REST Job Trends in Yorkshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 101 139
Rank change year-on-year -41 +38 0
Permanent jobs citing REST 52 43 70
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.90% 1.86% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.03% 11.68% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 36 34 54
10th Percentile £48,125 £31,250 £30,200
25th Percentile £57,500 £43,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% +15.79% -15.56%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £57,001
90th Percentile £95,000 £71,250 £62,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 576 368 1,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.98% 15.88% 19.20%
Number of salaries quoted 437 300 911
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% +1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £79,100 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

REST job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

REST
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for REST in Yorkshire

REST
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
West Yorkshire -35 32 £62,500 +25.00% 15
North Yorkshire +2 13 £95,000 +58.33% 4
South Yorkshire -37 6 £82,500 +17.86% 6
East Yorkshire - 1 £29,330 - 3
REST
England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 8 (15.38%) CMS
2 7 (13.46%) OpenStack
3 4 (7.69%) Headless CMS
4 2 (3.85%) JBoss
4 2 (3.85%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Magento
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (1.92%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.00%) AWS
2 23 (44.23%) Serverless
3 16 (30.77%) Azure
4 13 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 13 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (21.15%) Amazon S3
6 8 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (11.54%) Azure Functions
9 5 (9.62%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (9.62%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (9.62%) GCP
9 5 (9.62%) SaaS
10 3 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.85%) Power Automate
12 1 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (1.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) Relational Database
2 8 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.62%) Spark SQL
4 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.77%) MySQL
5 3 (5.77%) Power BI
5 3 (5.77%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.85%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (25.00%) Git
2 12 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.62%) JIRA
4 3 (5.77%) Artifactory
4 3 (5.77%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.77%) GitLab
4 3 (5.77%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.92%) JUnit
5 1 (1.92%) Postman
General
1 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 8 (15.38%) Retail
3 4 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.77%) Marketing
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Finance
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (42.31%) Developer
2 17 (32.69%) Senior
3 11 (21.15%) Java Developer
4 6 (11.54%) Lead
4 6 (11.54%) Senior Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Consultant
5 5 (9.62%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Lead Data Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) CyberArk Consultant
6 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (7.69%) PHP Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Professional Services Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (55.77%) React
2 17 (32.69%) Node.js
3 12 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (23.08%) GraphQL
4 11 (21.15%) Spring
5 10 (19.23%) Web Services
6 9 (17.31%) Spring Boot
7 7 (13.46%) Kafka
7 7 (13.46%) Mustache
7 7 (13.46%) Next.js
8 6 (11.54%) .NET
8 6 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (9.62%) ARM Templates
9 5 (9.62%) JSON
9 5 (9.62%) PySpark
9 5 (9.62%) SOAP
10 4 (7.69%) CSS
10 4 (7.69%) SAML
11 3 (5.77%) Middleware
11 3 (5.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.85%) DataPower
4 2 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.92%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.92%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Linux
1 5 (9.62%) Windows
2 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (59.62%) CI/CD
2 26 (50.00%) Agile
3 19 (36.54%) Microservices
4 16 (30.77%) DevOps
5 15 (28.85%) Scrum
6 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 11 (21.15%) API Integration
8 10 (19.23%) TDD
9 9 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (17.31%) Deployment Automation
9 9 (17.31%) E-Commerce
9 9 (17.31%) SDLC
9 9 (17.31%) Test Automation
10 8 (15.38%) Data Modelling
10 8 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (15.38%) Kanban
10 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (15.38%) Software Engineering
11 7 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (55.77%) JavaScript
2 20 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 16 (30.77%) SQL
4 15 (28.85%) Java
5 9 (17.31%) Python
6 5 (9.62%) C#
6 5 (9.62%) PHP
7 3 (5.77%) Groovy
7 3 (5.77%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.77%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.92%) Delphi
8 1 (1.92%) Perl
8 1 (1.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.62%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) GDPR
2 3 (5.77%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) HL7
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Docker
2 4 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (32.69%) Terraform
2 12 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.54%) Ansible
4 3 (5.77%) Packer
5 2 (3.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) AppDynamics
1 5 (9.62%) Databricks
1 5 (9.62%) IBM
2 4 (7.69%) CyberArk
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.92%) OutSystems
4 1 (1.92%) Sage
4 1 (1.92%) WooCommerce