REST Jobs in London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 118 69
Rank change year-on-year -1 -49 -14
Permanent jobs citing REST 367 607 1,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.88% 2.57% 4.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.08% 10.46% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 250 502 1,027
10th Percentile £52,450 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,188 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.70%

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 3,312 5,801 12,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.00% 24.56% 34.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,453 4,728 8,628
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £127,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £66,253 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in London

REST
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for REST in London

REST
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in London over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 -36 77 £75,000 -16.67% 46
South London +6 40 £65,000 -14.75% 1
West London +38 2 £58,488 -31.19% 15
East London -6 1 £92,500 +32.14% 11
REST
England

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 12 (3.27%) JBoss
1 12 (3.27%) Red Hat Fuse
2 10 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.45%) Confluence
4 8 (2.18%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.63%) nginx
5 6 (1.63%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.63%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.36%) OpenEdge
7 4 (1.09%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (1.09%) CMS
7 4 (1.09%) Mule
8 3 (0.82%) Apache
8 3 (0.82%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.82%) Oracle Coherence
8 3 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.54%) Appian
10 1 (0.27%) Camunda
Applications
1 6 (1.63%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.54%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.27%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 176 (47.96%) AWS
2 87 (23.71%) Azure
3 66 (17.98%) Serverless
4 52 (14.17%) SaaS
5 47 (12.81%) GCP
6 39 (10.63%) Amazon EC2
7 38 (10.35%) Amazon ECS
8 36 (9.81%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (6.81%) Power Platform
10 16 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (3.00%) GitHub
13 11 (3.00%) PowerApps
14 10 (2.72%) Amazon S3
14 10 (2.72%) Power Automate
15 9 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (2.18%) dbt
16 8 (2.18%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.81%) HTTP
2 2 (0.54%) Firewall
2 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.54%) Value-Added Service
3 1 (0.27%) AMQP
3 1 (0.27%) DHCP
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) FTP
3 1 (0.27%) Internet
3 1 (0.27%) SSH
3 1 (0.27%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (29.16%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (15.26%) Relational Database
3 41 (11.17%) SQL Server
4 35 (9.54%) NoSQL
5 28 (7.63%) RDBMS
6 27 (7.36%) MongoDB
7 23 (6.27%) Power BI
8 12 (3.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (2.18%) Apache Hive
12 7 (1.91%) MySQL
13 6 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.36%) Redis
15 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
16 2 (0.54%) DynamoDB
16 2 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 84 (22.89%) Git
2 68 (18.53%) Jenkins
3 48 (13.08%) JUnit
4 35 (9.54%) JIRA
5 26 (7.08%) Mockito
6 25 (6.81%) JMeter
6 25 (6.81%) SonarQube
7 24 (6.54%) GitLab
8 20 (5.45%) Maven
9 18 (4.90%) Postman
10 15 (4.09%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (3.81%) IntelliJ
12 12 (3.27%) Bitbucket
12 12 (3.27%) Selenium
13 11 (3.00%) REST Assured
14 10 (2.72%) PowerBuilder
15 7 (1.91%) Cucumber
15 7 (1.91%) SoapUI
15 7 (1.91%) TestNG
15 7 (1.91%) Visual Studio
General
1 95 (25.89%) Finance
2 79 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 54 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 31 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.08%) Banking
6 14 (3.81%) Marketing
7 13 (3.54%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.00%) Games
9 10 (2.72%) Front Office
9 10 (2.72%) Legal
9 10 (2.72%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.45%) Publishing
11 8 (2.18%) iGaming
11 8 (2.18%) Retail
12 7 (1.91%) Advertising
12 7 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.91%) Electronics
12 7 (1.91%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.63%) Back Office
13 6 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (37.60%) Developer
2 88 (23.98%) Senior
3 54 (14.71%) Java Developer
4 49 (13.35%) Lead
5 34 (9.26%) Architect
6 32 (8.72%) Senior Developer
7 30 (8.17%) Python Engineer
8 27 (7.36%) Full-Stack Developer
8 27 (7.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 27 (7.36%) Software Engineer
9 25 (6.81%) Java Engineer
10 15 (4.09%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (3.81%) GCP Engineer
11 14 (3.81%) Senior Java Engineer
11 14 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (3.54%) Lead Developer
12 13 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 11 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (26.70%) React
2 95 (25.89%) SOAP
3 91 (24.80%) Web Services
4 63 (17.17%) Spring
5 60 (16.35%) .NET
6 53 (14.44%) Spring Boot
7 51 (13.90%) HTML
8 42 (11.44%) GraphQL
9 34 (9.26%) XML
10 33 (8.99%) Hibernate
11 31 (8.45%) Middleware
11 31 (8.45%) Node.js
11 31 (8.45%) RESTful
12 30 (8.17%) Apache Camel
13 29 (7.90%) JSON
14 27 (7.36%) Kafka
15 26 (7.08%) AngularJS
15 26 (7.08%) FastAPI
16 24 (6.54%) CSS
16 24 (6.54%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.08%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (5.18%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.36%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.09%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.00%) Distributed Computing
7 10 (2.72%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.72%) Reinsurance
8 9 (2.45%) Sports Betting
9 8 (2.18%) Mobile Games
10 7 (1.91%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.63%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.09%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.09%) Online Games
14 3 (0.82%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.82%) Clustering
14 3 (0.82%) Life Science
14 3 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.99%) Linux
2 12 (3.27%) Apple iOS
2 12 (3.27%) Windows
3 11 (3.00%) Android
4 8 (2.18%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.91%) Unix
6 5 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.82%) Solaris
8 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.27%) Debian
9 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (46.32%) Agile
2 126 (34.33%) CI/CD
3 120 (32.70%) Problem-Solving
4 109 (29.70%) Microservices
5 100 (27.25%) DevOps
6 85 (23.16%) Containerisation
7 78 (21.25%) TDD
8 73 (19.89%) Full-Stack Development
9 71 (19.35%) Software Engineering
10 60 (16.35%) Scrum
11 51 (13.90%) Roadmaps
12 48 (13.08%) BDD
13 47 (12.81%) Kanban
13 47 (12.81%) Test Automation
14 37 (10.08%) SDLC
15 33 (8.99%) API Development
15 33 (8.99%) Machine Learning
16 32 (8.72%) Mentoring
17 30 (8.17%) Software Testing
18 29 (7.90%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 141 (38.42%) Python
2 105 (28.61%) Java
3 95 (25.89%) SQL
4 91 (24.80%) JavaScript
5 60 (16.35%) TypeScript
6 55 (14.99%) C#
7 25 (6.81%) PowerShell
8 23 (6.27%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.00%) Bash
10 10 (2.72%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.91%) Apex Code
11 7 (1.91%) Swift
12 6 (1.63%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.36%) OpenEdge ABL
13 5 (1.36%) Progress 4GL
13 5 (1.36%) Scala
14 4 (1.09%) C++
14 4 (1.09%) Groovy
15 3 (0.82%) Perl
15 3 (0.82%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 51 (13.90%) Degree
2 39 (10.63%) Security Cleared
3 37 (10.08%) SC Cleared
4 32 (8.72%) Master's Degree
5 14 (3.81%) PhD
6 12 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.45%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
11 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.17%) QA
2 12 (3.27%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.27%) SLA
3 5 (1.36%) GDPR
3 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.09%) CDISC
5 3 (0.82%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.82%) WCAG
6 2 (0.54%) SEPA
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) MiFID
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 149 (40.60%) Docker
2 6 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.54%) Firmware
4 1 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.27%) Postfix
4 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 141 (38.42%) Kubernetes
2 50 (13.62%) Terraform
3 44 (11.99%) Ansible
4 19 (5.18%) Kibana
5 7 (1.91%) Kustomize
6 4 (1.09%) Argo
6 4 (1.09%) Grafana
7 3 (0.82%) Istio
7 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.82%) Packer
8 2 (0.54%) MIIS
8 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.27%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.27%) Nessus
9 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 50 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.90%) Google
3 20 (5.45%) Splunk
4 19 (5.18%) Dynatrace
5 18 (4.90%) Oracle
6 13 (3.54%) Databricks
6 13 (3.54%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.00%) SAP
8 8 (2.18%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.91%) Ping Identity
9 7 (1.91%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.91%) VMware
10 6 (1.63%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.09%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.82%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.82%) Progress
12 3 (0.82%) Solace
13 2 (0.54%) Intapp
13 2 (0.54%) Trayport
13 2 (0.54%) Workday