Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 25 July 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 25 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Representational State Transfer (REST)
North West > Manchester
6 months to
25 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 78 74 112
Rank change year-on-year -4 +38 -28
Permanent jobs citing REST 166 121 186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.54% 3.61% 2.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.22% 7.87% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 115 97 137
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £69,250 £72,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,801 1,537 2,645
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester 38.39% 45.80% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,412 1,333 2,017
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £81,175 £70,000 £70,650
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Manchester

REST
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for REST in Manchester

REST
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 July 2021.

Salary histogram for REST in Manchester

REST
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 25 July 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
Ashton-under-Lyne - 4 £40,000 -
Stockport +11 3 £90,000 +125.00%
Bury -6 2 - -
Altrincham - 2 £42,500 - 1
Bolton - 2 - -
REST
North West

For the 6 months to 25 July 2021, IT jobs citing REST also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region with a requirement for REST.

1 91 (54.82%) JavaScript
1 91 (54.82%) Microservices
2 87 (52.41%) Agile Software Development
3 84 (50.60%) Docker
4 68 (40.96%) React
5 65 (39.16%) Node.js
5 65 (39.16%) AngularJS
6 63 (37.95%) Java
7 61 (36.75%) Git (software)
8 60 (36.14%) Linux
9 59 (35.54%) MongoDB
10 57 (34.34%) SQL Server
11 53 (31.93%) MySQL
11 53 (31.93%) MVC
12 49 (29.52%) PHP
12 49 (29.52%) TDD
12 49 (29.52%) Kafka
13 46 (27.71%) OOP
14 44 (26.51%) Symfony
14 44 (26.51%) Zend
15 43 (25.90%) Go
16 42 (25.30%) jQuery
17 41 (24.70%) Jenkins
18 40 (24.10%) Spring
18 40 (24.10%) Scrum
19 37 (22.29%) Azure
20 34 (20.48%) Continuous Integration
20 34 (20.48%) BDD
20 34 (20.48%) Serverless
20 34 (20.48%) Problem-Solving

REST
Co-occurring IT Skills in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.61%) CMS
2 5 (3.01%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.01%) nginx
3 3 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.20%) Documentum
4 2 (1.20%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.20%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.60%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.60%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 37 (22.29%) Azure
2 34 (20.48%) Serverless
3 25 (15.06%) GitHub
4 24 (14.46%) AWS
5 9 (5.42%) SaaS
6 8 (4.82%) Apigee
6 8 (4.82%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.61%) GCP
7 6 (3.61%) npm
8 5 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.01%) Azure Service Fabric
8 5 (3.01%) PaaS
9 4 (2.41%) Azure Stack
10 3 (1.81%) IaaS
11 2 (1.20%) iPaaS
11 2 (1.20%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.20%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.20%) Slack
11 2 (1.20%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) AMQP
1 2 (1.20%) DMZ
1 2 (1.20%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (1.20%) Firewall
1 2 (1.20%) iSCSI
1 2 (1.20%) NAS
1 2 (1.20%) SAN
1 2 (1.20%) SSH
1 2 (1.20%) SSL
2 1 (0.60%) Internet
2 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.60%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (35.54%) MongoDB
2 57 (34.34%) SQL Server
3 53 (31.93%) MySQL
4 21 (12.65%) Big Data
5 14 (8.43%) NoSQL
6 10 (6.02%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.01%) Apache Hive
7 5 (3.01%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.20%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.20%) Power BI
8 2 (1.20%) SQL Server 2005
8 2 (1.20%) SQL Server 2008
9 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.60%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.60%) GIS
9 1 (0.60%) JasperReports
9 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 61 (36.75%) Git (software)
2 41 (24.70%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.82%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (3.01%) Cucumber
4 5 (3.01%) gulp
4 5 (3.01%) JUnit
4 5 (3.01%) Selenium
4 5 (3.01%) TeamCity
4 5 (3.01%) webpack
5 4 (2.41%) Mockito
6 3 (1.81%) GitLab
6 3 (1.81%) Gradle
6 3 (1.81%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.81%) JIRA
6 3 (1.81%) JMeter
6 3 (1.81%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.20%) Maven
7 2 (1.20%) Postman
7 2 (1.20%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 33 (19.88%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.04%) Finance
3 9 (5.42%) Legal
4 7 (4.22%) Marketing
5 6 (3.61%) Games
5 6 (3.61%) Retail
6 4 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.41%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.20%) Banking
7 2 (1.20%) Electronics
7 2 (1.20%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 132 (79.52%) Developer
2 47 (28.31%) JavaScript Developer
3 46 (27.71%) PHP Developer
4 44 (26.51%) Senior Developer
4 44 (26.51%) Software Developer
5 38 (22.89%) Java Developer
6 24 (14.46%) Senior PHP Developer
7 22 (13.25%) Senior JavaScript Developer
7 22 (13.25%) Senior Software Developer
8 15 (9.04%) .NET Developer
9 12 (7.23%) Full Stack Developer
10 9 (5.42%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 9 (5.42%) Python Developer
11 7 (4.22%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Senior .NET Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Senior Full Stack Developer
13 4 (2.41%) Angular Developer
13 4 (2.41%) Azure Developer
13 4 (2.41%) Senior Systems Developer
13 4 (2.41%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (40.96%) React
2 65 (39.16%) AngularJS
2 65 (39.16%) Node.js
3 49 (29.52%) Kafka
4 44 (26.51%) Symfony
5 42 (25.30%) jQuery
6 40 (24.10%) Spring
7 33 (19.88%) .NET
8 32 (19.28%) GraphQL
9 23 (13.86%) Hibernate
10 21 (12.65%) Middleware
11 20 (12.05%) JavaBeans
11 20 (12.05%) XML
12 19 (11.45%) SOAP
13 18 (10.84%) JSON
14 16 (9.64%) CSS
14 16 (9.64%) Web Services
15 12 (7.23%) .NET Core
15 12 (7.23%) HTML
16 11 (6.63%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.22%) Mobile App
2 6 (3.61%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.01%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.01%) iPad
3 5 (3.01%) N-Tier
3 5 (3.01%) Online Gambling
4 4 (2.41%) Blog
4 4 (2.41%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.81%) FMCG
6 2 (1.20%) Clustering
6 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Life Science
6 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Robotics
6 2 (1.20%) User Experience
6 2 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.60%) Internet of Things
7 1 (0.60%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 60 (36.14%) Linux
2 6 (3.61%) Windows
3 3 (1.81%) Unix
4 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.60%) Android
5 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.60%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (54.82%) Microservices
2 87 (52.41%) Agile Software Development
3 53 (31.93%) MVC
4 49 (29.52%) TDD
5 46 (27.71%) OOP
6 40 (24.10%) Scrum
7 34 (20.48%) BDD
7 34 (20.48%) Continuous Integration
7 34 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (18.07%) DevOps
9 29 (17.47%) Open Source
10 28 (16.87%) Coaching
11 25 (15.06%) SOA
12 23 (13.86%) Analytics
13 21 (12.65%) Software Engineering
14 20 (12.05%) Big Data Analytics
14 20 (12.05%) Data Analytics
14 20 (12.05%) Mentoring
15 19 (11.45%) Front End Development
16 13 (7.83%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 91 (54.82%) JavaScript
2 63 (37.95%) Java
3 49 (29.52%) PHP
4 43 (25.90%) Go
5 33 (19.88%) SQL
6 30 (18.07%) C#
7 25 (15.06%) Python
8 22 (13.25%) Java 8
9 18 (10.84%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.22%) Java 11
11 5 (3.01%) ES6
12 4 (2.41%) C
12 4 (2.41%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.81%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.81%) Perl
13 3 (1.81%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.20%) Bash Shell
14 2 (1.20%) CFML
14 2 (1.20%) Scala
14 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (14.46%) SC Cleared
1 24 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.63%) Degree
3 4 (2.41%) PhD
4 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (0.60%) CCSP
4 1 (0.60%) CEH
4 1 (0.60%) CISA
4 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.60%) CISM
4 1 (0.60%) CISSP
4 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.60%) GIAC
4 1 (0.60%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.01%) QA
2 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.20%) CDISC
2 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.20%) GxP
3 1 (0.60%) GDPR
3 1 (0.60%) GRC
3 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 84 (50.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.20%) LXC
3 2 (1.20%) NFS
3 2 (1.20%) SRDF
3 2 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (15.66%) Terraform
2 17 (10.24%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.81%) Ansible
3 3 (1.81%) Rancher
4 2 (1.20%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (26.51%) Zend
2 17 (10.24%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.83%) Google
4 10 (6.02%) Oracle
5 5 (3.01%) Sun
5 5 (3.01%) VMware
6 3 (1.81%) Dell
7 2 (1.20%) Cisco
7 2 (1.20%) EMC
7 2 (1.20%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.20%) HP
7 2 (1.20%) NetApp
7 2 (1.20%) OpenText
7 2 (1.20%) Zerto
8 1 (0.60%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.60%) iManage
8 1 (0.60%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.60%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.60%) Salesforce.com
8 1 (0.60%) Sparx