REST Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 73 117
Rank change year-on-year -23 +44 +18
Permanent jobs citing REST 34 27 32
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.45% 2.29% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.50% 10.63% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 22 24 28
10th Percentile £52,625 £33,500 £34,125
25th Percentile £57,500 £43,250 £39,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £63,125
90th Percentile £74,750 - £73,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +31.58% -9.52% -6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 358 254 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.28% 21.54% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 272 185 432
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,100
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,517 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.83%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

REST job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

REST
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for REST in West Yorkshire

REST
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 March 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
Leeds -32 31 £60,000 +9.09% 14
Bradford - 2 £55,000 - 2
REST
Yorkshire

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 10 (29.41%) OpenStack
2 2 (5.88%) JBoss
2 2 (5.88%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Magento
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (88.24%) AWS
2 15 (44.12%) Amazon EKS
2 15 (44.12%) Serverless
3 14 (41.18%) Amazon ECS
4 12 (35.29%) Amazon S3
5 11 (32.35%) Azure
6 6 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (17.65%) GCP
7 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (8.82%) SaaS
8 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.94%) GitHub
9 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.94%) OCI
9 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) Relational Database
2 11 (32.35%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (17.65%) DynamoDB
4 3 (8.82%) MySQL
4 3 (8.82%) RDBMS
4 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (2.94%) Power BI
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Git
2 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) JUnit
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Developer
2 14 (41.18%) Senior
3 10 (29.41%) Java Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) PHP Developer
6 4 (11.76%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 3 (8.82%) Architect
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.88%) C# Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) SQL Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Development Manager
9 1 (2.94%) Oracle Architect
9 1 (2.94%) Senior Consultant
9 1 (2.94%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (70.59%) Node.js
1 24 (70.59%) React
2 12 (35.29%) Spring
3 11 (32.35%) Web Services
4 10 (29.41%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (29.41%) Spring Boot
5 7 (20.59%) GraphQL
5 7 (20.59%) Kafka
5 7 (20.59%) Mustache
6 5 (14.71%) .NET
6 5 (14.71%) SOAP
7 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
7 3 (8.82%) Apache Camel
7 3 (8.82%) Laravel
7 3 (8.82%) Symfony
7 3 (8.82%) XML
8 2 (5.88%) Express.js
8 2 (5.88%) Hibernate
8 2 (5.88%) Middleware
8 2 (5.88%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.88%) DataPower
2 2 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
1 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (85.29%) Agile
2 21 (61.76%) Microservices
3 18 (52.94%) CI/CD
4 16 (47.06%) Scrum
5 12 (35.29%) Software Engineering
6 11 (32.35%) Mentoring
7 10 (29.41%) DevOps
7 10 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (29.41%) Kanban
7 10 (29.41%) TDD
8 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (26.47%) SDLC
9 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (14.71%) API Integration
11 5 (14.71%) Coaching
12 4 (11.76%) BDD
12 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
13 3 (8.82%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 27 (79.41%) JavaScript
2 17 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 12 (35.29%) Java
4 5 (14.71%) SQL
5 4 (11.76%) PHP
6 3 (8.82%) C#
7 2 (5.88%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.94%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (44.12%) Terraform
2 10 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Pega
1 3 (8.82%) WSO2
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle
2 1 (2.94%) WooCommerce