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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 148 109
Rank change year-on-year -60 -39 +61
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 124 173 390
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.64% 2.19% 2.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.48% 10.59% 11.82%
Number of salaries quoted 99 80 352
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £37,557
25th Percentile £48,289 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,125 £71,991
90th Percentile £85,630 £94,153 £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 1,657 1,633 3,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.60% 20.63% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,374 892 2,763
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,484 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,188 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £66,720 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.70% +10.42% -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 21 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 21 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 -66 54 £66,250 +10.42% 29
Yorkshire -22 40 £62,500 +11.61% 17
North East -15 30 £55,000 +10.00% 6
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 (2.42%) CMS
2 2 (1.61%) CICS
2 2 (1.61%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) IIS
3 1 (0.81%) nginx
3 1 (0.81%) PegaRULES
3 1 (0.81%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 84 (67.74%) Azure
2 55 (44.35%) AWS
3 25 (20.16%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (17.74%) Serverless
5 20 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (14.52%) Amazon S3
7 14 (11.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (10.48%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (9.68%) GCP
9 12 (9.68%) GitHub
9 12 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (8.87%) Azure AKS
11 10 (8.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (8.06%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (7.26%) Amazon EventBridge
12 9 (7.26%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (7.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (5.65%) Firebase
14 6 (4.84%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (4.03%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) HTTP
2 2 (1.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (44.35%) NoSQL
2 37 (29.84%) MongoDB
3 36 (29.03%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (24.19%) MySQL
5 19 (15.32%) DynamoDB
6 18 (14.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (11.29%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.03%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.42%) Power BI
11 2 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.61%) DB2
11 2 (1.61%) Hazelcast
11 2 (1.61%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (29.84%) Git
2 11 (8.87%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.26%) JIRA
4 6 (4.84%) Bitbucket
4 6 (4.84%) fastlane
5 4 (3.23%) GitLab
5 4 (3.23%) NUnit
6 3 (2.42%) Android Studio
6 3 (2.42%) Crashlytics
6 3 (2.42%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.42%) Gradle
6 3 (2.42%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.42%) JUnit
6 3 (2.42%) Xcode
7 2 (1.61%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (21.77%) Public Sector
2 20 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.26%) Finance
4 6 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.03%) Advertising
6 2 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Games
7 1 (0.81%) Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (55.65%) Developer
2 40 (32.26%) Software Engineer
3 28 (22.58%) Senior
4 27 (21.77%) .NET Developer
5 18 (14.52%) Lead
6 12 (9.68%) Senior Developer
7 11 (8.87%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (8.87%) Java Developer
7 11 (8.87%) Lead Software Engineer
7 11 (8.87%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (8.87%) Software Developer
8 10 (8.06%) Java Engineer
8 10 (8.06%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (7.26%) .NET Software Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 6 (4.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (4.84%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.84%) Principal Developer
12 5 (4.03%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
13 4 (3.23%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (43.55%) .NET
2 39 (31.45%) React
3 33 (26.61%) ASP.NET
4 31 (25.00%) .NET Core
5 30 (24.19%) AngularJS
5 30 (24.19%) ASP.NET Core
6 24 (19.35%) CSS
6 24 (19.35%) HTML
7 22 (17.74%) Vue
8 18 (14.52%) Node.js
9 16 (12.90%) Spring
10 14 (11.29%) .NET Framework
10 14 (11.29%) ASP.NET Web API
10 14 (11.29%) Blazor
10 14 (11.29%) Entity Framework
11 12 (9.68%) Spring Boot
12 11 (8.87%) REST
13 9 (7.26%) AWS CDK
14 8 (6.45%) LINQ
15 7 (5.65%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.77%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.26%) Mobile App
4 7 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (5.65%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.23%) Legacy Code
7 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.42%) Social Network
8 2 (1.61%) BBC
8 2 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.61%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.61%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.61%) Social Media
9 1 (0.81%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.81%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.84%) Apple iOS
2 5 (4.03%) Android
3 4 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (60.48%) Agile
2 73 (58.87%) CI/CD
3 72 (58.06%) Microservices
4 62 (50.00%) DevOps
5 51 (41.13%) Software Engineering
6 47 (37.90%) Full-Stack Development
7 33 (26.61%) Containerisation
8 31 (25.00%) TDD
9 30 (24.19%) Scrum
10 28 (22.58%) Clean Code
11 27 (21.77%) Mentoring
12 25 (20.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (17.74%) Test Automation
14 19 (15.32%) Deployment Automation
14 19 (15.32%) User Experience
15 16 (12.90%) AI
15 16 (12.90%) Coaching
15 16 (12.90%) Open Source
16 15 (12.10%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 79 (63.71%) SQL
2 42 (33.87%) Java
3 40 (32.26%) JavaScript
4 38 (30.65%) C#
5 31 (25.00%) TypeScript
6 14 (11.29%) Python
7 8 (6.45%) PHP
8 6 (4.84%) Go
9 5 (4.03%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.23%) Bicep
10 4 (3.23%) Swift
11 3 (2.42%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.81%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (5.65%) AWS Certification
1 7 (5.65%) AWS Certified Developer
2 5 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.03%) Degree
3 3 (2.42%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.26%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.65%) QA
3 6 (4.84%) WCAG
4 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.81%) HL7
System Software
1 23 (18.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (18.55%) Terraform
2 22 (17.74%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.03%) Ansible
4 3 (2.42%) Rancher
5 2 (1.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.84%) Dynatrace
2 6 (4.84%) Google
3 5 (4.03%) Apple
4 4 (3.23%) DevExpress
4 4 (3.23%) Oracle
5 3 (2.42%) Pega
6 2 (1.61%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.61%) Facebook
6 2 (1.61%) IBM
6 2 (1.61%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.61%) Sony
6 2 (1.61%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.81%) Adobe
7 1 (0.81%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.81%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.81%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.81%) Veracode