REST Job Trends in London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 128 87
Rank change year-on-year +17 -41 -26
Permanent jobs citing REST 378 458 674
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.95% 2.64% 3.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.77% 9.83% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 235 173 588
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £53,375
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +4.62%
75th Percentile £105,000 £93,750 £97,342
90th Percentile £136,250 £109,750 £110,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,959 4,657 5,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.12% 26.84% 29.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,001 2,961 4,886
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £140,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

REST job vacancy trend in London

REST
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in London over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in London

REST
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the London region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
Central London -4 39 £76,500 +5.52% 125
South London -16 26 - - 3
West London -13 3 £60,000 +4.35% 5
North London -14 2 £51,250 - 1
REST
England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 11 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.38%) JBoss
3 5 (1.32%) Apache
3 5 (1.32%) Confluence
3 5 (1.32%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.06%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.06%) Red Hat Fuse
5 3 (0.79%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.53%) Appian
6 2 (0.53%) CMS
6 2 (0.53%) IIS
6 2 (0.53%) nginx
6 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 24 (6.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.65%) Shopify
3 6 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (1.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.79%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.53%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.53%) Magento
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.53%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 131 (34.66%) Azure
2 118 (31.22%) AWS
3 52 (13.76%) Serverless
4 46 (12.17%) GitHub
5 40 (10.58%) Power Automate
6 39 (10.32%) Power Platform
7 38 (10.05%) SaaS
8 34 (8.99%) GCP
9 28 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 28 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
10 27 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (6.88%) PowerApps
12 25 (6.61%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (3.17%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (2.91%) Boomi
15 11 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (2.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.91%) HTTP
2 6 (1.59%) Network Security
2 6 (1.59%) VLAN
3 5 (1.32%) Firewall
4 4 (1.06%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.06%) IP Telephony
4 4 (1.06%) PSTN
4 4 (1.06%) SSL
4 4 (1.06%) VoIP
5 3 (0.79%) FTP
5 3 (0.79%) Wireless
6 2 (0.53%) BGP
6 2 (0.53%) DNS
6 2 (0.53%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.53%) MPLS
6 2 (0.53%) OSPF
6 2 (0.53%) PBX
6 2 (0.53%) RSVP
6 2 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (18.78%) Relational Database
2 65 (17.20%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (10.85%) NoSQL
4 31 (8.20%) Power BI
4 31 (8.20%) RDBMS
4 31 (8.20%) SQL Server
5 24 (6.35%) MySQL
6 23 (6.08%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.97%) Big Data
8 12 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (2.91%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.85%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (1.59%) Redis
13 5 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 4 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (1.06%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 74 (19.58%) Git
2 51 (13.49%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.47%) JUnit
4 28 (7.41%) JMeter
5 25 (6.61%) JIRA
6 23 (6.08%) Mockito
7 19 (5.03%) Visual Studio
8 13 (3.44%) GitLab
9 11 (2.91%) Selenium
10 10 (2.65%) Postman
11 9 (2.38%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.85%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.59%) git-flow
14 5 (1.32%) Cucumber
14 5 (1.32%) Subversion
15 4 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (1.06%) CircleCI
15 4 (1.06%) LoadRunner
15 4 (1.06%) SonarQube
16 3 (0.79%) TestRail
General
1 142 (37.57%) Finance
2 106 (28.04%) Social Skills
3 67 (17.72%) Law
4 48 (12.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 46 (12.17%) Marketing
6 36 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (9.52%) Banking
7 18 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 18 (4.76%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.91%) Electronics
8 11 (2.91%) Financial Institution
8 11 (2.91%) Legal
8 11 (2.91%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.65%) Back Office
10 9 (2.38%) Front Office
10 9 (2.38%) Retail
11 5 (1.32%) Games
12 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.06%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 178 (47.09%) Developer
2 82 (21.69%) Senior
3 77 (20.37%) Lead
4 50 (13.23%) Full-Stack Developer
4 50 (13.23%) Java Developer
5 42 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 40 (10.58%) Senior Developer
7 34 (8.99%) Python Developer
8 33 (8.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 28 (7.41%) Architect
10 26 (6.88%) React Developer
11 20 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (4.50%) Python Engineer
13 15 (3.97%) Lead Developer
13 15 (3.97%) Mid-Level Java Developer
14 14 (3.70%) Backend Developer
14 14 (3.70%) Development Engineer
15 13 (3.44%) Salesforce Developer
15 13 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
16 12 (3.17%) Development Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (23.54%) React
2 84 (22.22%) SOAP
3 74 (19.58%) Web Services
4 63 (16.67%) JSON
5 54 (14.29%) XML
6 49 (12.96%) HTML
7 47 (12.43%) Spring
8 46 (12.17%) GraphQL
9 39 (10.32%) .NET
9 39 (10.32%) Spring Boot
10 38 (10.05%) Kafka
11 36 (9.52%) AngularJS
12 32 (8.47%) FastAPI
13 31 (8.20%) CSS
14 30 (7.94%) Node.js
15 27 (7.14%) Hibernate
16 25 (6.61%) Apache Camel
16 25 (6.61%) Flask
16 25 (6.61%) jQuery
17 23 (6.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 42 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (9.79%) Cloud Native
3 36 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.82%) Low-Code
5 21 (5.56%) Algorithms
6 17 (4.50%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (3.97%) Data Structures
9 14 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.91%) CMDB
11 10 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.65%) Onboarding
11 10 (2.65%) Public Cloud
12 8 (2.12%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.85%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (1.32%) BYOD
14 5 (1.32%) DataPower
14 5 (1.32%) Educational Technology
14 5 (1.32%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.56%) Linux
2 14 (3.70%) Unix
3 10 (2.65%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.38%) Android
5 5 (1.32%) Windows
6 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.26%) Solaris
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (48.68%) Agile
2 169 (44.71%) CI/CD
3 110 (29.10%) Microservices
4 92 (24.34%) DevOps
5 89 (23.54%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (22.22%) AI
7 80 (21.16%) Software Engineering
8 73 (19.31%) SDLC
9 64 (16.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 64 (16.93%) Scrum
9 64 (16.93%) TDD
10 61 (16.14%) Test Automation
11 51 (13.49%) Roadmaps
12 49 (12.96%) Workflow
13 48 (12.70%) Mentoring
14 46 (12.17%) Containerisation
15 45 (11.90%) CRM
16 42 (11.11%) BDD
16 42 (11.11%) Code Quality
17 40 (10.58%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 134 (35.45%) Python
2 119 (31.48%) SQL
3 114 (30.16%) JavaScript
4 93 (24.60%) Java
5 71 (18.78%) TypeScript
6 36 (9.52%) C#
6 36 (9.52%) Shell Script
7 20 (5.29%) Apex Code
8 14 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 13 (3.44%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.38%) PHP
10 9 (2.38%) SOQL
11 8 (2.12%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.32%) Go
12 5 (1.32%) Scala
13 4 (1.06%) Bash
13 4 (1.06%) Ruby
13 4 (1.06%) SOSL
14 3 (0.79%) Bicep
14 3 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (10.58%) Degree
2 31 (8.20%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.91%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.06%) MCSE
8 2 (0.53%) CCNP
8 2 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.53%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.53%) HNC
8 2 (0.53%) HND
8 2 (0.53%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.53%) MCP
8 2 (0.53%) MCSA
9 1 (0.26%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.99%) QA
2 14 (3.70%) SLA
3 10 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.32%) GDPR
6 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.53%) SEPA
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) NCSC
7 1 (0.26%) NIST
7 1 (0.26%) PMO
7 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (25.40%) Docker
2 7 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.06%) ProxySG
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.26%) KVM
5 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 89 (23.54%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.20%) Terraform
3 26 (6.88%) Ansible
4 22 (5.82%) Kibana
5 3 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.53%) Grafana
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.26%) logstash
7 1 (0.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.26%) QRadar
7 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.99%) Salesforce
3 31 (8.20%) Oracle
4 26 (6.88%) Splunk
5 24 (6.35%) Google
6 23 (6.08%) Dynatrace
7 19 (5.03%) SAP
7 19 (5.03%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.91%) MuleSoft
9 10 (2.65%) OpenAI
10 9 (2.38%) Intapp
11 7 (1.85%) Cisco
12 6 (1.59%) Workday
13 5 (1.32%) Dell
13 5 (1.32%) Epicor
13 5 (1.32%) IBM
13 5 (1.32%) Trayport
14 4 (1.06%) Broadcom
14 4 (1.06%) Infor
14 4 (1.06%) Talend