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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 145 125
Rank change year-on-year -41 -20 +83
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 83 124 257
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.70% 1.46% 2.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.40% 8.20% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 61 74 220
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £37,400
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,500 £70,625
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -14.29%

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 1,122 1,512 2,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.47% 17.83% 21.87%
Number of salaries quoted 920 870 2,249
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,980 £35,400
25th Percentile £40,219 £43,956 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,063 £74,144 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 0 46 £62,500 +8.70% 49
Yorkshire -33 28 £65,000 +31.31% 29
North East -10 9 £67,500 -3.57% 10
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 1 (1.20%) Apache
1 1 (1.20%) Apache Solr
1 1 (1.20%) CMS
1 1 (1.20%) Confluence
1 1 (1.20%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.20%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (55.42%) Azure
2 45 (54.22%) AWS
3 21 (25.30%) Amazon S3
3 21 (25.30%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (25.30%) Serverless
4 17 (20.48%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (20.48%) GitHub
4 17 (20.48%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (19.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (16.87%) GCP
7 13 (15.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (15.66%) Amazon EventBridge
7 13 (15.66%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (15.66%) AWS Step Functions
8 10 (12.05%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (10.84%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (3.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (3.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (43.37%) NoSQL
2 24 (28.92%) DynamoDB
3 21 (25.30%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (21.69%) SQL Server
5 12 (14.46%) MongoDB
6 5 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (6.02%) MySQL
7 3 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (31.33%) Git
2 6 (7.23%) GitLab
3 5 (6.02%) JIRA
4 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.82%) JUnit
5 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.61%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.20%) NUnit
6 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.46%) Finance
3 6 (7.23%) Games
4 4 (4.82%) Retail
5 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.20%) Marketing
6 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 42 (50.60%) Developer
2 26 (31.33%) Senior
2 26 (31.33%) Software Engineer
3 19 (22.89%) .NET Developer
4 13 (15.66%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (10.84%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Lead
7 6 (7.23%) .NET Software Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Software Developer
8 5 (6.02%) AWS Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Principal Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Python Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Python Software Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (3.61%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Lead Software Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (46.99%) .NET
2 36 (43.37%) React
3 22 (26.51%) ASP.NET
4 20 (24.10%) ASP.NET Core
5 19 (22.89%) .NET Core
6 17 (20.48%) CSS
6 17 (20.48%) HTML
7 15 (18.07%) Blazor
8 13 (15.66%) AWS CDK
9 9 (10.84%) Node.js
10 8 (9.64%) .NET Framework
10 8 (9.64%) Spring
11 7 (8.43%) AngularJS
11 7 (8.43%) Spring Boot
11 7 (8.43%) Vue
12 5 (6.02%) CSS3
12 5 (6.02%) HTML5
12 5 (6.02%) Jest
12 5 (6.02%) REST
13 4 (4.82%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.71%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.64%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (7.23%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.41%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.20%) IoT
7 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Linux
2 2 (2.41%) Android
2 2 (2.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (85.54%) CI/CD
2 54 (65.06%) DevOps
3 43 (51.81%) Agile
4 42 (50.60%) Microservices
5 38 (45.78%) Containerisation
6 31 (37.35%) Software Engineering
7 24 (28.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (22.89%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (20.48%) AI
10 17 (20.48%) User Experience
11 16 (19.28%) Deployment Automation
12 14 (16.87%) Scrum
13 13 (15.66%) Application Security
14 12 (14.46%) Mentoring
15 11 (13.25%) Collaborative Culture
15 11 (13.25%) Root Cause Analysis
15 11 (13.25%) SDLC
15 11 (13.25%) TDD
16 10 (12.05%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (43.37%) SQL
2 26 (31.33%) C#
3 25 (30.12%) Java
4 20 (24.10%) JavaScript
4 20 (24.10%) TypeScript
5 9 (10.84%) Python
6 5 (6.02%) PHP
7 4 (4.82%) Go
8 3 (3.61%) Rust
9 1 (1.20%) Bash
9 1 (1.20%) Bicep
9 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) AWS Certification
1 11 (13.25%) AWS Certified Developer
2 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (7.23%) Degree
3 2 (2.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.20%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.43%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (33.73%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Squid
Systems Management
1 24 (28.92%) Terraform
2 18 (21.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.61%) Ansible
3 3 (3.61%) Rancher
4 1 (1.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (2.41%) Google
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.20%) Adobe
2 1 (1.20%) AppDynamics
2 1 (1.20%) IBM
2 1 (1.20%) Moogsoft
2 1 (1.20%) New Relic
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle
2 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.20%) Splunk
2 1 (1.20%) Veracode
2 1 (1.20%) Xamarin