RESTful Job Trends

RESTful
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring RESTful skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 173 158
Rank change year-on-year -64 -15 +8
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 556 897 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.67% 1.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.82% 7.75% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 412 506 881
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -9.30%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £90,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -4.17%

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 7,112 11,568 13,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.58% 24.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,285 6,811 11,185
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in the UK

RESTful
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RESTful.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing RESTful

RESTful
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RESTful over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for RESTful in the UK

RESTful
Top 16 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 15 January 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
England -63 457 £70,000 +7.69% 410
Work from Home -23 268 £70,000 +9.80% 281
UK excluding London -74 264 £60,000 +4.35% 377
London -22 239 £77,500 +2.65% 81
North of England -24 90 £63,750 +15.91% 95
Scotland +17 60 £68,750 +5.77% 16
South East -57 47 £60,000 +9.09% 110
North West +9 45 £60,000 +4.35% 46
Yorkshire -28 37 £65,000 +31.31% 39
South West -22 36 £52,500 -19.23% 47
Midlands -36 19 £60,000 -7.69% 34
West Midlands -17 10 £63,750 -1.92% 16
East Midlands -32 9 £49,500 -17.50% 17
North East +2 8 £67,500 +28.57% 10
Wales -18 8 £41,500 -36.15% 22
East of England -1 4 £60,000 -5.88% 53

RESTful
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 17 (3.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 16 (2.88%) Apache
2 16 (2.88%) Confluence
3 11 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.62%) Anypoint
4 9 (1.62%) Appian
5 5 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (0.90%) CMS
6 2 (0.36%) ColdFusion
6 2 (0.36%) Drupal
6 2 (0.36%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.36%) IIS
6 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.18%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) WildFly
Applications
1 9 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (1.62%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.36%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 37 (6.65%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.90%) Shopify
3 3 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.54%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 267 (48.02%) Azure
2 242 (43.53%) AWS
3 118 (21.22%) Azure DevOps
4 116 (20.86%) GitHub
5 94 (16.91%) Serverless
6 78 (14.03%) GCP
7 64 (11.51%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (8.81%) SaaS
10 47 (8.45%) Amazon S3
10 47 (8.45%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (6.65%) OCI
12 35 (6.29%) Entra ID
12 35 (6.29%) Power Platform
13 31 (5.58%) Azure Service Bus
14 25 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (3.96%) PaaS
15 22 (3.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.08%) HTTP
2 4 (0.72%) Firewall
3 3 (0.54%) BGP
3 3 (0.54%) Intranet
3 3 (0.54%) Network Security
3 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.54%) VLAN
3 3 (0.54%) VPN
4 1 (0.18%) DNS
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (16.73%) SQL Server
2 89 (16.01%) NoSQL
3 70 (12.59%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (7.73%) MongoDB
5 42 (7.55%) DynamoDB
6 30 (5.40%) MySQL
7 26 (4.68%) Relational Database
8 24 (4.32%) Power BI
9 22 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 18 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (3.06%) Tableau
13 14 (2.52%) DB2
14 9 (1.62%) Pinecone
15 7 (1.26%) BigQuery
15 7 (1.26%) Redis
16 5 (0.90%) NonStop SQL
17 4 (0.72%) MariaDB
18 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 2 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 123 (22.12%) Git
2 82 (14.75%) Jenkins
3 50 (8.99%) JIRA
4 37 (6.65%) Oracle Forms
5 23 (4.14%) Postman
6 21 (3.78%) Selenium
7 18 (3.24%) Cypress.io
8 17 (3.06%) Cucumber
9 16 (2.88%) GitLab
10 14 (2.52%) Bitbucket
10 14 (2.52%) TeamCity
11 13 (2.34%) JUnit
12 10 (1.80%) Visual Studio
13 9 (1.62%) MLflow
14 8 (1.44%) JMeter
14 8 (1.44%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (1.44%) webpack
14 8 (1.44%) Xcode
15 7 (1.26%) Mockito
16 5 (0.90%) CircleCI
General
1 183 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 166 (29.86%) Finance
3 33 (5.94%) Banking
4 32 (5.76%) Retail
5 31 (5.58%) Law
6 30 (5.40%) Health Technology
7 28 (5.04%) Publishing
7 28 (5.04%) Tech for Good
7 28 (5.04%) Telecoms
8 26 (4.68%) Public Sector
9 19 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
11 16 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (2.34%) Games
13 12 (2.16%) Marketing
14 11 (1.98%) Billing
14 11 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.98%) Legal
15 7 (1.26%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.08%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 311 (55.94%) Developer
2 151 (27.16%) Senior
3 65 (11.69%) Software Developer
4 64 (11.51%) .NET Developer
5 61 (10.97%) Lead
6 60 (10.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 60 (10.79%) Software Engineer
7 58 (10.43%) Senior Developer
8 43 (7.73%) Applications Engineer
8 43 (7.73%) Python Developer
9 41 (7.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 41 (7.37%) Lead Developer
9 41 (7.37%) React Developer
10 33 (5.94%) AWS Developer
10 33 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 31 (5.58%) Java Developer
12 26 (4.68%) Integration Engineer
13 22 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 21 (3.78%) Azure Developer
14 21 (3.78%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (29.86%) React
2 142 (25.54%) .NET
3 101 (18.17%) HTML
4 95 (17.09%) CSS
5 77 (13.85%) Node.js
6 69 (12.41%) .NET Core
7 64 (11.51%) Kafka
8 63 (11.33%) OAuth
9 59 (10.61%) AngularJS
9 59 (10.61%) REST
10 55 (9.89%) Spring
11 48 (8.63%) ASP.NET
12 47 (8.45%) HTML5
13 46 (8.27%) JSON
13 46 (8.27%) Spring Boot
14 44 (7.91%) OAuth2
15 43 (7.73%) Swagger
16 40 (7.19%) .NET Framework
17 37 (6.65%) CSS3
18 36 (6.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 125 (22.48%) Cloud Native
2 52 (9.35%) Enterprise Software
3 42 (7.55%) Mobile App
4 37 (6.65%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (4.86%) Greenfield Project
6 27 (4.86%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.60%) Low-Code
7 20 (3.60%) Onboarding
8 19 (3.42%) Data Structures
9 15 (2.70%) AI Agents
10 11 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
10 11 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.08%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (0.90%) Blockchain
12 5 (0.90%) Legacy Code
12 5 (0.90%) Web3
13 4 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.01%) Android
2 25 (4.50%) Apple iOS
3 12 (2.16%) Linux
4 7 (1.26%) Unix
4 7 (1.26%) Windows
5 4 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (59.17%) CI/CD
2 296 (53.24%) Agile
3 247 (44.42%) Microservices
4 234 (42.09%) DevOps
5 146 (26.26%) Full-Stack Development
6 131 (23.56%) Test Automation
7 130 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
8 127 (22.84%) Containerisation
9 114 (20.50%) Software Engineering
10 110 (19.78%) Mentoring
11 109 (19.60%) Scrum
12 107 (19.24%) AI
13 105 (18.88%) API Integration
14 99 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 90 (16.19%) Code Quality
16 89 (16.01%) User Experience
17 88 (15.83%) Event-Driven
18 83 (14.93%) Coaching
19 75 (13.49%) Clean Code
20 71 (12.77%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 196 (35.25%) SQL
2 182 (32.73%) Python
3 177 (31.83%) Java
4 136 (24.46%) JavaScript
5 120 (21.58%) TypeScript
6 117 (21.04%) C#
7 46 (8.27%) Shell Script
8 40 (7.19%) PL/SQL
9 38 (6.83%) Go
10 23 (4.14%) Kotlin
11 22 (3.96%) Swift
12 21 (3.78%) C++
13 20 (3.60%) PHP
14 17 (3.06%) Bicep
15 10 (1.80%) C
16 7 (1.26%) VB.NET
17 6 (1.08%) Bash
18 4 (0.72%) DataWeave
19 3 (0.54%) RPG
19 3 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 67 (12.05%) Degree
2 58 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (5.58%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.60%) Master's Degree
5 15 (2.70%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.34%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.98%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.90%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.72%) MCP
11 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) OCA
13 1 (0.18%) OCP
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (14.75%) QA
2 41 (7.37%) Accessibility
3 35 (6.29%) GDPR
4 13 (2.34%) WCAG
5 12 (2.16%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.90%) PERC
8 4 (0.72%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.36%) PSD2
10 1 (0.18%) DICOM
10 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.18%) HL7
10 1 (0.18%) NIST
10 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 149 (26.80%) Docker
2 36 (6.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Squid
Systems Management
1 118 (21.22%) Kubernetes
2 96 (17.27%) Terraform
3 40 (7.19%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (1.62%) Kibana
4 9 (1.62%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.08%) Ansible
6 4 (0.72%) CloudHub
7 3 (0.54%) Grafana
8 2 (0.36%) Rancher
9 1 (0.18%) Argo
9 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.18%) logstash
9 1 (0.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 74 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 47 (8.45%) Oracle
3 22 (3.96%) Okta
4 16 (2.88%) Google
5 15 (2.70%) SAP
6 14 (2.52%) Ab Initio
6 14 (2.52%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.34%) Guidewire
8 10 (1.80%) IBM
8 10 (1.80%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.80%) UiPath
9 9 (1.62%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.62%) Automation Anywhere
10 8 (1.44%) Xamarin
11 6 (1.08%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.08%) Facebook
11 6 (1.08%) Informatica
11 6 (1.08%) Talend
12 5 (0.90%) Epicor
12 5 (0.90%) Nokia