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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 146 118
Rank change year-on-year -47 -28 +79
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 100 114 296
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.73% 1.56% 2.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.89% 8.66% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 77 80 259
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,000 £69,625 £73,250
90th Percentile £86,500 £88,128 £75,772
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -13.60%

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 1,268 1,316 2,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.21% 18.02% 20.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,051 911 2,361
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £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 £75,000 £74,258 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £82,548
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +9.00% -8.89%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -27 55 £65,000 +8.33% 35
Yorkshire -38 34 £62,500 +26.26% 24
North East -8 11 £59,000 +2.61% 20
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 2 (2.00%) CICS
2 1 (1.00%) Apache
2 1 (1.00%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.00%) CMS
2 1 (1.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.00%) IIS
2 1 (1.00%) nginx
2 1 (1.00%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (61.00%) Azure
2 59 (59.00%) AWS
3 23 (23.00%) Amazon S3
3 23 (23.00%) AWS Lambda
3 23 (23.00%) Serverless
4 19 (19.00%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (18.00%) GCP
6 17 (17.00%) GitHub
6 17 (17.00%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (13.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (13.00%) Amazon EventBridge
8 13 (13.00%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (13.00%) AWS Step Functions
9 12 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (12.00%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (3.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (3.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 32 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (26.00%) DynamoDB
4 21 (21.00%) MongoDB
5 19 (19.00%) SQL Server
6 15 (15.00%) MySQL
7 5 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (3.00%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.00%) DB2
9 2 (2.00%) Hazelcast
10 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (31.00%) Git
2 7 (7.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.00%) JIRA
3 6 (6.00%) GitLab
4 4 (4.00%) JUnit
5 3 (3.00%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.00%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.00%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.00%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.00%) NUnit
6 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.00%) Finance
3 9 (9.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.00%) Games
5 4 (4.00%) Retail
6 2 (2.00%) Advertising
6 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 46 (46.00%) Developer
2 38 (38.00%) Software Engineer
3 28 (28.00%) Senior
4 19 (19.00%) .NET Developer
5 14 (14.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (11.00%) Java Engineer
6 11 (11.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 10 (10.00%) Lead
8 9 (9.00%) .NET Software Engineer
8 9 (9.00%) Senior Developer
9 8 (8.00%) Java Developer
10 7 (7.00%) Software Developer
11 6 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (6.00%) Lead Software Engineer
11 6 (6.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
12 5 (5.00%) AWS Developer
12 5 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (5.00%) Python Engineer
12 5 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
13 4 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (44.00%) React
2 41 (41.00%) .NET
3 23 (23.00%) ASP.NET
3 23 (23.00%) CSS
3 23 (23.00%) HTML
4 20 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 20 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (14.00%) Blazor
6 13 (13.00%) AWS CDK
7 12 (12.00%) AngularJS
8 11 (11.00%) Node.js
9 10 (10.00%) .NET Framework
9 10 (10.00%) Vue
10 9 (9.00%) Spring
11 8 (8.00%) CSS3
11 8 (8.00%) HTML5
11 8 (8.00%) Spring Boot
12 7 (7.00%) Kafka
12 7 (7.00%) REST
13 5 (5.00%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 34 (34.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.00%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.00%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.00%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.00%) IoT
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.00%) Android
2 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 62 (62.00%) DevOps
3 60 (60.00%) Agile
4 57 (57.00%) Microservices
5 45 (45.00%) Software Engineering
6 42 (42.00%) Containerisation
7 26 (26.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 21 (21.00%) Scrum
11 20 (20.00%) Mentoring
12 19 (19.00%) TDD
13 17 (17.00%) AI
14 16 (16.00%) Deployment Automation
14 16 (16.00%) Test Automation
14 16 (16.00%) User Experience
15 13 (13.00%) Application Security
15 13 (13.00%) Clean Code
15 13 (13.00%) Coaching
15 13 (13.00%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 52 (52.00%) SQL
2 36 (36.00%) Java
3 28 (28.00%) C#
4 26 (26.00%) JavaScript
5 22 (22.00%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.00%) Python
7 5 (5.00%) PHP
8 4 (4.00%) Go
8 4 (4.00%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.00%) Rust
10 1 (1.00%) Bash
10 1 (1.00%) Bicep
10 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.00%) Swift
10 1 (1.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (11.00%) AWS Certification
1 11 (11.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 6 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (6.00%) Degree
3 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.00%) GDPR
3 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (29.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 26 (26.00%) Terraform
2 22 (22.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.00%) Ansible
3 3 (3.00%) Rancher
4 1 (1.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (3.00%) Oracle
1 3 (3.00%) Pega
2 2 (2.00%) Google
3 1 (1.00%) Adobe
3 1 (1.00%) New Relic
3 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.00%) Veracode