REST Job Trends in Dorset

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 47 43
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 +33
Permanent jobs citing REST 8 5 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 1.70% 1.28% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.18% 3.88% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £41,750 - -
25th Percentile £48,125 £55,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +13.51%
75th Percentile £70,625 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £76,250 - £64,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.59% +20.83% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 44 129 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 9.34% 32.91% 38.02%
Number of salaries quoted 23 75 122
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £32,513
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £60,750 £67,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +5.33%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

REST job vacancy trend in Dorset

REST
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in Dorset

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Dorset over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for REST in Dorset

REST
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 5 January 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
Bournemouth +8 7 £80,000 +33.33% 8
Poole - 1 £40,000 - 1
REST
South West

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub
1 2 (25.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) CockroachDB
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 4 (50.00%) Selenium
3 3 (37.50%) GitLab
3 3 (37.50%) Gradle
3 3 (37.50%) JUnit
3 3 (37.50%) Maven
3 3 (37.50%) TestNG
4 2 (25.00%) Checkstyle
4 2 (25.00%) ESLint
4 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (25.00%) Mockito
4 2 (25.00%) Postman
4 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Django Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Python/Django Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) Spring Boot
1 3 (37.50%) Spring MVC
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) Django
2 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (25.00%) JWT
2 2 (25.00%) OAuth
2 2 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (25.00%) Playwright
2 2 (25.00%) React
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Security
2 2 (25.00%) Swagger
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) MVC
5 2 (25.00%) Coaching
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Dependency Management
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Static Code Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (25.00%) Bash
4 2 (25.00%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) PHP
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) Google
3 2 (25.00%) Splunk
4 1 (12.50%) WooCommerce