REST Job Trends in Merseyside

Representational State Transfer (REST)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 42 63
Rank change year-on-year -19 +21 +9
Permanent jobs citing REST 4 9 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.52% 2.20% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.51% 12.50% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 10
10th Percentile £48,250 £51,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,375 £52,500 £38,524
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -29.63%
75th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £55,875
90th Percentile £56,000 £59,000 £59,050
North West median annual salary £62,500 £56,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 47 72 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 6.07% 17.60% 19.70%
Number of salaries quoted 45 63 174
10th Percentile - - £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £36,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -28.00% +11.42%
75th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £73,000 £62,500 £87,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

REST job vacancy trend in Merseyside

REST
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing REST

REST
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Liverpool -20 4 £50,000 -9.09% 1
REST
North West

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (75.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) HubSpot