RESTful Job Trends in the North of England

RESTful
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring RESTful skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 134 114
Rank change year-on-year -83 -20 +64
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 114 170 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.62% 2.24% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.19% 11.56% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 88 83 345
10th Percentile £44,775 £36,500 £38,066
25th Percentile £48,289 £48,750 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,313 £78,125 £71,991
90th Percentile £76,625 £93,778 £75,772
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

RESTful 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 1,586 1,470 3,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.63% 19.38% 19.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 935 2,748
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £75,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in the North of England

RESTful
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

RESTful
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for RESTful in the North of England

RESTful
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 RESTful within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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 -75 53 £65,000 +8.33% 40
Yorkshire -37 35 £60,000 +7.14% 17
North East -23 26 £55,000 +10.00% 9
RESTful
England

RESTful
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 3 (2.63%) CMS
2 2 (1.75%) CICS
2 2 (1.75%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) IIS
3 1 (0.88%) nginx
3 1 (0.88%) PegaRULES
3 1 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 77 (67.54%) Azure
2 47 (41.23%) AWS
3 24 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (19.30%) Serverless
5 20 (17.54%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (15.79%) Amazon S3
7 15 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (10.53%) Azure AKS
8 12 (10.53%) GCP
8 12 (10.53%) GitHub
8 12 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (8.77%) Amazon EventBridge
9 10 (8.77%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (8.77%) AWS Step Functions
10 9 (7.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (4.39%) Azure AI
12 5 (4.39%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) HTTP
2 2 (1.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (42.98%) NoSQL
2 30 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (25.44%) MongoDB
4 20 (17.54%) DynamoDB
4 20 (17.54%) MySQL
5 18 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (13.16%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.39%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.63%) Power BI
10 2 (1.75%) DB2
10 2 (1.75%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.88%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (33.33%) Git
2 9 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.89%) JIRA
3 6 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.51%) fastlane
4 4 (3.51%) GitLab
4 4 (3.51%) NUnit
5 3 (2.63%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.63%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.63%) JUnit
6 2 (1.75%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.75%) Crashlytics
6 2 (1.75%) Gradle
6 2 (1.75%) Xcode
7 1 (0.88%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.91%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.89%) Finance
4 5 (4.39%) Advertising
5 4 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.75%) Games
7 1 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (58.77%) Developer
2 34 (29.82%) Software Engineer
3 28 (24.56%) .NET Developer
4 27 (23.68%) Senior
5 12 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 11 (9.65%) Java Developer
6 11 (9.65%) Lead
6 11 (9.65%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (9.65%) Software Developer
7 10 (8.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (8.77%) Java Engineer
7 10 (8.77%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (7.89%) .NET Software Engineer
9 7 (6.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (6.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (5.26%) Lead Developer
10 6 (5.26%) Principal Developer
11 5 (4.39%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
12 4 (3.51%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (3.51%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (47.37%) .NET
2 41 (35.96%) React
3 34 (29.82%) ASP.NET
4 32 (28.07%) .NET Core
5 31 (27.19%) ASP.NET Core
6 30 (26.32%) AngularJS
7 23 (20.18%) CSS
7 23 (20.18%) HTML
8 22 (19.30%) Vue
9 16 (14.04%) Spring
10 15 (13.16%) .NET Framework
10 15 (13.16%) Blazor
11 14 (12.28%) ASP.NET Web API
11 14 (12.28%) Entity Framework
12 12 (10.53%) Node.js
12 12 (10.53%) Spring Boot
13 10 (8.77%) AWS CDK
13 10 (8.77%) REST
14 8 (7.02%) LINQ
15 6 (5.26%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.44%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.77%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.14%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (6.14%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (6.14%) Mobile App
5 6 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.51%) Legacy Code
7 3 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.63%) Social Network
8 2 (1.75%) BBC
8 2 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.75%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.75%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.75%) Social Media
9 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.88%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.51%) Android
2 4 (3.51%) Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (62.28%) CI/CD
2 67 (58.77%) Agile
3 64 (56.14%) Microservices
4 61 (53.51%) DevOps
5 47 (41.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 44 (38.60%) Software Engineering
7 34 (29.82%) Containerisation
8 28 (24.56%) Scrum
9 26 (22.81%) Clean Code
9 26 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (18.42%) TDD
11 20 (17.54%) Test Automation
12 19 (16.67%) Mentoring
13 18 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
13 18 (15.79%) User Experience
14 15 (13.16%) AI
14 15 (13.16%) Multithreading
15 13 (11.40%) API Design
16 12 (10.53%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 72 (63.16%) SQL
2 37 (32.46%) C#
3 34 (29.82%) Java
4 32 (28.07%) TypeScript
5 31 (27.19%) JavaScript
6 11 (9.65%) Python
7 7 (6.14%) Go
7 7 (6.14%) PHP
8 5 (4.39%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.51%) Bicep
10 3 (2.63%) Swift
11 2 (1.75%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (7.02%) AWS Certification
1 8 (7.02%) AWS Certified Developer
2 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.51%) Degree
3 3 (2.63%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) QA
2 7 (6.14%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.51%) WCAG
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) HL7
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (20.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (21.05%) Terraform
2 21 (18.42%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.39%) Ansible
4 3 (2.63%) Rancher
5 2 (1.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.39%) Google
3 4 (3.51%) Apple
3 4 (3.51%) DevExpress
3 4 (3.51%) Dynatrace
3 4 (3.51%) Oracle
4 3 (2.63%) Pega
5 2 (1.75%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.75%) Facebook
5 2 (1.75%) IBM
5 2 (1.75%) Sony
5 2 (1.75%) Yahoo!
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe
6 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.88%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.88%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.88%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.88%) Veracode