lead
5 1 (2.17%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (2.17%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.17%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (93.48%) Spring
1 43 (93.48%) Spring Boot
2 37 (80.43%) CSS
2 37 (80.43%) HTML
2 37 (80.43%) React
3 36 (78.26%) CSS3
3 36 (78.26%) HTML5
3 36 (78.26%) Redux
4 35 (76.09%) Kafka
5 34 (73.91%) Jest
5 34 (73.91%) JPA
5 34 (73.91%) REST
5 34 (73.91%) Sass
6 2 (4.35%) .NET
6 2 (4.35%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (2.17%) FastAPI
7 1 (2.17%) JWT
7 1 (2.17%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 34 (73.91%) Enterprise Software
1 34 (73.91%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (93.48%) Microservices
2 40 (86.96%) Strategic Thinking
3 39 (84.78%) Agile
4 38 (82.61%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (80.43%) Front End Development
5 37 (80.43%) User Experience
6 36 (78.26%) CI/CD
6 36 (78.26%) DevOps
7 35 (76.09%) Containerisation
7 35 (76.09%) Responsive Web Design
7 35 (76.09%) Software Engineering
8 34 (73.91%) Mentoring
8 34 (73.91%) Migration
8 34 (73.91%) Performance Optimisation
8 34 (73.91%) SDLC
8 34 (73.91%) Test Automation
9 6 (13.04%) Code Quality
9 6 (13.04%) Unit Testing
10 5 (10.87%) Clean Code
10 5 (10.87%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 43 (93.48%) Java
2 38 (82.61%) JavaScript
2 38 (82.61%) SQL
3 35 (76.09%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (2.17%) PHP
5 1 (2.17%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (78.26%) Accessibility
2 34 (73.91%) QA
System Software
1 36 (78.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (78.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 34 (73.91%) Solace
2 1 (2.17%) Google