Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 102 70
Rank change year-on-year -48 -32 -6
Permanent jobs citing REST 1,937 3,287 8,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.94% 3.31% 5.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.18% 10.96% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,317 1,909 3,141
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,588 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 21,101 29,987 65,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 30.24% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 15,749 18,481 29,851
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,588 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for REST in the UK

REST
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST.

Salary trend for REST in the UK

REST
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for REST in the UK

REST
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England -46 1,664 £60,000 -14.29% 349
UK excluding London -31 1,319 £55,000 -8.33% 233
Work from Home -44 740 £60,000 -11.11% 219
London -50 582 £75,000 -4.02% 157
North of England +32 337 £55,173 -15.12% 69
South East -38 324 £57,500 - 61
North West +70 250 £60,000 -14.29% 35
Midlands -27 214 £52,500 -12.50% 22
Scotland -48 167 £56,318 -6.14% 11
South West -45 145 £53,500 -10.83% 23
East Midlands +5 128 £50,000 -2.44% 10
West Midlands -43 86 £52,500 -12.50% 12
East of England -31 78 £47,500 -17.39% 29
Yorkshire -9 73 £47,500 -17.39% 30
Wales -8 40 £52,500 -19.23% 5
Northern Ireland -34 16 £85,000 +88.89% 14
North East -33 14 £47,500 -24.00% 6
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 2

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 114 (5.89%) IIS
2 83 (4.28%) Apache
3 47 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 41 (2.12%) OpenStack
5 39 (2.01%) CMS
6 27 (1.39%) JBoss
6 27 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 25 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
8 24 (1.24%) Cloud Foundry
8 24 (1.24%) Confluence
9 22 (1.14%) Red Hat Fuse
10 21 (1.08%) GemFire
11 13 (0.67%) nginx
12 11 (0.57%) WordPress
13 10 (0.52%) EPiServer
14 6 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.26%) Drupal
15 5 (0.26%) IBM Notes
16 4 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
16 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.46%) Trello
4 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.77%) Shopify
3 8 (0.41%) Maximo
4 7 (0.36%) Elite 3E
5 6 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.26%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.21%) BusinessWorks
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.10%) Magento
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.052%) HFM
9 1 (0.052%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.052%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle FAH
9 1 (0.052%) SAP Business ByDesign
9 1 (0.052%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.052%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.052%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 785 (40.53%) Azure
2 457 (23.59%) AWS
3 303 (15.64%) Azure DevOps
4 274 (14.15%) Serverless
5 244 (12.60%) IBM Cloud
6 146 (7.54%) Azure Service Bus
7 142 (7.33%) Azure Functions
8 130 (6.71%) Azure API Management
8 130 (6.71%) Azure Logic Apps
9 129 (6.66%) GCP
10 127 (6.56%) SaaS
11 107 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
12 83 (4.28%) Power Platform
13 80 (4.13%) GitHub
14 61 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
15 59 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
16 32 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (1.55%) OpenShift
18 28 (1.45%) Power Automate
19 22 (1.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.36%) HTTP
2 58 (2.99%) Firewall
3 53 (2.74%) DNS
3 53 (2.74%) Internet
4 48 (2.48%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.50%) AMQP
6 23 (1.19%) SSL
7 19 (0.98%) WAN
8 18 (0.93%) Kerberos
9 17 (0.88%) MQTT
9 17 (0.88%) SSH
9 17 (0.88%) VPN
10 15 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.77%) Wireless
11 13 (0.67%) SNMP
12 12 (0.62%) 3G
12 12 (0.62%) 4G
12 12 (0.62%) RS-485
13 11 (0.57%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.57%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 464 (23.95%) PostgreSQL
2 383 (19.77%) NoSQL
3 320 (16.52%) MongoDB
3 320 (16.52%) SQL Server
4 276 (14.25%) Relational Database
5 240 (12.39%) DB2
6 109 (5.63%) MySQL
7 67 (3.46%) Redis
8 48 (2.48%) Power BI
9 45 (2.32%) Hadoop
10 38 (1.96%) CockroachDB
11 36 (1.86%) Big Data
12 35 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
13 30 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
14 29 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 28 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 27 (1.39%) Cloudera CDH
16 27 (1.39%) DynamoDB
17 23 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
18 22 (1.14%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 416 (21.48%) Git
2 229 (11.82%) Jenkins
3 126 (6.50%) JIRA
4 101 (5.21%) Postman
5 96 (4.96%) Selenium
6 90 (4.65%) Cucumber
7 73 (3.77%) Visual Studio
8 60 (3.10%) JUnit
9 56 (2.89%) GitLab
10 43 (2.22%) IntelliJ
11 37 (1.91%) Eclipse
11 37 (1.91%) Jasmine
11 37 (1.91%) Team Foundation Server
12 36 (1.86%) Maven
13 35 (1.81%) Oracle APEX
14 33 (1.70%) Karma Test Runner
14 33 (1.70%) TeamCity
15 29 (1.50%) Bitbucket
15 29 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
16 24 (1.24%) WebDriver
General
1 431 (22.25%) Finance
2 358 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 315 (16.26%) Public Sector
4 241 (12.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 155 (8.00%) Law
6 88 (4.54%) Banking
7 80 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
8 79 (4.08%) Marketing
9 64 (3.30%) Retail
10 49 (2.53%) Legal
11 39 (2.01%) Investment Banking
12 32 (1.65%) Financial Institution
13 29 (1.50%) Aerospace
14 28 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.24%) Games
16 20 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (0.67%) Mandarin Language
19 11 (0.57%) Front Office
20 9 (0.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,024 (52.87%) Developer
2 406 (20.96%) Senior
3 270 (13.94%) Software Engineer
4 233 (12.03%) Lead
5 214 (11.05%) Senior Developer
6 209 (10.79%) Full Stack Developer
7 155 (8.00%) Java Developer
8 154 (7.95%) Full Stack Engineer
9 139 (7.18%) .NET Developer
10 134 (6.92%) Azure Developer
11 116 (5.99%) Java Engineer
12 115 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
13 95 (4.90%) Java Software Engineer
14 91 (4.70%) C# Developer
15 81 (4.18%) Software Developer
16 73 (3.77%) Lead Developer
17 69 (3.56%) Senior Software Engineer
18 66 (3.41%) Analyst
19 65 (3.36%) Architect
20 54 (2.79%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 704 (36.34%) .NET
2 687 (35.47%) Web Services
3 596 (30.77%) HTML
4 567 (29.27%) CSS
4 567 (29.27%) React
5 550 (28.39%) AngularJS
6 426 (21.99%) ASP.NET
7 350 (18.07%) JSON
8 347 (17.91%) SOAP
9 339 (17.50%) jQuery
10 335 (17.29%) Vue
11 301 (15.54%) Spring
11 301 (15.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 279 (14.40%) Node.js
13 278 (14.35%) XML
14 254 (13.11%) ASP.NET Core
15 238 (12.29%) Backbone.js
15 238 (12.29%) Ember.js
16 217 (11.20%) Spring Boot
17 153 (7.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 276 (14.25%) Algorithms
2 272 (14.04%) Data Structures
3 244 (12.60%) Blockchain
4 241 (12.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 114 (5.89%) e-Learning
6 95 (4.90%) Cloud Native
7 74 (3.82%) Management Information System
8 73 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
9 72 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
10 66 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
11 64 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
12 61 (3.15%) Product Ownership
13 35 (1.81%) Public Cloud
14 33 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
15 29 (1.50%) Mobile App
16 27 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 27 (1.39%) Replication
17 24 (1.24%) Clustering
17 24 (1.24%) IoT
18 22 (1.14%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 454 (23.44%) Linux
2 341 (17.60%) Windows
3 288 (14.87%) Android
4 266 (13.73%) Apple iOS
5 58 (2.99%) Unix
6 38 (1.96%) CentOS
7 35 (1.81%) Ubuntu
8 31 (1.60%) AIX
9 27 (1.39%) Debian
9 27 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (0.98%) Windows Server
11 17 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.41%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 934 (48.22%) Agile
2 521 (26.90%) DevOps
3 479 (24.73%) Full Stack Development
4 447 (23.08%) MVC
5 423 (21.84%) CI/CD
6 407 (21.01%) Software Engineering
7 393 (20.29%) Design Patterns
8 388 (20.03%) Microservices
9 386 (19.93%) OO
10 375 (19.36%) User Experience
11 358 (18.48%) Web Development
12 330 (17.04%) SOLID
13 328 (16.93%) OOP
14 324 (16.73%) Artificial Intelligence
15 295 (15.23%) Mentoring
15 295 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
16 289 (14.92%) TDD
17 282 (14.56%) Scrum
18 277 (14.30%) MVVM
19 243 (12.55%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 938 (48.43%) SQL
2 841 (43.42%) JavaScript
3 718 (37.07%) Java
4 680 (35.11%) C#
5 432 (22.30%) Python
6 223 (11.51%) TypeScript
7 114 (5.89%) PHP
8 104 (5.37%) T-SQL
9 77 (3.98%) Go
10 76 (3.92%) PowerShell
11 75 (3.87%) VB.NET
12 58 (2.99%) C++
13 52 (2.68%) VB
14 51 (2.63%) Apex Code
15 49 (2.53%) C
16 40 (2.07%) Kotlin
17 37 (1.91%) PL/SQL
18 31 (1.60%) Groovy
19 28 (1.45%) VB6
20 26 (1.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 175 (9.03%) Security Cleared
2 170 (8.78%) Degree
3 157 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 91 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.86%) DV Cleared
6 26 (1.34%) Azure Certification
7 22 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 15 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (0.72%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.62%) ISEB
10 12 (0.62%) ISTQB
11 11 (0.57%) PhD
12 9 (0.46%) CISSP
13 8 (0.41%) CISM
14 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.31%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.31%) GIAC
15 6 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 6 (0.31%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (8.16%) QA
2 56 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.83%) GDPR
4 11 (0.57%) NIST
5 8 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.36%) WCAG
7 6 (0.31%) COBIT
7 6 (0.31%) MiFID
7 6 (0.31%) PMO
7 6 (0.31%) SLA
7 6 (0.31%) Web Application Security Consortium
8 5 (0.26%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.21%) GRC
10 2 (0.10%) EMIR
10 2 (0.10%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.10%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.10%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.052%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.052%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 338 (17.45%) Docker
2 31 (1.60%) Hyper-V
3 21 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.98%) Active Directory
5 18 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
6 16 (0.83%) HDFS
7 9 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.26%) Firmware
10 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.21%) vSphere
11 3 (0.15%) Varnish
11 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.052%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.052%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 309 (15.95%) Kubernetes
2 123 (6.35%) Terraform
3 89 (4.59%) Ansible
4 48 (2.48%) Grafana
5 32 (1.65%) Puppet
6 29 (1.50%) Kibana
7 25 (1.29%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.08%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.08%) Zipkin
9 15 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.67%) WMI
11 11 (0.57%) Nmap
12 6 (0.31%) CloudHub
12 6 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.31%) Packer
12 6 (0.31%) Rancher
13 4 (0.21%) cPanel
14 3 (0.15%) Argo
14 3 (0.15%) Consul
Vendors
1 267 (13.78%) Red Hat
2 253 (13.06%) IBM
3 251 (12.96%) Microsoft
4 141 (7.28%) Oracle
5 136 (7.02%) Google
6 61 (3.15%) Salesforce
7 59 (3.05%) Splunk
8 43 (2.22%) Dynatrace
9 41 (2.12%) WSO2
10 34 (1.76%) ServiceNow
11 27 (1.39%) SaltStack
12 25 (1.29%) VMware
13 23 (1.19%) Databricks
14 16 (0.83%) Cloudera
15 13 (0.67%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.67%) UiPath
16 11 (0.57%) Cisco
17 10 (0.52%) CheckPoint
17 10 (0.52%) Sybase