RESTful Job Trends in London

RESTful
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring RESTful skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 154 201
Rank change year-on-year -7 +47 -63
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 290 277 375
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.40% 2.26% 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.86% 8.79% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 204 196 266
10th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £68,688 £58,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £100,063 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £130,000 £95,875
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,273 3,153 5,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.79% 25.69% 24.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,248 2,334 4,680
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,313 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £132,500
England median annual salary £66,720 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.70% +10.42% -11.11%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in London

RESTful
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing RESTful.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing RESTful

RESTful
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing RESTful in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for RESTful in London

RESTful
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Central London -41 32 £85,000 +4.62% 39
West London -16 4 - - 2
South London -1 2 - -
East London -12 1 - - 3
RESTful
England

RESTful
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 10 (3.45%) Appian
2 7 (2.41%) Confluence
3 5 (1.72%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.72%) Mule
4 4 (1.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 108 (37.24%) AWS
2 81 (27.93%) Azure
3 45 (15.52%) Serverless
4 35 (12.07%) AWS Lambda
5 33 (11.38%) GCP
6 32 (11.03%) Amazon S3
7 24 (8.28%) SaaS
8 23 (7.93%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (7.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (5.86%) Cloud Computing
10 17 (5.86%) Datadog
11 13 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (4.48%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (3.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (3.79%) Power Automate
13 10 (3.45%) Azure AI
14 9 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (2.76%) GitHub
16 6 (2.07%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.17%) Broadband
2 5 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.38%) Kerberos
4 3 (1.03%) BGP
4 3 (1.03%) Intranet
4 3 (1.03%) VLAN
4 3 (1.03%) VPN
5 2 (0.69%) DMARC
5 2 (0.69%) DNS
5 2 (0.69%) HTTP
5 2 (0.69%) Network Security
5 2 (0.69%) SSH
5 2 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.10%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (11.72%) NoSQL
3 25 (8.62%) DynamoDB
4 24 (8.28%) SQL Server
5 23 (7.93%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (6.21%) MongoDB
7 17 (5.86%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (4.83%) BigQuery
9 13 (4.48%) MySQL
10 12 (4.14%) Redis
11 10 (3.45%) Pinecone
12 6 (2.07%) Big Data
12 6 (2.07%) DB2
12 6 (2.07%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.72%) NonStop SQL
14 3 (1.03%) Power BI
15 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
16 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
16 1 (0.34%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 34 (11.72%) Git
2 30 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.55%) GitLab
4 17 (5.86%) CircleCI
4 17 (5.86%) Postman
5 10 (3.45%) MLflow
6 9 (3.10%) JIRA
7 7 (2.41%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.41%) Selenium
8 6 (2.07%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.07%) Gradle
8 6 (2.07%) Vite
9 5 (1.72%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.38%) JUnit
10 4 (1.38%) Mockito
10 4 (1.38%) webpack
11 3 (1.03%) Claude Code
11 3 (1.03%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.03%) ESLint
11 3 (1.03%) Maven
General
1 126 (43.45%) Social Skills
2 88 (30.34%) Finance
3 38 (13.10%) Banking
4 35 (12.07%) Law
5 17 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.52%) Retail
7 13 (4.48%) Back Office
7 13 (4.48%) Games
8 10 (3.45%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.45%) Health Technology
8 10 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.45%) Publishing
8 10 (3.45%) Tech for Good
9 9 (3.10%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.76%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.07%) Advertising
12 6 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.72%) Legal
14 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (56.90%) Developer
2 68 (23.45%) Senior
3 44 (15.17%) Software Developer
4 43 (14.83%) Lead
5 38 (13.10%) Lead Developer
6 33 (11.38%) Full-Stack Developer
7 31 (10.69%) React Developer
8 30 (10.34%) Senior Developer
9 28 (9.66%) Python Developer
10 26 (8.97%) Software Engineer
11 20 (6.90%) Architect
12 16 (5.52%) Analyst
12 16 (5.52%) AWS Developer
13 15 (5.17%) Data Analyst
13 15 (5.17%) Java Developer
14 13 (4.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 12 (4.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 11 (3.79%) Java Engineer
16 11 (3.79%) Node.js Developer
16 11 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (21.03%) React
2 42 (14.48%) Kafka
3 41 (14.14%) Django
4 38 (13.10%) Swagger
5 36 (12.41%) REST
6 35 (12.07%) Node.js
7 33 (11.38%) OpenAPI
8 30 (10.34%) FastAPI
8 30 (10.34%) Flask
9 29 (10.00%) CSS
10 28 (9.66%) GraphQL
10 28 (9.66%) RabbitMQ
11 27 (9.31%) HTML
12 26 (8.97%) Spring
12 26 (8.97%) Web Services
13 25 (8.62%) .NET
13 25 (8.62%) gRPC
13 25 (8.62%) Spring Boot
14 22 (7.59%) JWT
14 22 (7.59%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 59 (20.34%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.69%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (10.34%) Data Structures
4 23 (7.93%) Low-Code
5 18 (6.21%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (5.86%) Blockchain
6 17 (5.86%) Web3
7 13 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (4.48%) Product Ownership
7 13 (4.48%) Video\Live Streaming
8 12 (4.14%) Algorithms
9 10 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
9 10 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.72%) Blog
11 4 (1.38%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.38%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.03%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (0.69%) Cyberattack
13 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.93%) Android
2 16 (5.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (42.07%) Microservices
2 121 (41.72%) CI/CD
3 93 (32.07%) Software Engineering
4 75 (25.86%) Agile
5 73 (25.17%) AI
6 72 (24.83%) Containerisation
7 69 (23.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 66 (22.76%) Computer Science
9 65 (22.41%) Test Automation
10 57 (19.66%) DevOps
11 55 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (18.28%) API Design
13 51 (17.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (15.52%) Clean Code
14 45 (15.52%) Observability
15 44 (15.17%) Infrastructure as Code
15 44 (15.17%) SDLC
16 40 (13.79%) API Integration
16 40 (13.79%) Code Quality
16 40 (13.79%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 134 (46.21%) Python
2 57 (19.66%) SQL
3 47 (16.21%) Java
4 46 (15.86%) TypeScript
5 44 (15.17%) Go
6 38 (13.10%) C++
7 36 (12.41%) JavaScript
8 25 (8.62%) C#
9 18 (6.21%) C
10 9 (3.10%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.76%) PowerShell
12 6 (2.07%) PHP
12 6 (2.07%) Ruby
13 4 (1.38%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.03%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.69%) RPG
16 1 (0.34%) Lua
16 1 (0.34%) R
16 1 (0.34%) Rust
16 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (16.21%) Degree
2 38 (13.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.10%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.38%) CISSP
5 4 (1.38%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.34%) QA
2 17 (5.86%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.72%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.72%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.72%) WCAG
5 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.69%) NIST
6 2 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (23.10%) Docker
2 5 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (18.97%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.31%) Terraform
3 18 (6.21%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.03%) Ansible
6 2 (0.69%) Kibana
7 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (8.62%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.21%) Google
3 10 (3.45%) Automation Anywhere
3 10 (3.45%) OpenAI
3 10 (3.45%) UiPath
4 5 (1.72%) MuleSoft
5 4 (1.38%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.38%) SendGrid
6 3 (1.03%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.03%) Blue Prism
6 3 (1.03%) Foundry
6 3 (1.03%) Splunk
7 2 (0.69%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.69%) IBM
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle
7 2 (0.69%) PayPal
7 2 (0.69%) Thales
8 1 (0.34%) Databricks
8 1 (0.34%) Intapp
8 1 (0.34%) Ping Identity