REST Job Trends in the North of England

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 149 142
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 +33
Permanent jobs citing REST 108 137 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.02% 1.46% 1.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.07% 8.60% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 78 97 114
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,500 £41,325
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £48,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £95,000 £70,000 £94,080
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,073 1,593 1,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.17% 16.94% 25.30%
Number of salaries quoted 875 954 1,532
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +3.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

REST job vacancy trend in the North of England

REST
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for REST in the North of England

REST
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 January 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
North West +25 61 £62,500 +13.64% 53
Yorkshire -20 39 £61,250 +19.51% 25
North East +3 8 £51,250 +2.50% 8
REST
England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (10.19%) OpenStack
2 9 (8.33%) CMS
3 5 (4.63%) Headless CMS
4 4 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.70%) Camunda
5 3 (2.78%) Apache
6 2 (1.85%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.85%) JBoss
6 2 (1.85%) nginx
6 2 (1.85%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.93%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 61 (56.48%) AWS
2 32 (29.63%) Azure
3 30 (27.78%) Serverless
4 23 (21.30%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (15.74%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (13.89%) SaaS
7 13 (12.04%) Amazon S3
8 9 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (7.41%) Azure Functions
9 8 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (7.41%) GCP
10 6 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.70%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (2.78%) Boomi
13 3 (2.78%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.70%) HTTP
2 3 (2.78%) AMQP
3 1 (0.93%) FTP
3 1 (0.93%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.52%) Relational Database
2 16 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 10 (9.26%) MySQL
5 7 (6.48%) DynamoDB
5 7 (6.48%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.48%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.63%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.70%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.70%) Redis
8 3 (2.78%) Big Data
8 3 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (2.78%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (2.78%) Power BI
9 2 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.93%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.93%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 23 (21.30%) Git
2 18 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.63%) GitLab
3 5 (4.63%) JUnit
4 4 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.70%) JIRA
4 4 (3.70%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (3.70%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.93%) ESLint
5 1 (0.93%) Storybook
5 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 24 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.19%) Finance
2 11 (10.19%) Games
3 10 (9.26%) Retail
4 9 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.63%) Marketing
6 3 (2.78%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.78%) Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Law
7 1 (0.93%) Legal
7 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 54 (50.00%) Developer
2 30 (27.78%) Senior
3 17 (15.74%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (14.81%) Software Engineer
5 15 (13.89%) Java Developer
6 10 (9.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 8 (7.41%) C# Developer
9 7 (6.48%) .NET Developer
9 7 (6.48%) Analyst
9 7 (6.48%) AWS Developer
9 7 (6.48%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 7 (6.48%) Lead
9 7 (6.48%) Software Developer
10 6 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 5 (4.63%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 5 (4.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (4.63%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 5 (4.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (45.37%) React
2 34 (31.48%) Node.js
3 26 (24.07%) .NET
4 23 (21.30%) Spring
5 21 (19.44%) AngularJS
5 21 (19.44%) Spring Boot
6 17 (15.74%) GraphQL
6 17 (15.74%) Web Services
7 14 (12.96%) CSS
8 12 (11.11%) JSON
9 11 (10.19%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (10.19%) Kafka
10 10 (9.26%) HTML
11 8 (7.41%) Next.js
12 7 (6.48%) gRPC
12 7 (6.48%) Mustache
12 7 (6.48%) XML
13 6 (5.56%) SOAP
14 5 (4.63%) .NET Core
14 5 (4.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 8 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (6.48%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.56%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.70%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.85%) DataPower
7 2 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.85%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.93%) IoT
8 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.93%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.70%) Linux
2 3 (2.78%) CentOS
2 3 (2.78%) Debian
2 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.78%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.85%) Android
4 1 (0.93%) Windows
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (59.26%) Agile
2 47 (43.52%) CI/CD
3 38 (35.19%) Microservices
4 28 (25.93%) Software Engineering
4 28 (25.93%) TDD
5 27 (25.00%) Scrum
6 26 (24.07%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (19.44%) DevOps
8 21 (19.44%) Mentoring
9 15 (13.89%) API Integration
9 15 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (13.89%) Kanban
10 12 (11.11%) AI
10 12 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (10.19%) SDLC
12 10 (9.26%) Containerisation
12 10 (9.26%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (9.26%) SOLID
12 10 (9.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 57 (52.78%) JavaScript
2 42 (38.89%) TypeScript
3 33 (30.56%) Java
4 28 (25.93%) C#
5 25 (23.15%) SQL
6 10 (9.26%) Python
7 6 (5.56%) PHP
7 6 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.78%) Apex Code
8 3 (2.78%) Bash
9 2 (1.85%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.93%) Delphi
10 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.93%) R
10 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (4.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (4.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.70%) Degree
3 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) MBA
5 1 (0.93%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.78%) HL7
2 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 24 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (25.93%) Terraform
2 15 (13.89%) Kubernetes
3 11 (10.19%) Ansible
4 3 (2.78%) Puppet
5 1 (0.93%) Grafana
5 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (4.63%) Salesforce
2 4 (3.70%) Google
2 4 (3.70%) Pega
2 4 (3.70%) WSO2
3 3 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.78%) MuleSoft
3 3 (2.78%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.78%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.85%) Dell
4 2 (1.85%) Informatica
4 2 (1.85%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.93%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle
5 1 (0.93%) Talend