RESTful
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited RESTful over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 182 175
Rank change year-on-year -19 -7 -89
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 914 1,607 1,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.53% 1.51% 2.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.22% 7.50% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 516 1,148 1,347
10th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £71,991 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,125 £81,625 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,912 21,423 25,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.59% 20.16% 28.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,024 15,871 17,362
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.43% +1.92%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RESTful over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Salary histogram for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the UK over the 6 months to 7 July 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
England -8 833 £65,000 +8.33% 603
UK excluding London -62 513 £62,500 +4.17% 439
Work from Home -7 462 £64,000 +6.67% 412
London +79 356 £70,000 +7.69% 245
North of England -65 178 £62,500 +4.17% 160
North West -9 149 £60,000 +4.35% 92
South East -3 110 £55,500 -7.50% 97
Midlands -3 61 £63,250 +15.00% 42
Scotland -6 59 £70,000 +3.70% 27
South West +45 53 £68,525 +12.80% 46
East of England +7 49 £76,000 +32.17% 35
West Midlands +7 42 £65,000 +13.04% 21
Yorkshire -74 24 £68,000 +23.64% 60
East Midlands +14 19 £47,500 -9.52% 21
Northern Ireland +34 6 £55,000 - 18
Wales -9 5 £65,000 +30.00% 17
North East -23 5 £50,000 -28.57% 11

RESTful
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 19 (2.08%) Confluence
2 13 (1.42%) JBoss
3 12 (1.31%) Red Hat Fuse
4 10 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.09%) IIS
5 8 (0.88%) Headless CMS
5 8 (0.88%) nginx
5 8 (0.88%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.77%) CMS
7 6 (0.66%) Apache
8 4 (0.44%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.33%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.33%) OpenEdge
9 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.22%) CICS
10 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.22%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.11%) MetaMask
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Shopify
2 4 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.11%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 526 (57.55%) AWS
2 324 (35.45%) Azure
3 181 (19.80%) Serverless
4 149 (16.30%) AWS Lambda
5 98 (10.72%) GCP
6 71 (7.77%) GitHub
7 59 (6.46%) Amazon S3
8 55 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (5.58%) Amazon SQS
10 49 (5.36%) SaaS
11 42 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
12 41 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (2.63%) Apigee
14 24 (2.63%) Power Platform
15 22 (2.41%) Boomi
16 21 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
17 20 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
18 18 (1.97%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 85 (9.30%) SSL
2 83 (9.08%) SSH
3 82 (8.97%) Broadband
4 10 (1.09%) HTTP
5 8 (0.88%) Internet
6 5 (0.55%) Firewall
6 5 (0.55%) Network Security
7 4 (0.44%) LoRaWAN
7 4 (0.44%) MQTT
7 4 (0.44%) SMS
7 4 (0.44%) VPN
8 3 (0.33%) 3GPP
8 3 (0.33%) 5G
8 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.22%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.11%) 4G
10 1 (0.11%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (0.11%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (20.24%) SQL Server
2 118 (12.91%) PostgreSQL
3 107 (11.71%) NoSQL
4 74 (8.10%) Relational Database
5 67 (7.33%) MySQL
6 63 (6.89%) MongoDB
7 49 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
8 45 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
9 42 (4.60%) DynamoDB
10 25 (2.74%) Big Data
11 22 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 20 (2.19%) Redis
13 19 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
14 17 (1.86%) Power BI
15 14 (1.53%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.09%) Cloud Spanner
17 9 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
18 8 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
18 8 (0.88%) Data Lake
18 8 (0.88%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 220 (24.07%) Git
2 141 (15.43%) Maven
3 140 (15.32%) JIRA
4 127 (13.89%) GitLab
4 127 (13.89%) SonarQube
5 112 (12.25%) Cucumber
5 112 (12.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 106 (11.60%) Selenium
7 103 (11.27%) Bitbucket
8 95 (10.39%) Jenkins
9 59 (6.46%) JUnit
10 30 (3.28%) Cypress.io
11 27 (2.95%) Mockito
12 24 (2.63%) webpack
13 20 (2.19%) Postman
14 18 (1.97%) CircleCI
15 16 (1.75%) NUnit
15 16 (1.75%) TeamCity
16 12 (1.31%) IntelliJ
16 12 (1.31%) jMock
General
1 336 (36.76%) Finance
2 261 (28.56%) Social Skills
3 236 (25.82%) Banking
4 191 (20.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (12.80%) Law
6 113 (12.36%) Retail
7 106 (11.60%) Investment Banking
8 90 (9.85%) Corporate Banking
9 78 (8.53%) Public Sector
10 69 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
11 44 (4.81%) Marketing
12 19 (2.08%) Health Technology
13 18 (1.97%) Publishing
13 18 (1.97%) Tech for Good
14 17 (1.86%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.75%) Games
16 15 (1.64%) Financial Institution
16 15 (1.64%) Legal
17 13 (1.42%) Retail Banking
18 11 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 406 (44.42%) Developer
2 252 (27.57%) Software Engineer
3 199 (21.77%) Senior
4 148 (16.19%) Lead
5 116 (12.69%) Senior Developer
6 94 (10.28%) Full-Stack Developer
7 93 (10.18%) DevOps Engineer
8 82 (8.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 66 (7.22%) Java Developer
10 61 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
11 60 (6.56%) .NET Developer
12 55 (6.02%) Java Engineer
13 50 (5.47%) Lead Software Engineer
14 41 (4.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 34 (3.72%) C# Developer
16 32 (3.50%) Lead Java Engineer
17 31 (3.39%) Lead Developer
18 30 (3.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 30 (3.28%) Java Software Engineer
19 28 (3.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (36.43%) React
2 249 (27.24%) HTML
3 244 (26.70%) CSS
4 236 (25.82%) Spring Boot
5 234 (25.60%) Spring
6 193 (21.12%) Kafka
7 187 (20.46%) .NET
8 184 (20.13%) Web Services
9 163 (17.83%) HTML5
10 158 (17.29%) REST
11 144 (15.75%) AngularJS
12 138 (15.10%) CSS3
12 138 (15.10%) Jest
13 114 (12.47%) Redux
14 111 (12.14%) JPA
15 99 (10.83%) Sass
16 82 (8.97%) Node.js
17 78 (8.53%) .NET Core
18 70 (7.66%) GraphQL
19 63 (6.89%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 142 (15.54%) Cloud Native
2 125 (13.68%) Product Ownership
3 117 (12.80%) Onboarding
4 107 (11.71%) Enterprise Software
5 106 (11.60%) Management Information System
6 84 (9.19%) PKI
7 82 (8.97%) Cyber Threat
7 82 (8.97%) Cyberattack
8 67 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
9 55 (6.02%) Mobile App
10 34 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
11 33 (3.61%) Public Cloud
12 29 (3.17%) Distributed Applications
13 23 (2.52%) Virtual Team
14 18 (1.97%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
16 12 (1.31%) Client/Server
16 12 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
17 10 (1.09%) IoT
17 10 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.94%) Linux
2 30 (3.28%) Android
3 22 (2.41%) Apple iOS
4 14 (1.53%) Unix
5 2 (0.22%) Debian
5 2 (0.22%) zOS
6 1 (0.11%) CentOS
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (49.12%) Agile
2 439 (48.03%) CI/CD
3 417 (45.62%) Microservices
4 389 (42.56%) DevOps
5 304 (33.26%) Software Engineering
6 275 (30.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 238 (26.04%) Containerisation
8 225 (24.62%) Test Automation
9 211 (23.09%) Problem-Solving
10 210 (22.98%) User Experience
11 182 (19.91%) SDLC
12 168 (18.38%) Mentoring
13 166 (18.16%) Front End Development
14 135 (14.77%) Migration
15 130 (14.22%) Performance Optimisation
16 119 (13.02%) Scrum
17 114 (12.47%) Responsive Web Design
17 114 (12.47%) TDD
18 112 (12.25%) Roadmaps
19 107 (11.71%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 358 (39.17%) Java
2 354 (38.73%) JavaScript
3 310 (33.92%) SQL
4 235 (25.71%) TypeScript
5 225 (24.62%) Python
6 206 (22.54%) C#
7 49 (5.36%) Go
8 45 (4.92%) PHP
9 35 (3.83%) Kotlin
10 14 (1.53%) Bash
10 14 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.53%) Ruby
11 11 (1.20%) Swift
12 9 (0.98%) Lua
13 8 (0.88%) Dart
13 8 (0.88%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.77%) Scala
15 5 (0.55%) Objective-C
16 4 (0.44%) Groovy
16 4 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (9.08%) Security Cleared
2 63 (6.89%) Degree
3 54 (5.91%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.31%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (0.66%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.55%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.55%) CISSP
9 5 (0.55%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.33%) CCSP
10 3 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.33%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (16.41%) QA
2 119 (13.02%) Accessibility
3 91 (9.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (9.30%) NIST
5 12 (1.31%) GDPR
5 12 (1.31%) SLA
6 6 (0.66%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.11%) GRC
9 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 325 (35.56%) Docker
2 82 (8.97%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.44%) Postfix
4 2 (0.22%) Squid
5 1 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 304 (33.26%) Kubernetes
2 150 (16.41%) Terraform
3 25 (2.74%) Prometheus
4 24 (2.63%) Ansible
5 21 (2.30%) Grafana
6 11 (1.20%) Istio
7 10 (1.09%) Argo
8 8 (0.88%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.88%) Packer
9 6 (0.66%) Mesos
10 4 (0.44%) Kibana
10 4 (0.44%) Netcool
10 4 (0.44%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 4 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.44%) Puppet
10 4 (0.44%) Tivoli
11 2 (0.22%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.11%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (9.85%) Solace
2 82 (8.97%) Thales
3 78 (8.53%) Microsoft
4 35 (3.83%) Google
5 26 (2.84%) Oracle
6 25 (2.74%) MuleSoft
7 21 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.53%) Informatica
10 12 (1.31%) IBM
11 11 (1.20%) Atlassian
12 10 (1.09%) Databricks
12 10 (1.09%) Rollbar
13 9 (0.98%) Apple
13 9 (0.98%) MKS
13 9 (0.98%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.88%) Guidewire
14 8 (0.88%) Splunk
15 7 (0.77%) Bloomberg
16 6 (0.66%) Dell