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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 135 162
Rank change year-on-year -13 +27 -24
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 165 238 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.76% 1.69% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.27% 9.57% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 64 159 123
10th Percentile £37,750 £41,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,875 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £71,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% -

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 1,464 2,486 2,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.59% 17.63% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 705 1,580 1,770
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £79,228 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful 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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 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 +49 125 £63,750 +13.33% 47
Yorkshire -44 37 £68,500 +24.55% 21
North East -26 3 £28,500 -52.50% 10
RESTful
England

RESTful
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 5 (3.03%) Anypoint
2 3 (1.82%) CMS
3 2 (1.21%) Drupal
3 2 (1.21%) EPiServer
3 2 (1.21%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.21%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 107 (64.85%) AWS
2 103 (62.42%) Azure
3 22 (13.33%) GCP
4 11 (6.67%) SaaS
5 10 (6.06%) GitHub
6 7 (4.24%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.03%) Datadog
8 4 (2.42%) Serverless
9 3 (1.82%) Apigee
9 3 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.82%) npm
10 2 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.21%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.21%) Figma
10 2 (1.21%) PaaS
10 2 (1.21%) Supabase
10 2 (1.21%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.45%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (50.91%) SQL Server
2 19 (11.52%) NoSQL
3 18 (10.91%) MongoDB
4 17 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (6.06%) MySQL
6 7 (4.24%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.42%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.21%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.21%) Endeca
9 2 (1.21%) Metadata
9 2 (1.21%) Redis
10 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 77 (46.67%) GitLab
1 77 (46.67%) JIRA
2 76 (46.06%) Selenium
2 76 (46.06%) SonarQube
3 75 (45.45%) Maven
3 75 (45.45%) Sonatype Nexus
4 72 (43.64%) Bitbucket
4 72 (43.64%) Cucumber
5 28 (16.97%) Git
6 13 (7.88%) Jenkins
7 8 (4.85%) JUnit
8 5 (3.03%) Cypress.io
8 5 (3.03%) Postman
9 4 (2.42%) webpack
10 3 (1.82%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.21%) Babel
11 2 (1.21%) Grunt
11 2 (1.21%) gulp
11 2 (1.21%) NUnit
11 2 (1.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 94 (56.97%) Finance
2 81 (49.09%) Retail
3 77 (46.67%) Banking
4 72 (43.64%) Corporate Banking
4 72 (43.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 72 (43.64%) Investment Banking
5 21 (12.73%) Social Skills
6 12 (7.27%) Marketing
7 7 (4.24%) Law
8 4 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.42%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.21%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 89 (53.94%) Software Engineer
2 56 (33.94%) Developer
3 31 (18.79%) Senior
4 16 (9.70%) Senior Developer
5 15 (9.09%) Lead
6 12 (7.27%) Java Developer
6 12 (7.27%) Software Developer
7 10 (6.06%) Lead Developer
8 9 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (4.85%) Python Developer
10 7 (4.24%) Lead Python Developer
10 7 (4.24%) Lead Software Developer
10 7 (4.24%) SaaS Developer
11 6 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (3.03%) .NET Developer
12 5 (3.03%) Backend Developer
12 5 (3.03%) Cloud Developer
12 5 (3.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (3.03%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (59.39%) Spring
1 98 (59.39%) Spring Boot
2 94 (56.97%) CSS
3 93 (56.36%) HTML
4 91 (55.15%) React
5 84 (50.91%) CSS3
5 84 (50.91%) HTML5
6 82 (49.70%) Kafka
6 82 (49.70%) REST
7 80 (48.48%) Redux
8 75 (45.45%) Jest
8 75 (45.45%) Sass
9 72 (43.64%) JPA
10 26 (15.76%) .NET
11 14 (8.48%) AngularJS
12 12 (7.27%) Node.js
13 10 (6.06%) .NET Framework
14 9 (5.45%) gRPC
15 8 (4.85%) .NET Core
15 8 (4.85%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 88 (53.33%) Product Ownership
2 72 (43.64%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.85%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.24%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (2.42%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.82%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.21%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.21%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.21%) IoT
8 2 (1.21%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.61%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.42%) Android
2 3 (1.82%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.82%) Linux
2 3 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (74.55%) CI/CD
2 118 (71.52%) Microservices
3 108 (65.45%) Agile
4 99 (60.00%) DevOps
4 99 (60.00%) Software Engineering
5 94 (56.97%) Containerisation
5 94 (56.97%) Full-Stack Development
6 93 (56.36%) Mentoring
7 91 (55.15%) User Experience
8 84 (50.91%) Front End Development
8 84 (50.91%) SDLC
9 83 (50.30%) Test Automation
10 78 (47.27%) Strategic Thinking
11 77 (46.67%) Performance Optimisation
12 76 (46.06%) Responsive Web Design
13 72 (43.64%) Migration
14 21 (12.73%) Clean Code
15 19 (11.52%) Artificial Intelligence
16 18 (10.91%) Unit Testing
17 16 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 110 (66.67%) Java
2 102 (61.82%) JavaScript
3 97 (58.79%) SQL
4 88 (53.33%) TypeScript
5 24 (14.55%) C#
6 18 (10.91%) Python
7 7 (4.24%) PHP
8 5 (3.03%) DataWeave
9 3 (1.82%) Go
9 3 (1.82%) Ruby
10 2 (1.21%) Bash
10 2 (1.21%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.21%) Rust
11 1 (0.61%) Dart
11 1 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (3.64%) Degree
2 2 (1.21%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (46.67%) Accessibility
1 77 (46.67%) QA
2 7 (4.24%) GDPR
3 3 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 103 (62.42%) Docker
2 2 (1.21%) Squid
Systems Management
1 94 (56.97%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.64%) Terraform
3 5 (3.03%) CloudHub
4 3 (1.82%) Istio
5 2 (1.21%) Kibana
6 1 (0.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 72 (43.64%) Solace
2 7 (4.24%) Bloomberg
3 5 (3.03%) Google
3 5 (3.03%) MuleSoft
4 4 (2.42%) AppDynamics
4 4 (2.42%) IBM
4 4 (2.42%) Moogsoft
4 4 (2.42%) Splunk
5 2 (1.21%) New Relic
5 2 (1.21%) Oracle
5 2 (1.21%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.61%) CyberSource
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.61%) Salesforce