REST Jobs in the North of England

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 108 134
Rank change year-on-year -92 +26 +9
Permanent jobs citing REST 170 390 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.28% 2.16% 2.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.27% 11.54% 9.91%
Number of salaries quoted 68 200 179
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,625 £40,400
25th Percentile £48,688 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,173 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.81% -15.12% +18.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,563 £79,375
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +7.69%

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 1,655 3,381 3,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.46% 18.72% 25.50%
Number of salaries quoted 855 2,582 2,131
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the North of England

REST
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST in the North of England.

Salary trend for REST in the North of England

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 2025.

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 2025. 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 -93 121 £65,000 +8.33% 86
Yorkshire +3 42 £63,750 +27.50% 50
North East +24 7 £55,000 +15.79% 11
REST
England

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.29%) Confluence
2 6 (3.53%) CMS
3 2 (1.18%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.18%) IIS
4 1 (0.59%) Camunda
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.59%) Strapi
4 1 (0.59%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.59%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 112 (65.88%) Azure
2 111 (65.29%) AWS
3 18 (10.59%) SaaS
3 18 (10.59%) Serverless
4 12 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.71%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (4.71%) GitHub
5 8 (4.71%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.12%) AWS Step Functions
6 7 (4.12%) GCP
7 6 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.94%) Azure Functions
8 5 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (2.94%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.35%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.53%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.35%) BGP
2 4 (2.35%) EIGRP
2 4 (2.35%) HTTP
2 4 (2.35%) Network Security
2 4 (2.35%) OSPF
3 1 (0.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (48.82%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.47%) MySQL
3 10 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 10 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.12%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.53%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.94%) Power BI
7 4 (2.35%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (2.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.18%) Redis
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.59%) GIS
9 1 (0.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.59%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 84 (49.41%) JIRA
2 75 (44.12%) Selenium
3 73 (42.94%) Bitbucket
3 73 (42.94%) GitLab
3 73 (42.94%) SonarQube
3 73 (42.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 72 (42.35%) Cucumber
4 72 (42.35%) Maven
5 22 (12.94%) Git
6 4 (2.35%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.35%) JUnit
6 4 (2.35%) NUnit
6 4 (2.35%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.76%) webpack
8 2 (1.18%) ESLint
8 2 (1.18%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.18%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (1.18%) Storybook
8 2 (1.18%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (54.12%) Finance
2 81 (47.65%) Retail
3 73 (42.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 72 (42.35%) Banking
4 72 (42.35%) Corporate Banking
4 72 (42.35%) Investment Banking
5 33 (19.41%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.76%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.18%) Electronics
8 2 (1.18%) Front Office
8 2 (1.18%) Games
8 2 (1.18%) Law
8 2 (1.18%) Marketing
9 1 (0.59%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (49.41%) Software Engineer
2 50 (29.41%) Developer
3 29 (17.06%) Senior
4 14 (8.24%) Senior Developer
5 10 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (5.29%) ServiceNow Developer
7 7 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (3.53%) .NET Developer
8 6 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (3.53%) AWS Software Engineer
8 6 (3.53%) C# Developer
8 6 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 5 (2.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (2.94%) PHP Developer
10 4 (2.35%) Architect
10 4 (2.35%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.35%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (2.35%) Java Developer
10 4 (2.35%) Lead
10 4 (2.35%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (57.06%) React
2 85 (50.00%) CSS
2 85 (50.00%) HTML
3 83 (48.82%) Spring
4 82 (48.24%) Spring Boot
5 81 (47.65%) Kafka
6 80 (47.06%) RESTful
7 79 (46.47%) Jest
8 77 (45.29%) Redux
9 76 (44.71%) HTML5
10 75 (44.12%) CSS3
10 75 (44.12%) Sass
11 72 (42.35%) JPA
12 22 (12.94%) .NET
13 21 (12.35%) Web Services
14 15 (8.82%) Node.js
14 15 (8.82%) SOAP
15 10 (5.88%) ASP.NET
16 9 (5.29%) AngularJS
16 9 (5.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 91 (53.53%) Product Ownership
2 74 (43.53%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.29%) CMDB
4 7 (4.12%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.94%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.18%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (1.18%) Derivative
8 2 (1.18%) Equities
8 2 (1.18%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.59%) Animation
9 1 (0.59%) Blog
9 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.59%) FMCG
9 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.71%) Windows
2 3 (1.76%) Linux
3 2 (1.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (68.82%) Agile
2 105 (61.76%) Microservices
3 102 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 101 (59.41%) DevOps
5 92 (54.12%) Software Engineering
6 87 (51.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 84 (49.41%) Migration
8 83 (48.82%) User Experience
9 82 (48.24%) Containerisation
9 82 (48.24%) Test Automation
10 81 (47.65%) Mentoring
11 79 (46.47%) Front End Development
12 75 (44.12%) Performance Optimisation
13 74 (43.53%) Responsive Web Design
14 73 (42.94%) SDLC
14 73 (42.94%) Strategic Thinking
15 19 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (10.59%) Scrum
17 16 (9.41%) OOP
17 16 (9.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 116 (68.24%) JavaScript
2 110 (64.71%) TypeScript
3 94 (55.29%) SQL
4 88 (51.76%) Java
5 25 (14.71%) C#
6 19 (11.18%) Python
7 8 (4.71%) PHP
8 5 (2.94%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.18%) Go
10 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.59%) Dart
11 1 (0.59%) Groovy
11 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.59%) VB
11 1 (0.59%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.59%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (5.88%) Degree
2 6 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (3.53%) SC Cleared
2 6 (3.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (48.24%) QA
2 76 (44.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 85 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (47.65%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.65%) Terraform
3 7 (4.12%) Ansible
4 4 (2.35%) Grafana
5 3 (1.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.59%) Puppet
6 1 (0.59%) vRealize
Vendors
1 72 (42.35%) Solace
2 12 (7.06%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.29%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.12%) Ping Identity
5 5 (2.94%) Cisco
5 5 (2.94%) VMware
6 4 (2.35%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.18%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.18%) Google
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle
7 2 (1.18%) Splunk
8 1 (0.59%) Brocade
8 1 (0.59%) EMC
8 1 (0.59%) HP
8 1 (0.59%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.59%) SAP