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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 169 107
Rank change year-on-year +88 -62 +20
Permanent jobs citing REST 108 75 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.20% 1.10% 2.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.38% 6.28% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 44 41 67
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,300
25th Percentile £52,188 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £73,125
90th Percentile - - £98,500
South East median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £56,595
% change year-on-year +17.39% +1.60% -5.68%

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 443 1,195 1,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.13% 17.56% 29.02%
Number of salaries quoted 288 950 1,019
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £55,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.36% -14.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,313 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 24 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 24 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 +52 91 £82,500 +17.86% 237
Oxfordshire +51 13 £50,000 -4.76% 61
Buckinghamshire +29 4 £55,500 -7.50% 94
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 13 (12.04%) JBoss
1 13 (12.04%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (5.56%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.85%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (1.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.93%) CMS
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.93%) Strapi
4 1 (0.93%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 44 (40.74%) AWS
2 34 (31.48%) Serverless
3 33 (30.56%) Amazon EKS
3 33 (30.56%) Azure
4 32 (29.63%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (23.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 24 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 24 (22.22%) SonarCloud
7 21 (19.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 19 (17.59%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (10.19%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (9.26%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.70%) AWS KMS
12 3 (2.78%) GitHub
12 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (40.74%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (32.41%) Relational Database
3 26 (24.07%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (12.04%) RDBMS
5 5 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.70%) MySQL
6 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.78%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.85%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.93%) Power BI
9 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (51.85%) Git
2 41 (37.96%) Jenkins
3 34 (31.48%) JUnit
4 25 (23.15%) Visual Studio
5 24 (22.22%) MSBuild
5 24 (22.22%) Octopus Deploy
5 24 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (16.67%) Mockito
7 13 (12.04%) JMeter
8 6 (5.56%) Maven
8 6 (5.56%) SonarQube
9 4 (3.70%) DbUnit
9 4 (3.70%) jMock
10 2 (1.85%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (1.85%) JIRA
10 2 (1.85%) Moq
10 2 (1.85%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.93%) MLflow
11 1 (0.93%) Mocha
General
1 31 (28.70%) Public Sector
2 29 (26.85%) Social Skills
3 21 (19.44%) Law
3 21 (19.44%) Marketing
3 21 (19.44%) Retail
4 5 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.78%) Finance
7 2 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (41.67%) Architect
2 43 (39.81%) Developer
3 36 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 24 (22.22%) Technical Architect
5 21 (19.44%) Enterprise Architect
5 21 (19.44%) Salesforce Architect
6 9 (8.33%) Senior
7 8 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (6.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Lead
10 3 (2.78%) Lead Developer
10 3 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.78%) Software Engineer
11 2 (1.85%) .NET Software Engineer
11 2 (1.85%) Analyst
11 2 (1.85%) Oracle Analyst
11 2 (1.85%) Power Platform Engineer
11 2 (1.85%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (43.52%) SOAP
2 39 (36.11%) HTML
2 39 (36.11%) Web Services
3 38 (35.19%) Spring
3 38 (35.19%) Spring Boot
4 34 (31.48%) JSON
5 33 (30.56%) XML
6 29 (26.85%) .NET
7 28 (25.93%) Bootstrap
8 27 (25.00%) Apache Camel
9 26 (24.07%) CSS
10 24 (22.22%) ASP.NET
10 24 (22.22%) gRPC
11 23 (21.30%) Middleware
12 22 (20.37%) Lightning Web Components
13 21 (19.44%) ActiveMQ
14 18 (16.67%) Hibernate
15 17 (15.74%) RESTful
16 15 (13.89%) jQuery
17 13 (12.04%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 38 (35.19%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (19.44%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.93%) Learning Management System
3 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Android
2 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (81.48%) Microservices
2 71 (65.74%) Agile
3 67 (62.04%) DevOps
4 46 (42.59%) CI/CD
5 45 (41.67%) Design Patterns
6 42 (38.89%) Technical Leadership
7 40 (37.04%) TDD
8 37 (34.26%) Scrum
9 31 (28.70%) BDD
10 29 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (23.15%) API Integration
11 25 (23.15%) Kanban
11 25 (23.15%) MVC
12 24 (22.22%) Computer Science
12 24 (22.22%) Data Encryption
12 24 (22.22%) Event-Driven
12 24 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 24 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
12 24 (22.22%) Performance Testing
12 24 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (48.15%) JavaScript
2 41 (37.96%) Java
3 36 (33.33%) SQL
4 28 (25.93%) C#
5 22 (20.37%) Apex Code
5 22 (20.37%) Python
6 14 (12.96%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.78%) PHP
9 1 (0.93%) Groovy
9 1 (0.93%) Perl
9 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (26.85%) Security Cleared
2 25 (23.15%) Degree
2 25 (23.15%) SC Cleared
3 24 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (20.37%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (22.22%) GDPR
2 22 (20.37%) Data Quality
3 13 (12.04%) SLA
4 6 (5.56%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) CDISC
System Software
1 67 (62.04%) Docker
2 3 (2.78%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 36 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.67%) Ansible
3 13 (12.04%) Kibana
4 3 (2.78%) Grafana
4 3 (2.78%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.78%) Terraform
5 1 (0.93%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (20.37%) Salesforce
2 21 (19.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 13 (12.04%) Dynatrace
3 13 (12.04%) Splunk
4 4 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.78%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.78%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.85%) Oracle
6 2 (1.85%) WSO2
7 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.93%) Databricks
7 1 (0.93%) IBM