RESTful Job Trends in the Thames Valley

RESTful
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring RESTful skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 145 160
Rank change year-on-year -16 +15 -38
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 30 53 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.45% 1.47% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.83% 12.27% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 20 26 44
10th Percentile £40,750 £49,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £51,212
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -18.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £67,725 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.50% -5.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 621 432 846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.39% 12.01% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 479 268 648
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,275 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,250 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% +13.67% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £74,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

RESTful
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RESTful.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing RESTful

RESTful
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for RESTful in the Thames Valley

RESTful
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 RESTful within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Oxfordshire -15 14 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Berkshire -6 10 £50,000 -31.03% 3
Buckinghamshire -16 6 £60,000 +14.29% 2
RESTful
South East

RESTful
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (6.67%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (16.67%) Serverless
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (13.33%) Azure AI
4 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.67%) GCP
6 2 (6.67%) SaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) HTTP
1 2 (6.67%) MQTT
1 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.00%) MySQL
4 2 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (6.67%) GIS
4 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.67%) QGIS
4 2 (6.67%) Spotfire
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Git
2 6 (20.00%) GitLab
3 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.67%) JMeter
4 2 (6.67%) JUnit
4 2 (6.67%) Mockito
5 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Electronics
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Developer
2 11 (36.67%) Senior
3 6 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Architect
4 4 (13.33%) C# Software Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Integration Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior C# Software Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) ABAP Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Backend Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Senior ABAP Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) .NET
2 10 (33.33%) React
3 9 (30.00%) .NET Core
3 9 (30.00%) JSON
4 7 (23.33%) REST
5 6 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 6 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 6 (20.00%) Kafka
5 6 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (20.00%) XML
6 4 (13.33%) Blazor
6 4 (13.33%) HTML
6 4 (13.33%) JPA
6 4 (13.33%) JWT
6 4 (13.33%) ML.NET
6 4 (13.33%) OAuth
6 4 (13.33%) OAuth2
6 4 (13.33%) SOAP
6 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
6 4 (13.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Cloud Native
1 8 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (13.33%) Client/Server
3 4 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 4 (13.33%) Social Network
4 2 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (6.67%) Hackathon
4 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.67%) Life Science
4 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (80.00%) Agile
2 19 (63.33%) DevOps
3 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
3 11 (36.67%) Computer Science
4 10 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 10 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 10 (33.33%) Microservices
4 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 10 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 8 (26.67%) API Design
5 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 8 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (26.67%) Multithreading
5 8 (26.67%) SDLC
6 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 6 (20.00%) SOLID
7 5 (16.67%) AI
7 5 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) SQL
2 12 (40.00%) C#
3 10 (33.33%) Java
4 9 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (20.00%) Python
6 2 (6.67%) ABAP
6 2 (6.67%) PHP
6 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 3 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Kibana
2 4 (13.33%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 2 (6.67%) IBM
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) SAP
2 2 (6.67%) Splunk
2 2 (6.67%) Xamarin