Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 99 71
Rank change year-on-year -50 -28 -5
Permanent jobs citing REST 1,941 3,414 7,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.96% 3.37% 5.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.22% 11.18% 12.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,332 1,995 3,095
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,150
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,891 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 21,062 30,550 63,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.25% 30.15% 40.74%
Number of salaries quoted 15,764 18,827 29,914
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the UK

REST
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for REST in the UK

REST
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for REST in the UK

REST
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -47 1,666 £60,000 -14.29% 314
UK excluding London -36 1,317 £55,000 -8.33% 206
Work from Home -48 748 £60,000 -11.11% 204
London -54 587 £75,000 -6.25% 128
South East -48 326 £57,500 - 44
North of England +26 325 £55,173 -15.12% 67
North West +60 240 £60,000 -14.29% 37
Midlands -17 218 £52,500 -12.50% 17
Scotland -48 169 £56,318 -5.77% 11
South West -43 147 £52,500 -10.64% 20
East Midlands +4 130 £50,000 -2.44% 8
West Midlands -48 88 £52,500 -12.50% 9
East of England -20 78 £47,500 -20.83% 28
Yorkshire -3 71 £47,500 -17.39% 23
Wales -13 40 £52,500 -19.23% 4
Northern Ireland -29 16 £85,000 +88.89% 16
North East -33 14 £47,500 -20.83% 7
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 2

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 117 (6.03%) IIS
2 81 (4.17%) Apache
3 46 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 42 (2.16%) OpenStack
5 39 (2.01%) CMS
6 29 (1.49%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.44%) JBoss
8 25 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
9 23 (1.18%) Confluence
9 23 (1.18%) Red Hat Fuse
10 22 (1.13%) Cloud Foundry
11 21 (1.08%) GemFire
12 13 (0.67%) nginx
13 11 (0.57%) WordPress
14 10 (0.52%) EPiServer
15 6 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
16 5 (0.26%) Drupal
16 5 (0.26%) IBM Notes
17 4 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
17 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.46%) Trello
4 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.77%) Shopify
3 10 (0.52%) Maximo
4 8 (0.41%) Elite 3E
5 7 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.26%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.21%) BusinessWorks
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.10%) Magento
9 2 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.052%) HFM
10 1 (0.052%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.052%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle FAH
10 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.052%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.052%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 792 (40.80%) Azure
2 447 (23.03%) AWS
3 305 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
4 270 (13.91%) Serverless
5 244 (12.57%) IBM Cloud
6 148 (7.62%) Azure Service Bus
7 142 (7.32%) Azure Functions
8 133 (6.85%) SaaS
9 131 (6.75%) Azure API Management
10 130 (6.70%) Azure Logic Apps
11 127 (6.54%) GCP
12 107 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
13 88 (4.53%) Power Platform
14 77 (3.97%) GitHub
15 62 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
16 57 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
17 31 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
18 29 (1.49%) OpenShift
19 28 (1.44%) Power Automate
20 23 (1.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.30%) HTTP
2 60 (3.09%) Firewall
3 54 (2.78%) Internet
4 53 (2.73%) DNS
5 48 (2.47%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.44%) AMQP
7 23 (1.18%) SSL
7 23 (1.18%) WAN
8 18 (0.93%) Kerberos
9 17 (0.88%) MQTT
9 17 (0.88%) SSH
9 17 (0.88%) VPN
10 15 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.77%) Wireless
11 13 (0.67%) SNMP
12 12 (0.62%) 3G
12 12 (0.62%) 4G
12 12 (0.62%) RS-485
13 11 (0.57%) BGP
13 11 (0.57%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 457 (23.54%) PostgreSQL
2 374 (19.27%) NoSQL
3 331 (17.05%) SQL Server
4 319 (16.43%) MongoDB
5 277 (14.27%) Relational Database
6 240 (12.36%) DB2
7 111 (5.72%) MySQL
8 61 (3.14%) Redis
9 50 (2.58%) Power BI
10 44 (2.27%) Hadoop
11 38 (1.96%) CockroachDB
12 35 (1.80%) Big Data
13 32 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
14 31 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 26 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
15 26 (1.34%) Cloudera CDH
15 26 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 23 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
16 23 (1.18%) Oracle Database
17 22 (1.13%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 413 (21.28%) Git
2 236 (12.16%) Jenkins
3 128 (6.59%) JIRA
4 107 (5.51%) Postman
5 101 (5.20%) Selenium
6 96 (4.95%) Cucumber
7 72 (3.71%) Visual Studio
8 62 (3.19%) JUnit
9 53 (2.73%) GitLab
10 44 (2.27%) IntelliJ
11 37 (1.91%) Eclipse
11 37 (1.91%) Jasmine
11 37 (1.91%) Team Foundation Server
12 36 (1.85%) Maven
13 35 (1.80%) Oracle APEX
13 35 (1.80%) TeamCity
14 33 (1.70%) Karma Test Runner
15 29 (1.49%) Bitbucket
16 28 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
17 25 (1.29%) WebDriver
General
1 427 (22.00%) Finance
2 351 (18.08%) Social Skills
3 315 (16.23%) Public Sector
4 241 (12.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 157 (8.09%) Law
6 88 (4.53%) Banking
7 79 (4.07%) Marketing
8 78 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
9 62 (3.19%) Retail
10 50 (2.58%) Legal
11 39 (2.01%) Investment Banking
12 32 (1.65%) Financial Institution
13 28 (1.44%) Aerospace
13 28 (1.44%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.24%) Games
15 20 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (0.67%) Mandarin Language
18 11 (0.57%) Front Office
19 8 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,034 (53.27%) Developer
2 410 (21.12%) Senior
3 256 (13.19%) Software Engineer
4 233 (12.00%) Lead
5 215 (11.08%) Senior Developer
6 210 (10.82%) Full Stack Developer
7 156 (8.04%) Java Developer
8 154 (7.93%) Full Stack Engineer
9 141 (7.26%) .NET Developer
10 134 (6.90%) Azure Developer
11 116 (5.98%) Java Engineer
12 115 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
13 95 (4.89%) Java Software Engineer
14 89 (4.59%) C# Developer
15 83 (4.28%) Software Developer
16 74 (3.81%) Lead Developer
17 67 (3.45%) Architect
18 66 (3.40%) Analyst
18 66 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
19 53 (2.73%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 711 (36.63%) .NET
2 676 (34.83%) Web Services
3 598 (30.81%) HTML
4 569 (29.31%) CSS
5 566 (29.16%) React
6 550 (28.34%) AngularJS
7 427 (22.00%) ASP.NET
8 353 (18.19%) JSON
9 348 (17.93%) SOAP
10 340 (17.52%) jQuery
11 334 (17.21%) Vue
12 301 (15.51%) Spring
12 301 (15.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 284 (14.63%) XML
14 280 (14.43%) Node.js
15 254 (13.09%) ASP.NET Core
16 238 (12.26%) Backbone.js
16 238 (12.26%) Ember.js
17 217 (11.18%) Spring Boot
18 154 (7.93%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 276 (14.22%) Algorithms
2 273 (14.06%) Data Structures
3 244 (12.57%) Blockchain
4 241 (12.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 114 (5.87%) e-Learning
6 93 (4.79%) Cloud Native
7 75 (3.86%) Management Information System
8 71 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
9 69 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
9 69 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
10 66 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
11 59 (3.04%) Product Ownership
12 35 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
12 35 (1.80%) Public Cloud
13 28 (1.44%) Clustering
13 28 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 27 (1.39%) Mobile App
14 27 (1.39%) Replication
15 24 (1.24%) IoT
16 22 (1.13%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 452 (23.29%) Linux
2 340 (17.52%) Windows
3 288 (14.84%) Android
4 266 (13.70%) Apple iOS
5 58 (2.99%) Unix
6 37 (1.91%) CentOS
7 34 (1.75%) Ubuntu
8 31 (1.60%) AIX
9 26 (1.34%) Debian
9 26 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (0.98%) Windows Server
11 17 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.41%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 924 (47.60%) Agile
2 513 (26.43%) DevOps
3 480 (24.73%) Full Stack Development
4 446 (22.98%) MVC
5 423 (21.79%) CI/CD
6 394 (20.30%) Software Engineering
7 393 (20.25%) Design Patterns
8 385 (19.84%) OO
9 379 (19.53%) Microservices
10 374 (19.27%) User Experience
11 359 (18.50%) Web Development
12 329 (16.95%) OOP
12 329 (16.95%) SOLID
13 324 (16.69%) Artificial Intelligence
14 295 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
15 292 (15.04%) Mentoring
16 286 (14.73%) TDD
17 280 (14.43%) Scrum
18 277 (14.27%) MVVM
19 243 (12.52%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 941 (48.48%) SQL
2 846 (43.59%) JavaScript
3 712 (36.68%) Java
4 685 (35.29%) C#
5 430 (22.15%) Python
6 224 (11.54%) TypeScript
7 115 (5.92%) PHP
8 105 (5.41%) T-SQL
9 78 (4.02%) PowerShell
10 77 (3.97%) Go
11 75 (3.86%) VB.NET
12 58 (2.99%) C++
13 52 (2.68%) VB
14 51 (2.63%) Apex Code
15 49 (2.52%) C
16 38 (1.96%) Kotlin
16 38 (1.96%) PL/SQL
17 31 (1.60%) Groovy
18 28 (1.44%) VB6
19 25 (1.29%) XPath
Qualifications
1 181 (9.33%) Security Cleared
2 164 (8.45%) Degree
3 163 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 85 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 26 (1.34%) Azure Certification
7 22 (1.13%) Master's Degree
8 18 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (0.72%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.62%) ISEB
10 12 (0.62%) ISTQB
11 11 (0.57%) PhD
12 9 (0.46%) CISSP
13 8 (0.41%) CISM
14 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.31%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.31%) GIAC
15 6 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.31%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (8.35%) QA
2 57 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.82%) GDPR
4 11 (0.57%) NIST
5 9 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.41%) WCAG
7 6 (0.31%) COBIT
7 6 (0.31%) PMO
7 6 (0.31%) SLA
7 6 (0.31%) Web Application Security Consortium
8 5 (0.26%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.26%) MiFID
9 4 (0.21%) GRC
10 3 (0.15%) ISO 9000
10 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.10%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.052%) EMIR
12 1 (0.052%) ISO 13485
12 1 (0.052%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 334 (17.21%) Docker
2 31 (1.60%) Hyper-V
3 25 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.03%) Active Directory
5 18 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
6 16 (0.82%) HDFS
7 11 (0.57%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.26%) Firmware
10 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.21%) vSphere
11 3 (0.15%) Varnish
11 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.052%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.052%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 306 (15.77%) Kubernetes
2 121 (6.23%) Terraform
3 88 (4.53%) Ansible
4 48 (2.47%) Grafana
5 31 (1.60%) Puppet
6 29 (1.49%) Kibana
7 25 (1.29%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.08%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.08%) Zipkin
9 15 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.67%) WMI
11 10 (0.52%) Nmap
12 6 (0.31%) CloudHub
12 6 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.31%) Packer
12 6 (0.31%) Rancher
13 4 (0.21%) cPanel
14 3 (0.15%) Argo
14 3 (0.15%) Consul
Vendors
1 266 (13.70%) Red Hat
2 260 (13.40%) Microsoft
3 255 (13.14%) IBM
4 144 (7.42%) Oracle
5 136 (7.01%) Google
6 62 (3.19%) Salesforce
7 59 (3.04%) Splunk
8 43 (2.22%) Dynatrace
9 42 (2.16%) WSO2
10 35 (1.80%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.49%) VMware
12 26 (1.34%) SaltStack
13 23 (1.18%) Databricks
14 16 (0.82%) Cloudera
15 14 (0.72%) UiPath
16 13 (0.67%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.67%) MuleSoft
17 12 (0.62%) CheckPoint
18 11 (0.57%) Blue Prism
18 11 (0.57%) Cisco