REST Jobs in England

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 160 104
Rank change year-on-year -31 -56 -36
Permanent jobs citing REST 868 1,686 2,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.76% 1.75% 3.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.90% 9.03% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 537 1,128 1,477
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,770 18,661 23,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.78% 19.34% 28.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,348 14,685 15,528
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,399
90th Percentile £113,750 £100,000 £109,085
UK median annual salary £66,274 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.46% -11.11% +4.25%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for REST in England

REST
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST in England.

Salary trend for REST in England

REST
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in England

REST
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the England region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
London +24 378 £75,000 - 1,872
South East -10 175 £67,500 +17.39% 1,298
North of England -56 174 £61,250 +11.01% 1,126
North West -83 123 £62,500 +4.17% 609
Midlands -28 77 £70,000 +33.33% 751
West Midlands +37 51 £72,500 +31.82% 401
Yorkshire +44 44 £63,750 +30.77% 436
East of England -4 44 £47,500 - 662
South West +3 37 £57,443 +4.44% 508
East Midlands -40 26 £60,000 +20.00% 345
North East +38 7 £55,000 +15.79% 81
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 21 (2.42%) Confluence
2 18 (2.07%) JBoss
3 15 (1.73%) CMS
3 15 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.73%) Tomcat
4 14 (1.61%) Red Hat Fuse
5 12 (1.38%) Apache
5 12 (1.38%) IIS
6 9 (1.04%) Headless CMS
7 8 (0.92%) nginx
8 7 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.69%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.58%) OpenEdge
10 5 (0.58%) WordPress
11 4 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.35%) Mule
12 3 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.12%) Elementor
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Trello
4 1 (0.12%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (1.38%) NetSuite
2 11 (1.27%) JDE OneWorld
3 9 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.46%) Shopify
7 3 (0.35%) Magento
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 371 (42.74%) AWS
2 348 (40.09%) Azure
3 115 (13.25%) Serverless
4 78 (8.99%) SaaS
5 71 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (7.60%) GCP
7 55 (6.34%) Azure Service Bus
8 50 (5.76%) Power Platform
9 49 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
10 48 (5.53%) GitHub
11 40 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
13 34 (3.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 33 (3.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 31 (3.57%) Amazon S3
16 29 (3.34%) SonarCloud
17 26 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
17 26 (3.00%) Power Automate
18 22 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
19 20 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.00%) HTTP
2 15 (1.73%) SSL
3 12 (1.38%) FTP
4 9 (1.04%) DMARC
4 9 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.92%) Network Security
6 7 (0.81%) Firewall
7 4 (0.46%) BGP
7 4 (0.46%) EIGRP
7 4 (0.46%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.46%) OSPF
7 4 (0.46%) VLAN
8 2 (0.23%) Broadband
8 2 (0.23%) DNS
8 2 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.12%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.12%) DHCP
9 1 (0.12%) RFID
9 1 (0.12%) Wireless
9 1 (0.12%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (21.66%) SQL Server
2 140 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
3 92 (10.60%) Relational Database
4 64 (7.37%) MySQL
4 64 (7.37%) NoSQL
5 48 (5.53%) MongoDB
6 41 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
6 41 (4.72%) RDBMS
7 38 (4.38%) Power BI
8 23 (2.65%) DynamoDB
8 23 (2.65%) Redis
9 20 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.27%) Oracle Database
15 10 (1.15%) Big Data
15 10 (1.15%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 178 (20.51%) Git
2 156 (17.97%) JIRA
3 127 (14.63%) GitLab
4 123 (14.17%) SonarQube
5 116 (13.36%) Maven
6 109 (12.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 105 (12.10%) Bitbucket
7 105 (12.10%) Selenium
8 102 (11.75%) Jenkins
9 101 (11.64%) Cucumber
10 58 (6.68%) JUnit
11 43 (4.95%) Visual Studio
12 40 (4.61%) Octopus Deploy
13 30 (3.46%) Mockito
13 30 (3.46%) Team Foundation Server
14 29 (3.34%) MSBuild
15 21 (2.42%) JMeter
16 20 (2.30%) SpecFlow
17 19 (2.19%) Postman
18 12 (1.38%) IntelliJ
General
1 289 (33.29%) Finance
2 208 (23.96%) Social Skills
3 147 (16.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 132 (15.21%) Retail
5 126 (14.52%) Banking
6 98 (11.29%) Investment Banking
7 90 (10.37%) Corporate Banking
8 81 (9.33%) Law
8 81 (9.33%) Marketing
9 77 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
10 70 (8.06%) Public Sector
11 22 (2.53%) Electronics
12 20 (2.30%) Manufacturing
12 20 (2.30%) Telecoms
13 19 (2.19%) Front Office
14 18 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (1.27%) Legal
17 11 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 329 (37.90%) Developer
2 185 (21.31%) Software Engineer
3 169 (19.47%) Senior
4 105 (12.10%) Lead
5 93 (10.71%) Architect
6 82 (9.45%) Senior Developer
7 75 (8.64%) Java Developer
8 49 (5.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 41 (4.72%) Python Engineer
10 39 (4.49%) Java Engineer
11 38 (4.38%) .NET Developer
11 38 (4.38%) C# Developer
11 38 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 34 (3.92%) Technical Architect
13 31 (3.57%) Lead Developer
14 27 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 26 (3.00%) Salesforce Architect
16 24 (2.76%) Analyst
16 24 (2.76%) C# .NET Developer
16 24 (2.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (28.34%) HTML
2 243 (28.00%) React
3 218 (25.12%) SOAP
4 212 (24.42%) CSS
5 190 (21.89%) Spring
6 182 (20.97%) Spring Boot
7 178 (20.51%) .NET
8 158 (18.20%) Kafka
8 158 (18.20%) Web Services
9 150 (17.28%) RESTful
10 130 (14.98%) JSON
11 124 (14.29%) CSS3
11 124 (14.29%) HTML5
12 116 (13.36%) XML
13 108 (12.44%) Jest
14 105 (12.10%) JPA
15 101 (11.64%) Sass
16 100 (11.52%) Redux
17 75 (8.64%) AngularJS
18 71 (8.18%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 147 (16.94%) Enterprise Software
2 145 (16.71%) Product Ownership
3 60 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 30 (3.46%) Cloud Native
6 28 (3.23%) Mobile App
7 21 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (2.30%) Algorithms
8 20 (2.30%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.61%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.27%) CMDB
11 11 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.27%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.27%) Reinsurance
12 9 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.92%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 6 (0.69%) Virtual Team
16 5 (0.58%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 53 (6.11%) Linux
2 32 (3.69%) Windows
3 26 (3.00%) Unix
4 18 (2.07%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.27%) Android
6 6 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.35%) Solaris
9 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) Debian
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (52.42%) Agile
2 371 (42.74%) Microservices
3 359 (41.36%) DevOps
4 345 (39.75%) CI/CD
5 245 (28.23%) Software Engineering
6 226 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (24.08%) Containerisation
8 190 (21.89%) Full-Stack Development
9 188 (21.66%) Test Automation
10 172 (19.82%) Mentoring
11 161 (18.55%) SDLC
12 146 (16.82%) Front End Development
13 145 (16.71%) User Experience
14 141 (16.24%) Migration
15 138 (15.90%) TDD
16 129 (14.86%) Performance Optimisation
17 100 (11.52%) Responsive Web Design
18 99 (11.41%) Design Patterns
19 92 (10.60%) Strategic Thinking
20 85 (9.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 357 (41.13%) SQL
2 344 (39.63%) JavaScript
3 269 (30.99%) Java
4 220 (25.35%) TypeScript
5 195 (22.47%) Python
6 171 (19.70%) C#
7 43 (4.95%) Apex Code
8 35 (4.03%) PowerShell
9 33 (3.80%) Shell Script
10 28 (3.23%) PHP
11 18 (2.07%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.84%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.15%) Bash
13 10 (1.15%) C++
14 9 (1.04%) Groovy
14 9 (1.04%) Swift
14 9 (1.04%) VBA
15 8 (0.92%) SOQL
16 7 (0.81%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 101 (11.64%) Degree
2 62 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 61 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 53 (6.11%) SC Cleared
5 50 (5.76%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.50%) PhD
7 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.69%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.46%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.46%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.35%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.23%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (18.66%) QA
2 124 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 37 (4.26%) GDPR
4 34 (3.92%) Data Quality
5 16 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.84%) SLA
6 6 (0.69%) CDISC
7 4 (0.46%) WCAG
8 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.23%) NIST
9 2 (0.23%) SEPA
10 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.12%) MiFID
10 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 351 (40.44%) Docker
2 12 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.58%) Firmware
5 4 (0.46%) Postfix
5 4 (0.46%) ProxySG
5 4 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.12%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 288 (33.18%) Kubernetes
2 89 (10.25%) Terraform
3 76 (8.76%) Ansible
4 18 (2.07%) Kibana
4 18 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (1.84%) Grafana
6 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (1.27%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.46%) Graylog
8 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.46%) Packer
9 3 (0.35%) Argo
10 2 (0.23%) Istio
10 2 (0.23%) Puppet
11 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.12%) logstash
11 1 (0.12%) Nessus
11 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.12%) vRealize
Vendors
1 116 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 93 (10.71%) Solace
3 69 (7.95%) Salesforce
4 56 (6.45%) Oracle
5 53 (6.11%) Google
6 35 (4.03%) ServiceNow
7 30 (3.46%) Splunk
8 24 (2.76%) SAP
9 21 (2.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 20 (2.30%) Databricks
11 19 (2.19%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.61%) Ping Identity
13 13 (1.50%) Dell
14 11 (1.27%) IBM
15 10 (1.15%) Atlassian
15 10 (1.15%) VMware
16 7 (0.81%) MuleSoft
16 7 (0.81%) Red Hat
16 7 (0.81%) Trayport
17 6 (0.69%) Cisco