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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 135 157
Rank change year-on-year -54 +22 -30
Permanent jobs citing REST 176 354 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.51% 1.93% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.84% 9.97% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 78 195 174
10th Percentile £43,375 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,173 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -15.12% +18.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £78,491
90th Percentile £79,125 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.70%

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 1,624 3,552 4,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.92% 19.35% 28.31%
Number of salaries quoted 841 2,830 2,307
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,975 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +8.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £79,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £66,295 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.49% -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

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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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -89 126 £61,250 +2.08% 402
Yorkshire +31 43 £60,000 +26.32% 327
North East +39 7 £55,000 +15.79% 99
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 10 (5.68%) Confluence
2 5 (2.84%) CMS
3 1 (0.57%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.57%) IIS
3 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.57%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 116 (65.91%) Azure
2 114 (64.77%) AWS
3 18 (10.23%) SaaS
3 18 (10.23%) Serverless
4 12 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (5.11%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.55%) GCP
8 7 (3.98%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (3.98%) GitHub
9 6 (3.41%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (3.41%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.84%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.41%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.27%) BGP
2 4 (2.27%) EIGRP
2 4 (2.27%) HTTP
2 4 (2.27%) Network Security
2 4 (2.27%) OSPF
3 1 (0.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (46.59%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.39%) MySQL
3 9 (5.11%) RDBMS
3 9 (5.11%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.98%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.41%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.41%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.84%) Power BI
7 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.14%) Redis
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 85 (48.30%) JIRA
2 75 (42.61%) Selenium
3 74 (42.05%) Cucumber
4 72 (40.91%) Bitbucket
4 72 (40.91%) GitLab
4 72 (40.91%) Maven
4 72 (40.91%) SonarQube
4 72 (40.91%) Sonatype Nexus
5 18 (10.23%) Git
6 8 (4.55%) webpack
7 6 (3.41%) Babel
8 4 (2.27%) JUnit
8 4 (2.27%) NUnit
8 4 (2.27%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.70%) Jenkins
9 3 (1.70%) Storybook
10 2 (1.14%) Jasmine
10 2 (1.14%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (1.14%) MSTest
10 2 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 92 (52.27%) Finance
2 80 (45.45%) Retail
3 73 (41.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 72 (40.91%) Banking
4 72 (40.91%) Corporate Banking
4 72 (40.91%) Investment Banking
5 35 (19.89%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.70%) Law
7 3 (1.70%) Marketing
7 3 (1.70%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.14%) Cantonese Language
8 2 (1.14%) Electronics
8 2 (1.14%) Front Office
8 2 (1.14%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.57%) Games
9 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (51.14%) Software Engineer
2 47 (26.70%) Developer
3 33 (18.75%) Senior
4 14 (7.95%) Senior Developer
4 14 (7.95%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (5.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 9 (5.11%) ServiceNow Developer
6 7 (3.98%) JavaScript Developer
6 7 (3.98%) React Developer
7 6 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (3.41%) AWS Software Engineer
7 6 (3.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 6 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (2.84%) .NET Developer
8 5 (2.84%) Architect
8 5 (2.84%) C# Developer
8 5 (2.84%) HTML CSS Developer
8 5 (2.84%) HTML Developer
8 5 (2.84%) PHP Developer
9 4 (2.27%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (59.66%) React
2 92 (52.27%) CSS
3 91 (51.70%) HTML
4 84 (47.73%) Kafka
4 84 (47.73%) Spring
5 83 (47.16%) RESTful
5 83 (47.16%) Spring Boot
6 82 (46.59%) HTML5
7 79 (44.89%) Jest
8 76 (43.18%) Redux
9 75 (42.61%) CSS3
10 74 (42.05%) Sass
11 72 (40.91%) JPA
12 25 (14.20%) .NET
12 25 (14.20%) Web Services
13 17 (9.66%) SOAP
14 15 (8.52%) Node.js
15 11 (6.25%) AngularJS
16 10 (5.68%) GraphQL
17 8 (4.55%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 91 (51.70%) Product Ownership
2 74 (42.05%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.11%) CMDB
4 6 (3.41%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.70%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.14%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (1.14%) Derivative
7 2 (1.14%) Equities
7 2 (1.14%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.57%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.41%) Windows
2 4 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (73.86%) Agile
2 106 (60.23%) Microservices
3 103 (58.52%) CI/CD
4 101 (57.39%) DevOps
5 99 (56.25%) Software Engineering
6 86 (48.86%) Front End Development
6 86 (48.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 84 (47.73%) Mentoring
8 83 (47.16%) Containerisation
8 83 (47.16%) Migration
9 82 (46.59%) Test Automation
9 82 (46.59%) User Experience
10 76 (43.18%) SDLC
11 74 (42.05%) Performance Optimisation
11 74 (42.05%) Responsive Web Design
12 72 (40.91%) Strategic Thinking
13 20 (11.36%) Scrum
14 19 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (9.09%) OOP
16 15 (8.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 123 (69.89%) JavaScript
2 113 (64.20%) TypeScript
3 94 (53.41%) SQL
4 89 (50.57%) Java
5 24 (13.64%) Python
6 22 (12.50%) C#
7 7 (3.98%) PHP
8 5 (2.84%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.14%) Go
11 1 (0.57%) Groovy
11 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.57%) VB
11 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.57%) VB6
Qualifications
1 11 (6.25%) Degree
2 7 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.84%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.84%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (46.59%) QA
2 76 (43.18%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.57%) GDPR
3 1 (0.57%) PMO
3 1 (0.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 85 (48.30%) Docker
2 4 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (46.59%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.09%) Terraform
3 8 (4.55%) Ansible
4 6 (3.41%) Grafana
5 4 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.57%) Puppet
6 1 (0.57%) vRealize
Vendors
1 72 (40.91%) Solace
2 20 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.11%) Ping Identity
3 9 (5.11%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.84%) Cisco
4 5 (2.84%) VMware
5 4 (2.27%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.14%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.14%) Google
6 2 (1.14%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.14%) Oracle
6 2 (1.14%) Splunk
7 1 (0.57%) Brocade
7 1 (0.57%) Dell
7 1 (0.57%) EMC
7 1 (0.57%) HP
7 1 (0.57%) Informatica
7 1 (0.57%) Revolut
7 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.57%) SAP