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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 143 115
Rank change year-on-year -41 -28 +94
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 94 123 273
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.75% 1.57% 2.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.91% 8.54% 10.13%
Number of salaries quoted 74 80 237
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £76,188 £69,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £87,625 £88,128 £76,250
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 1,188 1,440 2,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.42% 18.40% 21.56%
Number of salaries quoted 986 881 2,289
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,750 £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 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £83,750
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 17 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 17 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 -13 50 £62,500 +4.17% 36
Yorkshire -46 33 £62,500 +26.26% 21
North East -7 11 £59,000 +2.61% 9
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 (1.06%) Apache
1 1 (1.06%) Apache Solr
1 1 (1.06%) CMS
1 1 (1.06%) Confluence
1 1 (1.06%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.06%) IIS
1 1 (1.06%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 56 (59.57%) AWS
1 56 (59.57%) Azure
2 22 (23.40%) Amazon S3
2 22 (23.40%) AWS Lambda
2 22 (23.40%) Serverless
3 17 (18.09%) GitHub
3 17 (18.09%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (17.02%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (15.96%) GCP
6 13 (13.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (13.83%) Amazon EventBridge
6 13 (13.83%) Amazon SQS
6 13 (13.83%) AWS Step Functions
7 11 (11.70%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (10.64%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (3.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 31 (32.98%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (26.60%) DynamoDB
4 21 (22.34%) MongoDB
5 19 (20.21%) SQL Server
6 14 (14.89%) MySQL
7 5 (5.32%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.06%) Redis
9 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (28.72%) Git
2 6 (6.38%) GitLab
2 6 (6.38%) JIRA
3 4 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.26%) JUnit
4 3 (3.19%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.19%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.06%) NUnit
5 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.70%) Finance
3 9 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.38%) Games
5 4 (4.26%) Retail
6 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Advertising
7 1 (1.06%) Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (44.68%) Developer
2 36 (38.30%) Software Engineer
3 28 (29.79%) Senior
4 19 (20.21%) .NET Developer
5 14 (14.89%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (11.70%) Java Engineer
6 11 (11.70%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (9.57%) Senior Developer
8 8 (8.51%) Lead
9 7 (7.45%) .NET Software Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Software Developer
10 6 (6.38%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) AWS Developer
11 5 (5.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Python Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Python Software Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) Java Developer
12 4 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) Principal Developer
13 3 (3.19%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (42.55%) .NET
2 39 (41.49%) React
3 23 (24.47%) ASP.NET
4 20 (21.28%) .NET Core
4 20 (21.28%) ASP.NET Core
5 19 (20.21%) CSS
5 19 (20.21%) HTML
6 14 (14.89%) Blazor
7 13 (13.83%) AWS CDK
8 10 (10.64%) Node.js
9 9 (9.57%) Vue
10 8 (8.51%) .NET Framework
10 8 (8.51%) AngularJS
10 8 (8.51%) Spring
11 7 (7.45%) Spring Boot
12 5 (5.32%) Celery
12 5 (5.32%) CSS3
12 5 (5.32%) Flask
12 5 (5.32%) Jest
12 5 (5.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (34.04%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.13%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.06%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.06%) IoT
7 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.26%) Linux
2 1 (1.06%) Android
2 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (78.72%) CI/CD
2 56 (59.57%) DevOps
3 54 (57.45%) Agile
4 53 (56.38%) Microservices
5 42 (44.68%) Software Engineering
6 40 (42.55%) Containerisation
7 25 (26.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (21.28%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (21.28%) Mentoring
9 20 (21.28%) TDD
10 17 (18.09%) AI
10 17 (18.09%) User Experience
11 16 (17.02%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (17.02%) Test Automation
12 15 (15.96%) Scrum
13 13 (13.83%) Application Security
13 13 (13.83%) Coaching
14 12 (12.77%) Collaborative Culture
14 12 (12.77%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 46 (48.94%) SQL
2 33 (35.11%) Java
3 27 (28.72%) C#
4 22 (23.40%) JavaScript
5 21 (22.34%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.64%) Python
7 5 (5.32%) PHP
8 4 (4.26%) Go
9 3 (3.19%) Rust
10 1 (1.06%) Bash
10 1 (1.06%) Bicep
10 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.06%) Swift
10 1 (1.06%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (11.70%) AWS Certification
1 11 (11.70%) AWS Certified Developer
2 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (6.38%) Degree
3 2 (2.13%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) QA
2 2 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.06%) GDPR
3 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (30.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Squid
Systems Management
1 25 (26.60%) Terraform
2 20 (21.28%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.19%) Ansible
3 3 (3.19%) Rancher
4 1 (1.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.13%) Google
3 1 (1.06%) Adobe
3 1 (1.06%) New Relic
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle
3 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.06%) Veracode