REST Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 170 149
Rank change year-on-year -39 -21 -32
Permanent jobs citing REST 533 563 1,296
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 1.96% 1.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.40% 11.44% 9.43%
Number of salaries quoted 329 329 793
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,126 4,920 13,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.83% 17.12% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,024 3,468 10,303
10th Percentile £33,975 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

REST job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

REST
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
North of England -45 153 £65,000 +8.33% 65
South East -39 146 £65,000 - 70
Scotland +50 90 £50,000 -13.04% 16
North West -36 84 £65,000 +8.33% 38
South West -3 71 £55,000 -4.25% 26
Midlands -38 56 £62,500 -9.09% 47
Yorkshire -45 53 £74,500 +24.17% 17
West Midlands -27 39 £63,750 -13.56% 20
East of England -40 26 £56,250 +18.42% 18
East Midlands -36 17 £57,500 -4.17% 27
North East -26 16 £55,000 - 10
Wales -30 5 £45,000 -35.71% 3
Isle of Man - 2 £35,000 - 1
Northern Ireland -40 1 £77,500 +40.91% 2
REST
UK

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.06%) CMS
2 11 (2.06%) OpenStack
2 11 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.31%) Confluence
4 6 (1.13%) IIS
4 6 (1.13%) JBoss
4 6 (1.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.94%) Apache
5 5 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.75%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.56%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.56%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.56%) WordPress
8 2 (0.38%) CICS
8 2 (0.38%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.38%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.19%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.88%) Dynamics NAV
2 10 (1.88%) Magento
2 10 (1.88%) Shopify
3 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 235 (44.09%) Azure
2 174 (32.65%) AWS
3 80 (15.01%) Serverless
4 67 (12.57%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (9.94%) SaaS
6 49 (9.19%) GitHub
7 39 (7.32%) Entra ID
8 38 (7.13%) Power Platform
9 36 (6.75%) Google Workspace
10 33 (6.19%) GCP
11 30 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
11 30 (5.63%) Dynamics 365
12 28 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (5.07%) Azure Logic Apps
14 24 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (4.13%) Amazon S3
16 21 (3.94%) Azure Functions
17 20 (3.75%) Boomi
17 20 (3.75%) Power Automate
18 16 (3.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 75 (14.07%) Broadband
2 13 (2.44%) Firewall
3 8 (1.50%) BGP
3 8 (1.50%) HTTP
3 8 (1.50%) LAN
3 8 (1.50%) MPLS
3 8 (1.50%) OSPF
3 8 (1.50%) SD-WAN
3 8 (1.50%) VPN
3 8 (1.50%) VXLAN
3 8 (1.50%) WAN
3 8 (1.50%) Wireless
4 6 (1.13%) SSL
5 5 (0.94%) AMQP
5 5 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (0.94%) Internet
5 5 (0.94%) MQTT
5 5 (0.94%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.75%) SMTP
7 3 (0.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (12.01%) SQL Server
2 49 (9.19%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (8.26%) Relational Database
4 31 (5.82%) Power BI
5 29 (5.44%) MySQL
5 29 (5.44%) NoSQL
6 22 (4.13%) MongoDB
7 16 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.88%) RDBMS
10 9 (1.69%) Spark SQL
10 9 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.94%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.94%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.94%) Redis
14 4 (0.75%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 100 (18.76%) Git
2 74 (13.88%) Jenkins
3 56 (10.51%) GitLab
4 49 (9.19%) JIRA
5 43 (8.07%) SonarQube
6 22 (4.13%) JUnit
7 15 (2.81%) Mockito
8 14 (2.63%) Maven
9 9 (1.69%) Postman
10 8 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.50%) Selenium
11 7 (1.31%) Gradle
11 7 (1.31%) SpecFlow
12 6 (1.13%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.13%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.94%) JMeter
13 5 (0.94%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.75%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.56%) NUnit
15 3 (0.56%) Xcode
General
1 162 (30.39%) Social Skills
2 73 (13.70%) Games
3 72 (13.51%) Finance
4 64 (12.01%) Marketing
5 57 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (9.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (6.19%) Public Sector
9 24 (4.50%) Retail
10 13 (2.44%) Law
11 12 (2.25%) Banking
12 11 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.88%) Back Office
14 8 (1.50%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.94%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.75%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.75%) Legal
17 3 (0.56%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 216 (40.53%) Developer
2 133 (24.95%) Senior
3 70 (13.13%) Senior Developer
4 68 (12.76%) Software Engineer
5 61 (11.44%) Architect
6 50 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
7 41 (7.69%) Java Developer
8 33 (6.19%) Salesforce Architect
9 32 (6.00%) Lead
10 27 (5.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 26 (4.88%) Software Developer
12 25 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
13 24 (4.50%) Analyst
14 23 (4.32%) Java Engineer
15 19 (3.56%) .NET Developer
15 19 (3.56%) Technical Architect
16 18 (3.38%) Salesforce Technical Architect
17 15 (2.81%) Azure Engineer
17 15 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
18 14 (2.63%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (34.33%) SOAP
2 126 (23.64%) React
3 98 (18.39%) .NET
4 74 (13.88%) Node.js
5 69 (12.95%) Spring
6 66 (12.38%) AngularJS
7 64 (12.01%) JSON
7 64 (12.01%) Spring Boot
8 63 (11.82%) Middleware
9 62 (11.63%) GraphQL
9 62 (11.63%) OAuth
10 59 (11.07%) Lightning Web Components
11 49 (9.19%) XML
12 45 (8.44%) Visualforce
13 44 (8.26%) SAML
14 42 (7.88%) CSS
15 40 (7.50%) Web Services
16 39 (7.32%) HTML
16 39 (7.32%) OpenID
17 38 (7.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 87 (16.32%) Product Ownership
2 37 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (6.75%) Cyber Threat
3 36 (6.75%) Cyberattack
4 30 (5.63%) Cloud Native
5 24 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (4.13%) Mobile App
7 16 (3.00%) Low-Code
7 16 (3.00%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
8 13 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.50%) IoT
10 7 (1.31%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.13%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.94%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (0.94%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 41 (7.69%) Linux
2 10 (1.88%) Android
3 9 (1.69%) Unix
4 7 (1.31%) Ubuntu
4 7 (1.31%) Windows
5 6 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.75%) CentOS
6 4 (0.75%) Debian
6 4 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (42.78%) CI/CD
2 222 (41.65%) Agile
3 175 (32.83%) DevOps
4 119 (22.33%) Software Engineering
5 111 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 109 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (19.89%) Full-Stack Development
8 105 (19.70%) Microservices
9 102 (19.14%) Scrum
10 95 (17.82%) Mentoring
11 93 (17.45%) Test Automation
12 92 (17.26%) Roadmaps
13 79 (14.82%) Data Modelling
14 75 (14.07%) AI
15 72 (13.51%) Event-Driven
16 68 (12.76%) TDD
17 67 (12.57%) Containerisation
18 60 (11.26%) Design Patterns
19 56 (10.51%) Infrastructure as Code
20 54 (10.13%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 165 (30.96%) SQL
2 147 (27.58%) JavaScript
3 122 (22.89%) Java
4 116 (21.76%) Python
5 97 (18.20%) C#
6 86 (16.14%) TypeScript
7 61 (11.44%) Apex Code
8 49 (9.19%) T-SQL
9 45 (8.44%) Bash
10 43 (8.07%) PowerShell
11 37 (6.94%) SOQL
12 36 (6.75%) SOSL
13 17 (3.19%) PL/SQL
14 11 (2.06%) C
14 11 (2.06%) PHP
15 10 (1.88%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.69%) Go
17 8 (1.50%) C++
18 6 (1.13%) R
19 5 (0.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 63 (11.82%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.38%) Degree
3 48 (9.01%) SC Cleared
4 37 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.50%) CCNP
6 8 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.56%) PhD
8 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.19%) MBA
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (11.44%) QA
2 36 (6.75%) NCSC
2 36 (6.75%) NIST
3 17 (3.19%) TickIT
4 13 (2.44%) GDPR
5 11 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.69%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.94%) PMO
8 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.56%) SLA
9 2 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.38%) GxP
9 2 (0.38%) HL7
9 2 (0.38%) WCAG
10 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 101 (18.95%) Docker
2 40 (7.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.56%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 86 (16.14%) Kubernetes
2 49 (9.19%) Terraform
3 31 (5.82%) Ansible
4 12 (2.25%) Kibana
5 8 (1.50%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.31%) Puppet
7 6 (1.13%) Grafana
8 4 (0.75%) Control-M
8 4 (0.75%) Packer
9 3 (0.56%) Argo
9 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.38%) MIIS
10 2 (0.38%) Nagios
10 2 (0.38%) Podman
11 1 (0.19%) MOM
11 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 69 (12.95%) Salesforce
2 66 (12.38%) Microsoft
3 45 (8.44%) Splunk
4 34 (6.38%) Oracle
5 23 (4.32%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.00%) MuleSoft
7 13 (2.44%) Cisco
8 11 (2.06%) Databricks
8 11 (2.06%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.88%) Google
9 10 (1.88%) IBM
9 10 (1.88%) Pega
9 10 (1.88%) WooCommerce
10 9 (1.69%) ConnectWise
10 9 (1.69%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.50%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.50%) Meraki
11 8 (1.50%) SAP
12 5 (0.94%) CyberArk
12 5 (0.94%) Juniper