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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 165 111
Rank change year-on-year +9 -54 -44
Permanent jobs citing REST 443 676 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.15% 1.98% 2.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.67% 7.49% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 278 601 880
10th Percentile £44,100 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,362 £48,750 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.45% +7.20%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,750 £96,250
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 5,107 9,028 11,825
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.82% 26.46% 32.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,936 7,384 9,318
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,496 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,225 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -8.19% +4.56%
75th Percentile £86,250 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -10.45% +4.69%

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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 5 July 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 (2.48%) IIS
2 10 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.03%) Confluence
3 9 (2.03%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.13%) CMS
5 4 (0.90%) JBoss
5 4 (0.90%) OpenEdge
5 4 (0.90%) WordPress
6 3 (0.68%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.68%) nginx
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.23%) Drupal
7 1 (0.23%) Mendix
7 1 (0.23%) MetaMask
7 1 (0.23%) Strapi
Applications
1 9 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.90%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.45%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.71%) NetSuite
1 12 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.48%) JDE OneWorld
3 5 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.45%) 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
1 243 (54.85%) Azure
2 202 (45.60%) AWS
3 48 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (10.16%) SaaS
5 35 (7.90%) Azure Service Bus
6 29 (6.55%) Serverless
7 27 (6.09%) GCP
7 27 (6.09%) GitHub
8 25 (5.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 22 (4.97%) SonarCloud
10 19 (4.29%) Power Platform
11 17 (3.84%) Power Automate
12 13 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.93%) Entra ID
12 13 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (2.71%) Boomi
14 11 (2.48%) Amazon S3
15 10 (2.26%) PowerApps
16 9 (2.03%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.26%) SSL
2 9 (2.03%) DMARC
3 8 (1.81%) HTTP
4 4 (0.90%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.45%) 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
1 143 (32.28%) SQL Server
2 40 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (6.09%) MySQL
4 24 (5.42%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (4.74%) Relational Database
6 17 (3.84%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.39%) MongoDB
8 14 (3.16%) Power BI
9 11 (2.48%) Redis
10 9 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.81%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.35%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.90%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.68%) Metadata
16 2 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
16 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
16 2 (0.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 117 (26.41%) GitLab
2 114 (25.73%) JIRA
2 114 (25.73%) SonarQube
3 105 (23.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 96 (21.67%) Maven
5 94 (21.22%) Bitbucket
5 94 (21.22%) Cucumber
5 94 (21.22%) Selenium
6 91 (20.54%) Git
7 30 (6.77%) Visual Studio
8 29 (6.55%) Jenkins
9 23 (5.19%) Octopus Deploy
10 22 (4.97%) MSBuild
10 22 (4.97%) Team Foundation Server
11 16 (3.61%) SpecFlow
12 10 (2.26%) Moq
13 9 (2.03%) Postman
14 7 (1.58%) JUnit
15 6 (1.35%) Subversion
15 6 (1.35%) Xcode
General
1 166 (37.47%) Finance
2 116 (26.19%) Retail
3 111 (25.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 104 (23.48%) Banking
5 92 (20.77%) Investment Banking
6 91 (20.54%) Social Skills
7 90 (20.32%) Corporate Banking
8 29 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.93%) Law
11 12 (2.71%) Front Office
11 12 (2.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (2.26%) Public Sector
13 9 (2.03%) Czech Language
14 8 (1.81%) Electronics
15 7 (1.58%) Legal
16 6 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (1.13%) Back Office
17 5 (1.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 161 (36.34%) Developer
2 125 (28.22%) Software Engineer
3 73 (16.48%) Senior
4 43 (9.71%) Lead
5 37 (8.35%) Architect
6 35 (7.90%) Python Engineer
7 29 (6.55%) Senior Developer
8 25 (5.64%) C# Developer
9 24 (5.42%) Technical Architect
10 21 (4.74%) .NET Developer
11 19 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
11 19 (4.29%) Java Developer
12 18 (4.06%) Full-Stack Developer
13 17 (3.84%) Lead Developer
14 15 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
16 13 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
16 13 (2.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 13 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
16 13 (2.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (37.70%) CSS
1 167 (37.70%) HTML
2 137 (30.93%) React
3 112 (25.28%) CSS3
4 111 (25.06%) Spring
5 110 (24.83%) RESTful
5 110 (24.83%) Spring Boot
6 109 (24.60%) .NET
7 106 (23.93%) Kafka
8 103 (23.25%) HTML5
9 100 (22.57%) Jest
10 96 (21.67%) JPA
10 96 (21.67%) Redux
11 95 (21.44%) Sass
12 82 (18.51%) JSON
13 77 (17.38%) SOAP
14 59 (13.32%) XML
15 54 (12.19%) Web Services
16 48 (10.84%) ASP.NET
17 36 (8.13%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 123 (27.77%) Enterprise Software
2 112 (25.28%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.06%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.06%) Mobile App
4 16 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.26%) Algorithms
6 10 (2.26%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.35%) BYOD
8 6 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.13%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.13%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.13%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.90%) Smart City
10 4 (0.90%) Wiki
11 3 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 47 (10.61%) Linux
2 32 (7.22%) Windows
3 15 (3.39%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.93%) Unix
5 8 (1.81%) Android
6 5 (1.13%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.90%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.90%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.68%) Solaris
9 2 (0.45%) Debian
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (51.47%) DevOps
2 226 (51.02%) Agile
3 203 (45.82%) Microservices
4 185 (41.76%) CI/CD
5 145 (32.73%) Containerisation
5 145 (32.73%) Software Engineering
6 137 (30.93%) Mentoring
7 127 (28.67%) Test Automation
8 125 (28.22%) Migration
9 124 (27.99%) Front End Development
10 120 (27.09%) Performance Optimisation
11 118 (26.64%) Full-Stack Development
12 116 (26.19%) User Experience
13 108 (24.38%) SDLC
14 103 (23.25%) Problem-Solving
15 97 (21.90%) Responsive Web Design
16 91 (20.54%) Strategic Thinking
17 52 (11.74%) Design Patterns
18 49 (11.06%) Event-Driven
19 44 (9.93%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 221 (49.89%) SQL
2 217 (48.98%) JavaScript
3 156 (35.21%) Java
4 134 (30.25%) TypeScript
5 111 (25.06%) C#
6 102 (23.02%) Python
7 35 (7.90%) PowerShell
8 18 (4.06%) PHP
9 15 (3.39%) C++
10 12 (2.71%) Bash
11 9 (2.03%) VBA
12 8 (1.81%) Swift
13 7 (1.58%) C
13 7 (1.58%) Groovy
13 7 (1.58%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.35%) Apex Code
14 6 (1.35%) Perl
15 4 (0.90%) OpenEdge ABL
15 4 (0.90%) Progress 4GL
16 3 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (9.03%) Degree
2 23 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (3.61%) Master's Degree
4 12 (2.71%) Security Cleared
5 7 (1.58%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.35%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.90%) SAP Certification
8 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.23%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (29.35%) QA
2 118 (26.64%) Accessibility
3 28 (6.32%) GDPR
4 15 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.35%) CDISC
6 3 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 209 (47.18%) Docker
2 13 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.68%) Firmware
3 3 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.23%) KVM
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 165 (37.25%) Kubernetes
2 48 (10.84%) Terraform
3 35 (7.90%) Ansible
4 13 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.13%) Grafana
7 4 (0.90%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.68%) 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%) QRadar
9 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 90 (20.32%) Solace
2 53 (11.96%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.42%) Google
4 23 (5.19%) Oracle
5 20 (4.51%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.39%) SAP
7 13 (2.93%) Dell
7 13 (2.93%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.26%) IBM
9 8 (1.81%) Trayport
10 4 (0.90%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.90%) Informatica
10 4 (0.90%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.90%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.90%) VMware
11 3 (0.68%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.68%) Databricks
11 3 (0.68%) Progress
12 2 (0.45%) Mercator
12 2 (0.45%) Sybase