REST Jobs in the City of London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 60 51
Rank change year-on-year -17 -9 -7
Permanent jobs citing REST 60 138 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 3.09% 4.13% 5.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.34% 16.25% 15.85%
Number of salaries quoted 54 134 234
10th Percentile £51,475 £47,525 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,125 £66,563 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £112,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £109,875 £118,500 £126,625
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +9.68%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 580 849 1,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 29.91% 25.41% 34.62%
Number of salaries quoted 480 684 1,368
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £59,688 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £117,525 £118,100 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.25% +3.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST in the City of London.

Salary trend for REST in the City of London

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.33%) Apache
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.67%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.67%) Camunda
3 1 (1.67%) CMS
3 1 (1.67%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Elite 3E
1 1 (1.67%) Magento
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (53.33%) AWS
2 22 (36.67%) SaaS
3 11 (18.33%) Azure
4 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (6.67%) GitHub
5 3 (5.00%) GCP
5 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.00%) Serverless
6 2 (3.33%) Azure App Service
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (3.33%) Azure WebJobs
6 2 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.33%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.33%) ShareGate
7 1 (1.67%) BigCommerce
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) HTTP
2 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.00%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (3.33%) Big Data
3 2 (3.33%) MySQL
3 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.67%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.67%) Parquet
4 1 (1.67%) Redis
4 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Git
2 5 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.67%) JIRA
4 3 (5.00%) Appium
4 3 (5.00%) Selenium
4 3 (5.00%) XCUITest
5 2 (3.33%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (3.33%) SpecFlow
5 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.33%) Xcode
6 1 (1.67%) JMeter
6 1 (1.67%) JUnit
6 1 (1.67%) Maven
6 1 (1.67%) Moq
6 1 (1.67%) NeoLoad
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.67%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.67%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (38.33%) Finance
2 14 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Banking
3 6 (10.00%) Retail
4 3 (5.00%) Back Office
4 3 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.67%) Front Office
5 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.67%) Law
5 1 (1.67%) Marketing
5 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) Software Engineer
3 10 (16.67%) Developer
3 10 (16.67%) Senior
4 8 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) AWS Software Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Lead
6 4 (6.67%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Product Specialist
7 3 (5.00%) Products Support Specialist
7 3 (5.00%) Support Specialist
8 2 (3.33%) Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Development Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) iOS Software Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) SharePoint Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (40.00%) React
2 18 (30.00%) Django
3 14 (23.33%) Web Services
4 10 (16.67%) Node.js
5 7 (11.67%) SOAP
6 6 (10.00%) .NET
6 6 (10.00%) JSON
7 5 (8.33%) GraphQL
8 4 (6.67%) .NET Framework
8 4 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 4 (6.67%) Middleware
9 3 (5.00%) Express.js
9 3 (5.00%) Spring Boot
9 3 (5.00%) XML
10 2 (3.33%) .NET Core
10 2 (3.33%) Jest
10 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (3.33%) NestJS
10 2 (3.33%) Socket.IO
10 2 (3.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (5.00%) Low-Code
2 3 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Blog
4 1 (1.67%) Clustering
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.67%) Derivative
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Equities
4 1 (1.67%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.67%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Windows
3 3 (5.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.67%) Solaris
4 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) Software Engineering
2 24 (40.00%) Agile
3 23 (38.33%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (35.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (31.67%) Roadmaps
6 18 (30.00%) Product Roadmap
7 14 (23.33%) DevOps
8 11 (18.33%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (18.33%) Microservices
9 9 (15.00%) Cloud Security
10 8 (13.33%) Test Automation
11 7 (11.67%) CI/CD
11 7 (11.67%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (11.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 7 (11.67%) Software Testing
12 6 (10.00%) Computer Science
12 6 (10.00%) Investment Management
12 6 (10.00%) Mentoring
12 6 (10.00%) Security Architecture
13 5 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 36 (60.00%) Python
2 31 (51.67%) TypeScript
3 13 (21.67%) SQL
4 8 (13.33%) C#
5 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
6 6 (10.00%) Java
7 4 (6.67%) Bash
7 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 3 (5.00%) PL/SQL
8 3 (5.00%) Swift
9 1 (1.67%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.67%) C
9 1 (1.67%) Perl
9 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) CDISC
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.33%) Firmware
4 1 (1.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Ansible
1 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Ping Identity
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle
3 3 (5.00%) Google
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.00%) VMware
4 2 (3.33%) Intapp
4 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.33%) SAP
4 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.67%) Databricks
5 1 (1.67%) Red Hat