REST Jobs in the Thames Valley

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 175 109
Rank change year-on-year +94 -66 +16
Permanent jobs citing REST 114 75 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.31% 1.12% 2.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.00% 6.35% 9.92%
Number of salaries quoted 49 41 69
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,825
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -10.71% +9.80%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile - - £100,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +17.39% - -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 475 1,182 1,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.80% 17.60% 29.05%
Number of salaries quoted 319 936 1,035
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,200
25th Percentile £47,750 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for REST in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Berkshire +50 96 £82,500 +17.86% 28
Oxfordshire +53 14 £50,000 -4.76% 16
Buckinghamshire +33 4 £55,500 -7.50% 10
REST
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 14 (12.28%) JBoss
1 14 (12.28%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (5.26%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.75%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.88%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Strapi
4 1 (0.88%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 48 (42.11%) AWS
2 36 (31.58%) Azure
2 36 (31.58%) Serverless
3 34 (29.82%) Amazon EKS
4 33 (28.95%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (24.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 26 (22.81%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (22.81%) Azure Service Bus
6 26 (22.81%) SonarCloud
7 21 (18.42%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 19 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (9.65%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (8.77%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.51%) AWS KMS
12 3 (2.63%) GitHub
12 3 (2.63%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.75%) Route 53
13 2 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) Broadband
2 1 (0.88%) Internet
2 1 (0.88%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (40.35%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (31.58%) Relational Database
3 28 (24.56%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (11.40%) RDBMS
5 5 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.51%) MySQL
6 4 (3.51%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.63%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.75%) GIS
8 2 (1.75%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.75%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.75%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.88%) Power BI
9 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 59 (51.75%) Git
2 42 (36.84%) Jenkins
3 35 (30.70%) JUnit
4 27 (23.68%) Visual Studio
5 26 (22.81%) MSBuild
5 26 (22.81%) Octopus Deploy
5 26 (22.81%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (15.79%) Mockito
7 13 (11.40%) JMeter
8 6 (5.26%) Maven
8 6 (5.26%) SonarQube
9 4 (3.51%) DbUnit
9 4 (3.51%) jMock
10 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (1.75%) GitLab
10 2 (1.75%) JIRA
10 2 (1.75%) Moq
10 2 (1.75%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.88%) MLflow
11 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (28.07%) Public Sector
2 29 (25.44%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.18%) Retail
4 21 (18.42%) Law
4 21 (18.42%) Marketing
5 5 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Finance
8 2 (1.75%) Legal
8 2 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.88%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (42.11%) Architect
2 45 (39.47%) Developer
3 37 (32.46%) Java Developer
4 26 (22.81%) Technical Architect
5 21 (18.42%) Enterprise Architect
5 21 (18.42%) Salesforce Architect
6 9 (7.89%) Senior
7 8 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (6.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (4.39%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.51%) Software Engineer
11 3 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (2.63%) Lead
11 3 (2.63%) Lead Developer
11 3 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
12 2 (1.75%) Analyst
12 2 (1.75%) Data Engineer
12 2 (1.75%) Power Platform Engineer
12 2 (1.75%) Python Engineer
12 2 (1.75%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (42.11%) SOAP
2 41 (35.96%) HTML
3 40 (35.09%) Web Services
4 39 (34.21%) Spring
4 39 (34.21%) Spring Boot
5 37 (32.46%) JSON
6 36 (31.58%) XML
7 32 (28.07%) .NET
8 30 (26.32%) Bootstrap
9 28 (24.56%) Apache Camel
9 28 (24.56%) CSS
10 26 (22.81%) ASP.NET
10 26 (22.81%) gRPC
11 23 (20.18%) Middleware
12 22 (19.30%) Lightning Web Components
13 21 (18.42%) ActiveMQ
14 18 (15.79%) Hibernate
14 18 (15.79%) RESTful
15 15 (13.16%) jQuery
16 14 (12.28%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 39 (34.21%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (18.42%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.75%) Learning Management System
3 2 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.14%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Android
2 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (81.58%) Microservices
2 74 (64.91%) Agile
3 71 (62.28%) DevOps
4 48 (42.11%) Design Patterns
5 46 (40.35%) CI/CD
6 43 (37.72%) Technical Leadership
7 41 (35.96%) TDD
8 37 (32.46%) Scrum
9 32 (28.07%) BDD
10 30 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (23.68%) API Integration
11 27 (23.68%) Event-Driven
11 27 (23.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 27 (23.68%) MVC
12 26 (22.81%) Code Quality
12 26 (22.81%) Data Encryption
12 26 (22.81%) Performance Optimisation
12 26 (22.81%) Performance Testing
13 25 (21.93%) Kanban
14 24 (21.05%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 55 (48.25%) JavaScript
2 42 (36.84%) Java
3 40 (35.09%) SQL
4 30 (26.32%) C#
5 23 (20.18%) Python
6 22 (19.30%) Apex Code
7 14 (12.28%) Shell Script
8 7 (6.14%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.63%) PHP
10 1 (0.88%) Groovy
10 1 (0.88%) Perl
10 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.88%) Rust
10 1 (0.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (25.44%) Security Cleared
2 25 (21.93%) Degree
2 25 (21.93%) SC Cleared
3 24 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (19.30%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (22.81%) GDPR
2 22 (19.30%) Data Quality
3 14 (12.28%) SLA
4 6 (5.26%) QA
5 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) CDISC
System Software
1 71 (62.28%) Docker
2 3 (2.63%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 38 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 19 (16.67%) Ansible
3 13 (11.40%) Kibana
4 3 (2.63%) Grafana
4 3 (2.63%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.63%) Terraform
5 1 (0.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (19.30%) Salesforce
2 21 (18.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 13 (11.40%) Dynatrace
3 13 (11.40%) Splunk
4 4 (3.51%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.63%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.75%) Oracle
6 2 (1.75%) WSO2
7 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.88%) Databricks
7 1 (0.88%) IBM
7 1 (0.88%) Mapbox