REST Job Trends in the Wirral

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Merseyside > Wirral

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Wirral requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - 4
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing REST 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the Wirral 2.78% - 23.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 100.00% - 75.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £37,500
75th Percentile - - £38,750
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +36.36% +46.67% -59.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wirral

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 the Wirral.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Wirral 2.78% - 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile - - £40,313
90th Percentile - - £43,125
Merseyside median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +15.00%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the Wirral

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

REST job vacancy trend in the Wirral

REST
Salary Trend in the Wirral

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Wirral citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Wirral citing REST

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Wirral 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) NestJS
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree