REST Jobs in the South West

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 152 109
Rank change year-on-year +8 -43 +6
Permanent jobs citing REST 37 154 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.04% 1.45% 2.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.28% 7.93% 10.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15 105 93
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,240 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £86,250 £90,000
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 508 1,943 1,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.27% 18.34% 25.38%
Number of salaries quoted 368 1,497 980
10th Percentile £30,850 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,037 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.73% -11.11% +3.85%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for REST in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the South West over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Bristol +29 20 £71,250 +35.71% 36
Dorset +43 12 £47,500 -11.21% 4
Devon +17 2 £53,750 -2.58% 7
Wiltshire +37 1 £60,000 +17.65% 6
Gloucestershire +20 1 £90,000 +67.44% 2
Somerset +8 1 £21,000 -65.00% 16
REST
England

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (2.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.70%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (48.65%) AWS
2 17 (45.95%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (10.81%) iPaaS
4 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.11%) GCP
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub
5 2 (5.41%) Serverless
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.70%) Figma
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) IaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.70%) PaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) NoSQL
2 8 (21.62%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Jenkins
2 7 (18.92%) GitLab
3 3 (8.11%) Postman
3 3 (8.11%) Visual Studio
4 2 (5.41%) Fiddler
4 2 (5.41%) Git
4 2 (5.41%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.70%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.70%) Selenium
5 1 (2.70%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (35.14%) Finance
2 12 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
4 8 (21.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (21.62%) Law
5 7 (18.92%) Banking
6 5 (13.51%) Electronics
6 5 (13.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Software Engineer
2 14 (37.84%) Developer
3 8 (21.62%) Lead
4 5 (13.51%) Software Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior
7 2 (5.41%) .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Architect
7 2 (5.41%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Identity Management Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Principal Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Junior
8 1 (2.70%) Lead Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Principal Architect
8 1 (2.70%) QA Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Architect
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (35.14%) .NET
2 12 (32.43%) .NET Core
2 12 (32.43%) .NET Framework
3 8 (21.62%) ASP.NET
3 8 (21.62%) JSON
3 8 (21.62%) Spring
4 7 (18.92%) CSS
4 7 (18.92%) Entity Framework
4 7 (18.92%) HTML
5 6 (16.22%) React
5 6 (16.22%) Web Services
6 5 (13.51%) Kafka
6 5 (13.51%) OAuth
6 5 (13.51%) OAuth2
6 5 (13.51%) XML
7 4 (10.81%) AngularJS
7 4 (10.81%) Node.js
7 4 (10.81%) OpenID
7 4 (10.81%) Spring Boot
8 3 (8.11%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Data Structures
2 5 (13.51%) Algorithms
3 4 (10.81%) Reference Data
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.41%) PKI
4 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Apple iOS
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Software Engineering
2 19 (51.35%) Agile
3 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (35.14%) Test Automation
5 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
5 11 (29.73%) Microservices
6 10 (27.03%) Decision-Making
7 8 (21.62%) API Development
7 8 (21.62%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (21.62%) Operational Stability
8 7 (18.92%) Computer Science
8 7 (18.92%) DevOps
8 7 (18.92%) OWASP
9 6 (16.22%) API Management
9 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
9 6 (16.22%) Secure Coding
9 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (13.51%) Community of Practice
10 5 (13.51%) Complexity Analysis
10 5 (13.51%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) SQL
2 14 (37.84%) Java
3 12 (32.43%) C#
4 9 (24.32%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.81%) C++
5 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Argo
2 2 (5.41%) Graylog
2 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.11%) Google
4 2 (5.41%) Splunk
5 1 (2.70%) Adobe
5 1 (2.70%) Graphcore
5 1 (2.70%) WooCommerce