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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 178 175
Rank change year-on-year -32 -3 -93
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 855 1,669 2,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.54% 1.62% 2.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.00% 7.80% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 513 1,224 1,458
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £45,950
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,438 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -8.05% +8.75%
75th Percentile £87,500 £71,250 £87,189
90th Percentile £112,500 £82,500 £110,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% - +4.55%

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 9,499 21,396 29,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.14% 20.72% 29.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,834 15,919 18,040
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,810
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -20 783 £65,000 +8.33% 3,291
UK excluding London -72 485 £62,500 +8.70% 3,341
Work from Home -24 450 £64,000 +11.30% 2,566
London +75 322 £72,500 +11.54% 352
North of England -73 173 £60,000 +4.35% 748
North West -25 146 £60,000 +4.35% 354
South East +5 109 £52,500 -12.50% 912
Midlands -23 57 £62,500 +13.64% 637
South West +46 52 £68,525 +14.21% 402
Scotland -4 49 £70,000 - 136
East of England +13 41 £85,000 +47.83% 503
West Midlands -19 36 £65,000 +13.04% 338
Yorkshire -51 22 £60,500 +10.00% 309
East Midlands +4 21 £47,500 -9.52% 254
Northern Ireland +38 5 £55,000 - 46
Wales +11 5 £65,000 +30.00% 95
North East -22 5 £50,000 -23.62% 89

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 (2.22%) Confluence
2 15 (1.75%) JBoss
3 14 (1.64%) Red Hat Fuse
4 9 (1.05%) IIS
5 8 (0.94%) nginx
5 8 (0.94%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.58%) CMS
8 4 (0.47%) Apache
9 3 (0.35%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.35%) OpenEdge
9 3 (0.35%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.23%) CICS
10 2 (0.23%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 488 (57.08%) AWS
2 307 (35.91%) Azure
3 175 (20.47%) Serverless
4 142 (16.61%) AWS Lambda
5 85 (9.94%) GCP
6 56 (6.55%) GitHub
7 53 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
7 53 (6.20%) SaaS
8 52 (6.08%) Amazon S3
9 43 (5.03%) Amazon SQS
10 37 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (3.27%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
15 21 (2.46%) Power Platform
16 19 (2.22%) Snowflake
17 18 (2.11%) npm
18 17 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
18 17 (1.99%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 84 (9.82%) SSL
2 83 (9.71%) SSH
3 82 (9.59%) Broadband
4 10 (1.17%) HTTP
5 8 (0.94%) Internet
6 6 (0.70%) Firewall
7 5 (0.58%) MQTT
7 5 (0.58%) Network Security
7 5 (0.58%) SMS
7 5 (0.58%) VPN
8 4 (0.47%) LoRaWAN
9 3 (0.35%) 3GPP
9 3 (0.35%) 5G
9 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.23%) Bluetooth
10 2 (0.23%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.12%) 4G
11 1 (0.12%) Diameter Protocol
11 1 (0.12%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (20.23%) SQL Server
2 121 (14.15%) PostgreSQL
3 103 (12.05%) NoSQL
4 76 (8.89%) MySQL
5 68 (7.95%) MongoDB
6 51 (5.96%) Relational Database
7 47 (5.50%) Amazon RDS
8 46 (5.38%) DynamoDB
8 46 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (2.46%) Big Data
10 20 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
11 19 (2.22%) Redis
12 18 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (1.64%) Power BI
14 10 (1.17%) Cloud Spanner
15 8 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.82%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.82%) NonStop SQL
17 6 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
17 6 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 219 (25.61%) Git
2 141 (16.49%) JIRA
2 141 (16.49%) Maven
3 132 (15.44%) GitLab
4 123 (14.39%) SonarQube
5 113 (13.22%) Cucumber
6 112 (13.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 106 (12.40%) Selenium
8 103 (12.05%) Bitbucket
9 96 (11.23%) Jenkins
10 61 (7.13%) JUnit
11 29 (3.39%) webpack
12 27 (3.16%) Mockito
13 24 (2.81%) Cypress.io
14 20 (2.34%) Postman
15 16 (1.87%) NUnit
15 16 (1.87%) TeamCity
16 14 (1.64%) Babel
17 13 (1.52%) Gradle
18 12 (1.40%) CircleCI
General
1 285 (33.33%) Finance
2 243 (28.42%) Social Skills
3 212 (24.80%) Banking
4 149 (17.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 118 (13.80%) Retail
6 108 (12.63%) Investment Banking
7 90 (10.53%) Corporate Banking
8 78 (9.12%) Law
9 76 (8.89%) Public Sector
10 65 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
11 22 (2.57%) Marketing
12 19 (2.22%) Games
13 18 (2.11%) Manufacturing
13 18 (2.11%) Publishing
13 18 (2.11%) Tech for Good
14 17 (1.99%) Health Technology
15 15 (1.75%) Retail Banking
16 11 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 10 (1.17%) Legal
18 8 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 394 (46.08%) Developer
2 213 (24.91%) Software Engineer
3 183 (21.40%) Senior
4 117 (13.68%) Lead
5 111 (12.98%) Senior Developer
6 89 (10.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 82 (9.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 76 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (7.02%) .NET Developer
10 58 (6.78%) Java Developer
11 49 (5.73%) Senior Software Engineer
12 42 (4.91%) Java Engineer
13 39 (4.56%) React Developer
14 35 (4.09%) C# Developer
15 32 (3.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 30 (3.51%) Lead Developer
17 29 (3.39%) Lead Software Engineer
18 27 (3.16%) Python Developer
19 26 (3.04%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
20 25 (2.92%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 330 (38.60%) React
2 244 (28.54%) CSS
3 242 (28.30%) HTML
4 211 (24.68%) Spring Boot
5 209 (24.44%) Spring
6 181 (21.17%) Web Services
7 170 (19.88%) Kafka
8 168 (19.65%) .NET
9 167 (19.53%) HTML5
10 163 (19.06%) REST
11 142 (16.61%) CSS3
12 135 (15.79%) Jest
13 129 (15.09%) AngularJS
14 119 (13.92%) Redux
15 109 (12.75%) JPA
16 98 (11.46%) Sass
17 86 (10.06%) Node.js
18 69 (8.07%) .NET Core
19 62 (7.25%) GraphQL
20 56 (6.55%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 124 (14.50%) Product Ownership
2 105 (12.28%) Enterprise Software
3 104 (12.16%) Cloud Native
3 104 (12.16%) Onboarding
4 98 (11.46%) Management Information System
5 83 (9.71%) PKI
6 82 (9.59%) Cyber Threat
6 82 (9.59%) Cyberattack
7 60 (7.02%) Mobile App
8 56 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
9 31 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
10 28 (3.27%) Public Cloud
11 18 (2.11%) Distributed Applications
12 16 (1.87%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.64%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
15 11 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 10 (1.17%) Blockchain
16 10 (1.17%) Client/Server
16 10 (1.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.21%) Linux
2 32 (3.74%) Android
3 27 (3.16%) Apple iOS
4 14 (1.64%) Unix
5 2 (0.23%) Debian
5 2 (0.23%) zOS
6 1 (0.12%) CentOS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (49.12%) Agile
2 404 (47.25%) CI/CD
3 384 (44.91%) DevOps
3 384 (44.91%) Microservices
4 264 (30.88%) Software Engineering
5 249 (29.12%) Full-Stack Development
6 234 (27.37%) Containerisation
7 218 (25.50%) Test Automation
8 203 (23.74%) User Experience
9 195 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
10 175 (20.47%) Front End Development
11 163 (19.06%) Mentoring
12 154 (18.01%) SDLC
13 132 (15.44%) Performance Optimisation
14 130 (15.20%) Migration
15 120 (14.04%) TDD
16 119 (13.92%) Scrum
17 117 (13.68%) Responsive Web Design
18 109 (12.75%) Roadmaps
19 103 (12.05%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 347 (40.58%) JavaScript
2 314 (36.73%) Java
3 288 (33.68%) SQL
4 237 (27.72%) TypeScript
5 227 (26.55%) Python
6 187 (21.87%) C#
7 47 (5.50%) PHP
8 39 (4.56%) Go
9 26 (3.04%) Kotlin
10 17 (1.99%) Bash
11 14 (1.64%) Ruby
12 13 (1.52%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.52%) Swift
13 7 (0.82%) Dart
14 5 (0.58%) Bicep
14 5 (0.58%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.47%) C++
15 4 (0.47%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.35%) Progress 4GL
16 3 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 80 (9.36%) Security Cleared
2 73 (8.54%) Degree
3 50 (5.85%) SC Cleared
4 40 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.70%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.70%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.58%) CISSP
10 3 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.35%) CCSP
10 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.35%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (16.61%) QA
2 104 (12.16%) Accessibility
3 92 (10.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 85 (9.94%) NIST
5 14 (1.64%) SLA
6 10 (1.17%) GDPR
7 6 (0.70%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 310 (36.26%) Docker
2 82 (9.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Postfix
4 2 (0.23%) Squid
5 1 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.12%) Firmware
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 278 (32.51%) Kubernetes
2 147 (17.19%) Terraform
3 29 (3.39%) Ansible
3 29 (3.39%) Prometheus
4 23 (2.69%) Grafana
5 11 (1.29%) Istio
6 9 (1.05%) Packer
7 8 (0.94%) Argo
7 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
8 5 (0.58%) Kibana
9 4 (0.47%) Mesos
9 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.47%) Puppet
10 2 (0.23%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.23%) Netcool
10 2 (0.23%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 2 (0.23%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.12%) Consul
11 1 (0.12%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 90 (10.53%) Solace
2 82 (9.59%) Thales
3 69 (8.07%) Microsoft
4 39 (4.56%) Google
5 19 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.11%) MuleSoft
7 16 (1.87%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.75%) Oracle
9 14 (1.64%) Informatica
10 11 (1.29%) Databricks
11 10 (1.17%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.05%) IBM
12 9 (1.05%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.05%) Rollbar
13 8 (0.94%) New Relic
14 6 (0.70%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.70%) SAP
15 5 (0.58%) Facebook
15 5 (0.58%) Splunk
15 5 (0.58%) Twitter