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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 157 127
Rank change year-on-year -25 -30 +74
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 85 129 234
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.74% 1.46% 2.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.79% 8.39% 9.45%
Number of salaries quoted 61 78 196
10th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,313 £68,313
90th Percentile £88,750 £78,750 £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 1,091 1,537 2,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.51% 17.42% 22.38%
Number of salaries quoted 888 897 2,083
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,450 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,935 £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 £73,886 £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 27 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 27 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 +6 46 £60,000 +4.35% 48
Yorkshire -31 30 £65,000 +31.31% 31
North East -7 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 2 (2.35%) CMS
2 1 (1.18%) Apache
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.18%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Drupal
2 1 (1.18%) EPiServer
2 1 (1.18%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.18%) nginx
2 1 (1.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 48 (56.47%) Azure
2 46 (54.12%) AWS
3 22 (25.88%) Serverless
4 21 (24.71%) Amazon S3
4 21 (24.71%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (21.18%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (21.18%) GitHub
6 17 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (18.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (17.65%) GCP
9 13 (15.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (15.29%) Amazon EventBridge
9 13 (15.29%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (15.29%) AWS Step Functions
10 10 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (9.41%) Azure AKS
12 4 (4.71%) SaaS
13 3 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (3.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (42.35%) NoSQL
2 24 (28.24%) DynamoDB
3 22 (25.88%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (21.18%) SQL Server
5 13 (15.29%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (5.88%) MySQL
7 4 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.18%) Metadata
9 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (32.94%) Git
2 6 (7.06%) GitLab
3 5 (5.88%) JIRA
4 4 (4.71%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.71%) JUnit
5 3 (3.53%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.53%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.35%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.18%) Grunt
7 1 (1.18%) gulp
7 1 (1.18%) NUnit
7 1 (1.18%) webpack
General
1 29 (34.12%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.12%) Finance
3 6 (7.06%) Games
4 4 (4.71%) Retail
5 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.18%) Marketing
6 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 45 (52.94%) Developer
2 26 (30.59%) Senior
3 25 (29.41%) Software Engineer
4 20 (23.53%) .NET Developer
5 12 (14.12%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (11.76%) Senior Developer
7 8 (9.41%) Lead
8 7 (8.24%) Software Developer
9 5 (5.88%) .NET Software Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) AWS Developer
9 5 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Principal Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (45.88%) .NET
2 38 (44.71%) React
3 22 (25.88%) ASP.NET
4 20 (23.53%) ASP.NET Core
5 19 (22.35%) .NET Core
6 18 (21.18%) CSS
6 18 (21.18%) HTML
7 16 (18.82%) Blazor
8 13 (15.29%) AWS CDK
9 11 (12.94%) Node.js
10 8 (9.41%) .NET Framework
10 8 (9.41%) Spring
10 8 (9.41%) Vue
11 7 (8.24%) Spring Boot
12 6 (7.06%) AngularJS
12 6 (7.06%) CSS3
12 6 (7.06%) HTML5
13 5 (5.88%) Celery
13 5 (5.88%) Flask
13 5 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.88%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.41%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (7.06%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.35%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.18%) Graphic Design
7 1 (1.18%) IoT
7 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.18%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Linux
2 3 (3.53%) Android
2 3 (3.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (85.88%) CI/CD
2 56 (65.88%) DevOps
3 42 (49.41%) Agile
4 41 (48.24%) Microservices
5 38 (44.71%) Containerisation
6 30 (35.29%) Software Engineering
7 24 (28.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (20.00%) User Experience
10 16 (18.82%) AI
10 16 (18.82%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (15.29%) Application Security
11 13 (15.29%) Scrum
12 12 (14.12%) Collaborative Culture
12 12 (14.12%) Mentoring
12 12 (14.12%) SDLC
12 12 (14.12%) TDD
13 11 (12.94%) Root Cause Analysis
14 10 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.53%) SQL
2 26 (30.59%) C#
3 25 (29.41%) Java
4 21 (24.71%) JavaScript
5 20 (23.53%) TypeScript
6 10 (11.76%) Python
7 5 (5.88%) PHP
8 4 (4.71%) Go
9 3 (3.53%) Rust
10 1 (1.18%) Bash
10 1 (1.18%) Bicep
10 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 11 (12.94%) AWS Certification
1 11 (12.94%) AWS Certified Developer
2 7 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (8.24%) Degree
3 2 (2.35%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.53%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (34.12%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Squid
Systems Management
1 25 (29.41%) Terraform
2 19 (22.35%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.53%) Ansible
3 3 (3.53%) Rancher
4 1 (1.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (2.35%) Google
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft
1 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
1 2 (2.35%) Xamarin
2 1 (1.18%) Adobe
2 1 (1.18%) AppDynamics
2 1 (1.18%) IBM
2 1 (1.18%) Moogsoft
2 1 (1.18%) New Relic
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle
2 1 (1.18%) Splunk
2 1 (1.18%) Veracode