RESTful Job Trends in the South West

RESTful
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring RESTful skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 110 172
Rank change year-on-year -48 +62 +16
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 54 48 113
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.71% 1.72% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.87% 10.04% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 44 43 97
10th Percentile £30,250 £42,750 £40,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £68,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% +14.21% +11.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £93,778 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,125 £134,791 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -9.77%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 609 478 1,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.98% 17.14% 18.67%
Number of salaries quoted 460 365 1,507
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £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 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,267 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in the South West

RESTful
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing RESTful

RESTful
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the South West over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for RESTful in the South West

RESTful
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 RESTful within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Somerset -12 20 £40,000 -57.89% 7
Gloucestershire -18 9 £55,000 -15.38% 3
Bristol -42 8 £66,250 -10.07% 11
Dorset -7 7 £45,000 -21.74% 1
Devon -18 3 £55,000 +29.41% 1
Wiltshire -15 2 £65,000 -5.14%
Cornwall - 1 - -
RESTful
England

RESTful
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 (5.56%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.85%) Siemens NX
1 1 (1.85%) Sketch
1 1 (1.85%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (48.15%) Azure
2 13 (24.07%) AWS
3 9 (16.67%) GCP
4 5 (9.26%) GitHub
5 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.41%) SaaS
6 3 (5.56%) Figma
6 3 (5.56%) Serverless
7 2 (3.70%) Azure API Management
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.85%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.85%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.85%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Broadband
1 1 (1.85%) SSH
1 1 (1.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) MySQL
2 7 (12.96%) MongoDB
2 7 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.26%) NoSQL
3 5 (9.26%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.56%) MariaDB
4 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 20 (37.04%) Git
2 8 (14.81%) Eclipse
2 8 (14.81%) JUnit
2 8 (14.81%) Subversion
3 4 (7.41%) Gradle
4 3 (5.56%) GitLab
4 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.56%) Mockito
5 2 (3.70%) Maven
5 2 (3.70%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Finance
3 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.56%) Retail
4 2 (3.70%) Automotive
4 2 (3.70%) Electronics
4 2 (3.70%) Law
4 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.70%) Marketing
4 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (64.81%) Developer
2 15 (27.78%) .NET Developer
3 12 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 11 (20.37%) Software Engineer
5 10 (18.52%) Java Developer
5 10 (18.52%) Senior
6 9 (16.67%) Junior
6 9 (16.67%) Junior Developer
6 9 (16.67%) Junior Java Developer
7 8 (14.81%) .NET Software Developer
7 8 (14.81%) Backend Developer
7 8 (14.81%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
8 6 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (7.41%) C# Developer
9 4 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (7.41%) Lead
10 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
11 2 (3.70%) Android Engineer
11 2 (3.70%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (40.74%) React
2 20 (37.04%) .NET
3 16 (29.63%) CSS
4 15 (27.78%) .NET Core
5 14 (25.93%) HTML
6 9 (16.67%) Web Services
7 8 (14.81%) J2EE
7 8 (14.81%) Struts
8 7 (12.96%) AngularJS
8 7 (12.96%) Vue
9 6 (11.11%) CSS3
9 6 (11.11%) HTML5
10 5 (9.26%) Bootstrap
10 5 (9.26%) jQuery
10 5 (9.26%) Node.js
11 4 (7.41%) ASP.NET
11 4 (7.41%) Flask
11 4 (7.41%) OAuth
11 4 (7.41%) Spring
11 4 (7.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.70%) Smartphone
3 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.85%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.85%) iPhone
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) PKI
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Android
2 3 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (57.41%) CI/CD
2 24 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 22 (40.74%) Full-Stack Development
3 22 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (37.04%) Containerisation
4 20 (37.04%) Software Engineering
5 17 (31.48%) API Design
6 16 (29.63%) Agile
7 15 (27.78%) DevOps
8 14 (25.93%) API Integration
9 12 (22.22%) Test Automation
10 11 (20.37%) Microservices
11 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (12.96%) Front End Development
13 6 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
13 6 (11.11%) SDLC
13 6 (11.11%) User Experience
14 5 (9.26%) Clean Code
14 5 (9.26%) Technical Architecture
15 4 (7.41%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (53.70%) JavaScript
2 20 (37.04%) C#
3 18 (33.33%) Java
4 14 (25.93%) Python
5 13 (24.07%) TypeScript
6 9 (16.67%) Perl
7 8 (14.81%) C++
8 7 (12.96%) SQL
9 5 (9.26%) PHP
10 2 (3.70%) Kotlin
10 2 (3.70%) VB
11 1 (1.85%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 24 (44.44%) Degree
2 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 2 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.85%) OCA
5 1 (1.85%) OCP
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.85%) NIST
3 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (48.15%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (40.74%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) Terraform
3 3 (5.56%) Plesk
4 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.85%) Ansible
5 1 (1.85%) Rancher
5 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.70%) Guidewire
2 2 (3.70%) SAP
2 2 (3.70%) VMware
3 1 (1.85%) Adobe
3 1 (1.85%) Google
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle
3 1 (1.85%) Siemens
3 1 (1.85%) Thales