REST Job Trends in the South West

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 129 122
Rank change year-on-year -17 -7 -23
Permanent jobs citing REST 36 53 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.71% 1.28% 2.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.42% 6.55% 8.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26 15 81
10th Percentile £41,250 £53,500 £41,227
25th Percentile £42,069 £61,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £63,438 £86,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,125 - £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -

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 485 809 1,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.51% 19.48% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 361 466 992
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.73% +3.40%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% -3.70%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

REST job vacancy trend in the South West

REST
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the South West over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for REST in the South West

REST
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 15 January 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
Bristol +3 9 £53,000 -26.90% 11
Gloucestershire +24 8 £42,500 - 10
Dorset +6 7 £80,000 +33.33% 8
Devon +5 6 £45,000 -18.18% 12
Somerset - 1 £47,500 - 8
REST
England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (13.89%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (13.89%) Magento
1 5 (13.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (13.89%) AWS
4 4 (11.11%) SaaS
5 3 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub
6 2 (5.56%) Google Workspace
6 2 (5.56%) Pulumi
6 2 (5.56%) Slack
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.78%) Boomi
7 1 (2.78%) Cloud Run
7 1 (2.78%) GCP
7 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) BGP
1 3 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (8.33%) EIGRP
1 3 (8.33%) Firewall
1 3 (8.33%) HSRP
1 3 (8.33%) IPsec
1 3 (8.33%) OSPF
2 2 (5.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.89%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.33%) CockroachDB
4 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.56%) MySQL
4 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.78%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) JIRA
2 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
3 5 (13.89%) Selenium
4 4 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 4 (11.11%) Gradle
5 3 (8.33%) Git
5 3 (8.33%) GitLab
5 3 (8.33%) JUnit
5 3 (8.33%) Maven
5 3 (8.33%) TestNG
6 2 (5.56%) Android Studio
6 2 (5.56%) Checkstyle
6 2 (5.56%) ESLint
6 2 (5.56%) Mockito
6 2 (5.56%) Postman
6 2 (5.56%) REST Assured
6 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
6 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
6 2 (5.56%) Xcode
7 1 (2.78%) JMeter
General
1 5 (13.89%) Back Office
1 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Senior
2 11 (30.56%) Developer
3 9 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) Software Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Support Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Software Support Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Support Analyst
7 3 (8.33%) .NET Software Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Network Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) C# Software Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Django Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Principal Test Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) SOAP
2 6 (16.67%) .NET
2 6 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 6 (16.67%) React
2 6 (16.67%) Spring
2 6 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 5 (13.89%) .NET Core
3 5 (13.89%) .NET Framework
3 5 (13.89%) Entity Framework
3 5 (13.89%) GraphQL
3 5 (13.89%) Middleware
4 4 (11.11%) OAuth
5 3 (8.33%) Dapper ORM
5 3 (8.33%) Spring MVC
6 2 (5.56%) Jest
6 2 (5.56%) Node.js
6 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
6 2 (5.56%) React Native
6 2 (5.56%) Redux
6 2 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Private Cloud
1 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (5.56%) Cyberattack
2 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Android
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Agile
2 11 (30.56%) Test Automation
3 10 (27.78%) Software Engineering
4 9 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 8 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (22.22%) User Experience
6 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
6 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (19.44%) DevOps
7 6 (16.67%) API Integration
7 6 (16.67%) Change Management
8 5 (13.89%) CRM
8 5 (13.89%) Data Management
8 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
8 5 (13.89%) E-Commerce
8 5 (13.89%) ERP
8 5 (13.89%) ITSM
8 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
8 5 (13.89%) Service Management
9 4 (11.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 22 (61.11%) SQL
2 9 (25.00%) Java
3 8 (22.22%) C#
3 8 (22.22%) Python
4 7 (19.44%) T-SQL
5 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.11%) Bash
6 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.56%) Kotlin
7 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.56%) Swift
7 2 (5.56%) XAML
8 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.78%) Go
8 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.56%) NCSC
2 2 (5.56%) NIST
3 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Grafana
3 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle
2 5 (13.89%) ConnectWise
2 5 (13.89%) ServiceNow
2 5 (13.89%) WooCommerce
3 4 (11.11%) Google
4 3 (8.33%) CheckPoint
4 3 (8.33%) Cisco
4 3 (8.33%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.33%) Riverbed
4 3 (8.33%) VMware
5 2 (5.56%) Splunk
6 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.78%) SnapLogic
6 1 (2.78%) Software AG
6 1 (2.78%) webMethods