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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 144 102
Rank change year-on-year -12 -42 +11
Permanent jobs citing REST 178 317 422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.84% 1.80% 3.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.19% 9.97% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 101 188 227
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £40,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £83,750 £87,500
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 1,349 3,179 3,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.93% 18.04% 28.38%
Number of salaries quoted 873 2,514 2,702
10th Percentile £32,700 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £92,500
England median annual salary £66,274 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.46% -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 31 May 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 31 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
Thames Valley +91 108 £82,500 +32.00% 43
Berkshire +60 92 £82,500 +17.86% 31
Hampshire -5 25 £52,500 -8.70% 22
Surrey +32 17 £72,500 +31.82% 8
Oxfordshire +46 13 £50,000 -4.76% 12
Middlesex -8 13 £62,500 +4.17%
West Sussex +12 6 £70,000 +21.74% 3
Buckinghamshire +29 3 £51,000 -15.00% 7
Kent +22 3 - - 4
East Sussex +10 3 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Isle of Wight - 2 £52,250 - 1
Sussex - 1 £75,000 - 5
REST
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 (10.11%) JBoss
2 14 (7.87%) Red Hat Fuse
3 6 (3.37%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.25%) Apache
4 4 (2.25%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.69%) Confluence
6 2 (1.12%) Oracle Service Bus
6 2 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.56%) CMS
7 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.56%) Strapi
7 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 59 (33.15%) AWS
2 54 (30.34%) Azure
3 41 (23.03%) Serverless
4 34 (19.10%) Amazon EKS
5 33 (18.54%) Amazon ECS
6 32 (17.98%) Azure Service Bus
7 31 (17.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 31 (17.42%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (16.85%) SonarCloud
9 21 (11.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 18 (10.11%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (7.87%) Amazon S3
12 13 (7.30%) SaaS
13 10 (5.62%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (4.49%) GitHub
14 8 (4.49%) Power Platform
15 4 (2.25%) GCP
15 4 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (1.69%) AWS KMS
17 2 (1.12%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (27.53%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (20.22%) Relational Database
3 32 (17.98%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (8.43%) MongoDB
5 13 (7.30%) MySQL
5 13 (7.30%) NoSQL
5 13 (7.30%) RDBMS
6 12 (6.74%) Redis
7 9 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.81%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.81%) Power BI
8 5 (2.81%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.25%) Big Data
9 4 (2.25%) Oracle Database
9 4 (2.25%) Parquet
10 3 (1.69%) Couchbase
10 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.12%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 71 (39.89%) Git
2 55 (30.90%) Jenkins
3 40 (22.47%) Octopus Deploy
4 34 (19.10%) JUnit
5 31 (17.42%) Visual Studio
6 30 (16.85%) MSBuild
6 30 (16.85%) Team Foundation Server
7 17 (9.55%) Mockito
8 13 (7.30%) JMeter
9 6 (3.37%) JIRA
10 5 (2.81%) Maven
10 5 (2.81%) SonarQube
11 4 (2.25%) GitLab
12 3 (1.69%) DbUnit
12 3 (1.69%) jMock
12 3 (1.69%) PHPUnit
12 3 (1.69%) SpecFlow
13 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket Server
13 2 (1.12%) Moq
13 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.42%) Public Sector
3 29 (16.29%) Law
4 23 (12.92%) Retail
5 21 (11.80%) Marketing
6 16 (8.99%) Finance
7 8 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.37%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.25%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.69%) Advertising
10 3 (1.69%) Legal
11 2 (1.12%) Automotive
11 2 (1.12%) Front Office
11 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.56%) Electronics
12 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (48.31%) Developer
2 51 (28.65%) Architect
3 44 (24.72%) Java Developer
4 30 (16.85%) Technical Architect
5 22 (12.36%) Senior
6 21 (11.80%) Enterprise Architect
6 21 (11.80%) Salesforce Architect
7 18 (10.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (9.55%) Senior Developer
9 13 (7.30%) Lead
10 12 (6.74%) .NET Developer
10 12 (6.74%) C# Developer
11 11 (6.18%) Software Engineer
12 10 (5.62%) C# .NET Developer
13 8 (4.49%) Lead Developer
14 7 (3.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 6 (3.37%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 6 (3.37%) Senior Java Developer
16 5 (2.81%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
17 4 (2.25%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (31.46%) .NET
2 55 (30.90%) HTML
3 53 (29.78%) SOAP
4 47 (26.40%) JSON
5 44 (24.72%) Spring Boot
6 42 (23.60%) CSS
6 42 (23.60%) XML
7 41 (23.03%) Web Services
8 38 (21.35%) Spring
9 34 (19.10%) Bootstrap
10 31 (17.42%) ASP.NET
10 31 (17.42%) gRPC
11 27 (15.17%) Apache Camel
12 24 (13.48%) Middleware
12 24 (13.48%) React
13 23 (12.92%) RESTful
14 22 (12.36%) Lightning Web Components
15 21 (11.80%) ActiveMQ
16 20 (11.24%) Kafka
17 19 (10.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 45 (25.28%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (14.61%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.56%) BYOD
8 1 (0.56%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (0.56%) Derivative
8 1 (0.56%) Equities
8 1 (0.56%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.49%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) Android
2 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (70.22%) Microservices
2 98 (55.06%) Agile
3 92 (51.69%) DevOps
4 71 (39.89%) CI/CD
5 65 (36.52%) Design Patterns
6 61 (34.27%) TDD
7 46 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (25.84%) Technical Leadership
8 44 (24.72%) Scrum
9 41 (23.03%) MVC
10 34 (19.10%) BDD
11 31 (17.42%) API Integration
11 31 (17.42%) Code Quality
11 31 (17.42%) Data Modelling
11 31 (17.42%) Event-Driven
11 31 (17.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 30 (16.85%) Data Encryption
12 30 (16.85%) Performance Optimisation
12 30 (16.85%) Performance Testing
13 28 (15.73%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 81 (45.51%) JavaScript
2 61 (34.27%) SQL
3 57 (32.02%) C#
4 54 (30.34%) Java
5 33 (18.54%) Python
6 22 (12.36%) Apex Code
7 14 (7.87%) Shell Script
8 10 (5.62%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.93%) PHP
10 5 (2.81%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.25%) Clojure
11 4 (2.25%) Elixir
11 4 (2.25%) Rust
11 4 (2.25%) Scala
12 3 (1.69%) Go
13 2 (1.12%) Groovy
13 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.56%) C
14 1 (0.56%) C++
14 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.17%) Degree
3 26 (14.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (14.61%) SC Cleared
4 22 (12.36%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (17.42%) GDPR
2 28 (15.73%) Data Quality
3 15 (8.43%) QA
4 14 (7.87%) SLA
5 8 (4.49%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) CDISC
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 97 (54.49%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 58 (32.58%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.67%) Ansible
3 13 (7.30%) Kibana
4 4 (2.25%) Grafana
4 4 (2.25%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.25%) Terraform
5 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (12.36%) Salesforce
2 21 (11.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 13 (7.30%) Dynatrace
3 13 (7.30%) Oracle
3 13 (7.30%) Splunk
4 6 (3.37%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.37%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.81%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.69%) Informatica
6 3 (1.69%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.12%) IBM
7 2 (1.12%) WSO2
8 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.56%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.56%) Databricks
8 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.56%) Spotify
8 1 (0.56%) Trayport
8 1 (0.56%) VMware