REST Jobs in the North West

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 89 157
Rank change year-on-year -89 +68 -29
Permanent jobs citing REST 126 266 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.61% 2.57% 1.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.66% 12.65% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 42 123 81
10th Percentile £48,525 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £79,375 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,500 £100,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.70%

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 1,182 2,103 2,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.15% 20.33% 29.73%
Number of salaries quoted 496 1,603 1,108
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,869 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £66,295 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.49% -11.11% +3.85%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the North West

REST
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST in the North West.

Salary trend for REST in the North West

REST
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 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
Manchester -32 64 £65,000 +13.04% 178
Cheshire -11 38 £52,500 -34.38% 101
Lancashire -63 13 £52,500 -12.50% 59
Merseyside +36 11 £57,500 +39.45% 58
REST
England

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.17%) CMS
2 1 (0.79%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.79%) IIS
2 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.79%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (73.02%) Azure
2 91 (72.22%) AWS
3 6 (4.76%) Serverless
4 5 (3.97%) Azure Functions
4 5 (3.97%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (3.97%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.97%) SaaS
5 4 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.17%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.59%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.59%) Azure API Management
6 2 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.59%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (1.59%) GCP
6 2 (1.59%) NuGet
6 2 (1.59%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.79%) Boomi
7 1 (0.79%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.17%) HTTP
2 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (58.73%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.38%) MySQL
5 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.79%) GIS
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 75 (59.52%) JIRA
2 72 (57.14%) Cucumber
3 70 (55.56%) Bitbucket
3 70 (55.56%) GitLab
3 70 (55.56%) Maven
3 70 (55.56%) Selenium
3 70 (55.56%) SonarQube
3 70 (55.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (5.56%) webpack
5 6 (4.76%) Babel
5 6 (4.76%) Git
6 4 (3.17%) JUnit
7 3 (2.38%) Storybook
8 2 (1.59%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.59%) MSTest
8 2 (1.59%) NUnit
8 2 (1.59%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.59%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.79%) ESLint
9 1 (0.79%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 89 (70.63%) Finance
2 78 (61.90%) Retail
3 71 (56.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 70 (55.56%) Banking
4 70 (55.56%) Corporate Banking
4 70 (55.56%) Investment Banking
5 10 (7.94%) Social Skills
6 3 (2.38%) Law
7 2 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Cantonese Language
7 2 (1.59%) Front Office
7 2 (1.59%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Electronics
8 1 (0.79%) Games
8 1 (0.79%) Marketing
8 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 85 (67.46%) Software Engineer
2 23 (18.25%) Developer
3 19 (15.08%) Senior
4 11 (8.73%) Senior Software Engineer
5 7 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 7 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
6 6 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
6 6 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 6 (4.76%) React Developer
6 6 (4.76%) Senior Developer
7 5 (3.97%) Architect
7 5 (3.97%) C# Developer
7 5 (3.97%) HTML CSS Developer
7 5 (3.97%) HTML Developer
8 4 (3.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (3.17%) Integration Architect
9 3 (2.38%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 3 (2.38%) Security Engineer
9 3 (2.38%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (70.63%) React
2 87 (69.05%) CSS
2 87 (69.05%) HTML
3 81 (64.29%) RESTful
4 79 (62.70%) HTML5
5 78 (61.90%) Kafka
6 77 (61.11%) Spring
7 76 (60.32%) Spring Boot
8 74 (58.73%) Jest
9 72 (57.14%) CSS3
9 72 (57.14%) Redux
10 71 (56.35%) Sass
11 70 (55.56%) JPA
12 17 (13.49%) .NET
13 15 (11.90%) Web Services
14 11 (8.73%) AngularJS
15 8 (6.35%) JSON
15 8 (6.35%) Node.js
16 7 (5.56%) SOAP
17 5 (3.97%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 80 (63.49%) Product Ownership
2 72 (57.14%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.59%) Credit Derivative
4 2 (1.59%) Derivative
4 2 (1.59%) Equities
4 2 (1.59%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.59%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.79%) Animation
5 1 (0.79%) Blog
5 1 (0.79%) CMDB
5 1 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.79%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.79%) FMCG
5 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (80.16%) Agile
2 89 (70.63%) Software Engineering
3 85 (67.46%) CI/CD
3 85 (67.46%) Microservices
4 83 (65.87%) DevOps
4 83 (65.87%) Front End Development
5 80 (63.49%) Full-Stack Development
6 76 (60.32%) Containerisation
6 76 (60.32%) User Experience
7 74 (58.73%) Mentoring
8 73 (57.94%) Test Automation
9 72 (57.14%) SDLC
10 71 (56.35%) Migration
11 70 (55.56%) Performance Optimisation
11 70 (55.56%) Responsive Web Design
11 70 (55.56%) Strategic Thinking
12 12 (9.52%) Code Quality
13 11 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (7.94%) Cloud Security
15 8 (6.35%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 98 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 96 (76.19%) TypeScript
3 78 (61.90%) Java
3 78 (61.90%) SQL
4 14 (11.11%) Python
5 12 (9.52%) C#
6 2 (1.59%) PHP
7 1 (0.79%) Groovy
7 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.79%) VB
7 1 (0.79%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.79%) VB6
Qualifications
1 7 (5.56%) Degree
2 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.59%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.59%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.79%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (59.52%) QA
2 73 (57.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
3 1 (0.79%) PMO
3 1 (0.79%) SEPA
System Software
1 78 (61.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 75 (59.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.17%) Grafana
2 4 (3.17%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 70 (55.56%) Solace
2 13 (10.32%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.14%) Ping Identity
4 4 (3.17%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.59%) Google
5 2 (1.59%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle
6 1 (0.79%) Dell
6 1 (0.79%) Informatica
6 1 (0.79%) Revolut
6 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.79%) SAP
6 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow