REST Jobs in the UK excluding London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 123 115
Rank change year-on-year -31 -8 -28
Permanent jobs citing REST 1,337 1,751 2,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.90% 2.86% 2.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.34% 10.41% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 803 878 1,280
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,242
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.60% +2.88% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,313 16,819 23,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.33% 27.43% 32.57%
Number of salaries quoted 10,279 9,314 14,585
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +20 327 £55,173 -11.72% 69
South East -40 326 £57,500 - 54
North West +64 238 £60,000 -14.29% 39
Midlands -7 223 £52,500 -12.50% 21
Scotland -48 175 £56,318 -6.14% 13
South West -52 150 £52,500 -10.64% 21
East Midlands +6 132 £50,000 -4.76% 7
West Midlands -37 91 £52,500 -12.50% 14
East of England -26 80 £47,500 -20.83% 30
Yorkshire -6 74 £47,500 -17.39% 27
Wales -9 39 £52,500 -12.50% 3
Northern Ireland -28 18 £85,000 +88.89% 8
North East -34 15 £47,500 -20.83% 3
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 92 (6.88%) IIS
2 66 (4.94%) Apache
3 41 (3.07%) Apache Spark
4 35 (2.62%) OpenStack
5 34 (2.54%) Red Hat Fuse
6 33 (2.47%) JBoss
7 21 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
7 21 (1.57%) GemFire
8 17 (1.27%) Cloud Foundry
9 16 (1.20%) CMS
10 14 (1.05%) SharePoint
11 8 (0.60%) WordPress
12 6 (0.45%) Confluence
13 4 (0.30%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.22%) nginx
14 3 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
14 3 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
14 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
15 2 (0.15%) Liferay
15 2 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.67%) Trello
3 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 16 (1.20%) Shopify
2 14 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.75%) Maximo
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.075%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.075%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 590 (44.13%) Azure
2 321 (24.01%) AWS
3 234 (17.50%) IBM Cloud
4 222 (16.60%) Serverless
5 205 (15.33%) Azure DevOps
6 127 (9.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 119 (8.90%) Azure Functions
8 118 (8.83%) Azure API Management
9 117 (8.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 90 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
11 72 (5.39%) GCP
12 62 (4.64%) GitHub
13 51 (3.81%) Power Platform
14 50 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
15 47 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
16 43 (3.22%) SaaS
17 27 (2.02%) OpenShift
18 25 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
19 24 (1.80%) Power Automate
20 18 (1.35%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 57 (4.26%) Firewall
2 46 (3.44%) DNS
3 44 (3.29%) TCP/IP
4 27 (2.02%) HTTP
5 26 (1.94%) AMQP
6 25 (1.87%) WAN
7 19 (1.42%) SSL
8 17 (1.27%) Kerberos
8 17 (1.27%) MQTT
9 13 (0.97%) SNMP
9 13 (0.97%) SSH
10 12 (0.90%) 3G
10 12 (0.90%) 4G
10 12 (0.90%) RS-485
10 12 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.90%) Wireless
11 10 (0.75%) Internet
12 3 (0.22%) DMZ
12 3 (0.22%) VLAN
12 3 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (28.50%) PostgreSQL
2 325 (24.31%) NoSQL
3 278 (20.79%) MongoDB
4 231 (17.28%) DB2
5 225 (16.83%) Relational Database
5 225 (16.83%) SQL Server
6 89 (6.66%) MySQL
7 42 (3.14%) Hadoop
8 38 (2.84%) CockroachDB
9 32 (2.39%) Big Data
10 28 (2.09%) Power BI
11 25 (1.87%) Cloudera CDH
12 24 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
13 23 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
14 22 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
15 21 (1.57%) Hazelcast
16 19 (1.42%) GIS
16 19 (1.42%) Redis
17 16 (1.20%) Apache Hive
17 16 (1.20%) HBase
Development Applications
1 301 (22.51%) Git
2 139 (10.40%) Jenkins
3 76 (5.68%) JIRA
4 55 (4.11%) JUnit
5 49 (3.66%) IntelliJ
6 39 (2.92%) GitLab
7 37 (2.77%) Postman
7 37 (2.77%) Selenium
8 33 (2.47%) Eclipse
9 32 (2.39%) Jasmine
10 31 (2.32%) Maven
11 30 (2.24%) Team Foundation Server
12 28 (2.09%) Karma Test Runner
12 28 (2.09%) Visual Studio
13 26 (1.94%) Cucumber
13 26 (1.94%) Octopus Deploy
14 21 (1.57%) Jaeger
15 20 (1.50%) Bitbucket
16 19 (1.42%) Mockito
16 19 (1.42%) TeamCity
General
1 305 (22.81%) Public Sector
2 284 (21.24%) Finance
3 223 (16.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 202 (15.11%) Social Skills
5 128 (9.57%) Law
6 67 (5.01%) Marketing
7 64 (4.79%) Banking
8 49 (3.66%) Retail
9 45 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
10 34 (2.54%) Investment Banking
11 29 (2.17%) Legal
12 25 (1.87%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.80%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.65%) Games
15 14 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.97%) Telecoms
17 12 (0.90%) Mandarin Language
18 10 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
19 6 (0.45%) Private Banking
20 5 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 747 (55.87%) Developer
2 243 (18.18%) Senior
3 211 (15.78%) Software Engineer
4 160 (11.97%) Full Stack Developer
5 147 (10.99%) Full Stack Engineer
6 140 (10.47%) Lead
7 132 (9.87%) Senior Developer
8 123 (9.20%) Java Developer
9 122 (9.12%) Java Engineer
10 119 (8.90%) Azure Developer
11 110 (8.23%) Azure Engineer
12 103 (7.70%) Java Software Engineer
13 92 (6.88%) .NET Developer
14 76 (5.68%) Software Developer
15 61 (4.56%) C# Developer
16 60 (4.49%) Lead Developer
17 51 (3.81%) Senior Java Engineer
17 51 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
18 49 (3.66%) PHP Developer
19 42 (3.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 531 (39.72%) .NET
2 528 (39.49%) Web Services
3 481 (35.98%) AngularJS
4 474 (35.45%) HTML
5 463 (34.63%) CSS
6 452 (33.81%) React
7 339 (25.36%) ASP.NET
8 309 (23.11%) Vue
9 296 (22.14%) jQuery
10 278 (20.79%) Spring
11 276 (20.64%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 247 (18.47%) Node.js
12 247 (18.47%) SOAP
13 240 (17.95%) ASP.NET Core
14 234 (17.50%) JSON
15 228 (17.05%) Backbone.js
15 228 (17.05%) Ember.js
16 201 (15.03%) XML
17 184 (13.76%) Spring Boot
18 119 (8.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 260 (19.45%) Algorithms
2 236 (17.65%) Data Structures
3 230 (17.20%) Blockchain
3 230 (17.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 114 (8.53%) e-Learning
5 78 (5.83%) Cloud Native
6 64 (4.79%) Enterprise Software
7 57 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
8 50 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
9 46 (3.44%) Management Information System
10 35 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
11 32 (2.39%) Public Cloud
12 30 (2.24%) Clustering
13 27 (2.02%) Product Ownership
14 26 (1.94%) Replication
15 21 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 20 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (1.05%) CMDB
18 12 (0.90%) Mobile App
19 11 (0.82%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 378 (28.27%) Linux
2 303 (22.66%) Windows
3 263 (19.67%) Android
4 247 (18.47%) Apple iOS
5 34 (2.54%) Ubuntu
6 32 (2.39%) Unix
7 25 (1.87%) AIX
7 25 (1.87%) CentOS
7 25 (1.87%) Debian
7 25 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (1.27%) Embedded Linux
9 11 (0.82%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.22%) VMS
10 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 708 (52.95%) Agile
2 386 (28.87%) MVC
3 380 (28.42%) Full Stack Development
4 341 (25.50%) OO
5 337 (25.21%) User Experience
6 334 (24.98%) Design Patterns
7 332 (24.83%) DevOps
8 329 (24.61%) Web Development
9 310 (23.19%) OOP
10 295 (22.06%) Software Engineering
11 291 (21.77%) SOLID
12 289 (21.62%) Artificial Intelligence
13 278 (20.79%) Microservices
14 253 (18.92%) MVVM
15 249 (18.62%) CI/CD
16 247 (18.47%) Mentoring
17 232 (17.35%) Responsive Web Design
18 228 (17.05%) Co-Creation
18 228 (17.05%) Design Thinking
19 219 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 705 (52.73%) SQL
2 657 (49.14%) JavaScript
3 553 (41.36%) Java
4 506 (37.85%) C#
5 291 (21.77%) Python
6 170 (12.72%) TypeScript
7 78 (5.83%) PHP
8 69 (5.16%) T-SQL
9 64 (4.79%) VB.NET
10 51 (3.81%) C++
10 51 (3.81%) VB
11 46 (3.44%) Go
12 45 (3.37%) C
13 31 (2.32%) PowerShell
14 30 (2.24%) Apex Code
15 28 (2.09%) VB6
16 27 (2.02%) Groovy
17 21 (1.57%) Kotlin
17 21 (1.57%) XAML
18 18 (1.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 146 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 85 (6.36%) Degree
4 37 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.47%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 11 (0.82%) ISEB
7 11 (0.82%) ISTQB
7 11 (0.82%) PhD
8 10 (0.75%) AWS Certification
9 8 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.45%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.22%) MCPD
13 2 (0.15%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.075%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (6.51%) QA
2 33 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.20%) GDPR
4 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.22%) NIST
5 1 (0.075%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.075%) GRC
5 1 (0.075%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.075%) NCSC
System Software
1 248 (18.55%) Docker
2 27 (2.02%) Hyper-V
3 25 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
5 16 (1.20%) HDFS
6 12 (0.90%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.37%) Firmware
8 4 (0.30%) Active Directory
8 4 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.22%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 200 (14.96%) Kubernetes
2 95 (7.11%) Terraform
3 74 (5.53%) Ansible
4 40 (2.99%) Grafana
5 29 (2.17%) Puppet
6 26 (1.94%) Kibana
7 22 (1.65%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.57%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.57%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.57%) Zipkin
9 13 (0.97%) WMI
10 6 (0.45%) Rancher
11 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.15%) cPanel
12 2 (0.15%) Packer
13 1 (0.075%) Consul
13 1 (0.075%) Istio
13 1 (0.075%) Podman
13 1 (0.075%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 256 (19.15%) Red Hat
2 245 (18.32%) IBM
3 201 (15.03%) Microsoft
4 96 (7.18%) Google
5 85 (6.36%) Oracle
6 59 (4.41%) Splunk
7 42 (3.14%) Dynatrace
8 39 (2.92%) Salesforce
9 35 (2.62%) WSO2
10 29 (2.17%) VMware
11 25 (1.87%) SaltStack
12 19 (1.42%) Databricks
13 16 (1.20%) Cloudera
14 13 (0.97%) CheckPoint
15 9 (0.67%) ServiceNow
16 6 (0.45%) Adobe
16 6 (0.45%) Guidewire
17 4 (0.30%) Atlassian
17 4 (0.30%) ForgeRock
17 4 (0.30%) WooCommerce