REST Job Trends in Reading

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 33 44
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 +55
Permanent jobs citing REST 24 52 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 4.12% 6.52% 5.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 45.28% 27.08% 23.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 24
10th Percentile £70,250 - £60,000
25th Percentile - £60,000 £68,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -20.00% +16.07%
75th Percentile - £70,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £86,000 £84,250 £86,750
Berkshire median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +37.50% -11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 53 192 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 9.09% 24.06% 22.76%
Number of salaries quoted 28 85 147
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,125 £112,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.66% +1.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

REST job vacancy trend in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing REST

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Reading over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in Reading

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 20 (83.33%) AWS
2 19 (79.17%) Amazon ECS
2 19 (79.17%) Amazon EKS
2 19 (79.17%) Serverless
3 13 (54.17%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (79.17%) PostgreSQL
1 19 (79.17%) Relational Database
2 13 (54.17%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 20 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 14 (58.33%) JUnit
3 13 (54.17%) JMeter
3 13 (54.17%) Mockito
4 7 (29.17%) Git
5 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (95.83%) Developer
1 23 (95.83%) Java Developer
2 16 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 16 (66.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 13 (54.17%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Senior
4 5 (20.83%) Senior Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (95.83%) Spring Boot
2 19 (79.17%) Spring
3 18 (75.00%) Web Services
4 13 (54.17%) ActiveMQ
4 13 (54.17%) Apache Camel
4 13 (54.17%) Hibernate
4 13 (54.17%) HTML
4 13 (54.17%) jQuery
4 13 (54.17%) JSON
4 13 (54.17%) WireMock
4 13 (54.17%) XML
5 10 (41.67%) React
6 6 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (25.00%) Kafka
6 6 (25.00%) Mustache
6 6 (25.00%) Node.js
7 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (4.17%) Middleware
7 1 (4.17%) SOAP
7 1 (4.17%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 19 (79.17%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (16.67%) IoT
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Microservices
2 20 (83.33%) Agile
2 20 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 19 (79.17%) TDD
4 18 (75.00%) SDLC
5 17 (70.83%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (54.17%) BDD
6 13 (54.17%) Process Management
6 13 (54.17%) Workflow
7 6 (25.00%) Scrum
8 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (8.33%) DevOps
8 2 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (4.17%) API Integration
9 1 (4.17%) Collaborative Working
9 1 (4.17%) Containerisation
9 1 (4.17%) Deployment Automation
9 1 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (4.17%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 23 (95.83%) Java
2 20 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 14 (58.33%) Python
4 13 (54.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 19 (79.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (95.83%) Kubernetes
2 13 (54.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Dynatrace
1 13 (54.17%) Splunk
2 1 (4.17%) Salesforce