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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 146 125
Rank change year-on-year -26 -21 +84
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 91 135 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.85% 1.46% 2.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.46% 8.54% 8.99%
Number of salaries quoted 66 84 134
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,563 £46,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.34% -2.06%
75th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £67,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,000 £79,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -10.71%

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 1,076 1,581 1,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.03% 17.12% 24.36%
Number of salaries quoted 880 943 1,594
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £58,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -5.58% +1.30%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +10 45 £62,500 +11.11% 47
Yorkshire -26 40 £67,500 +36.36% 59
North East -8 6 £67,500 +28.57% 17
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 5 (5.49%) Anypoint
2 3 (3.30%) CMS
3 2 (2.20%) Drupal
3 2 (2.20%) EPiServer
3 2 (2.20%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.10%) Apache
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.10%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.10%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.10%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 55 (60.44%) AWS
2 53 (58.24%) Azure
3 20 (21.98%) GCP
4 19 (20.88%) Serverless
5 18 (19.78%) Amazon S3
5 18 (19.78%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (19.78%) GitHub
6 17 (18.68%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (18.68%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (16.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
9 13 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
10 10 (10.99%) SaaS
11 7 (7.69%) Azure AKS
12 6 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (5.49%) Datadog
14 3 (3.30%) npm
15 2 (2.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (38.46%) NoSQL
2 29 (31.87%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (21.98%) DynamoDB
4 19 (20.88%) MongoDB
5 18 (19.78%) SQL Server
6 10 (10.99%) MySQL
7 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.20%) Metadata
8 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (30.77%) Git
2 6 (6.59%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.49%) Postman
4 4 (4.40%) GitLab
4 4 (4.40%) JIRA
4 4 (4.40%) JUnit
5 3 (3.30%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.30%) webpack
6 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.20%) Grunt
6 2 (2.20%) gulp
7 1 (1.10%) Babel
7 1 (1.10%) NUnit
7 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.19%) Finance
2 12 (13.19%) Retail
3 8 (8.79%) Marketing
4 6 (6.59%) Games
5 5 (5.49%) Law
6 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 54 (59.34%) Developer
2 24 (26.37%) Senior
3 21 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 20 (21.98%) .NET Developer
5 16 (17.58%) Software Developer
6 14 (15.38%) Lead
7 10 (10.99%) Senior Developer
7 10 (10.99%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (9.89%) Lead Developer
9 7 (7.69%) Lead Python Developer
9 7 (7.69%) Lead Software Developer
9 7 (7.69%) Python Developer
9 7 (7.69%) SaaS Developer
10 5 (5.49%) .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) AWS Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.40%) Integration Developer
11 4 (4.40%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (43.96%) .NET
2 33 (36.26%) React
3 21 (23.08%) ASP.NET
4 19 (20.88%) .NET Core
4 19 (20.88%) ASP.NET Core
4 19 (20.88%) CSS
4 19 (20.88%) HTML
5 15 (16.48%) Blazor
6 13 (14.29%) AWS CDK
7 10 (10.99%) .NET Framework
8 9 (9.89%) Node.js
8 9 (9.89%) Spring
9 8 (8.79%) AngularJS
9 8 (8.79%) CSS3
9 8 (8.79%) HTML5
9 8 (8.79%) Spring Boot
10 7 (7.69%) OAuth
10 7 (7.69%) Vue
11 6 (6.59%) Django
11 6 (6.59%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.27%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.69%) Marketing Technology
4 6 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.20%) Graphic Design
7 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) IoT
8 1 (1.10%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.30%) Android
1 3 (3.30%) Linux
2 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (75.82%) CI/CD
2 50 (54.95%) DevOps
3 46 (50.55%) Microservices
4 45 (49.45%) Agile
5 42 (46.15%) Containerisation
6 28 (30.77%) Software Engineering
7 27 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (23.08%) AI
8 21 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (23.08%) Mentoring
9 19 (20.88%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (19.78%) Clean Code
11 17 (18.68%) E-Commerce
12 16 (17.58%) User Experience
13 15 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (16.48%) Deployment Automation
14 13 (14.29%) Application Security
14 13 (14.29%) Scrum
14 13 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
15 11 (12.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 35 (38.46%) SQL
2 27 (29.67%) C#
3 24 (26.37%) Java
4 22 (24.18%) JavaScript
5 19 (20.88%) TypeScript
6 16 (17.58%) Python
7 8 (8.79%) PHP
8 5 (5.49%) DataWeave
9 3 (3.30%) Go
9 3 (3.30%) Rust
10 1 (1.10%) Bash
10 1 (1.10%) Bicep
10 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (12.09%) AWS Certification
1 11 (12.09%) AWS Certified Developer
2 5 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (5.49%) Degree
3 2 (2.20%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) QA
2 4 (4.40%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (40.66%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (24.18%) Terraform
2 19 (20.88%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.49%) CloudHub
4 2 (2.20%) Ansible
4 2 (2.20%) Rancher
5 1 (1.10%) Grafana
5 1 (1.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (5.49%) MuleSoft
2 2 (2.20%) Google
2 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
2 2 (2.20%) Xamarin
3 1 (1.10%) Adobe
3 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.10%) IBM
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.10%) Moogsoft
3 1 (1.10%) New Relic
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle
3 1 (1.10%) Splunk