REST Job Trends in Southampton

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 32 48
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 +13
Permanent jobs citing REST 27 31 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 4.87% 5.36% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 38.57% 22.96% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 24 31 5
10th Percentile - £21,000 £53,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £26,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £47,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -15.89% -2.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 70 135 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 12.64% 23.36% 27.25%
Number of salaries quoted 60 98 99
10th Percentile £33,725 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £63,250 £62,875 £61,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £75,050
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

REST job vacancy trend in Southampton

REST
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Southampton over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in Southampton

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (74.07%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) BGP
1 5 (18.52%) Firewall
1 5 (18.52%) LAN
1 5 (18.52%) MPLS
1 5 (18.52%) OSPF
1 5 (18.52%) SD-WAN
1 5 (18.52%) VPN
1 5 (18.52%) VXLAN
1 5 (18.52%) WAN
1 5 (18.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Storybook
General
1 18 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Senior
2 17 (62.96%) Applications Engineer
2 17 (62.96%) Applications Support
2 17 (62.96%) Applications Support Engineer
2 17 (62.96%) Senior Applications Engineer
2 17 (62.96%) Senior Applications Support
2 17 (62.96%) Senior Support Engineer
2 17 (62.96%) Support Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Cisco Consultant
3 5 (18.52%) Cisco Network Consultant
3 5 (18.52%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Consultant
3 5 (18.52%) Network Consultant
3 5 (18.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) WAN Consultant
4 4 (14.81%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.70%) React Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (62.96%) SOAP
2 3 (11.11%) .NET
2 3 (11.11%) Jest
2 3 (11.11%) Next.js
2 3 (11.11%) React
2 3 (11.11%) YAML
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
3 1 (3.70%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Android
1 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Cloud Operations
1 17 (62.96%) Data Analysis
1 17 (62.96%) Problem-Solving
1 17 (62.96%) Root Cause Analysis
1 17 (62.96%) SOA
1 17 (62.96%) Task Automation
2 5 (18.52%) Network Management
2 5 (18.52%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 3 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 3 (11.11%) DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) Front End Development
3 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (3.70%) B2B
4 1 (3.70%) Clean Code
4 1 (3.70%) Fintech
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) SQL
2 17 (62.96%) C#
2 17 (62.96%) PowerShell
3 5 (18.52%) Python
4 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (62.96%) Security Cleared
2 5 (18.52%) CCNP
2 5 (18.52%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Ansible
1 5 (18.52%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 17 (62.96%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Cisco
2 5 (18.52%) Fortinet
2 5 (18.52%) Meraki