RESTful Job Trends in the South East

RESTful
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring RESTful skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 150 192
Rank change year-on-year -88 +42 -47
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 56 94 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.40% 1.37% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.61% 7.13% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 46 61 185
10th Percentile £46,250 £32,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,063 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £67,750
90th Percentile £69,375 £67,500 £74,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

RESTful 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 1,215 1,319 2,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.62% 19.27% 18.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,017 918 2,424
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RESTful relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

RESTful job vacancy trend in the South East

RESTful
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RESTful.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RESTful

RESTful
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for RESTful in the South East

RESTful
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 RESTful within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
East Sussex -15 19 £60,000 +20.00% 3
Thames Valley -20 16 £60,000 +14.29% 18
Hampshire -45 8 £60,000 +20.00% 3
Berkshire -10 7 £62,500 - 5
Buckinghamshire -28 5 £60,000 +14.29% 8
Oxfordshire -12 4 £51,250 -31.67% 5
West Sussex -20 4 £70,000 - 1
Surrey -33 4 £52,500 -14.29% 4
Kent -45 4 £47,500 +21.79% 3
RESTful
England

RESTful
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (1.79%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (48.21%) Azure
2 19 (33.93%) AWS
3 8 (14.29%) GCP
4 6 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.14%) GitHub
6 4 (7.14%) Serverless
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.57%) Azure AI
8 2 (3.57%) Figma
8 2 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (3.57%) SaaS
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.79%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.71%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
4 5 (8.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (7.14%) MySQL
5 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.36%) Power BI
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (21.43%) Git
2 5 (8.93%) JIRA
3 4 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.14%) JUnit
4 3 (5.36%) Mockito
4 3 (5.36%) Selenium
4 3 (5.36%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.57%) Jasmine
5 2 (3.57%) NUnit
5 2 (3.57%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.79%) GitLab
General
1 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.93%) Finance
3 5 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.36%) Law
5 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (80.36%) Developer
2 19 (33.93%) iOS Developer
3 11 (19.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (16.07%) .NET Developer
5 7 (12.50%) Senior
6 6 (10.71%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Backend Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.36%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Lead
8 3 (5.36%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Integration Architect
9 2 (3.57%) React Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Senior .NET Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.93%) SwiftUI
2 18 (32.14%) .NET
2 18 (32.14%) React
3 12 (21.43%) ASP.NET
4 10 (17.86%) AngularJS
5 9 (16.07%) ASP.NET Core
6 8 (14.29%) .NET Core
6 8 (14.29%) REST
7 7 (12.50%) Vue
7 7 (12.50%) Web Services
8 6 (10.71%) Blazor
8 6 (10.71%) CSS
8 6 (10.71%) Spring
9 5 (8.93%) JPA
9 5 (8.93%) Kafka
9 5 (8.93%) Spring Boot
10 4 (7.14%) .NET Framework
10 4 (7.14%) Entity Framework
10 4 (7.14%) JSON
10 4 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (39.29%) Mobile App
2 7 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.93%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.36%) Low-Code
6 2 (3.57%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.79%) IoT
7 1 (1.79%) NHS
7 1 (1.79%) Social Network
7 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (37.50%) Android
2 19 (33.93%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.57%) Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) Agile
2 24 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 24 (42.86%) SOLID
3 22 (39.29%) DevOps
3 22 (39.29%) Multithreading
4 19 (33.93%) Android Development
4 19 (33.93%) iOS Development
4 19 (33.93%) Memory Management
4 19 (33.93%) Mobile Development
4 19 (33.93%) Performance Optimisation
5 18 (32.14%) Microservices
6 17 (30.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (19.64%) Scrum
7 11 (19.64%) Test Automation
8 9 (16.07%) Event-Driven
9 8 (14.29%) Code Quality
9 8 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 8 (14.29%) TDD
10 7 (12.50%) Clean Code
10 7 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.93%) Kotlin
1 19 (33.93%) SQL
1 19 (33.93%) Swift
2 18 (32.14%) C#
3 13 (23.21%) Java
4 11 (19.64%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.71%) TypeScript
6 4 (7.14%) Go
7 3 (5.36%) PHP
7 3 (5.36%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.57%) Bicep
9 1 (1.79%) Python
9 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.79%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Degree
1 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (26.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (23.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.93%) Terraform
3 2 (3.57%) Ansible
3 2 (3.57%) Kibana
3 2 (3.57%) MIIS
Vendors
1 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.14%) Oracle
3 3 (5.36%) IBM
3 3 (5.36%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.57%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.57%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.79%) Dell
5 1 (1.79%) Epicor
5 1 (1.79%) IFS
5 1 (1.79%) Infor
5 1 (1.79%) Informatica
5 1 (1.79%) Jitterbit
5 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.79%) SAP
5 1 (1.79%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.79%) Software AG
5 1 (1.79%) Talend
5 1 (1.79%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.79%) Workday