REST Jobs in the South East

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 147 103
Rank change year-on-year -10 -44 +5
Permanent jobs citing REST 174 314 407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.81% 1.67% 3.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.19% 9.44% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 100 184 216
10th Percentile £43,635 £42,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £55,690
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +3.25% -7.18%
75th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £83,750 £82,500
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
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,319 3,328 3,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.69% 17.69% 28.76%
Number of salaries quoted 855 2,589 2,647
10th Percentile £33,600 £36,250 £36,370
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST in the South East.

Salary trend for REST in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the South East over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Thames Valley +100 109 £82,500 +32.00% 385
Berkshire +54 91 £82,500 +17.86% 253
Hampshire +3 25 £52,500 -8.70% 174
Surrey +30 17 £72,500 +31.82% 98
Oxfordshire +59 15 £52,500 - 46
Middlesex -9 10 £62,500 +4.17%
West Sussex +6 4 £70,000 +21.74% 61
Buckinghamshire +34 3 £51,000 -15.00% 87
Kent +26 3 - - 81
East Sussex +12 3 £65,000 +13.04% 46
Isle of Wight - 2 £52,250 - 1
Sussex - 1 £75,000 - 4
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England

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (10.34%) JBoss
2 14 (8.05%) Red Hat Fuse
3 4 (2.30%) Apache
3 4 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.30%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.57%) CMS
5 1 (0.57%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.57%) Strapi
5 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 62 (35.63%) AWS
2 53 (30.46%) Azure
3 43 (24.71%) Serverless
4 35 (20.11%) Amazon EKS
5 34 (19.54%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (17.24%) Azure Service Bus
7 29 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 29 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (16.09%) SonarCloud
9 21 (12.07%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (12.07%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 13 (7.47%) SaaS
11 12 (6.90%) Amazon S3
12 8 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (4.02%) Power Platform
14 5 (2.87%) GitHub
15 4 (2.30%) GCP
16 3 (1.72%) AWS KMS
17 2 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
17 2 (1.15%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.15%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (28.16%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (21.26%) Relational Database
3 30 (17.24%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (9.20%) RDBMS
5 14 (8.05%) MongoDB
6 12 (6.90%) MySQL
7 11 (6.32%) Redis
8 10 (5.75%) NoSQL
9 9 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.87%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.87%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.30%) Big Data
11 4 (2.30%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.30%) Parquet
11 4 (2.30%) Power BI
12 3 (1.72%) DynamoDB
13 2 (1.15%) Oracle ODI
14 1 (0.57%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 64 (36.78%) Git
2 53 (30.46%) Jenkins
3 37 (21.26%) JUnit
3 37 (21.26%) Octopus Deploy
4 29 (16.67%) Visual Studio
5 28 (16.09%) MSBuild
5 28 (16.09%) Team Foundation Server
6 20 (11.49%) Mockito
7 16 (9.20%) JMeter
8 5 (2.87%) Maven
8 5 (2.87%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.30%) JIRA
10 3 (1.72%) DbUnit
10 3 (1.72%) jMock
10 3 (1.72%) PHPUnit
10 3 (1.72%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.15%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (1.15%) GitLab
11 2 (1.15%) Moq
11 2 (1.15%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 34 (19.54%) Public Sector
3 27 (15.52%) Law
4 22 (12.64%) Marketing
4 22 (12.64%) Retail
5 14 (8.05%) Finance
6 8 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.45%) Tech for Good
8 4 (2.30%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.72%) Advertising
9 3 (1.72%) Legal
9 3 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.15%) Automotive
10 2 (1.15%) Front Office
10 2 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Electronics
11 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (48.85%) Developer
2 49 (28.16%) Architect
3 45 (25.86%) Java Developer
4 28 (16.09%) Technical Architect
5 21 (12.07%) Enterprise Architect
5 21 (12.07%) Salesforce Architect
6 20 (11.49%) Senior
7 19 (10.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (8.62%) Senior Developer
9 13 (7.47%) Lead
10 11 (6.32%) .NET Developer
10 11 (6.32%) C# Developer
11 9 (5.17%) C# .NET Developer
11 9 (5.17%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 8 (4.60%) Lead Developer
13 6 (3.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
14 5 (2.87%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
15 4 (2.30%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (32.18%) HTML
2 53 (30.46%) .NET
3 52 (29.89%) SOAP
4 48 (27.59%) JSON
5 45 (25.86%) Spring Boot
6 42 (24.14%) Web Services
6 42 (24.14%) XML
7 40 (22.99%) CSS
8 39 (22.41%) Spring
9 32 (18.39%) Bootstrap
10 30 (17.24%) Apache Camel
11 29 (16.67%) ASP.NET
11 29 (16.67%) gRPC
12 24 (13.79%) ActiveMQ
12 24 (13.79%) Middleware
13 23 (13.22%) RESTful
14 22 (12.64%) Lightning Web Components
14 22 (12.64%) React
15 21 (12.07%) Hibernate
15 21 (12.07%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 44 (25.29%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (14.94%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.15%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.15%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.57%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.57%) BYOD
8 1 (0.57%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (0.57%) Derivative
8 1 (0.57%) Equities
8 1 (0.57%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.57%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.02%) Linux
2 1 (0.57%) Android
2 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (70.11%) Microservices
2 97 (55.75%) Agile
3 90 (51.72%) DevOps
4 67 (38.51%) CI/CD
5 62 (35.63%) Design Patterns
6 59 (33.91%) TDD
7 45 (25.86%) Technical Leadership
8 44 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (22.99%) Scrum
10 38 (21.84%) MVC
11 35 (20.11%) BDD
12 32 (18.39%) Data Modelling
13 30 (17.24%) API Integration
14 29 (16.67%) Code Quality
14 29 (16.67%) Event-Driven
14 29 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 28 (16.09%) Data Encryption
15 28 (16.09%) Full-Stack Development
15 28 (16.09%) Performance Optimisation
15 28 (16.09%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 82 (47.13%) JavaScript
2 57 (32.76%) SQL
3 55 (31.61%) Java
4 54 (31.03%) C#
5 35 (20.11%) Python
6 22 (12.64%) Apex Code
7 17 (9.77%) Shell Script
8 10 (5.75%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.02%) PHP
10 5 (2.87%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.15%) Clojure
11 2 (1.15%) Elixir
11 2 (1.15%) Groovy
11 2 (1.15%) Rust
11 2 (1.15%) Scala
12 1 (0.57%) C
12 1 (0.57%) C++
12 1 (0.57%) Perl
12 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.52%) Degree
3 26 (14.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (14.94%) SC Cleared
4 22 (12.64%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.67%) GDPR
2 28 (16.09%) Data Quality
3 16 (9.20%) QA
4 14 (8.05%) SLA
5 6 (3.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) CDISC
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 93 (53.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.15%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 54 (31.03%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.92%) Ansible
3 16 (9.20%) Kibana
4 4 (2.30%) Grafana
4 4 (2.30%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.30%) Terraform
5 1 (0.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (12.64%) Salesforce
2 21 (12.07%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 16 (9.20%) Dynatrace
3 16 (9.20%) Splunk
4 13 (7.47%) Oracle
5 6 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.72%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.72%) Informatica
6 3 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.15%) IBM
7 2 (1.15%) WSO2
8 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.57%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.57%) Databricks
8 1 (0.57%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.57%) Trayport