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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 141 156
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 +18
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 170 185 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.79% 1.48% 1.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.03% 8.77% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 71 117 95
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,375 £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 £76,125 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £64,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.40% -7.41% +3.85%

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 1,541 2,110 2,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.22% 16.91% 27.75%
Number of salaries quoted 782 1,258 1,641
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

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 1 November 2025.

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 1 November 2025. 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 +59 130 £60,000 - 48
Yorkshire -37 36 £68,500 +33.66% 17
North East -17 4 £28,500 -52.50% 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 5 (2.94%) Anypoint
2 3 (1.76%) CMS
3 2 (1.18%) Drupal
3 2 (1.18%) EPiServer
3 2 (1.18%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.59%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.59%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 121 (71.18%) AWS
2 111 (65.29%) Azure
3 22 (12.94%) GCP
4 13 (7.65%) GitHub
5 10 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (5.88%) SaaS
6 5 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.94%) Datadog
6 5 (2.94%) Serverless
7 4 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.76%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (1.76%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.76%) npm
9 2 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.18%) Figma
9 2 (1.18%) PaaS
9 2 (1.18%) Supabase
9 2 (1.18%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.76%) HTTP
2 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (49.41%) SQL Server
2 22 (12.94%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (10.59%) MongoDB
3 18 (10.59%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.88%) MySQL
5 7 (4.12%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.35%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.35%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.18%) Metadata
8 2 (1.18%) Redis
9 1 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 74 (43.53%) GitLab
1 74 (43.53%) JIRA
1 74 (43.53%) Selenium
2 73 (42.94%) SonarQube
3 72 (42.35%) Bitbucket
3 72 (42.35%) Cucumber
3 72 (42.35%) Maven
3 72 (42.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 21 (12.35%) Git
5 9 (5.29%) Jenkins
6 6 (3.53%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.94%) Postman
8 4 (2.35%) webpack
9 3 (1.76%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.18%) Babel
10 2 (1.18%) Grunt
10 2 (1.18%) gulp
10 2 (1.18%) JUnit
11 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.59%) Xcode
General
1 91 (53.53%) Finance
2 84 (49.41%) Retail
3 72 (42.35%) Banking
3 72 (42.35%) Corporate Banking
3 72 (42.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 72 (42.35%) Investment Banking
4 29 (17.06%) Social Skills
5 10 (5.88%) Marketing
6 7 (4.12%) Law
7 6 (3.53%) Games
8 4 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.35%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 88 (51.76%) Software Engineer
2 63 (37.06%) Developer
3 28 (16.47%) Senior
4 19 (11.18%) Lead
5 15 (8.82%) Senior Developer
5 15 (8.82%) Software Developer
6 12 (7.06%) Java Developer
7 10 (5.88%) Lead Developer
8 8 (4.71%) .NET Developer
8 8 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (4.71%) Python Developer
9 7 (4.12%) Lead Python Developer
9 7 (4.12%) Lead Software Developer
9 7 (4.12%) SaaS Developer
9 7 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) Backend Developer
11 5 (2.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 5 (2.94%) Senior Backend Developer
12 4 (2.35%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (58.82%) React
2 94 (55.29%) CSS
3 93 (54.71%) HTML
4 91 (53.53%) Spring
4 91 (53.53%) Spring Boot
5 87 (51.18%) CSS3
5 87 (51.18%) HTML5
6 79 (46.47%) Kafka
6 79 (46.47%) Redux
7 78 (45.88%) REST
8 75 (44.12%) Jest
8 75 (44.12%) Sass
9 72 (42.35%) JPA
10 29 (17.06%) .NET
11 13 (7.65%) Node.js
12 11 (6.47%) .NET Core
13 9 (5.29%) AngularJS
13 9 (5.29%) ASP.NET
13 9 (5.29%) FastAPI
14 8 (4.71%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 85 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 72 (42.35%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.12%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.12%) Marketing Technology
4 6 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.35%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.76%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.18%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.18%) Graphic Design
7 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.18%) IoT
7 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.35%) Android
2 3 (1.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (75.88%) CI/CD
2 111 (65.29%) Agile
2 111 (65.29%) Microservices
3 105 (61.76%) DevOps
4 98 (57.65%) Containerisation
4 98 (57.65%) Software Engineering
5 95 (55.88%) Mentoring
6 94 (55.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 92 (54.12%) User Experience
8 88 (51.76%) SDLC
9 84 (49.41%) Front End Development
10 81 (47.65%) Test Automation
11 80 (47.06%) Responsive Web Design
11 80 (47.06%) Strategic Thinking
12 75 (44.12%) Migration
12 75 (44.12%) Performance Optimisation
13 25 (14.71%) AI
14 21 (12.35%) Clean Code
14 21 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (10.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 107 (62.94%) Java
2 98 (57.65%) JavaScript
2 98 (57.65%) SQL
3 89 (52.35%) TypeScript
4 26 (15.29%) C#
5 18 (10.59%) Python
6 7 (4.12%) PHP
7 5 (2.94%) DataWeave
8 3 (1.76%) Rust
9 2 (1.18%) Bash
9 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.59%) Bicep
10 1 (0.59%) Dart
10 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.59%) Ruby
10 1 (0.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (5.29%) Degree
2 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
2 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.59%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (46.47%) QA
2 78 (45.88%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.53%) GDPR
4 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 107 (62.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Squid
Systems Management
1 94 (55.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.12%) Terraform
3 5 (2.94%) CloudHub
4 2 (1.18%) Kibana
5 1 (0.59%) Grafana
Vendors
1 72 (42.35%) Solace
2 5 (2.94%) Google
2 5 (2.94%) MuleSoft
3 4 (2.35%) AppDynamics
3 4 (2.35%) Bloomberg
3 4 (2.35%) IBM
3 4 (2.35%) Moogsoft
3 4 (2.35%) Splunk
4 2 (1.18%) New Relic
4 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.18%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle