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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 132 81
Rank change year-on-year +21 -51 -26
Permanent jobs citing REST 371 574 1,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.90% 2.39% 3.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.91% 9.77% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 242 459 877
10th Percentile £53,480 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £58,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £107,500
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 3,400 5,878 10,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.60% 24.46% 33.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,232 4,678 7,980
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% - +3.90%
75th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £132,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £66,274 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.46% -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 31 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 31 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 -27 70 £75,000 -11.76% 36
South London -9 34 £75,000 - 3
West London +10 2 £58,488 -31.19% 9
East London -21 1 £92,500 +32.14% 6
North London - 1 £70,000 -
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 14 (3.77%) JBoss
1 14 (3.77%) Red Hat Fuse
2 10 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.43%) Confluence
4 8 (2.16%) nginx
5 7 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.62%) Apache
6 6 (1.62%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.62%) Tomcat
7 5 (1.35%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.35%) OpenEdge
8 4 (1.08%) CMS
9 3 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.81%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.81%) Mule
9 3 (0.81%) Oracle Coherence
9 3 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.54%) Appian
11 1 (0.27%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (0.81%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.54%) Magento
3 2 (0.54%) Shopify
4 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.27%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 173 (46.63%) AWS
2 88 (23.72%) Azure
3 70 (18.87%) Serverless
4 46 (12.40%) GCP
5 44 (11.86%) SaaS
6 34 (9.16%) Amazon EC2
6 34 (9.16%) Amazon ECS
7 33 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (6.47%) GitHub
8 24 (6.47%) Power Platform
9 17 (4.58%) Cloud Computing
10 15 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (2.96%) Amazon S3
13 11 (2.96%) PowerApps
14 10 (2.70%) Power Automate
15 9 (2.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (2.16%) Azure Functions
16 8 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.85%) HTTP
2 5 (1.35%) Firewall
3 2 (0.54%) DNS
3 2 (0.54%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.54%) Network Security
3 2 (0.54%) SSL
3 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.54%) VLAN
4 1 (0.27%) AMQP
4 1 (0.27%) DHCP
4 1 (0.27%) FTP
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) SSH
4 1 (0.27%) Value-Added Service
4 1 (0.27%) Wireless
4 1 (0.27%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (27.49%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (16.44%) Relational Database
3 44 (11.86%) SQL Server
4 32 (8.63%) NoSQL
5 25 (6.74%) RDBMS
6 23 (6.20%) Power BI
7 22 (5.93%) MongoDB
8 15 (4.04%) MySQL
9 13 (3.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.89%) Redis
13 6 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.35%) Apache Hive
14 5 (1.35%) DynamoDB
14 5 (1.35%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (1.08%) Big Data
15 4 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 91 (24.53%) Git
2 68 (18.33%) Jenkins
3 43 (11.59%) JUnit
4 39 (10.51%) JIRA
5 26 (7.01%) GitLab
5 26 (7.01%) SonarQube
6 19 (5.12%) JMeter
6 19 (5.12%) Mockito
7 18 (4.85%) Postman
7 18 (4.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 17 (4.58%) Maven
9 14 (3.77%) IntelliJ
10 12 (3.23%) Bitbucket
11 11 (2.96%) PowerBuilder
11 11 (2.96%) REST Assured
11 11 (2.96%) Selenium
12 8 (2.16%) SoapUI
12 8 (2.16%) SpecFlow
13 7 (1.89%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (29.92%) Finance
2 83 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 49 (13.21%) Public Sector
4 34 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (8.36%) Marketing
6 27 (7.28%) Banking
7 22 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (5.39%) Law
9 13 (3.50%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.50%) Telecoms
10 12 (3.23%) Front Office
11 10 (2.70%) Retail
12 9 (2.43%) Electronics
13 8 (2.16%) Back Office
14 7 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.89%) Games
14 7 (1.89%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.89%) Legal
15 6 (1.62%) Advertising
15 6 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 140 (37.74%) Developer
2 95 (25.61%) Senior
3 61 (16.44%) Lead
4 48 (12.94%) Java Developer
5 40 (10.78%) Software Engineer
6 38 (10.24%) Senior Developer
7 35 (9.43%) Python Engineer
8 29 (7.82%) Java Engineer
9 28 (7.55%) Architect
10 23 (6.20%) Full-Stack Developer
11 20 (5.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 20 (5.39%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (4.04%) Automation Engineer
12 15 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.04%) Lead Developer
12 15 (4.04%) Python Developer
13 14 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (3.77%) Senior Java Engineer
14 13 (3.50%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (26.15%) SOAP
2 94 (25.34%) React
3 87 (23.45%) Web Services
4 60 (16.17%) Spring
5 59 (15.90%) .NET
6 55 (14.82%) Spring Boot
7 48 (12.94%) HTML
8 40 (10.78%) GraphQL
9 35 (9.43%) Kafka
9 35 (9.43%) XML
10 32 (8.63%) Middleware
11 31 (8.36%) RESTful
12 30 (8.09%) AngularJS
12 30 (8.09%) Node.js
13 29 (7.82%) JSON
14 28 (7.55%) FastAPI
14 28 (7.55%) OAuth
15 27 (7.28%) Apache Camel
16 26 (7.01%) CSS
16 26 (7.01%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 42 (11.32%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (6.20%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.04%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.77%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.77%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.96%) Reinsurance
7 9 (2.43%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (2.16%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.89%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.35%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.35%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.35%) Sports Betting
11 4 (1.08%) Mobile Games
12 3 (0.81%) Clustering
12 3 (0.81%) Life Science
12 3 (0.81%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.01%) Linux
2 14 (3.77%) Windows
3 12 (3.23%) Unix
4 11 (2.96%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.16%) Android
5 8 (2.16%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.08%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.81%) Solaris
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.27%) Debian
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (47.98%) Agile
2 136 (36.66%) CI/CD
3 119 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (31.27%) DevOps
5 114 (30.73%) Microservices
6 88 (23.72%) Containerisation
7 81 (21.83%) Software Engineering
8 77 (20.75%) TDD
9 58 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 54 (14.56%) Scrum
11 53 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 46 (12.40%) Roadmaps
13 42 (11.32%) BDD
14 41 (11.05%) SDLC
15 38 (10.24%) Kanban
16 36 (9.70%) API Development
16 36 (9.70%) Machine Learning
17 35 (9.43%) Mentoring
18 32 (8.63%) Continuous Integration
19 31 (8.36%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 143 (38.54%) Python
2 100 (26.95%) Java
3 99 (26.68%) SQL
4 87 (23.45%) JavaScript
5 61 (16.44%) TypeScript
6 56 (15.09%) C#
7 26 (7.01%) PowerShell
8 23 (6.20%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.96%) Bash
10 10 (2.70%) Apex Code
10 10 (2.70%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.89%) Swift
12 6 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.62%) Scala
13 5 (1.35%) Groovy
13 5 (1.35%) OpenEdge ABL
13 5 (1.35%) Progress 4GL
14 4 (1.08%) C++
14 4 (1.08%) PHP
14 4 (1.08%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 51 (13.75%) Degree
2 34 (9.16%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.82%) Master's Degree
5 16 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.77%) PhD
7 8 (2.16%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.27%) CISSP
11 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.27%) MCSE
11 1 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.16%) QA
2 14 (3.77%) SLA
3 12 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.08%) CDISC
5 4 (1.08%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.08%) GDPR
5 4 (1.08%) WCAG
6 3 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.54%) SEPA
8 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.27%) MiFID
8 1 (0.27%) NCSC
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 158 (42.59%) Docker
2 6 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.54%) Firmware
4 2 (0.54%) ProxySG
4 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.27%) KVM
5 1 (0.27%) Postfix
5 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 145 (39.08%) Kubernetes
2 57 (15.36%) Ansible
3 55 (14.82%) Terraform
4 14 (3.77%) Kibana
5 5 (1.35%) Kustomize
6 4 (1.08%) Grafana
6 4 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.81%) Packer
8 2 (0.54%) Argo
8 2 (0.54%) Istio
9 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.27%) logstash
9 1 (0.27%) Nessus
9 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.27%) Puppet
9 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.24%) Google
3 22 (5.93%) Oracle
4 18 (4.85%) Splunk
5 15 (4.04%) Dynatrace
5 15 (4.04%) Salesforce
5 15 (4.04%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.50%) Databricks
6 13 (3.50%) SAP
7 9 (2.43%) Ping Identity
8 8 (2.16%) VMware
9 7 (1.89%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.08%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.08%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (1.08%) Trayport
11 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.81%) Progress
11 3 (0.81%) Solace
12 2 (0.54%) Blue Coat
12 2 (0.54%) Symantec