REST Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 159 109
Rank change year-on-year -2 -50 -42
Permanent jobs citing REST 435 702 1,064
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.23% 1.97% 2.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.61% 7.39% 8.79%
Number of salaries quoted 268 625 894
10th Percentile £45,650 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.78% +5.45%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,375 £95,000 £97,125
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,054 9,501 12,107
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.87% 26.60% 32.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,867 7,771 9,521
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,100 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -8.19% +4.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £66,274 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.46% -11.11% +4.25%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

REST trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing REST over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

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 11 (2.53%) IIS
2 9 (2.07%) Confluence
2 9 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.07%) Tomcat
3 5 (1.15%) CMS
3 5 (1.15%) OpenEdge
4 4 (0.92%) JBoss
4 4 (0.92%) WordPress
5 3 (0.69%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.69%) nginx
5 3 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.23%) Drupal
6 1 (0.23%) Mendix
6 1 (0.23%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.23%) Strapi
Applications
1 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.92%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.46%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.76%) NetSuite
1 12 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.53%) JDE OneWorld
3 5 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.23%) Magento
5 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 242 (55.63%) Azure
2 198 (45.52%) AWS
3 49 (11.26%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (10.11%) SaaS
5 37 (8.51%) Azure Service Bus
6 30 (6.90%) GCP
7 28 (6.44%) Serverless
8 26 (5.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 25 (5.75%) GitHub
10 23 (5.29%) SonarCloud
11 16 (3.68%) Power Automate
11 16 (3.68%) Power Platform
12 13 (2.99%) Entra ID
12 13 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.76%) Boomi
14 11 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (2.30%) Amazon S3
15 10 (2.30%) PowerApps
16 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.30%) SSL
2 9 (2.07%) DMARC
3 7 (1.61%) HTTP
4 4 (0.92%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.46%) FTP
7 1 (0.23%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.23%) 4G
7 1 (0.23%) 5G
7 1 (0.23%) Broadband
7 1 (0.23%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.23%) Firewall
7 1 (0.23%) Internet
7 1 (0.23%) RFID
7 1 (0.23%) SCTP
7 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (32.18%) SQL Server
2 39 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (6.44%) MySQL
4 25 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (5.06%) Relational Database
6 19 (4.37%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.76%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.53%) Power BI
8 11 (2.53%) Redis
9 9 (2.07%) RDBMS
9 9 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (1.38%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.69%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.69%) Metadata
14 2 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
15 1 (0.23%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 115 (26.44%) GitLab
2 114 (26.21%) JIRA
2 114 (26.21%) SonarQube
3 105 (24.14%) Sonatype Nexus
4 95 (21.84%) Bitbucket
4 95 (21.84%) Cucumber
5 94 (21.61%) Maven
6 92 (21.15%) Selenium
7 89 (20.46%) Git
8 32 (7.36%) Visual Studio
9 29 (6.67%) Jenkins
10 24 (5.52%) Octopus Deploy
11 23 (5.29%) MSBuild
11 23 (5.29%) Team Foundation Server
12 16 (3.68%) SpecFlow
13 10 (2.30%) Moq
14 7 (1.61%) Postman
15 6 (1.38%) JUnit
16 5 (1.15%) Xcode
17 4 (0.92%) NUnit
General
1 161 (37.01%) Finance
2 116 (26.67%) Retail
3 110 (25.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 105 (24.14%) Banking
5 92 (21.15%) Investment Banking
6 90 (20.69%) Corporate Banking
7 86 (19.77%) Social Skills
8 26 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.99%) Law
11 11 (2.53%) Front Office
11 11 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.07%) Czech Language
13 9 (2.07%) Electronics
13 9 (2.07%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.61%) Legal
14 7 (1.61%) Tech for Good
15 5 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 159 (36.55%) Developer
2 126 (28.97%) Software Engineer
3 70 (16.09%) Senior
4 43 (9.89%) Lead
5 42 (9.66%) Architect
6 33 (7.59%) Python Engineer
7 30 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 25 (5.75%) C# Developer
8 25 (5.75%) Technical Architect
9 20 (4.60%) .NET Developer
9 20 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (4.37%) DevOps Engineer
10 19 (4.37%) Lead Developer
11 17 (3.91%) Java Developer
12 15 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (3.22%) Software Developer
14 13 (2.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (2.99%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 13 (2.99%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (39.08%) HTML
2 169 (38.85%) CSS
3 139 (31.95%) React
4 112 (25.75%) .NET
4 112 (25.75%) CSS3
5 110 (25.29%) Spring Boot
6 109 (25.06%) RESTful
6 109 (25.06%) Spring
7 104 (23.91%) HTML5
7 104 (23.91%) Kafka
8 101 (23.22%) Jest
9 96 (22.07%) JPA
9 96 (22.07%) Redux
10 95 (21.84%) Sass
11 79 (18.16%) JSON
12 70 (16.09%) SOAP
13 58 (13.33%) XML
14 52 (11.95%) ASP.NET
14 52 (11.95%) Web Services
15 38 (8.74%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 126 (28.97%) Enterprise Software
2 112 (25.75%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.91%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.53%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.53%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.15%) BYOD
10 5 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.15%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.15%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.92%) Smart City
11 4 (0.92%) Wiki
12 3 (0.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 46 (10.57%) Linux
2 33 (7.59%) Windows
3 14 (3.22%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.99%) Unix
5 7 (1.61%) Android
6 5 (1.15%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.92%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.92%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.69%) Solaris
9 2 (0.46%) Debian
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (51.95%) DevOps
2 216 (49.66%) Agile
3 207 (47.59%) Microservices
4 182 (41.84%) CI/CD
5 146 (33.56%) Software Engineering
6 142 (32.64%) Containerisation
7 137 (31.49%) Mentoring
8 125 (28.74%) Test Automation
9 124 (28.51%) Front End Development
9 124 (28.51%) Migration
10 120 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
11 118 (27.13%) Performance Optimisation
12 116 (26.67%) User Experience
13 109 (25.06%) SDLC
14 102 (23.45%) Problem-Solving
15 97 (22.30%) Responsive Web Design
16 90 (20.69%) Strategic Thinking
17 51 (11.72%) Design Patterns
18 50 (11.49%) Event-Driven
19 44 (10.11%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 221 (50.80%) JavaScript
2 216 (49.66%) SQL
3 154 (35.40%) Java
4 135 (31.03%) TypeScript
5 115 (26.44%) C#
6 96 (22.07%) Python
7 33 (7.59%) PowerShell
8 18 (4.14%) PHP
9 16 (3.68%) C++
10 11 (2.53%) Bash
11 9 (2.07%) VBA
12 7 (1.61%) C
12 7 (1.61%) Groovy
12 7 (1.61%) Swift
13 6 (1.38%) Perl
14 5 (1.15%) OpenEdge ABL
14 5 (1.15%) Progress 4GL
14 5 (1.15%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.92%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.69%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 36 (8.28%) Degree
2 22 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (3.68%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.30%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.38%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.38%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.15%) SC Cleared
7 4 (0.92%) SAP Certification
8 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.23%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (29.66%) QA
2 118 (27.13%) Accessibility
3 29 (6.67%) GDPR
4 15 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.38%) CDISC
6 3 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 207 (47.59%) Docker
2 13 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.69%) Firmware
3 3 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.23%) KVM
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 164 (37.70%) Kubernetes
2 48 (11.03%) Terraform
3 33 (7.59%) Ansible
4 13 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.61%) Grafana
7 4 (0.92%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.69%) Packer
9 1 (0.23%) Kibana
9 1 (0.23%) logstash
9 1 (0.23%) Marathon
9 1 (0.23%) Puppet
9 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 90 (20.69%) Solace
2 52 (11.95%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.29%) Google
4 20 (4.60%) Oracle
5 17 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.45%) SAP
7 13 (2.99%) Dell
7 13 (2.99%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.30%) IBM
9 7 (1.61%) Trayport
10 4 (0.92%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.92%) Informatica
10 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.92%) VMware
11 3 (0.69%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.69%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.69%) Progress
12 2 (0.46%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.46%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.46%) Intapp