RESTful Job Trends in England

RESTful
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring RESTful skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 176 173
Rank change year-on-year -70 -3 +12
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 475 774 1,117
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.81% 1.73% 1.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.17% 7.78% 7.39%
Number of salaries quoted 381 451 1,000
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £75,063
90th Percentile £111,250 £97,528 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

RESTful 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 6,627 9,949 15,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.27% 22.18% 22.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5,082 6,007 12,869
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £101,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.66% +7.48% -8.89%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in England

RESTful
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing RESTful.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing RESTful

RESTful
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing RESTful in England over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for RESTful in England

RESTful
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the England region over the 6 months to 13 February 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
London -15 246 £80,000 +5.26% 103
North of England -26 90 £62,500 +8.70% 70
North West -12 48 £62,500 +6.38% 41
South East -56 46 £60,000 +9.09% 61
South West -39 40 £55,000 -18.52% 28
Yorkshire -38 32 £62,500 +26.26% 20
Midlands -45 19 £60,000 -7.69% 32
East Midlands -30 11 £54,750 -8.75% 12
North East -6 10 £63,250 +10.00% 10
West Midlands -21 8 £63,750 -1.92% 20
East of England -11 5 £57,500 -8.00% 17
RESTful
UK

RESTful
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 16 (3.37%) Apache
2 13 (2.74%) Confluence
3 12 (2.53%) Appian
4 11 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.47%) CMS
6 5 (1.05%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.05%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.63%) IIS
8 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.21%) nginx
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.42%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.21%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.26%) Shopify
2 4 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.63%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 205 (43.16%) Azure
2 194 (40.84%) AWS
3 71 (14.95%) GCP
4 67 (14.11%) Serverless
5 56 (11.79%) Amazon S3
6 54 (11.37%) AWS Lambda
7 49 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (9.68%) GitHub
9 41 (8.63%) Amazon SQS
10 31 (6.53%) SaaS
11 29 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (4.63%) Power Automate
15 18 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (3.79%) Azure AKS
16 16 (3.37%) Amazon EventBridge
16 16 (3.37%) Azure AI
17 15 (3.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.26%) BGP
1 6 (1.26%) TCP/IP
1 6 (1.26%) VLAN
1 6 (1.26%) VPN
2 5 (1.05%) HTTP
3 4 (0.84%) Firewall
3 4 (0.84%) Network Security
4 3 (0.63%) Intranet
5 1 (0.21%) AMQP
5 1 (0.21%) DNS
5 1 (0.21%) Internet
5 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (18.74%) NoSQL
2 79 (16.63%) SQL Server
3 68 (14.32%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (8.84%) MongoDB
5 37 (7.79%) DynamoDB
6 36 (7.58%) MySQL
7 22 (4.63%) Relational Database
8 19 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (2.74%) DB2
12 12 (2.53%) Pinecone
13 9 (1.89%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.68%) Power BI
15 5 (1.05%) Redis
16 4 (0.84%) NonStop SQL
17 3 (0.63%) MariaDB
18 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
19 1 (0.21%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 85 (17.89%) Git
2 42 (8.84%) Jenkins
3 32 (6.74%) JIRA
4 21 (4.42%) GitLab
4 21 (4.42%) Postman
5 16 (3.37%) Cypress.io
5 16 (3.37%) Selenium
6 15 (3.16%) Bitbucket
7 14 (2.95%) Cucumber
7 14 (2.95%) TeamCity
8 12 (2.53%) MLflow
9 8 (1.68%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.68%) Visual Studio
10 7 (1.47%) JUnit
10 7 (1.47%) Vite
10 7 (1.47%) Xcode
11 6 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (1.05%) Gradle
12 5 (1.05%) Storybook
12 5 (1.05%) webpack
General
1 172 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 114 (24.00%) Finance
3 44 (9.26%) Banking
4 43 (9.05%) Law
5 28 (5.89%) Retail
6 27 (5.68%) Telecoms
7 24 (5.05%) Public Sector
8 18 (3.79%) Health Technology
9 17 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (3.37%) Publishing
10 16 (3.37%) Tech for Good
11 15 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
11 15 (3.16%) Back Office
11 15 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (2.74%) Financial Institution
13 11 (2.32%) Legal
14 10 (2.11%) Games
15 8 (1.68%) Advertising
15 8 (1.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 260 (54.74%) Developer
2 119 (25.05%) Senior
3 68 (14.32%) Software Engineer
4 58 (12.21%) Software Developer
5 45 (9.47%) .NET Developer
5 45 (9.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 44 (9.26%) Lead
6 44 (9.26%) Senior Developer
7 34 (7.16%) Senior Software Engineer
8 29 (6.11%) React Developer
9 28 (5.89%) Python Developer
10 26 (5.47%) AWS Developer
11 25 (5.26%) Lead Developer
12 24 (5.05%) Java Developer
13 23 (4.84%) Backend Developer
14 22 (4.63%) Analyst
15 20 (4.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 20 (4.21%) Java Engineer
16 18 (3.79%) Data Analyst
17 17 (3.58%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (28.42%) React
2 111 (23.37%) .NET
3 99 (20.84%) HTML
4 98 (20.63%) CSS
5 72 (15.16%) Node.js
6 61 (12.84%) .NET Core
7 59 (12.42%) REST
8 56 (11.79%) Kafka
9 50 (10.53%) AngularJS
10 45 (9.47%) Swagger
11 44 (9.26%) ASP.NET
12 43 (9.05%) OpenAPI
13 42 (8.84%) HTML5
13 42 (8.84%) Spring
14 37 (7.79%) Spring Boot
14 37 (7.79%) Vue
15 35 (7.37%) Django
16 32 (6.74%) CSS3
17 30 (6.32%) OAuth
18 29 (6.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 39 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (8.00%) Mobile App
4 35 (7.37%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (5.68%) Data Structures
5 27 (5.68%) Product Ownership
6 26 (5.47%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (4.42%) Low-Code
8 17 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.53%) AI Agents
11 11 (2.32%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (1.68%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.68%) Blockchain
12 8 (1.68%) Web3
13 7 (1.47%) Blog
14 6 (1.26%) Legacy Code
14 6 (1.26%) Onboarding
15 4 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 4 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 42 (8.84%) Android
2 29 (6.11%) Apple iOS
3 13 (2.74%) Linux
4 7 (1.47%) Unix
5 4 (0.84%) Windows
5 4 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (53.89%) CI/CD
2 226 (47.58%) Agile
3 212 (44.63%) Microservices
4 171 (36.00%) DevOps
5 130 (27.37%) Software Engineering
6 121 (25.47%) Containerisation
7 115 (24.21%) Full-Stack Development
7 115 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (19.37%) AI
9 89 (18.74%) User Experience
10 82 (17.26%) Test Automation
11 80 (16.84%) Scrum
12 74 (15.58%) API Integration
13 73 (15.37%) Code Quality
14 72 (15.16%) Mentoring
15 70 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 67 (14.11%) Infrastructure as Code
17 61 (12.84%) Computer Science
18 55 (11.58%) SDLC
19 54 (11.37%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 146 (30.74%) Python
2 144 (30.32%) SQL
3 133 (28.00%) Java
4 124 (26.11%) JavaScript
5 97 (20.42%) TypeScript
6 92 (19.37%) C#
7 46 (9.68%) Go
8 26 (5.47%) Kotlin
9 25 (5.26%) Swift
10 24 (5.05%) C++
11 22 (4.63%) PHP
12 13 (2.74%) C
13 7 (1.47%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.26%) Bash
15 5 (1.05%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.84%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.63%) RPG
17 3 (0.63%) Rust
18 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
18 2 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 54 (11.37%) Degree
2 45 (9.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (5.68%) Security Cleared
4 15 (3.16%) AWS Certification
5 14 (2.95%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.32%) AWS Certified Developer
7 10 (2.11%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.68%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.63%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.21%) CISSP
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.21%) OCA
12 1 (0.21%) OCP
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (10.74%) QA
2 35 (7.37%) Accessibility
3 20 (4.21%) GDPR
4 17 (3.58%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.53%) PCI DSS
6 11 (2.32%) WCAG
7 7 (1.47%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (1.05%) PERC
10 2 (0.42%) PSD2
11 1 (0.21%) DICOM
11 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.21%) HL7
11 1 (0.21%) NIST
11 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 129 (27.16%) Docker
2 6 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) Squid
Systems Management
1 115 (24.21%) Kubernetes
2 52 (10.95%) Terraform
3 10 (2.11%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.68%) Ansible
5 6 (1.26%) Kibana
6 4 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.63%) Rancher
8 1 (0.21%) Argo
8 1 (0.21%) Grafana
8 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 46 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.58%) Google
3 15 (3.16%) OpenAI
3 15 (3.16%) SAP
4 12 (2.53%) Automation Anywhere
4 12 (2.53%) UiPath
5 10 (2.11%) Oracle
6 9 (1.89%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.89%) IBM
7 8 (1.68%) Guidewire
8 6 (1.26%) Informatica
8 6 (1.26%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.26%) Talend
8 6 (1.26%) Xamarin
9 5 (1.05%) Dell
9 5 (1.05%) Epicor
9 5 (1.05%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.05%) Nokia
9 5 (1.05%) Software AG
9 5 (1.05%) TIBCO