REST Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 26 43
Rank change year-on-year -45 +17 -18
Permanent jobs citing REST 2 8 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.22% 2.99% 3.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.57% 17.78% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - - £46,900
25th Percentile £76,250 £50,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £55,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% -35.29% +88.89%
75th Percentile £78,750 £62,813 £87,500
90th Percentile - £67,875 -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -13.60%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 56 45 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.20% 16.79% 32.21%
Number of salaries quoted 43 14 127
10th Percentile £41,500 £50,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £85,625 £74,144 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -11.11%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

REST job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

REST
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing REST

REST
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
County Antrim -33 1 £77,500 +40.91% 6
County Armagh - 1 - -
REST
UK

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) EDI
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Search
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI