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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 157 108
Rank change year-on-year -38 -49 +16
Permanent jobs citing REST 156 170 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.74% 1.80% 2.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.99% 10.57% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 118 68 200
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £38,625
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,688 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year - +17.81% -15.12%
75th Percentile £77,125 £70,000 £66,563
90th Percentile £82,875 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% 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 1,952 1,608 3,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.31% 17.07% 18.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,626 843 2,576
10th Percentile £39,492 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,584 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,067 £90,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -33 85 £66,250 +1.92% 27
Yorkshire -30 45 £67,500 +5.88% 22
North East -28 26 £46,250 -15.91% 10
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 13 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.85%) WordPress
3 5 (3.21%) CMS
4 4 (2.56%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.56%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.92%) IIS
6 2 (1.28%) Apache
6 2 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.28%) CICS
6 2 (1.28%) nginx
6 2 (1.28%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.64%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.64%) Confluence
7 1 (0.64%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 7 (4.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.64%) Magento
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (48.72%) Azure
2 59 (37.82%) AWS
3 44 (28.21%) Serverless
4 41 (26.28%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (17.31%) Power Platform
6 26 (16.67%) GitHub
7 20 (12.82%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (10.90%) Azure Functions
8 17 (10.90%) Azure Logic Apps
8 17 (10.90%) Boomi
9 16 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (9.62%) Power Automate
11 13 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (7.69%) SaaS
13 11 (7.05%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (7.05%) GCP
14 10 (6.41%) Amazon S3
14 10 (6.41%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (5.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.56%) SMTP
2 3 (1.92%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.28%) AMQP
3 2 (1.28%) MQTT
4 1 (0.64%) Broadband
4 1 (0.64%) HTTP
4 1 (0.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.38%) Power BI
2 23 (14.74%) Relational Database
3 19 (12.18%) MySQL
4 16 (10.26%) SQL Server
5 15 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (7.05%) NoSQL
8 9 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (5.77%) Spark SQL
9 8 (5.13%) MongoDB
10 5 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.56%) DocumentDB
11 4 (2.56%) Redis
12 3 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.92%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.92%) MariaDB
12 3 (1.92%) Neo4j
12 3 (1.92%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 46 (29.49%) Git
2 20 (12.82%) JIRA
3 15 (9.62%) Jenkins
4 12 (7.69%) GitLab
5 5 (3.21%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.56%) Claude Code
6 4 (2.56%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.92%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.92%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.28%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.28%) IntelliJ
8 2 (1.28%) Postman
8 2 (1.28%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.64%) fastlane
9 1 (0.64%) Gatling
9 1 (0.64%) JMeter
9 1 (0.64%) Maven
9 1 (0.64%) NUnit
9 1 (0.64%) REST Assured
General
1 42 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (12.18%) Marketing
3 19 (12.18%) Retail
4 13 (8.33%) Finance
5 12 (7.69%) Banking
6 10 (6.41%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.77%) Investment Banking
7 9 (5.77%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.21%) Legal
10 2 (1.28%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.64%) Games
11 1 (0.64%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Publishing
11 1 (0.64%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 83 (53.21%) Developer
2 38 (24.36%) Senior
3 28 (17.95%) Full-Stack Developer
4 25 (16.03%) Senior Developer
5 22 (14.10%) Software Engineer
6 18 (11.54%) Lead
7 16 (10.26%) Java Engineer
8 10 (6.41%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (6.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (5.77%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.77%) Data Engineer
9 9 (5.77%) Java Developer
9 9 (5.77%) Lead Data Engineer
9 9 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.49%) C# Developer
11 6 (3.85%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.85%) Analyst
11 6 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (3.21%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (37.18%) React
2 46 (29.49%) Node.js
3 27 (17.31%) .NET
3 27 (17.31%) Middleware
4 25 (16.03%) AngularJS
4 25 (16.03%) SOAP
4 25 (16.03%) Spring
4 25 (16.03%) Spring Boot
5 24 (15.38%) CSS
6 22 (14.10%) JSON
7 14 (8.97%) GraphQL
8 13 (8.33%) HTML
8 13 (8.33%) XML
9 12 (7.69%) EDI
10 10 (6.41%) Vue
11 9 (5.77%) ARM Templates
11 9 (5.77%) Laravel
11 9 (5.77%) PySpark
11 9 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (5.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.97%) Enterprise Cloud
3 13 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.41%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.28%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.28%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.28%) IoT
7 2 (1.28%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.64%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.64%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.13%) Linux
2 4 (2.56%) Windows
3 3 (1.92%) Android
3 3 (1.92%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.28%) CentOS
4 2 (1.28%) Debian
4 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 66 (42.31%) DevOps
3 54 (34.62%) Full-Stack Development
4 50 (32.05%) Agile
5 48 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (27.56%) Software Engineering
7 42 (26.92%) Test Automation
8 33 (21.15%) Data Modelling
9 31 (19.87%) Microservices
10 29 (18.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (18.59%) Observability
11 28 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (16.03%) CRM
12 25 (16.03%) Mentoring
13 24 (15.38%) AI
13 24 (15.38%) API Integration
13 24 (15.38%) Release Management
14 21 (13.46%) Design Patterns
15 20 (12.82%) Deployment Automation
15 20 (12.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 55 (35.26%) SQL
2 46 (29.49%) JavaScript
3 44 (28.21%) TypeScript
4 37 (23.72%) Java
5 33 (21.15%) C#
6 29 (18.59%) Python
7 14 (8.97%) PHP
8 5 (3.21%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.56%) Apex Code
9 4 (2.56%) Groovy
9 4 (2.56%) SOQL
9 4 (2.56%) SOSL
10 3 (1.92%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.28%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.28%) Swift
12 1 (0.64%) Bash
12 1 (0.64%) Bicep
12 1 (0.64%) Dart
12 1 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (12.18%) Degree
2 16 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (9.62%) Security Cleared
4 13 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.90%) TickIT
2 14 (8.97%) QA
3 10 (6.41%) GDPR
4 6 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 5 (3.21%) PMO
6 4 (2.56%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.28%) WCAG
9 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.64%) HL7
System Software
1 26 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (17.31%) Terraform
2 18 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.05%) Ansible
4 3 (1.92%) Packer
5 2 (1.28%) Grafana
5 2 (1.28%) Kibana
5 2 (1.28%) Puppet
6 1 (0.64%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.64%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 28 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.77%) Databricks
3 7 (4.49%) OpenAI
3 7 (4.49%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.85%) Oracle
5 5 (3.21%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.21%) Google
5 5 (3.21%) IBM
6 4 (2.56%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.56%) Pega
6 4 (2.56%) Splunk
7 3 (1.92%) WooCommerce
8 2 (1.28%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.28%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.28%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.28%) WSO2
9 1 (0.64%) Apple
9 1 (0.64%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.64%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.64%) Sage