REST Jobs in the UK excluding London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 125 120
Rank change year-on-year -35 -5 -37
Permanent jobs citing REST 1,318 1,632 2,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.78% 2.81% 2.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.08% 10.30% 9.03%
Number of salaries quoted 784 780 1,299
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £87,500 £80,154
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +13.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,512 15,851 24,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.61% 27.29% 32.74%
Number of salaries quoted 10,458 8,830 14,466
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for REST in the UK excluding London

REST
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
North of England +23 353 £55,173 -15.12% 57
South East -42 317 £57,500 - 48
North West +72 265 £60,000 -11.11% 32
Midlands -26 212 £52,500 -12.50% 26
Scotland -35 158 £56,318 -8.05% 11
South West -43 147 £53,500 -10.83% 20
East Midlands -4 124 £50,000 -2.44% 14
West Midlands -52 88 £52,500 -12.50% 12
East of England -32 80 £47,500 -13.64% 26
Yorkshire -18 73 £47,500 -17.39% 20
Wales -12 39 £52,500 -19.23% 4
North East -32 15 £47,500 -24.00% 8
Northern Ireland -37 14 £85,000 +88.89% 14
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 87 (6.60%) IIS
2 70 (5.31%) Apache
3 43 (3.26%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.50%) OpenStack
5 21 (1.59%) GemFire
6 20 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (1.29%) Cloud Foundry
7 17 (1.29%) CMS
8 10 (0.76%) SharePoint
9 9 (0.68%) JBoss
9 9 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
10 8 (0.61%) WordPress
11 5 (0.38%) Confluence
11 5 (0.38%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.23%) nginx
12 3 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
12 3 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
12 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.15%) Liferay
13 2 (0.15%) Magnolia
Applications
1 14 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.68%) Trello
3 3 (0.23%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.14%) Shopify
3 6 (0.46%) Maximo
4 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.15%) Magento
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 579 (43.93%) Azure
2 344 (26.10%) AWS
3 232 (17.60%) IBM Cloud
4 223 (16.92%) Serverless
5 202 (15.33%) Azure DevOps
6 126 (9.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 119 (9.03%) Azure Functions
8 118 (8.95%) Azure API Management
9 116 (8.80%) Azure Logic Apps
10 88 (6.68%) Amazon EKS
11 74 (5.61%) GCP
12 58 (4.40%) GitHub
13 50 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (3.72%) Power Platform
15 47 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
16 36 (2.73%) SaaS
17 30 (2.28%) OpenShift
18 28 (2.12%) Amazon Kinesis
18 28 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
18 28 (2.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.25%) Firewall
2 48 (3.64%) DNS
3 44 (3.34%) TCP/IP
4 29 (2.20%) AMQP
5 27 (2.05%) HTTP
6 19 (1.44%) SSL
6 19 (1.44%) WAN
7 17 (1.29%) Kerberos
8 16 (1.21%) MQTT
9 13 (0.99%) SNMP
9 13 (0.99%) SSH
10 12 (0.91%) 3G
10 12 (0.91%) 4G
10 12 (0.91%) RS-485
10 12 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.91%) Wireless
11 10 (0.76%) Internet
12 3 (0.23%) DMZ
12 3 (0.23%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (30.35%) PostgreSQL
2 345 (26.18%) NoSQL
3 281 (21.32%) MongoDB
4 230 (17.45%) DB2
5 225 (17.07%) Relational Database
6 205 (15.55%) SQL Server
7 90 (6.83%) MySQL
8 46 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 44 (3.34%) Hadoop
10 40 (3.03%) Redis
11 38 (2.88%) CockroachDB
11 38 (2.88%) DynamoDB
12 35 (2.66%) Big Data
13 28 (2.12%) Cloudera CDH
13 28 (2.12%) Power BI
14 21 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
14 21 (1.59%) Hazelcast
15 20 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
16 16 (1.21%) GIS
17 15 (1.14%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 293 (22.23%) Git
2 128 (9.71%) Jenkins
3 73 (5.54%) JIRA
4 48 (3.64%) JUnit
5 38 (2.88%) GitLab
6 33 (2.50%) Eclipse
7 32 (2.43%) Jasmine
7 32 (2.43%) Selenium
8 30 (2.28%) Postman
9 29 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
10 28 (2.12%) Karma Test Runner
11 27 (2.05%) Maven
11 27 (2.05%) Visual Studio
12 26 (1.97%) Team Foundation Server
13 23 (1.75%) IntelliJ
14 21 (1.59%) Jaeger
15 19 (1.44%) Bitbucket
15 19 (1.44%) Cucumber
16 18 (1.37%) Gatling
17 16 (1.21%) TeamCity
General
1 281 (21.32%) Finance
2 276 (20.94%) Public Sector
3 233 (17.68%) Social Skills
4 219 (16.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 125 (9.48%) Law
6 67 (5.08%) Marketing
7 55 (4.17%) Banking
8 54 (4.10%) Retail
9 49 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
10 33 (2.50%) Investment Banking
11 28 (2.12%) Aerospace
11 28 (2.12%) Legal
12 23 (1.75%) Games
13 22 (1.67%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.44%) Billing
15 17 (1.29%) Electronics
16 14 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (0.99%) Telecoms
18 12 (0.91%) Mandarin Language
19 11 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 729 (55.31%) Developer
2 220 (16.69%) Senior
3 208 (15.78%) Software Engineer
4 157 (11.91%) Full Stack Developer
5 148 (11.23%) Lead
6 146 (11.08%) Full Stack Engineer
7 132 (10.02%) Senior Developer
8 118 (8.95%) Azure Developer
9 116 (8.80%) Java Developer
10 110 (8.35%) Azure Engineer
11 95 (7.21%) Java Engineer
12 89 (6.75%) .NET Developer
13 76 (5.77%) Java Software Engineer
14 74 (5.61%) Software Developer
15 62 (4.70%) C# Developer
16 59 (4.48%) Lead Developer
17 49 (3.72%) PHP Developer
18 48 (3.64%) Lead Software Engineer
19 42 (3.19%) Lead Java Engineer
19 42 (3.19%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 530 (40.21%) Web Services
2 524 (39.76%) .NET
3 477 (36.19%) HTML
4 466 (35.36%) CSS
5 451 (34.22%) React
6 450 (34.14%) AngularJS
7 335 (25.42%) ASP.NET
8 313 (23.75%) Vue
9 293 (22.23%) jQuery
10 276 (20.94%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 244 (18.51%) Spring
12 243 (18.44%) Node.js
13 240 (18.21%) ASP.NET Core
14 228 (17.30%) Backbone.js
14 228 (17.30%) Ember.js
15 211 (16.01%) SOAP
16 204 (15.48%) JSON
17 175 (13.28%) Spring Boot
18 170 (12.90%) XML
19 131 (9.94%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 260 (19.73%) Algorithms
2 236 (17.91%) Data Structures
3 230 (17.45%) Blockchain
3 230 (17.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 115 (8.73%) e-Learning
5 80 (6.07%) Cloud Native
6 64 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
7 60 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
8 56 (4.25%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (3.49%) Management Information System
10 33 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
11 31 (2.35%) Public Cloud
12 29 (2.20%) Blog
13 28 (2.12%) Product Ownership
14 26 (1.97%) Media Streaming
14 26 (1.97%) Replication
15 24 (1.82%) Clustering
16 21 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 18 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
18 17 (1.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 385 (29.21%) Linux
2 306 (23.22%) Windows
3 263 (19.95%) Android
4 248 (18.82%) Apple iOS
5 36 (2.73%) Ubuntu
6 31 (2.35%) Unix
7 28 (2.12%) CentOS
7 28 (2.12%) Debian
7 28 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.90%) AIX
9 17 (1.29%) Embedded Linux
10 11 (0.83%) Windows Server
11 4 (0.30%) VMS
12 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (52.73%) Agile
2 388 (29.44%) MVC
3 374 (28.38%) Full Stack Development
4 348 (26.40%) DevOps
5 342 (25.95%) OO
6 332 (25.19%) Design Patterns
6 332 (25.19%) Web Development
7 314 (23.82%) User Experience
8 310 (23.52%) OOP
9 295 (22.38%) Software Engineering
10 288 (21.85%) SOLID
11 287 (21.78%) Artificial Intelligence
12 286 (21.70%) Microservices
13 254 (19.27%) MVVM
14 244 (18.51%) Mentoring
15 242 (18.36%) CI/CD
16 232 (17.60%) Responsive Web Design
17 228 (17.30%) Co-Creation
17 228 (17.30%) Design Thinking
18 206 (15.63%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 683 (51.82%) SQL
2 649 (49.24%) JavaScript
3 525 (39.83%) Java
4 502 (38.09%) C#
5 295 (22.38%) Python
6 165 (12.52%) TypeScript
7 80 (6.07%) PHP
8 67 (5.08%) T-SQL
9 61 (4.63%) VB.NET
10 52 (3.95%) C++
11 51 (3.87%) VB
12 49 (3.72%) Go
13 46 (3.49%) C
14 31 (2.35%) PowerShell
15 30 (2.28%) Apex Code
16 29 (2.20%) Scala
17 28 (2.12%) VB6
18 26 (1.97%) Groovy
19 22 (1.67%) Kotlin
20 21 (1.59%) XAML
Qualifications
1 126 (9.56%) Security Cleared
2 115 (8.73%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.66%) Degree
4 53 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 22 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 11 (0.83%) ISEB
7 11 (0.83%) ISTQB
7 11 (0.83%) PhD
8 9 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.46%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.23%) MCPD
13 2 (0.15%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.076%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.076%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (6.60%) QA
2 33 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.21%) GDPR
4 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.23%) NIST
5 1 (0.076%) GRC
5 1 (0.076%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 239 (18.13%) Docker
2 26 (1.97%) Hyper-V
3 20 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
4 19 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.14%) HDFS
6 9 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.38%) Firmware
8 4 (0.30%) Active Directory
8 4 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.23%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 201 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 94 (7.13%) Terraform
3 74 (5.61%) Ansible
4 39 (2.96%) Grafana
5 31 (2.35%) Puppet
6 26 (1.97%) Kibana
7 22 (1.67%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.59%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.59%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.59%) Zipkin
9 13 (0.99%) WMI
10 6 (0.46%) Rancher
11 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.15%) cPanel
13 1 (0.076%) Istio
13 1 (0.076%) Packer
13 1 (0.076%) Podman
Vendors
1 258 (19.58%) Red Hat
2 238 (18.06%) IBM
3 190 (14.42%) Microsoft
4 98 (7.44%) Google
5 82 (6.22%) Oracle
6 58 (4.40%) Splunk
7 41 (3.11%) Dynatrace
8 38 (2.88%) Salesforce
9 33 (2.50%) WSO2
10 28 (2.12%) SaltStack
11 23 (1.75%) VMware
12 18 (1.37%) Databricks
13 15 (1.14%) Cloudera
14 10 (0.76%) CheckPoint
15 8 (0.61%) Adobe
16 7 (0.53%) ServiceNow
17 6 (0.46%) Guidewire
18 4 (0.30%) ForgeRock
18 4 (0.30%) Okta
18 4 (0.30%) WooCommerce