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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 131 156
Rank change year-on-year -17 +25 -51
Permanent jobs citing REST 71 26 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.92% 0.96% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.10% 5.53% 7.43%
Number of salaries quoted 58 13 102
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,446 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,069 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,443 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +7.37% -10.83%
75th Percentile £66,250 £78,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,375 £94,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%

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 587 470 1,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.57% 17.40% 20.24%
Number of salaries quoted 426 374 1,522
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,526 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £66,500 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.37% +10.42% -11.11%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -13 21 £60,000 -14.29% 11
Gloucestershire -7 20 £42,500 -52.78% 1
Devon -9 14 £55,000 +2.33%
Somerset - 5 £45,000 - 6
Dorset -16 4 £80,000 +68.42%
Wiltshire -10 2 £66,250 +10.42% 3
Cornwall - 1 - -
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 3 (4.23%) Confluence
1 3 (4.23%) NServiceBus
2 2 (2.82%) Apache
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (12.68%) Dynamics NAV
1 9 (12.68%) Magento
1 9 (12.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.13%) Azure
2 14 (19.72%) SaaS
3 12 (16.90%) Azure AKS
4 10 (14.08%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (11.27%) GCP
6 6 (8.45%) AWS
7 5 (7.04%) npm
8 4 (5.63%) GitHub
8 4 (5.63%) Serverless
9 3 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.23%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.23%) Google Workspace
10 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.82%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.82%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) Broadband
2 2 (2.82%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (40.85%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.04%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.63%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.23%) CockroachDB
6 2 (2.82%) Big Data
6 2 (2.82%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (2.82%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.82%) Power BI
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.41%) MySQL
7 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (21.13%) Git
2 13 (18.31%) JIRA
3 5 (7.04%) Gradle
3 5 (7.04%) JUnit
4 4 (5.63%) Maven
4 4 (5.63%) Mockito
5 3 (4.23%) GitLab
5 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.23%) TestNG
6 2 (2.82%) Android Studio
6 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.82%) Checkstyle
6 2 (2.82%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.82%) ESLint
6 2 (2.82%) Selenium
6 2 (2.82%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.82%) Xcode
7 1 (1.41%) Vite
General
1 15 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.68%) Back Office
3 6 (8.45%) Finance
4 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.41%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.41%) Games
7 1 (1.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (33.80%) Software Engineer
2 21 (29.58%) Developer
3 20 (28.17%) Senior
4 13 (18.31%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (15.49%) .NET Software Engineer
5 11 (15.49%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 10 (14.08%) Analyst
7 8 (11.27%) Support Analyst
8 7 (9.86%) Software Developer
9 6 (8.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (7.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (7.04%) Lead
10 5 (7.04%) Python Engineer
10 5 (7.04%) Software Analyst
11 4 (5.63%) .NET Developer
11 4 (5.63%) Applications Support
11 4 (5.63%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (5.63%) Senior Support Analyst
11 4 (5.63%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (32.39%) .NET
2 18 (25.35%) React
3 17 (23.94%) AngularJS
4 15 (21.13%) SOAP
5 14 (19.72%) .NET Core
6 12 (16.90%) .NET Framework
6 12 (16.90%) Entity Framework
6 12 (16.90%) Spring
7 11 (15.49%) Dapper ORM
7 11 (15.49%) Spring Boot
8 9 (12.68%) ASP.NET
8 9 (12.68%) GraphQL
8 9 (12.68%) Middleware
9 7 (9.86%) HTML
9 7 (9.86%) Node.js
10 6 (8.45%) CSS
10 6 (8.45%) OAuth
10 6 (8.45%) Vue
11 5 (7.04%) Django
11 5 (7.04%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.86%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.63%) CUDA
3 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.23%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (4.23%) Cyberattack
4 3 (4.23%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.41%) CMDB
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.41%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Android
2 3 (4.23%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.82%) CentOS
3 2 (2.82%) Debian
3 2 (2.82%) Linux
3 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.66%) Software Engineering
2 25 (35.21%) Agile
3 18 (25.35%) CI/CD
3 18 (25.35%) Containerisation
4 17 (23.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (21.13%) Clean Code
6 14 (19.72%) Performance Optimisation
7 13 (18.31%) DevOps
7 13 (18.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (18.31%) User Experience
8 12 (16.90%) Test Automation
9 10 (14.08%) Change Management
9 10 (14.08%) CRM
9 10 (14.08%) ITSM
9 10 (14.08%) Service Management
10 9 (12.68%) API Integration
10 9 (12.68%) Data Management
10 9 (12.68%) E-Commerce
10 9 (12.68%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.70%) SQL
2 23 (32.39%) C#
3 17 (23.94%) TypeScript
4 16 (22.54%) JavaScript
5 13 (18.31%) Python
6 12 (16.90%) Java
6 12 (16.90%) T-SQL
7 6 (8.45%) Bash
8 4 (5.63%) Kotlin
9 3 (4.23%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.82%) Go
10 2 (2.82%) Swift
11 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 13 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.27%) DV Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.63%) Degree
5 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.23%) NCSC
1 3 (4.23%) NIST
2 2 (2.82%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (28.17%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (30.99%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.86%) Terraform
3 3 (4.23%) Ansible
3 3 (4.23%) Grafana
3 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.23%) Puppet
4 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.41%) Kibana
5 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.08%) ServiceNow
3 9 (12.68%) ConnectWise
3 9 (12.68%) WooCommerce
4 5 (7.04%) Google
5 4 (5.63%) Oracle
6 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.82%) SaltStack
6 2 (2.82%) Splunk
6 2 (2.82%) VMware