REST Job Trends in the North West

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 142 119
Rank change year-on-year 0 -23 +29
Permanent jobs citing REST 52 63 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.71% 1.37% 1.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.12% 7.48% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 36 41 91
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,750 £97,500
90th Percentile - £70,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - -3.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

REST 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 570 842 1,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.78% 18.31% 23.10%
Number of salaries quoted 495 538 1,295
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,525 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,080 £46,250 £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 £74,815 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing REST relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

REST job vacancy trend in the North West

REST
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the North West over the 6 months to 16 February 2026.

Salary histogram for REST in the North West

REST
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester +13 47 £65,000 +13.04% 32
Merseyside -20 4 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Cheshire -32 1 £87,000 +42.04% 3
REST
England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (9.62%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.69%) Apache
3 2 (3.85%) nginx
4 1 (1.92%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.92%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (48.08%) AWS
2 22 (42.31%) Azure
3 19 (36.54%) Serverless
4 13 (25.00%) SaaS
5 9 (17.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (17.31%) Azure Functions
5 9 (17.31%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (17.31%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (9.62%) GCP
9 4 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.69%) OpenShift
10 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
10 3 (5.77%) Snowflake
11 2 (3.85%) Salesforce Einstein
12 1 (1.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) AMQP
1 4 (7.69%) HTTP
2 1 (1.92%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) Relational Database
2 8 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 6 (11.54%) MySQL
4 5 (9.62%) Hadoop
4 5 (9.62%) MongoDB
5 4 (7.69%) Big Data
5 4 (7.69%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.77%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (5.77%) Power BI
6 3 (5.77%) RDBMS
6 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.92%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.92%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.92%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.92%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Git
2 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.69%) JIRA
3 4 (7.69%) JUnit
4 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.92%) GitLab
4 1 (1.92%) Postman
4 1 (1.92%) Selenium
General
1 14 (26.92%) Finance
2 4 (7.69%) Aerospace
2 4 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Banking
4 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Games
5 1 (1.92%) Marketing
5 1 (1.92%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 19 (36.54%) Developer
2 13 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Senior
4 7 (13.46%) .NET Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Lead
7 4 (7.69%) Analyst
7 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Team Leader
8 3 (5.77%) Integration Analyst
8 3 (5.77%) Principal Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Salesforce Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (30.77%) .NET
2 14 (26.92%) AngularJS
3 13 (25.00%) Node.js
3 13 (25.00%) React
3 13 (25.00%) Spring
3 13 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 8 (15.38%) gRPC
5 7 (13.46%) CSS
6 6 (11.54%) HTML
6 6 (11.54%) JSON
7 5 (9.62%) .NET Core
7 5 (9.62%) OpenAPI
7 5 (9.62%) Swagger
8 4 (7.69%) Kafka
8 4 (7.69%) Material-UI
8 4 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (7.69%) RESTful
8 4 (7.69%) Spring Batch
9 3 (5.77%) Web Services
9 3 (5.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Mobile App
2 7 (13.46%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.46%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.92%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.92%) IoT
5 1 (1.92%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) CentOS
1 4 (7.69%) Debian
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
1 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (65.38%) Agile
2 24 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 19 (36.54%) Microservices
4 16 (30.77%) TDD
5 14 (26.92%) Software Engineering
6 13 (25.00%) Scrum
7 11 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (19.23%) Containerisation
8 10 (19.23%) DevOps
8 10 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (19.23%) SOLID
9 9 (17.31%) AI
10 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (15.38%) User Experience
11 7 (13.46%) CRM
12 6 (11.54%) Kanban
13 5 (9.62%) Configuration Management
13 5 (9.62%) Data Modelling
13 5 (9.62%) Open Source
13 5 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (40.38%) JavaScript
2 16 (30.77%) Java
3 14 (26.92%) C#
4 12 (23.08%) TypeScript
5 11 (21.15%) Python
6 10 (19.23%) SQL
7 6 (11.54%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.77%) Apex Code
8 3 (5.77%) Bash
8 3 (5.77%) PHP
9 1 (1.92%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.92%) R
9 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) Degree
3 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.92%) MBA
3 1 (1.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) HL7
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (21.15%) Terraform
2 8 (15.38%) Ansible
3 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
4 4 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Salesforce
2 4 (7.69%) Google
2 4 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 4 (7.69%) SaltStack
3 1 (1.92%) Dell
3 1 (1.92%) HubSpot
3 1 (1.92%) Informatica
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.92%) Pega
3 1 (1.92%) SnapLogic
3 1 (1.92%) WSO2