REST Job Trends in West London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West London requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 43 38
Rank change year-on-year -9 -5 +22
Permanent jobs citing REST 3 14 9
As % of all permanent jobs in West London 0.66% 3.60% 2.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.09% 21.88% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile - - £55,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -17.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £79,375
90th Percentile - - £90,625
London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West London

REST 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 in West London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 33 64 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 7.28% 16.45% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 21 26 43
10th Percentile £29,750 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,625 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £66,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +14.78% -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,875 £78,750
London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing REST relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West London.

REST job vacancy trend in West London

REST
Salary Trend in West London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing REST

REST
Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the West London region over the 6 months to 8 December 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
Hillingdon - 2 £60,000 -
Wembley - 1 - -
REST
London

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Aviation
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) IAM Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Ionic Framework
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OpenID
2 1 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (33.33%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible