REST Jobs with Work from Home Options

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 103 70
Rank change year-on-year -48 -33 -17
Permanent jobs citing REST 748 1,329 3,373
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.22% 3.20% 4.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.32% 9.45% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 682 1,073 1,570
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 8,985 14,063 30,888
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.61% 33.91% 45.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,525 10,564 17,074
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,000 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

REST trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing REST.

REST salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing REST over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

REST salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 72 (9.63%) IIS
2 34 (4.55%) Apache
3 27 (3.61%) OpenStack
4 13 (1.74%) CMS
4 13 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.20%) JBoss
5 9 (1.20%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (0.94%) WordPress
7 4 (0.53%) EPiServer
8 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.40%) Confluence
8 3 (0.40%) Drupal
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.27%) Moodle
9 2 (0.27%) nginx
9 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.13%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.40%) Trello
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.94%) Shopify
2 4 (0.53%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 246 (32.89%) Azure
2 175 (23.40%) AWS
3 110 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 98 (13.10%) SaaS
5 62 (8.29%) Serverless
6 40 (5.35%) GCP
7 39 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
8 38 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
9 32 (4.28%) Power Platform
10 20 (2.67%) GitHub
11 18 (2.41%) PaaS
12 16 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (1.87%) Azure Service Bus
13 14 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (1.47%) Azure Functions
14 11 (1.47%) Entra ID
15 10 (1.34%) Azure Cognitive Services
15 10 (1.34%) Firebase
16 9 (1.20%) Azure Service Fabric
17 8 (1.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.48%) Firewall
2 38 (5.08%) DNS
3 37 (4.95%) HTTP
4 29 (3.88%) Internet
5 25 (3.34%) TCP/IP
6 19 (2.54%) SSL
7 3 (0.40%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.40%) MQTT
8 2 (0.27%) DMZ
8 2 (0.27%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.27%) Modbus
8 2 (0.27%) VLAN
8 2 (0.27%) VPN
9 1 (0.13%) AMQP
9 1 (0.13%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (22.59%) SQL Server
2 113 (15.11%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (7.62%) Relational Database
4 42 (5.61%) NoSQL
5 35 (4.68%) MongoDB
5 35 (4.68%) MySQL
6 23 (3.07%) Oracle Database
7 17 (2.27%) Power BI
8 16 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (2.14%) Redis
8 16 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (1.34%) MariaDB
12 8 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.07%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.53%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.53%) GIS
13 4 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.40%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 181 (24.20%) Git
2 132 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 84 (11.23%) Postman
4 71 (9.49%) Cucumber
5 61 (8.16%) Selenium
6 50 (6.68%) JIRA
7 36 (4.81%) Visual Studio
8 28 (3.74%) Jasmine
8 28 (3.74%) Karma Test Runner
9 23 (3.07%) Oracle APEX
10 20 (2.67%) Eclipse
11 19 (2.54%) Maven
12 18 (2.41%) TeamCity
13 17 (2.27%) JUnit
14 15 (2.01%) webpack
15 14 (1.87%) Cypress.io
16 13 (1.74%) Bitbucket
17 12 (1.60%) Android Studio
17 12 (1.60%) SpecFlow
17 12 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 162 (21.66%) Social Skills
2 119 (15.91%) Finance
3 42 (5.61%) Law
4 35 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (3.61%) Retail
6 24 (3.21%) Public Sector
7 22 (2.94%) Banking
8 15 (2.01%) Marketing
9 10 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.20%) Legal
11 6 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.67%) Aviation
12 5 (0.67%) Local Government
12 5 (0.67%) Tech for Good
12 5 (0.67%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.53%) Advertising
14 3 (0.40%) Back Office
14 3 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.40%) Games
14 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 424 (56.68%) Developer
2 212 (28.34%) Senior
3 123 (16.44%) Senior Developer
4 95 (12.70%) Lead
5 64 (8.56%) Java Developer
6 60 (8.02%) .NET Developer
7 53 (7.09%) Software Engineer
8 48 (6.42%) C# Developer
9 37 (4.95%) Architect
9 37 (4.95%) PHP Developer
10 36 (4.81%) Analyst
11 34 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
12 31 (4.14%) Lead Developer
13 30 (4.01%) Support Engineer
14 28 (3.74%) Software Developer
15 25 (3.34%) Python Engineer
15 25 (3.34%) Senior Java Developer
16 22 (2.94%) Software Support Engineer
17 21 (2.81%) Senior Software Engineer
18 17 (2.27%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (33.96%) .NET
2 222 (29.68%) Web Services
3 183 (24.47%) JSON
4 171 (22.86%) SOAP
5 167 (22.33%) HTML
6 160 (21.39%) CSS
7 135 (18.05%) AngularJS
8 128 (17.11%) XML
9 123 (16.44%) ASP.NET
10 118 (15.78%) React
11 76 (10.16%) jQuery
12 74 (9.89%) Spring
13 69 (9.22%) Kafka
14 68 (9.09%) GraphQL
15 64 (8.56%) Spring Boot
16 57 (7.62%) Node.js
17 56 (7.49%) Laravel
18 55 (7.35%) .NET Framework
19 54 (7.22%) Vue
20 51 (6.82%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
2 33 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.07%) Data Structures
5 23 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.94%) IoT
7 17 (2.27%) Client/Server
8 14 (1.87%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.74%) Management Information System
10 7 (0.94%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.94%) Mobile App
11 6 (0.80%) Blog
11 6 (0.80%) Low-Code
11 6 (0.80%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.53%) Blockchain
12 4 (0.53%) CMDB
12 4 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 74 (9.89%) Linux
2 49 (6.55%) Windows
3 26 (3.48%) AIX
4 22 (2.94%) Android
5 17 (2.27%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.67%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (39.97%) Agile
2 227 (30.35%) DevOps
3 197 (26.34%) CI/CD
4 153 (20.45%) Microservices
5 150 (20.05%) TDD
6 129 (17.25%) BDD
7 122 (16.31%) Scrum
8 113 (15.11%) Software Engineering
9 94 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
10 90 (12.03%) Full Stack Development
11 86 (11.50%) MVC
11 86 (11.50%) Test Automation
12 85 (11.36%) Clean Code
13 80 (10.70%) Continuous Integration
14 79 (10.56%) Design Patterns
15 76 (10.16%) OO
16 74 (9.89%) API Testing
17 73 (9.76%) Unit Testing
18 68 (9.09%) SDET
18 68 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 308 (41.18%) SQL
2 271 (36.23%) JavaScript
3 244 (32.62%) C#
4 204 (27.27%) Java
5 108 (14.44%) Python
6 95 (12.70%) TypeScript
7 77 (10.29%) PHP
8 68 (9.09%) T-SQL
9 56 (7.49%) VB.NET
10 50 (6.68%) VB
11 44 (5.88%) Go
12 28 (3.74%) PowerShell
12 28 (3.74%) VB6
13 27 (3.61%) PL/SQL
14 25 (3.34%) C++
15 24 (3.21%) C
16 19 (2.54%) XAML
16 19 (2.54%) XPath
17 17 (2.27%) Objective-C
17 17 (2.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 69 (9.22%) Security Cleared
2 67 (8.96%) Degree
3 56 (7.49%) SC Cleared
4 46 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.01%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.01%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.20%) ISEB
6 9 (1.20%) ISTQB
7 6 (0.80%) CISM
7 6 (0.80%) CISSP
7 6 (0.80%) GIAC
7 6 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (0.80%) SANS
8 4 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.53%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.13%) ACCA
11 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (14.57%) QA
2 25 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.07%) NIST
4 7 (0.94%) WCAG
5 6 (0.80%) COBIT
5 6 (0.80%) Web Application Security Consortium
6 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.27%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.13%) EMIR
8 1 (0.13%) MiFID
8 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 156 (20.86%) Docker
2 21 (2.81%) Hyper-V
3 15 (2.01%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (1.07%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) vSphere
7 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 98 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 46 (6.15%) Terraform
3 35 (4.68%) Ansible
4 7 (0.94%) Nmap
5 6 (0.80%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 6 (0.80%) Grafana
6 3 (0.40%) Argo
6 3 (0.40%) Consul
6 3 (0.40%) Packer
7 2 (0.27%) Rancher
7 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.13%) cPanel
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) MIIS
8 1 (0.13%) Podman
8 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 108 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.75%) Oracle
3 38 (5.08%) Google
4 27 (3.61%) WSO2
5 13 (1.74%) UiPath
6 10 (1.34%) Automation Anywhere
6 10 (1.34%) Blue Prism
6 10 (1.34%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 6 (0.80%) IBM
9 5 (0.67%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.53%) Facebook
10 4 (0.53%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.53%) TIBCO
10 4 (0.53%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.40%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.40%) Sybase
11 3 (0.40%) Telerik
12 2 (0.27%) Intapp
12 2 (0.27%) Sparx