REST Job Trends in the East of England

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 121 140
Rank change year-on-year -40 +19 -23
Permanent jobs citing REST 26 51 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.42% 1.70% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.58% 10.71% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16 42 69
10th Percentile £33,750 £28,725 £31,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,438 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% - -20.83%
75th Percentile £65,313 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £69,375 £77,000 £73,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 395 476 1,035
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.34% 15.85% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 278 380 922
10th Percentile £32,849 £34,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,375 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,250 £66,307 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

REST job vacancy trend in the East of England

REST
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for REST in the East of England

REST
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Essex -38 10 £50,000 +5.26% 5
Hertfordshire -19 8 £60,000 +6.67% 2
Cambridgeshire -38 6 £82,500 +65.00% 6
Suffolk +12 1 - - 2
Norfolk -24 1 £37,500 +1.35%
REST
England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 7 (26.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 18 (69.23%) Azure
2 13 (50.00%) AWS
3 8 (30.77%) SaaS
4 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (23.08%) Power Automate
5 5 (19.23%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (15.38%) GCP
7 2 (7.69%) GitHub
7 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 2 (7.69%) Serverless
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Storage
8 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.85%) n8n
8 1 (3.85%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) SSL
2 1 (3.85%) AMQP
2 1 (3.85%) Broadband
2 1 (3.85%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Redis
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Law
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 4 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Games
6 1 (3.85%) Marketing
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Developer
1 6 (23.08%) Integration Engineer
1 6 (23.08%) Software Manager
2 5 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Engineering Manager
2 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering Manager
3 4 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support
4 2 (7.69%) Junior
4 2 (7.69%) Junior Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Support Technician
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Support
4 2 (7.69%) Web Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (53.85%) SOAP
2 9 (34.62%) HTML
3 8 (30.77%) CSS
3 8 (30.77%) JSON
4 6 (23.08%) .NET
4 6 (23.08%) Node.js
4 6 (23.08%) React
4 6 (23.08%) XML
5 4 (15.38%) OAuth
6 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
7 2 (7.69%) JWT
7 2 (7.69%) Web Services
8 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
8 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
8 1 (3.85%) Django
8 1 (3.85%) jQuery
8 1 (3.85%) RESTful
8 1 (3.85%) Shiny
8 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
8 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Low-Code
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Software Engineering
2 12 (46.15%) DevOps
3 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
4 8 (30.77%) Agile
4 8 (30.77%) AI
5 7 (26.92%) API Design
5 7 (26.92%) Computer Science
5 7 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (26.92%) Event-Driven
5 7 (26.92%) Web Development
6 6 (23.08%) API Integration
6 6 (23.08%) Conversational UI
6 6 (23.08%) ETL
7 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (19.23%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (19.23%) LLM
7 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
7 5 (19.23%) Runbook
7 5 (19.23%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) JavaScript
2 11 (42.31%) Python
3 7 (26.92%) SQL
4 4 (15.38%) C#
5 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.85%) Go
6 1 (3.85%) Java
6 1 (3.85%) R
6 1 (3.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Degree
2 7 (26.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) SLA
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) MuleSoft
2 6 (23.08%) Pega
2 6 (23.08%) Salesforce
2 6 (23.08%) SAP
2 6 (23.08%) ServiceNow
3 3 (11.54%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle