REST Jobs in the UK excluding London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 127 120
Rank change year-on-year -35 -7 -36
Permanent jobs citing REST 1,322 1,560 2,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.65% 2.82% 2.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.78% 10.73% 9.03%
Number of salaries quoted 775 751 1,294
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £35,165
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 £66,250 £72,500 £70,625
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +11.60%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 15,053 14,536 24,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.79% 26.31% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10,759 8,641 14,443
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £35,000
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 £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 13 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 13 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 +22 370 £55,173 -15.12% 61
South East -51 312 £57,500 - 51
North West +64 277 £60,000 -11.11% 32
Midlands -50 214 £52,500 -12.50% 32
South West -42 154 £55,000 -8.33% 15
Scotland -43 134 £55,000 -8.33% 19
East Midlands -17 126 £50,000 - 14
West Midlands -63 88 £52,500 -12.50% 18
East of England -33 87 £47,500 -17.39% 20
Yorkshire -15 77 £50,000 -13.04% 21
Wales -2 39 £52,500 -19.23% 4
North East -41 16 £47,500 -24.00% 10
Northern Ireland -38 14 £85,000 +88.89% 19
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 (6.51%) IIS
2 74 (5.60%) Apache
3 38 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 28 (2.12%) OpenStack
5 22 (1.66%) CMS
6 21 (1.59%) GemFire
7 17 (1.29%) Cloud Foundry
8 12 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
9 9 (0.68%) JBoss
9 9 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
10 8 (0.61%) WordPress
11 7 (0.53%) SharePoint
11 7 (0.53%) Umbraco
12 6 (0.45%) Confluence
12 6 (0.45%) WildFly
13 4 (0.30%) nginx
14 3 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
14 3 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
14 3 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
15 2 (0.15%) Magnolia
Applications
1 11 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.76%) Trello
3 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.38%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.06%) Shopify
3 4 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.23%) Maximo
5 2 (0.15%) Magento
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.076%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 577 (43.65%) Azure
2 344 (26.02%) AWS
3 231 (17.47%) IBM Cloud
4 218 (16.49%) Serverless
5 203 (15.36%) Azure DevOps
6 127 (9.61%) Azure Service Bus
7 119 (9.00%) Azure Functions
8 118 (8.93%) Azure API Management
9 116 (8.77%) Azure Logic Apps
10 76 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
10 76 (5.75%) GCP
11 59 (4.46%) GitHub
12 48 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (3.48%) Power Platform
14 42 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
15 37 (2.80%) Amazon Kinesis
16 35 (2.65%) SaaS
17 30 (2.27%) OpenShift
18 29 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
19 28 (2.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.01%) Firewall
2 48 (3.63%) DNS
3 44 (3.33%) TCP/IP
4 30 (2.27%) AMQP
5 29 (2.19%) HTTP
6 19 (1.44%) SSL
7 17 (1.29%) Kerberos
7 17 (1.29%) MQTT
8 16 (1.21%) WAN
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 8 (0.61%) Internet
11 3 (0.23%) DMZ
11 3 (0.23%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 407 (30.79%) PostgreSQL
2 346 (26.17%) NoSQL
3 282 (21.33%) MongoDB
4 231 (17.47%) DB2
5 213 (16.11%) Relational Database
6 202 (15.28%) SQL Server
7 101 (7.64%) MySQL
8 55 (4.16%) Amazon Aurora
9 50 (3.78%) DynamoDB
10 48 (3.63%) Redis
11 38 (2.87%) Big Data
11 38 (2.87%) CockroachDB
12 37 (2.80%) Hadoop
13 29 (2.19%) Cloudera CDH
14 28 (2.12%) Power BI
15 22 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
16 21 (1.59%) Hazelcast
17 17 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
18 14 (1.06%) RDBMS
18 14 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 292 (22.09%) Git
2 120 (9.08%) Jenkins
3 78 (5.90%) JIRA
4 44 (3.33%) JUnit
5 39 (2.95%) GitLab
6 34 (2.57%) Eclipse
7 33 (2.50%) Selenium
8 32 (2.42%) Jasmine
8 32 (2.42%) Postman
9 31 (2.34%) Visual Studio
10 29 (2.19%) Octopus Deploy
11 28 (2.12%) Karma Test Runner
12 26 (1.97%) Gatling
13 24 (1.82%) IntelliJ
14 23 (1.74%) Maven
15 22 (1.66%) Team Foundation Server
16 21 (1.59%) Bitbucket
16 21 (1.59%) Cucumber
16 21 (1.59%) Jaeger
17 17 (1.29%) Mockito
General
1 274 (20.73%) Public Sector
2 258 (19.52%) Finance
3 244 (18.46%) Social Skills
4 195 (14.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (7.49%) Law
6 60 (4.54%) Retail
7 58 (4.39%) Marketing
8 53 (4.01%) Analytical Skills
9 40 (3.03%) Banking
10 29 (2.19%) Aerospace
11 27 (2.04%) Billing
12 26 (1.97%) Investment Banking
13 25 (1.89%) Electronics
14 23 (1.74%) Games
15 20 (1.51%) Legal
16 14 (1.06%) Telecoms
17 12 (0.91%) Mandarin Language
17 12 (0.91%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (0.68%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 729 (55.14%) Developer
2 228 (17.25%) Senior
3 200 (15.13%) Software Engineer
4 158 (11.95%) Full Stack Developer
5 156 (11.80%) Lead
6 142 (10.74%) Full Stack Engineer
7 136 (10.29%) Senior Developer
8 118 (8.93%) Azure Developer
9 110 (8.32%) Azure Engineer
10 108 (8.17%) Java Developer
11 86 (6.51%) .NET Developer
12 82 (6.20%) Java Engineer
13 74 (5.60%) Software Developer
14 63 (4.77%) C# Developer
15 61 (4.61%) Lead Developer
16 60 (4.54%) Java Software Engineer
17 54 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
18 52 (3.93%) PHP Developer
19 44 (3.33%) Architect
20 42 (3.18%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 544 (41.15%) Web Services
2 527 (39.86%) .NET
3 484 (36.61%) HTML
4 470 (35.55%) CSS
5 455 (34.42%) React
6 440 (33.28%) AngularJS
7 339 (25.64%) ASP.NET
8 319 (24.13%) Vue
9 296 (22.39%) jQuery
10 279 (21.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 242 (18.31%) ASP.NET Core
11 242 (18.31%) Node.js
12 229 (17.32%) Backbone.js
12 229 (17.32%) Ember.js
13 223 (16.87%) SOAP
14 221 (16.72%) Spring
15 199 (15.05%) JSON
16 166 (12.56%) XML
17 160 (12.10%) Spring Boot
18 143 (10.82%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 257 (19.44%) Algorithms
2 237 (17.93%) Data Structures
3 231 (17.47%) Blockchain
3 231 (17.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 117 (8.85%) e-Learning
5 75 (5.67%) Cloud Native
6 70 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
7 63 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
8 57 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
9 47 (3.56%) Management Information System
10 40 (3.03%) Blog
11 37 (2.80%) Media Streaming
12 31 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
13 29 (2.19%) Product Ownership
14 26 (1.97%) Replication
15 24 (1.82%) Public Cloud
16 21 (1.59%) Clustering
16 21 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 18 (1.36%) Mobile App
18 15 (1.13%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 394 (29.80%) Linux
2 308 (23.30%) Windows
3 265 (20.05%) Android
4 250 (18.91%) Apple iOS
5 37 (2.80%) Ubuntu
6 29 (2.19%) CentOS
6 29 (2.19%) Debian
6 29 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (1.97%) AIX
8 25 (1.89%) Unix
9 18 (1.36%) Embedded Linux
10 11 (0.83%) Windows Server
11 6 (0.45%) VMS
12 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 681 (51.51%) Agile
2 395 (29.88%) MVC
3 373 (28.21%) Full Stack Development
4 356 (26.93%) OO
5 349 (26.40%) DevOps
6 340 (25.72%) Web Development
7 333 (25.19%) Design Patterns
8 318 (24.05%) OOP
9 315 (23.83%) User Experience
10 292 (22.09%) SOLID
11 285 (21.56%) Software Engineering
12 275 (20.80%) Artificial Intelligence
13 258 (19.52%) Mentoring
14 257 (19.44%) Microservices
15 255 (19.29%) MVVM
16 233 (17.62%) Responsive Web Design
17 230 (17.40%) Co-Creation
18 229 (17.32%) Design Thinking
19 220 (16.64%) CI/CD
20 198 (14.98%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 658 (49.77%) JavaScript
2 655 (49.55%) SQL
3 505 (38.20%) Java
4 499 (37.75%) C#
5 291 (22.01%) Python
6 163 (12.33%) TypeScript
7 85 (6.43%) PHP
8 68 (5.14%) T-SQL
9 60 (4.54%) VB.NET
10 53 (4.01%) C++
11 51 (3.86%) Go
11 51 (3.86%) VB
12 47 (3.56%) C
13 40 (3.03%) Scala
14 31 (2.34%) Apex Code
14 31 (2.34%) PowerShell
15 28 (2.12%) VB6
16 26 (1.97%) Groovy
17 25 (1.89%) Kotlin
18 21 (1.59%) XAML
Qualifications
1 112 (8.47%) Security Cleared
2 111 (8.40%) Degree
3 103 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 62 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 11 (0.83%) PhD
8 8 (0.61%) ISEB
8 8 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 7 (0.53%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.23%) MCPD
13 2 (0.15%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.076%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.076%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.076%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.81%) QA
2 31 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.44%) GDPR
4 4 (0.30%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.23%) NIST
6 2 (0.15%) GRC
6 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.076%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 235 (17.78%) Docker
2 20 (1.51%) Virtual Servers
3 19 (1.44%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.68%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.53%) HDFS
7 5 (0.38%) Firmware
8 4 (0.30%) Active Directory
8 4 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.23%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 198 (14.98%) Kubernetes
2 91 (6.88%) Terraform
3 67 (5.07%) Ansible
4 32 (2.42%) Puppet
5 28 (2.12%) Grafana
5 28 (2.12%) Kibana
6 22 (1.66%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.59%) HAProxy
7 21 (1.59%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (1.59%) Zipkin
8 13 (0.98%) WMI
9 5 (0.38%) Rancher
10 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.15%) cPanel
12 1 (0.076%) Istio
12 1 (0.076%) Packer
12 1 (0.076%) Podman
Vendors
1 260 (19.67%) Red Hat
2 234 (17.70%) IBM
3 181 (13.69%) Microsoft
4 98 (7.41%) Google
5 82 (6.20%) Oracle
6 49 (3.71%) Splunk
7 40 (3.03%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.42%) Dynatrace
9 29 (2.19%) SaltStack
10 28 (2.12%) WSO2
11 20 (1.51%) VMware
12 12 (0.91%) Databricks
13 10 (0.76%) Adobe
14 7 (0.53%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.53%) Cloudera
14 7 (0.53%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.45%) Guidewire
16 4 (0.30%) ForgeRock
16 4 (0.30%) MuleSoft
16 4 (0.30%) Workday