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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 137 182
Rank change year-on-year -30 +45 -52
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 239 387 308
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.75% 2.44% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.02% 9.07% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 187 202 262
10th Percentile £54,500 £52,500 £51,375
25th Percentile £64,000 £59,069 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £90,938
90th Percentile £132,500 £105,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +0.80% -10.71%

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 2,651 4,266 4,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.36% 26.91% 27.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,906 2,664 4,258
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.34% +2.81% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £128,750 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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 -13 31 £67,500 +5.88% 77
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 14 (5.86%) Confluence
2 7 (2.93%) Appian
3 6 (2.51%) Headless CMS
4 5 (2.09%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (1.67%) Anypoint
6 3 (1.26%) Apache
6 3 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.84%) CMS
7 2 (0.84%) IIS
7 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (3.77%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.84%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (4.18%) Shopify
2 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 104 (43.51%) AWS
2 92 (38.49%) Azure
3 49 (20.50%) Serverless
4 41 (17.15%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (15.90%) GCP
6 31 (12.97%) Amazon S3
7 27 (11.30%) Amazon SQS
8 21 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (7.53%) GitHub
10 14 (5.86%) Power Automate
11 13 (5.44%) Figma
12 12 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (5.02%) Azure Service Bus
13 10 (4.18%) Azure AI
13 10 (4.18%) SaaS
14 9 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (2.93%) Anthropic Claude
15 7 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (2.93%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.67%) Firewall
2 3 (1.26%) BGP
2 3 (1.26%) Network Security
2 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.26%) VLAN
2 3 (1.26%) VPN
3 1 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 30 (12.55%) NoSQL
3 27 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (8.37%) MongoDB
5 17 (7.11%) Relational Database
6 16 (6.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (6.69%) DynamoDB
6 16 (6.69%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (5.44%) DB2
8 11 (4.60%) MySQL
9 9 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (2.93%) Pinecone
11 6 (2.51%) BigQuery
11 6 (2.51%) NonStop SQL
12 5 (2.09%) Redis
13 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.42%) Big Data
13 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.42%) Power BI
13 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (12.13%) Git
2 27 (11.30%) Jenkins
3 22 (9.21%) JIRA
4 17 (7.11%) Selenium
5 16 (6.69%) Cypress.io
6 14 (5.86%) Cucumber
7 13 (5.44%) TeamCity
8 12 (5.02%) Bitbucket
8 12 (5.02%) Postman
9 9 (3.77%) Visual Studio
10 8 (3.35%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (2.93%) MLflow
12 6 (2.51%) JMeter
13 5 (2.09%) GitLab
14 4 (1.67%) JUnit
15 3 (1.26%) CircleCI
15 3 (1.26%) ESLint
15 3 (1.26%) Mockito
15 3 (1.26%) Storybook
15 3 (1.26%) webpack
General
1 97 (40.59%) Social Skills
2 75 (31.38%) Finance
3 30 (12.55%) Banking
4 28 (11.72%) Health Technology
4 28 (11.72%) Publishing
4 28 (11.72%) Tech for Good
5 25 (10.46%) Telecoms
6 22 (9.21%) Law
7 19 (7.95%) Retail
8 16 (6.69%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (6.69%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (5.02%) Billing
10 10 (4.18%) Legal
11 8 (3.35%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (2.51%) Advertising
13 6 (2.51%) Back Office
13 6 (2.51%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 142 (59.41%) Developer
2 76 (31.80%) Senior
3 37 (15.48%) Python Developer
3 37 (15.48%) Senior Developer
4 34 (14.23%) Software Developer
5 30 (12.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 28 (11.72%) Lead
6 28 (11.72%) React Developer
7 27 (11.30%) AWS Developer
8 20 (8.37%) Software Engineer
9 19 (7.95%) .NET Developer
9 19 (7.95%) Lead Developer
10 17 (7.11%) Java Developer
11 15 (6.28%) Lead Python Developer
12 13 (5.44%) Integration Engineer
13 12 (5.02%) Senior Python Developer
13 12 (5.02%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (4.60%) Analyst
14 11 (4.60%) Backend Developer
15 10 (4.18%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (28.45%) React
2 60 (25.10%) HTML
3 53 (22.18%) .NET
4 51 (21.34%) CSS
5 46 (19.25%) Node.js
6 35 (14.64%) Kafka
6 35 (14.64%) REST
7 32 (13.39%) Swagger
8 31 (12.97%) .NET Core
9 29 (12.13%) AngularJS
10 28 (11.72%) HTML5
11 22 (9.21%) GraphQL
12 20 (8.37%) Django
12 20 (8.37%) OpenAPI
13 19 (7.95%) Spring
14 18 (7.53%) gRPC
14 18 (7.53%) Jest
15 17 (7.11%) ASP.NET Web API
15 17 (7.11%) OAuth
16 16 (6.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.64%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.88%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (8.37%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (6.28%) Data Structures
5 14 (5.86%) Low-Code
5 14 (5.86%) Onboarding
6 13 (5.44%) Product Ownership
7 12 (5.02%) Mobile App
8 11 (4.60%) AI Agents
9 10 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.26%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.26%) Web3
12 2 (0.84%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.69%) Android
2 5 (2.09%) Unix
3 4 (1.67%) Linux
4 3 (1.26%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (54.81%) Agile
2 120 (50.21%) Microservices
3 107 (44.77%) CI/CD
4 67 (28.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 64 (26.78%) DevOps
6 60 (25.10%) Scrum
7 56 (23.43%) User Experience
8 55 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (22.59%) Code Quality
10 52 (21.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (20.50%) Containerisation
12 47 (19.67%) AI
12 47 (19.67%) Software Engineering
13 42 (17.57%) Computer Science
14 41 (17.15%) Test Automation
15 39 (16.32%) Mentoring
15 39 (16.32%) Pair Programming
16 38 (15.90%) UX Design
17 37 (15.48%) API Integration
17 37 (15.48%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 98 (41.00%) Python
2 72 (30.13%) SQL
3 69 (28.87%) JavaScript
4 66 (27.62%) Java
5 60 (25.10%) TypeScript
6 47 (19.67%) C#
7 28 (11.72%) Go
8 20 (8.37%) C++
9 9 (3.77%) C
9 9 (3.77%) Kotlin
10 8 (3.35%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.67%) Bash
12 3 (1.26%) PHP
12 3 (1.26%) RPG
12 3 (1.26%) Swift
13 1 (0.42%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (15.48%) Degree
2 31 (12.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.93%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.09%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.09%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.84%) MCP
6 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (21.76%) QA
2 29 (12.13%) Accessibility
3 16 (6.69%) GDPR
4 9 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.77%) WCAG
5 7 (2.93%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.09%) PERC
7 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.67%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.84%) PSD2
9 1 (0.42%) SEPA
System Software
1 63 (26.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (26.36%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.60%) Terraform
3 5 (2.09%) Kibana
4 4 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.42%) Ansible
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.02%) Guidewire
3 10 (4.18%) Google
4 9 (3.77%) Atlassian
4 9 (3.77%) OpenAI
5 8 (3.35%) IBM
5 8 (3.35%) UiPath
6 7 (2.93%) Automation Anywhere
6 7 (2.93%) SAP
7 6 (2.51%) Apple
7 6 (2.51%) Facebook
7 6 (2.51%) YouTube
8 5 (2.09%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.09%) Ericsson
8 5 (2.09%) Informatica
8 5 (2.09%) Mavenir
8 5 (2.09%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.09%) Nokia
8 5 (2.09%) Talend
8 5 (2.09%) Workday