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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 45 42
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +24
Permanent jobs citing REST 7 5 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 1.52% 1.32% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.28% 3.97% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £55,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile - - £64,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £74,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -29.53% +24.17% +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 43 126 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 9.35% 33.33% 36.34%
Number of salaries quoted 22 72 127
10th Percentile £40,125 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,625 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 £56,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,875 £61,125 £67,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +3.86%

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
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 14 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 +6 7 £80,000 +33.33% 9
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 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) CockroachDB
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) Cypress.io
2 4 (57.14%) Selenium
3 3 (42.86%) GitLab
3 3 (42.86%) Gradle
3 3 (42.86%) JUnit
3 3 (42.86%) Maven
3 3 (42.86%) TestNG
4 2 (28.57%) Checkstyle
4 2 (28.57%) ESLint
4 2 (28.57%) JIRA
4 2 (28.57%) Mockito
4 2 (28.57%) Postman
4 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
4 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Django Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Python/Django Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
1 3 (42.86%) Spring MVC
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) Django
2 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (28.57%) JWT
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
2 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
2 2 (28.57%) Playwright
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Security
2 2 (28.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Private Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) MVC
5 2 (28.57%) API Design
5 2 (28.57%) API Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Coaching
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Defect Management
5 2 (28.57%) Dependency Management
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
5 2 (28.57%) Project Management
5 2 (28.57%) TDD
5 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Google
3 2 (28.57%) Splunk