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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 97 71
Rank change year-on-year -51 -26 -5
Permanent jobs citing REST 1,975 3,539 7,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.00% 3.41% 4.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.37% 11.32% 12.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,353 2,071 3,143
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +2.88% +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 21,080 31,272 63,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.38% 30.13% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 15,747 19,246 30,345
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for REST in the UK

REST
Top 17 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 3 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 -44 1,691 £60,000 -14.29% 322
UK excluding London -31 1,339 £55,000 -8.33% 211
Work from Home -44 761 £60,000 -11.11% 193
London -53 599 £75,000 -6.25% 130
North of England +20 327 £55,173 -9.92% 62
South East -44 327 £57,500 - 50
North West +55 238 £60,000 -14.29% 37
Midlands -6 223 £52,500 -12.50% 20
Scotland -53 175 £56,318 -5.39% 18
South West -41 151 £52,500 -12.50% 20
East Midlands +9 132 £50,000 -4.76% 6
West Midlands -44 91 £52,500 -12.50% 14
East of England -29 80 £47,500 -23.08% 32
Yorkshire -10 74 £47,500 -17.39% 20
Wales -17 39 £52,500 -12.50% 4
Northern Ireland -26 18 £85,000 +88.89% 6
North East -31 15 £47,500 -20.83% 5

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
1 118 (5.97%) IIS
2 80 (4.05%) Apache
3 45 (2.28%) Apache Spark
4 44 (2.23%) JBoss
5 42 (2.13%) OpenStack
6 40 (2.03%) Red Hat Fuse
7 39 (1.97%) CMS
8 32 (1.62%) SharePoint
9 25 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
10 23 (1.16%) Confluence
11 22 (1.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 21 (1.06%) GemFire
13 13 (0.66%) nginx
14 11 (0.56%) WordPress
15 10 (0.51%) EPiServer
16 6 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
17 5 (0.25%) Drupal
17 5 (0.25%) IBM Notes
18 4 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
18 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.46%) Trello
4 4 (0.20%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.81%) Shopify
3 11 (0.56%) Maximo
4 9 (0.46%) Elite 3E
5 8 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.25%) BusinessWorks
6 5 (0.25%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.10%) Magento
9 2 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.051%) HFM
10 1 (0.051%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.051%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.051%) Oracle FAH
10 1 (0.051%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.051%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 794 (40.20%) Azure
2 453 (22.94%) AWS
3 306 (15.49%) Azure DevOps
4 270 (13.67%) Serverless
5 244 (12.35%) IBM Cloud
6 149 (7.54%) Azure Service Bus
7 142 (7.19%) Azure Functions
8 140 (7.09%) SaaS
9 131 (6.63%) Azure API Management
10 130 (6.58%) Azure Logic Apps
11 129 (6.53%) GCP
12 107 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
13 88 (4.46%) Power Platform
14 82 (4.15%) GitHub
15 62 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
16 57 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
17 30 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
18 28 (1.42%) OpenShift
18 28 (1.42%) Power Automate
19 23 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.24%) HTTP
2 62 (3.14%) Firewall
3 54 (2.73%) DNS
3 54 (2.73%) Internet
4 48 (2.43%) TCP/IP
5 27 (1.37%) AMQP
6 25 (1.27%) WAN
7 23 (1.16%) SSL
8 18 (0.91%) Kerberos
9 17 (0.86%) MQTT
9 17 (0.86%) SSH
9 17 (0.86%) VPN
10 15 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.76%) Wireless
11 13 (0.66%) 3G
11 13 (0.66%) SNMP
12 12 (0.61%) 4G
12 12 (0.61%) RS-485
13 11 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.56%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 457 (23.14%) PostgreSQL
2 377 (19.09%) NoSQL
3 334 (16.91%) SQL Server
4 318 (16.10%) MongoDB
5 277 (14.03%) Relational Database
6 241 (12.20%) DB2
7 116 (5.87%) MySQL
8 61 (3.09%) Redis
9 49 (2.48%) Power BI
10 43 (2.18%) Hadoop
11 38 (1.92%) CockroachDB
12 34 (1.72%) Big Data
13 33 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
14 29 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 28 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 26 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
17 25 (1.27%) Cloudera CDH
18 24 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
18 24 (1.22%) Oracle Database
19 22 (1.11%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 413 (20.91%) Git
2 250 (12.66%) Jenkins
3 130 (6.58%) JIRA
4 114 (5.77%) Postman
5 106 (5.37%) Cucumber
5 106 (5.37%) Selenium
6 71 (3.59%) Visual Studio
7 65 (3.29%) JUnit
8 61 (3.09%) IntelliJ
9 56 (2.84%) GitLab
10 38 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
11 37 (1.87%) Eclipse
11 37 (1.87%) Jasmine
11 37 (1.87%) Maven
12 36 (1.82%) Oracle APEX
12 36 (1.82%) TeamCity
13 33 (1.67%) Karma Test Runner
14 30 (1.52%) Bitbucket
15 27 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
15 27 (1.37%) WebDriver
General
1 424 (21.47%) Finance
2 349 (17.67%) Social Skills
3 336 (17.01%) Public Sector
4 241 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 156 (7.90%) Law
6 90 (4.56%) Banking
7 77 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
7 77 (3.90%) Marketing
8 63 (3.19%) Retail
9 51 (2.58%) Legal
10 39 (1.97%) Investment Banking
11 32 (1.62%) Financial Institution
12 28 (1.42%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.37%) Aerospace
14 23 (1.16%) Games
15 21 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
17 13 (0.66%) Mandarin Language
18 10 (0.51%) Front Office
19 8 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,038 (52.56%) Developer
2 429 (21.72%) Senior
3 272 (13.77%) Software Engineer
4 238 (12.05%) Lead
5 215 (10.89%) Senior Developer
6 213 (10.78%) Full Stack Developer
7 158 (8.00%) Java Developer
8 153 (7.75%) Full Stack Engineer
9 141 (7.14%) .NET Developer
10 133 (6.73%) Azure Developer
11 132 (6.68%) Java Engineer
12 115 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
13 111 (5.62%) Java Software Engineer
14 88 (4.46%) C# Developer
15 83 (4.20%) Software Developer
16 81 (4.10%) Senior Software Engineer
17 77 (3.90%) Lead Developer
18 72 (3.65%) Architect
19 65 (3.29%) Analyst
20 58 (2.94%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 708 (35.85%) .NET
2 686 (34.73%) Web Services
3 599 (30.33%) HTML
4 570 (28.86%) CSS
4 570 (28.86%) React
5 563 (28.51%) AngularJS
6 427 (21.62%) ASP.NET
7 370 (18.73%) JSON
8 369 (18.68%) SOAP
9 344 (17.42%) jQuery
10 335 (16.96%) Vue
11 319 (16.15%) Spring
12 302 (15.29%) XML
13 301 (15.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 285 (14.43%) Node.js
15 254 (12.86%) ASP.NET Core
16 238 (12.05%) Backbone.js
16 238 (12.05%) Ember.js
17 218 (11.04%) Spring Boot
18 155 (7.85%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 276 (13.97%) Algorithms
2 273 (13.82%) Data Structures
3 244 (12.35%) Blockchain
4 241 (12.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 114 (5.77%) e-Learning
6 92 (4.66%) Cloud Native
7 75 (3.80%) Management Information System
8 72 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
9 71 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
10 69 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
11 68 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
12 59 (2.99%) Product Ownership
13 37 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
14 35 (1.77%) Public Cloud
15 30 (1.52%) Clustering
16 29 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 27 (1.37%) Mobile App
17 27 (1.37%) Replication
18 24 (1.22%) IoT
19 22 (1.11%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 452 (22.89%) Linux
2 338 (17.11%) Windows
3 288 (14.58%) Android
4 265 (13.42%) Apple iOS
5 58 (2.94%) Unix
6 36 (1.82%) CentOS
7 34 (1.72%) Ubuntu
8 31 (1.57%) AIX
9 25 (1.27%) Debian
9 25 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (0.96%) Windows Server
11 17 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.41%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.20%) VMS
14 1 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 951 (48.15%) Agile
2 518 (26.23%) DevOps
3 483 (24.46%) Full Stack Development
4 447 (22.63%) MVC
5 436 (22.08%) CI/CD
6 408 (20.66%) Software Engineering
7 394 (19.95%) Design Patterns
8 392 (19.85%) User Experience
9 384 (19.44%) OO
10 381 (19.29%) Microservices
11 360 (18.23%) Web Development
12 330 (16.71%) SOLID
13 329 (16.66%) OOP
14 324 (16.41%) Artificial Intelligence
15 310 (15.70%) Mentoring
15 310 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
16 283 (14.33%) TDD
17 282 (14.28%) Scrum
18 277 (14.03%) MVVM
19 243 (12.30%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 943 (47.75%) SQL
2 859 (43.49%) JavaScript
3 741 (37.52%) Java
4 686 (34.73%) C#
5 434 (21.97%) Python
6 229 (11.59%) TypeScript
7 116 (5.87%) PHP
8 109 (5.52%) T-SQL
9 79 (4.00%) PowerShell
10 76 (3.85%) Go
11 75 (3.80%) VB.NET
12 58 (2.94%) C++
13 52 (2.63%) VB
14 51 (2.58%) Apex Code
15 49 (2.48%) C
16 42 (2.13%) PL/SQL
17 38 (1.92%) Kotlin
18 31 (1.57%) Groovy
19 28 (1.42%) VB6
20 25 (1.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 201 (10.18%) Security Cleared
2 183 (9.27%) SC Cleared
3 162 (8.20%) Degree
4 86 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 26 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 22 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 19 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.61%) ISEB
10 12 (0.61%) ISTQB
11 11 (0.56%) PhD
12 9 (0.46%) CISSP
13 8 (0.41%) CISM
14 7 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.30%) DBS Check
15 6 (0.30%) GIAC
15 6 (0.30%) SANS
16 5 (0.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (8.46%) QA
2 60 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 16 (0.81%) GDPR
4 11 (0.56%) NIST
5 9 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.46%) WCAG
6 6 (0.30%) COBIT
6 6 (0.30%) PMO
6 6 (0.30%) SLA
6 6 (0.30%) Web Application Security Consortium
7 5 (0.25%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.20%) GRC
8 4 (0.20%) MiFID
9 3 (0.15%) ISO 9000
9 3 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.051%) EMIR
11 1 (0.051%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.051%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.051%) NCSC
System Software
1 339 (17.16%) Docker
2 31 (1.57%) Hyper-V
3 28 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.96%) Active Directory
4 19 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
5 16 (0.81%) HDFS
6 12 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.25%) Firmware
8 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.20%) vSphere
10 3 (0.15%) Varnish
10 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.051%) KVM
11 1 (0.051%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.051%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 310 (15.70%) Kubernetes
2 123 (6.23%) Terraform
3 88 (4.46%) Ansible
4 48 (2.43%) Grafana
5 31 (1.57%) Puppet
6 29 (1.47%) Kibana
7 25 (1.27%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.06%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.06%) Zipkin
9 15 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.66%) WMI
11 10 (0.51%) Nmap
12 8 (0.41%) Packer
13 6 (0.30%) CloudHub
13 6 (0.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.30%) Rancher
14 5 (0.25%) Consul
15 4 (0.20%) cPanel
16 3 (0.15%) Argo
Vendors
1 267 (13.52%) Red Hat
2 263 (13.32%) Microsoft
3 257 (13.01%) IBM
4 148 (7.49%) Oracle
5 137 (6.94%) Google
6 62 (3.14%) Salesforce
7 59 (2.99%) Splunk
8 43 (2.18%) Dynatrace
9 42 (2.13%) WSO2
10 36 (1.82%) ServiceNow
11 32 (1.62%) VMware
12 25 (1.27%) SaltStack
13 23 (1.16%) Databricks
14 16 (0.81%) Cloudera
15 15 (0.76%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.71%) UiPath
17 13 (0.66%) CheckPoint
17 13 (0.66%) MuleSoft
18 11 (0.56%) Blue Prism
18 11 (0.56%) Cisco