REST Job Trends in Manchester

Representational State Transfer (REST)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 112 120
Rank change year-on-year +24 +8 +12
Permanent jobs citing REST 49 43 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.47% 1.70% 1.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.79% 7.26% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33 27 45
10th Percentile £47,000 £45,850 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -0.31% -8.05%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,625 £71,250
90th Percentile - £69,250 £100,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 383 592 992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.46% 23.35% 27.56%
Number of salaries quoted 324 366 827
10th Percentile £29,750 £41,250 £38,084
25th Percentile £50,938 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £92,875 £84,419
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

REST job vacancy trend in Manchester

REST
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Manchester over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

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 10 February 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
Bury - 2 - - 1
REST
North West

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (10.20%) Apache Spark
2 4 (8.16%) Apache
3 2 (4.08%) nginx
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.04%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.04%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.98%) AWS
2 20 (40.82%) Azure
3 19 (38.78%) Serverless
4 13 (26.53%) SaaS
5 9 (18.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (18.37%) Azure Functions
5 9 (18.37%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (18.37%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (16.33%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (12.24%) GCP
8 4 (8.16%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (8.16%) OpenShift
9 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (4.08%) Boomi
10 2 (4.08%) iPaaS
10 2 (4.08%) Salesforce Einstein
11 1 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) AMQP
1 4 (8.16%) HTTP
2 1 (2.04%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) NoSQL
2 8 (16.33%) Relational Database
3 6 (12.24%) MySQL
4 5 (10.20%) Hadoop
4 5 (10.20%) MongoDB
5 4 (8.16%) Big Data
5 4 (8.16%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (6.12%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.04%) Data Mining
8 1 (2.04%) DocumentDB
8 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.04%) InfluxDB
8 1 (2.04%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 11 (22.45%) Git
2 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.16%) JIRA
3 4 (8.16%) JUnit
4 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.04%) GitLab
4 1 (2.04%) Postman
4 1 (2.04%) Selenium
General
1 14 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (8.16%) Aerospace
2 4 (8.16%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Banking
3 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Games
4 1 (2.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 20 (40.82%) Developer
2 13 (26.53%) Software Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Senior
4 7 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Analyst
6 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Lead
7 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Java Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Team Leader
8 3 (6.12%) Digital Analyst
8 3 (6.12%) Integration Analyst
8 3 (6.12%) Integration Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Principal .NET Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Principal Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.61%) .NET
2 14 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 14 (28.57%) React
3 13 (26.53%) Node.js
3 13 (26.53%) Spring
3 13 (26.53%) Spring Boot
4 8 (16.33%) CSS
4 8 (16.33%) gRPC
5 7 (14.29%) JSON
6 6 (12.24%) HTML
7 5 (10.20%) .NET Core
8 4 (8.16%) Kafka
8 4 (8.16%) Material-UI
8 4 (8.16%) OpenAPI
8 4 (8.16%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (8.16%) RESTful
8 4 (8.16%) Spring Batch
8 4 (8.16%) Swagger
8 4 (8.16%) XML
9 3 (6.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Mobile App
2 7 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 6 (12.24%) Product Ownership
4 5 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.04%) IoT
5 1 (2.04%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) CentOS
1 4 (8.16%) Debian
1 4 (8.16%) Linux
1 4 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (8.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (71.43%) Agile
2 23 (46.94%) CI/CD
3 19 (38.78%) Microservices
4 16 (32.65%) TDD
5 14 (28.57%) Scrum
6 13 (26.53%) Software Engineering
7 11 (22.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (20.41%) AI
8 10 (20.41%) Containerisation
8 10 (20.41%) DevOps
8 10 (20.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (20.41%) SOLID
9 9 (18.37%) User Experience
10 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (12.24%) CRM
11 6 (12.24%) Kanban
12 5 (10.20%) Configuration Management
12 5 (10.20%) Data Modelling
12 5 (10.20%) Open Source
12 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 16 (32.65%) Java
3 14 (28.57%) C#
4 12 (24.49%) TypeScript
5 11 (22.45%) Python
6 8 (16.33%) SQL
7 3 (6.12%) Apex Code
7 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.08%) PHP
9 1 (2.04%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.04%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
1 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.04%) MBA
3 1 (2.04%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) HL7
2 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (22.45%) Terraform
2 8 (16.33%) Ansible
3 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
4 4 (8.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Salesforce
2 4 (8.16%) Google
2 4 (8.16%) Red Hat
2 4 (8.16%) SaltStack
3 2 (4.08%) Dell
3 2 (4.08%) Informatica
3 2 (4.08%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.08%) SnapLogic
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.04%) Pega
4 1 (2.04%) WSO2