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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 124 119
Rank change year-on-year -37 -5 -35
Permanent jobs citing REST 1,327 1,596 2,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.75% 2.82% 2.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.03% 10.68% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 785 771 1,295
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 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +4.48% +14.55%

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 14,689 14,937 24,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.33% 26.42% 32.80%
Number of salaries quoted 10,566 8,725 14,408
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 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £64,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +25 358 £55,173 -15.12% 57
South East -51 317 £57,500 +3.25% 42
North West +66 269 £60,000 -9.43% 37
Midlands -35 212 £52,500 -12.50% 28
Scotland -34 157 £56,318 -6.14% 14
South West -43 151 £53,500 -10.83% 21
East Midlands -8 125 £50,000 -2.44% 15
West Midlands -61 87 £52,500 -12.50% 13
East of England -29 81 £47,500 -13.64% 21
Yorkshire -21 73 £47,500 -17.39% 17
Wales -7 39 £52,500 -19.23% 4
North East -35 16 £47,500 -24.00% 5
Northern Ireland -34 14 £85,000 +88.89% 13
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 86 (6.48%) IIS
2 71 (5.35%) Apache
3 43 (3.24%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.26%) OpenStack
5 21 (1.58%) GemFire
6 19 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (1.43%) CMS
7 17 (1.28%) Cloud Foundry
8 10 (0.75%) SharePoint
9 9 (0.68%) JBoss
9 9 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
10 8 (0.60%) WordPress
11 6 (0.45%) Confluence
12 5 (0.38%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.23%) nginx
13 3 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
13 3 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
13 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.23%) WildFly
14 2 (0.15%) Magnolia
Applications
1 13 (0.98%) 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 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.06%) Shopify
3 6 (0.45%) 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
1 578 (43.56%) Azure
2 348 (26.22%) AWS
3 232 (17.48%) IBM Cloud
4 221 (16.65%) Serverless
5 202 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
6 126 (9.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 119 (8.97%) Azure Functions
8 118 (8.89%) Azure API Management
9 116 (8.74%) Azure Logic Apps
10 85 (6.41%) Amazon EKS
11 76 (5.73%) GCP
12 59 (4.45%) GitHub
13 50 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (3.69%) Power Platform
15 44 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
16 38 (2.86%) SaaS
17 31 (2.34%) Amazon Kinesis
17 31 (2.34%) OpenShift
18 29 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
19 28 (2.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 55 (4.14%) Firewall
2 48 (3.62%) DNS
3 44 (3.32%) TCP/IP
4 30 (2.26%) AMQP
5 27 (2.03%) HTTP
6 19 (1.43%) SSL
7 18 (1.36%) WAN
8 17 (1.28%) Kerberos
8 17 (1.28%) MQTT
9 13 (0.98%) 3G
9 13 (0.98%) 4G
9 13 (0.98%) RS-485
9 13 (0.98%) SNMP
9 13 (0.98%) SSH
9 13 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.98%) Wireless
10 10 (0.75%) Internet
11 3 (0.23%) DMZ
11 3 (0.23%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (30.14%) PostgreSQL
2 345 (26.00%) NoSQL
3 281 (21.18%) MongoDB
4 230 (17.33%) DB2
5 223 (16.80%) Relational Database
6 206 (15.52%) SQL Server
7 92 (6.93%) MySQL
8 49 (3.69%) Amazon Aurora
9 44 (3.32%) Hadoop
10 42 (3.17%) Redis
11 41 (3.09%) DynamoDB
12 38 (2.86%) CockroachDB
13 36 (2.71%) Big Data
14 29 (2.19%) Cloudera CDH
15 28 (2.11%) Power BI
16 22 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
17 21 (1.58%) Hazelcast
18 20 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
19 16 (1.21%) GIS
20 14 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 291 (21.93%) Git
2 124 (9.34%) Jenkins
3 75 (5.65%) JIRA
4 48 (3.62%) JUnit
5 39 (2.94%) GitLab
6 33 (2.49%) Eclipse
6 33 (2.49%) Selenium
7 32 (2.41%) Jasmine
8 31 (2.34%) Postman
9 29 (2.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 29 (2.19%) Visual Studio
10 28 (2.11%) Karma Test Runner
11 26 (1.96%) Maven
11 26 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
12 23 (1.73%) IntelliJ
13 21 (1.58%) Jaeger
14 20 (1.51%) Cucumber
14 20 (1.51%) Gatling
15 19 (1.43%) Bitbucket
16 16 (1.21%) Mockito
General
1 280 (21.10%) Finance
2 275 (20.72%) Public Sector
3 236 (17.78%) Social Skills
4 216 (16.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 122 (9.19%) Law
6 68 (5.12%) Marketing
7 57 (4.30%) Retail
8 52 (3.92%) Banking
9 51 (3.84%) Analytical Skills
10 32 (2.41%) Investment Banking
11 29 (2.19%) Aerospace
12 27 (2.03%) Legal
13 23 (1.73%) Games
14 21 (1.58%) Billing
15 20 (1.51%) Financial Institution
16 19 (1.43%) Electronics
17 13 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (0.98%) Telecoms
18 12 (0.90%) Mandarin Language
19 10 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 730 (55.01%) Developer
2 224 (16.88%) Senior
3 213 (16.05%) Software Engineer
4 157 (11.83%) Full Stack Developer
5 152 (11.45%) Lead
6 146 (11.00%) Full Stack Engineer
7 135 (10.17%) Senior Developer
8 118 (8.89%) Azure Developer
9 112 (8.44%) Java Developer
10 110 (8.29%) Azure Engineer
11 95 (7.16%) Java Engineer
12 89 (6.71%) .NET Developer
13 75 (5.65%) Java Software Engineer
14 74 (5.58%) Software Developer
15 63 (4.75%) C# Developer
16 61 (4.60%) Lead Developer
17 50 (3.77%) Lead Software Engineer
18 49 (3.69%) PHP Developer
19 42 (3.17%) Lead Java Engineer
19 42 (3.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (40.17%) Web Services
2 528 (39.79%) .NET
3 481 (36.25%) HTML
4 468 (35.27%) CSS
5 453 (34.14%) React
6 449 (33.84%) AngularJS
7 336 (25.32%) ASP.NET
8 314 (23.66%) Vue
9 294 (22.16%) jQuery
10 276 (20.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 240 (18.09%) ASP.NET Core
11 240 (18.09%) Node.js
11 240 (18.09%) Spring
12 228 (17.18%) Backbone.js
12 228 (17.18%) Ember.js
13 216 (16.28%) SOAP
14 202 (15.22%) JSON
15 172 (12.96%) Spring Boot
16 167 (12.58%) XML
17 135 (10.17%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 261 (19.67%) Algorithms
2 236 (17.78%) Data Structures
3 230 (17.33%) Blockchain
3 230 (17.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 115 (8.67%) e-Learning
5 80 (6.03%) Cloud Native
6 66 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
7 60 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
8 56 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
9 47 (3.54%) Management Information System
10 32 (2.41%) Blog
10 32 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
11 30 (2.26%) Public Cloud
12 29 (2.19%) Media Streaming
13 28 (2.11%) Product Ownership
14 26 (1.96%) Replication
15 23 (1.73%) Clustering
16 21 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 17 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
17 17 (1.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 390 (29.39%) Linux
2 305 (22.98%) Windows
3 263 (19.82%) Android
4 248 (18.69%) Apple iOS
5 37 (2.79%) Ubuntu
6 31 (2.34%) Unix
7 29 (2.19%) CentOS
7 29 (2.19%) Debian
7 29 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.88%) AIX
9 18 (1.36%) Embedded Linux
10 11 (0.83%) Windows Server
11 4 (0.30%) VMS
12 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (52.45%) Agile
2 389 (29.31%) MVC
3 376 (28.33%) Full Stack Development
4 349 (26.30%) DevOps
5 346 (26.07%) OO
6 333 (25.09%) Design Patterns
6 333 (25.09%) Web Development
7 315 (23.74%) User Experience
8 314 (23.66%) OOP
9 300 (22.61%) Software Engineering
10 290 (21.85%) SOLID
11 286 (21.55%) Artificial Intelligence
12 280 (21.10%) Microservices
13 254 (19.14%) MVVM
14 248 (18.69%) Mentoring
15 239 (18.01%) CI/CD
16 232 (17.48%) Responsive Web Design
17 228 (17.18%) Co-Creation
17 228 (17.18%) Design Thinking
18 201 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 680 (51.24%) SQL
2 650 (48.98%) JavaScript
3 524 (39.49%) Java
4 504 (37.98%) C#
5 295 (22.23%) Python
6 165 (12.43%) TypeScript
7 81 (6.10%) PHP
8 68 (5.12%) T-SQL
9 62 (4.67%) VB.NET
10 53 (3.99%) C++
11 51 (3.84%) VB
12 50 (3.77%) Go
13 47 (3.54%) C
14 32 (2.41%) Scala
15 31 (2.34%) Apex Code
15 31 (2.34%) PowerShell
16 28 (2.11%) VB6
17 26 (1.96%) Groovy
18 22 (1.66%) Kotlin
19 21 (1.58%) XAML
Qualifications
1 122 (9.19%) Security Cleared
2 112 (8.44%) SC Cleared
3 104 (7.84%) Degree
4 56 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.79%) DV Cleared
6 20 (1.51%) Azure Certification
7 11 (0.83%) PhD
8 10 (0.75%) ISEB
8 10 (0.75%) ISTQB
9 7 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.23%) MCPD
12 2 (0.15%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.075%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.075%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (6.56%) QA
2 32 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.28%) GDPR
4 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.23%) NIST
5 1 (0.075%) GRC
5 1 (0.075%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 236 (17.78%) Docker
2 22 (1.66%) Hyper-V
3 20 (1.51%) Virtual Servers
4 18 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (1.06%) HDFS
6 9 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.38%) Firmware
8 4 (0.30%) Active Directory
8 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.23%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 200 (15.07%) Kubernetes
2 92 (6.93%) Terraform
3 71 (5.35%) Ansible
4 38 (2.86%) Grafana
5 32 (2.41%) Puppet
6 27 (2.03%) Kibana
7 22 (1.66%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.58%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.58%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.58%) Zipkin
9 13 (0.98%) WMI
10 6 (0.45%) Rancher
11 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.15%) cPanel
13 1 (0.075%) Istio
13 1 (0.075%) Packer
13 1 (0.075%) Podman
Vendors
1 259 (19.52%) Red Hat
2 238 (17.94%) IBM
3 189 (14.24%) Microsoft
4 99 (7.46%) Google
5 82 (6.18%) Oracle
6 58 (4.37%) Splunk
7 41 (3.09%) Dynatrace
8 40 (3.01%) Salesforce
9 30 (2.26%) WSO2
10 29 (2.19%) SaltStack
11 22 (1.66%) VMware
12 17 (1.28%) Databricks
13 14 (1.06%) Cloudera
14 9 (0.68%) CheckPoint
15 8 (0.60%) Adobe
16 7 (0.53%) ServiceNow
17 6 (0.45%) Guidewire
18 4 (0.30%) Confluent
18 4 (0.30%) ForgeRock
18 4 (0.30%) MuleSoft