Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 25 January 2022

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 25 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
25 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 63 64 63
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +27
Permanent jobs citing REST 1,442 539 349
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.88% 4.92% 4.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.40% 9.99% 10.06%
Number of salaries quoted 972 476 275
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,625 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -

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.

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 12,652 5,394 3,470
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 42.79% 49.24% 47.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 4,866 3,043
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +4.76%

REST
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

REST
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

REST
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 25 January 2022.

REST salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 25 January 2022, REST job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for REST.

1 799 (55.41%) Agile Software Development
2 576 (39.94%) JavaScript
3 423 (29.33%) Java
4 405 (28.09%) HTML
5 401 (27.81%) CSS
6 389 (26.98%) Microservices
7 379 (26.28%) Git (software)
8 367 (25.45%) AWS
9 357 (24.76%) C#
10 353 (24.48%) SQL
11 351 (24.34%) Azure
11 351 (24.34%) React
12 350 (24.27%) CI/CD
13 336 (23.30%) Software Engineering
14 331 (22.95%) Docker
15 314 (21.78%) .NET
16 310 (21.50%) DevOps
17 298 (20.67%) Web Services
18 281 (19.49%) Node.js
19 274 (19.00%) TDD
20 271 (18.79%) Spring
21 267 (18.52%) Scrum
22 259 (17.96%) JSON
23 252 (17.48%) SOAP
24 250 (17.34%) Finance
25 230 (15.95%) Social Skills
26 226 (15.67%) Full Stack Development
27 222 (15.40%) Kubernetes
28 221 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
29 215 (14.91%) Greenfield Project

REST
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 73 (5.06%) CMS
2 48 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
3 41 (2.84%) Confluence
4 39 (2.70%) Anypoint
5 38 (2.64%) Mule
5 38 (2.64%) Mule ESB
5 38 (2.64%) SharePoint
6 34 (2.36%) Umbraco
7 29 (2.01%) Tomcat
8 23 (1.60%) SharePoint 2010
9 13 (0.90%) WordPress
10 12 (0.83%) Apache
10 12 (0.83%) JBoss
10 12 (0.83%) nginx
11 8 (0.55%) Apache Solr
11 8 (0.55%) IIS
11 8 (0.55%) Jetty
11 8 (0.55%) SharePoint 2013
11 8 (0.55%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.49%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 22 (1.53%) Adobe XD
2 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.28%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.069%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.069%) MadCap Flare
6 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.069%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.069%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 40 (2.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.62%) Shopify
4 8 (0.55%) Distributed Ledger
4 8 (0.55%) R3 Corda
5 7 (0.49%) Maximo
6 5 (0.35%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.21%) Magento
8 3 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.069%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.069%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.069%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 367 (25.45%) AWS
2 351 (24.34%) Azure
3 184 (12.76%) Serverless
4 126 (8.74%) SaaS
5 120 (8.32%) GCP
6 109 (7.56%) iPaaS
7 87 (6.03%) GitHub
8 67 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (4.02%) Boomi
10 54 (3.74%) AtomSphere
11 41 (2.84%) Amazon S3
12 35 (2.43%) Amazon Cognito
13 34 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
13 34 (2.36%) Power Platform
14 29 (2.01%) npm
15 27 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
16 26 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
17 24 (1.66%) Figma
18 23 (1.60%) PaaS
19 22 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.54%) HTTP
2 15 (1.04%) SSL
3 12 (0.83%) MQTT
4 10 (0.69%) DNS
4 10 (0.69%) Internet
5 8 (0.55%) PPP
5 8 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.49%) HTTPS
7 6 (0.42%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.35%) 5G
8 5 (0.35%) FTP
9 4 (0.28%) SMTP
9 4 (0.28%) WAN
10 3 (0.21%) Network Security
10 3 (0.21%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.21%) SSH
10 3 (0.21%) VPN
11 2 (0.14%) BIG-IP
11 2 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (13.11%) MySQL
2 183 (12.69%) PostgreSQL
3 178 (12.34%) SQL Server
4 162 (11.23%) NoSQL
5 144 (9.99%) Relational Database
6 115 (7.98%) MongoDB
7 84 (5.83%) Redis
8 34 (2.36%) Amazon DynamoDB
8 34 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
8 34 (2.36%) RDBMS
9 29 (2.01%) Power BI
10 24 (1.66%) Hadoop
11 23 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
12 22 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 21 (1.46%) Big Data
14 19 (1.32%) Tableau
15 18 (1.25%) Hazelcast
15 18 (1.25%) Oracle Database
16 14 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
17 12 (0.83%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 379 (26.28%) Git (software)
2 156 (10.82%) Jenkins
3 119 (8.25%) JIRA
4 80 (5.55%) GitLab
5 77 (5.34%) Cypress.io
6 67 (4.65%) JUnit
7 64 (4.44%) Selenium
8 63 (4.37%) Cucumber
9 51 (3.54%) webpack
10 45 (3.12%) JMeter
11 43 (2.98%) Maven
12 36 (2.50%) SpecFlow
13 35 (2.43%) Eclipse
13 35 (2.43%) Subversion
14 33 (2.29%) Visual Studio
15 31 (2.15%) Mockito
15 31 (2.15%) Postman
16 30 (2.08%) TeamCity
17 29 (2.01%) Gradle
18 27 (1.87%) CircleCI
General
1 250 (17.34%) Finance
2 230 (15.95%) Social Skills
3 149 (10.33%) Retail
4 97 (6.73%) Marketing
5 74 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 48 (3.33%) Banking
7 48 (3.33%) Publishing
8 41 (2.84%) Games
9 33 (2.29%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.87%) Law
12 26 (1.80%) Advertising
13 25 (1.73%) Automotive
14 19 (1.32%) Electronics
15 17 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (1.04%) Legal
17 14 (0.97%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
19 11 (0.76%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 872 (60.47%) Developer
2 240 (16.64%) Senior Developer
3 176 (12.21%) Software Engineer
4 148 (10.26%) Java Developer
5 114 (7.91%) Architect
6 105 (7.28%) Java Engineer
7 98 (6.80%) Full Stack Developer
8 91 (6.31%) .NET Developer
9 85 (5.89%) JavaScript Developer
9 85 (5.89%) Senior Software Engineer
10 78 (5.41%) React Developer
10 78 (5.41%) Software Developer
11 77 (5.34%) C# Developer
12 72 (4.99%) Java Software Engineer
13 65 (4.51%) MuleSoft Developer
14 60 (4.16%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 60 (4.16%) PHP Developer
15 58 (4.02%) Senior Java Engineer
16 46 (3.19%) Node.js Developer
17 40 (2.77%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 405 (28.09%) HTML
2 401 (27.81%) CSS
3 351 (24.34%) React
4 314 (21.78%) .NET
5 298 (20.67%) Web Services
6 281 (19.49%) Node.js
7 271 (18.79%) Spring
8 259 (17.96%) JSON
9 252 (17.48%) SOAP
10 187 (12.97%) AngularJS
11 181 (12.55%) Spring Boot
12 174 (12.07%) XML
13 172 (11.93%) HTML5
14 156 (10.82%) RESTful
15 147 (10.19%) .NET Framework
16 143 (9.92%) ASP.NET
17 141 (9.78%) jQuery
18 137 (9.50%) GraphQL
19 123 (8.53%) CSS3
20 106 (7.35%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 215 (14.91%) Greenfield Project
2 126 (8.74%) User Experience
3 69 (4.79%) Mobile App
4 55 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
5 50 (3.47%) iPad
6 43 (2.98%) Algorithms
7 39 (2.70%) Virtual Team
8 38 (2.64%) Data Structures
9 31 (2.15%) Cloud Native
10 27 (1.87%) FMCG
10 27 (1.87%) Public Cloud
11 24 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.04%) Legacy Code
13 13 (0.90%) Robotics
14 12 (0.83%) Over-the-Top Content
15 11 (0.76%) Fixed Income
16 10 (0.69%) Smart Home
17 9 (0.62%) Blog
17 9 (0.62%) Management Information System
17 9 (0.62%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 128 (8.88%) Linux
2 72 (4.99%) Android
3 69 (4.79%) Apple iOS
4 35 (2.43%) Windows
5 20 (1.39%) Unix
6 10 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
6 10 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.55%) Debian
8 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.069%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.069%) VMS
10 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 799 (55.41%) Agile Software Development
2 389 (26.98%) Microservices
3 350 (24.27%) CI/CD
4 336 (23.30%) Software Engineering
5 310 (21.50%) DevOps
6 274 (19.00%) TDD
7 267 (18.52%) Scrum
8 226 (15.67%) Full Stack Development
9 221 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
10 214 (14.84%) MVC
11 212 (14.70%) Test Automation
12 204 (14.15%) Mentoring
13 166 (11.51%) E-Commerce
14 158 (10.96%) BDD
15 154 (10.68%) Continuous Integration
16 149 (10.33%) Unit Testing
17 148 (10.26%) Front End Development
18 138 (9.57%) Kanban
19 128 (8.88%) SOA
20 115 (7.98%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 576 (39.94%) JavaScript
2 423 (29.33%) Java
3 357 (24.76%) C#
4 353 (24.48%) SQL
5 200 (13.87%) Python
5 200 (13.87%) TypeScript
6 124 (8.60%) PHP
7 80 (5.55%) Kotlin
8 66 (4.58%) Go
9 65 (4.51%) PowerShell
10 61 (4.23%) Java 8
11 44 (3.05%) C++
12 41 (2.84%) Ruby
13 40 (2.77%) ES6
14 30 (2.08%) T-SQL
15 26 (1.80%) C
16 25 (1.73%) Apple Swift
17 23 (1.60%) Scala
18 22 (1.53%) Java 11
19 20 (1.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 164 (11.37%) Degree
2 163 (11.30%) Security Cleared
3 157 (10.89%) SC Cleared
4 85 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 12 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.69%) ISTQB
8 10 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 6 (0.42%) MCPD
11 4 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.21%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.14%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.14%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.14%) HND
13 2 (0.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.069%) CISSP
14 1 (0.069%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (9.08%) QA
2 36 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.69%) SEPA
4 9 (0.62%) SLA
5 5 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
6 3 (0.21%) GRC
7 2 (0.14%) GDPR
8 1 (0.069%) PMO
System Software
1 331 (22.95%) Docker
2 14 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.069%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.069%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.069%) NDS
5 1 (0.069%) Postfix
5 1 (0.069%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 222 (15.40%) Kubernetes
2 71 (4.92%) Terraform
3 45 (3.12%) Prometheus
4 40 (2.77%) Ansible
5 23 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (1.46%) Docker Swarm
6 21 (1.46%) Opscode Chef
6 21 (1.46%) Puppet
7 19 (1.32%) Grafana
8 17 (1.18%) Kibana
9 16 (1.11%) logstash
10 9 (0.62%) MIIS
11 2 (0.14%) nmon
11 2 (0.14%) SCCM
12 1 (0.069%) CA Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.069%) Nagios
12 1 (0.069%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.069%) QRadar
12 1 (0.069%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.069%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 175 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 111 (7.70%) MuleSoft
3 104 (7.21%) Oracle
4 89 (6.17%) ServiceNow
5 60 (4.16%) Google
6 56 (3.88%) Dell
7 44 (3.05%) Salesforce.com
8 24 (1.66%) Adobe
9 23 (1.60%) Zend
10 19 (1.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 17 (1.18%) SAP
12 15 (1.04%) Dynatrace
13 13 (0.90%) New Relic
14 12 (0.83%) AppDynamics
14 12 (0.83%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.83%) Micro Focus
15 11 (0.76%) Mercator
16 10 (0.69%) Splunk
17 9 (0.62%) IBM
18 8 (0.55%) HP