Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 18 September 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for RESTful skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited RESTful over the 6 months to 18 September 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

RESTful
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
18 Sep 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 66 64 46
Rank change year-on-year -2 -18 0
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 1,228 226 467
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.77% 4.18% 5.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.42% 7.99% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 941 210 448
10th Percentile £39,200 £36,025 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £80,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%

RESTful 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 11,790 2,828 3,582
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 45.78% 52.36% 44.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9,215 2,545 3,231
10th Percentile £37,100 £35,850 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +5.00%

RESTful
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

RESTful trend for jobs with a WFH option

RESTful
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

RESTful salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

RESTful
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing RESTful over the 6 months to 18 September 2021.

RESTful salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 18 September 2021, RESTful 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 RESTful.

1 635 (51.71%) Agile Software Development
2 535 (43.57%) JavaScript
3 442 (35.99%) Microservices
4 429 (34.93%) HTML
5 422 (34.36%) CSS
6 378 (30.78%) Azure
7 366 (29.80%) React
8 336 (27.36%) Java
9 332 (27.04%) SQL
9 332 (27.04%) AWS
10 325 (26.47%) C#
11 319 (25.98%) Software Engineering
12 308 (25.08%) .NET
13 285 (23.21%) DevOps
14 281 (22.88%) TDD
15 279 (22.72%) Social Skills
16 266 (21.66%) NoSQL
17 257 (20.93%) Git (software)
18 242 (19.71%) Scrum
19 237 (19.30%) Web Services
20 230 (18.73%) MVC
21 226 (18.40%) Docker
22 209 (17.02%) AngularJS
23 208 (16.94%) Front End Development
24 204 (16.61%) Jenkins
24 204 (16.61%) Test Automation
25 199 (16.21%) Spring
26 197 (16.04%) PHP
27 193 (15.72%) Full Stack Development
28 183 (14.90%) TypeScript

RESTful
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 71 (5.78%) Apache Solr
2 57 (4.64%) Elasticsearch
2 57 (4.64%) nginx
3 52 (4.23%) CMS
4 41 (3.34%) WordPress
5 33 (2.69%) Apache
6 32 (2.61%) Confluence
7 18 (1.47%) Drupal
8 15 (1.22%) SharePoint
8 15 (1.22%) Umbraco
9 7 (0.57%) Headless CMS
10 6 (0.49%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.41%) IIS
12 4 (0.33%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.24%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
15 1 (0.081%) EPiServer
15 1 (0.081%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.24%) Figma
2 3 (0.24%) Zeplin
3 2 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.081%) Sketch
4 1 (0.081%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 12 (0.98%) Magento
2 10 (0.81%) Oracle BPM
3 9 (0.73%) Shopify
4 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.16%) osCommerce
6 1 (0.081%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.081%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.081%) Sentinel
Cloud Services
1 378 (30.78%) Azure
2 332 (27.04%) AWS
3 125 (10.18%) SaaS
4 91 (7.41%) GCP
5 54 (4.40%) Serverless
6 36 (2.93%) GitHub
7 27 (2.20%) npm
8 24 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (1.79%) Firebase
9 22 (1.79%) PaaS
10 21 (1.71%) Amazon S3
11 18 (1.47%) Rackspace Cloud
12 17 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (1.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 15 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (1.06%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (1.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 13 (1.06%) Azure Functions
15 13 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.18%) Internet
2 35 (2.85%) HTTP
3 26 (2.12%) DNS
4 25 (2.04%) 3GPP
4 25 (2.04%) DHCP
4 25 (2.04%) Ethernet
4 25 (2.04%) IPv4
4 25 (2.04%) IPv6
4 25 (2.04%) MPLS
4 25 (2.04%) VLAN
4 25 (2.04%) Wireless
5 5 (0.41%) FTP
6 3 (0.24%) AMQP
6 3 (0.24%) SSL
7 2 (0.16%) Firewall
7 2 (0.16%) SMS
7 2 (0.16%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.081%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.081%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (21.66%) NoSQL
2 178 (14.50%) MySQL
3 144 (11.73%) Relational Database
4 142 (11.56%) MongoDB
5 128 (10.42%) SQL Server
6 90 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
7 73 (5.94%) Redis
8 45 (3.66%) Couchbase
9 43 (3.50%) Amazon DynamoDB
10 23 (1.87%) Hadoop
11 18 (1.47%) Hazelcast
12 16 (1.30%) RDBMS
12 16 (1.30%) Tableau
13 14 (1.14%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (0.90%) Blockchain
16 10 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (0.81%) Big Data
17 7 (0.57%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 257 (20.93%) Git (software)
2 204 (16.61%) Jenkins
3 125 (10.18%) JUnit
4 89 (7.25%) Maven
5 72 (5.86%) JIRA
6 65 (5.29%) Selenium
7 45 (3.66%) TeamCity
8 42 (3.42%) GitLab
9 33 (2.69%) Postman
9 33 (2.69%) Visual Studio
10 32 (2.61%) PHPUnit
11 31 (2.52%) Cucumber
12 30 (2.44%) NUnit
13 26 (2.12%) Bitbucket
13 26 (2.12%) Octopus Deploy
14 23 (1.87%) MSTest
15 22 (1.79%) JMeter
15 22 (1.79%) SpecFlow
16 19 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
17 16 (1.30%) Moq
General
1 279 (22.72%) Social Skills
2 158 (12.87%) Finance
3 65 (5.29%) Retail
4 60 (4.89%) Marketing
5 45 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (3.58%) Public Sector
7 42 (3.42%) Games
8 37 (3.01%) Publishing
9 25 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.30%) Banking
11 14 (1.14%) Law
12 10 (0.81%) Automotive
13 9 (0.73%) Billing
14 7 (0.57%) Advertising
14 7 (0.57%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.41%) Avionics
15 5 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.33%) Brand Awareness
16 4 (0.33%) Legal
17 2 (0.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 806 (65.64%) Developer
2 185 (15.07%) Senior Developer
3 163 (13.27%) PHP Developer
4 142 (11.56%) Software Engineer
5 134 (10.91%) .NET Developer
6 129 (10.50%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 119 (9.69%) Java Developer
8 106 (8.63%) C# Developer
9 89 (7.25%) Java Engineer
10 88 (7.17%) Full Stack Developer
11 85 (6.92%) Software Developer
12 79 (6.43%) C# .NET Developer
13 71 (5.78%) Senior Java Developer
14 66 (5.37%) React Developer
15 55 (4.48%) E-Commerce Developer
16 52 (4.23%) Architect
17 49 (3.99%) Java Software Engineer
18 47 (3.83%) Angular Developer
19 44 (3.58%) E-Commerce PHP Developer
19 44 (3.58%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (34.93%) HTML
2 422 (34.36%) CSS
3 366 (29.80%) React
4 308 (25.08%) .NET
5 237 (19.30%) Web Services
6 209 (17.02%) AngularJS
7 199 (16.21%) Spring
8 139 (11.32%) jQuery
9 133 (10.83%) .NET Core
10 128 (10.42%) Spring Boot
11 125 (10.18%) REST
12 118 (9.61%) HTML5
13 116 (9.45%) JSON
14 115 (9.36%) Node.js
15 110 (8.96%) Laravel
16 103 (8.39%) ASP.NET
17 82 (6.68%) .NET Framework
18 80 (6.51%) XML
19 75 (6.11%) Vue.js
20 68 (5.54%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 112 (9.12%) User Experience
2 82 (6.68%) Mobile App
3 79 (6.43%) Greenfield Project
4 47 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (3.42%) e-Learning
6 38 (3.09%) Tandem
7 28 (2.28%) Virtual Team
8 27 (2.20%) Legacy Code
9 20 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.30%) Cloud Native
11 15 (1.22%) NHS
11 15 (1.22%) Public Cloud
12 12 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (0.90%) Augmented Reality
13 11 (0.90%) Driving Licence
14 10 (0.81%) Algorithms
14 10 (0.81%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (0.81%) Life Science
14 10 (0.81%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 140 (11.40%) Linux
2 45 (3.66%) Apple iOS
3 43 (3.50%) Android
4 25 (2.04%) Windows
5 13 (1.06%) Unix
6 9 (0.73%) CentOS
7 8 (0.65%) Fedora
8 6 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.081%) SUSE
11 1 (0.081%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (51.71%) Agile Software Development
2 442 (35.99%) Microservices
3 319 (25.98%) Software Engineering
4 285 (23.21%) DevOps
5 281 (22.88%) TDD
6 242 (19.71%) Scrum
7 230 (18.73%) MVC
8 208 (16.94%) Front End Development
9 204 (16.61%) Test Automation
10 193 (15.72%) Full Stack Development
11 173 (14.09%) OO
12 154 (12.54%) OOP
13 153 (12.46%) Mentoring
14 151 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
15 128 (10.42%) E-Commerce
16 124 (10.10%) Unit Testing
17 120 (9.77%) BDD
18 99 (8.06%) Continuous Integration
18 99 (8.06%) Web Development
19 81 (6.60%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 535 (43.57%) JavaScript
2 336 (27.36%) Java
3 332 (27.04%) SQL
4 325 (26.47%) C#
5 197 (16.04%) PHP
6 183 (14.90%) TypeScript
7 177 (14.41%) Python
8 48 (3.91%) Java 8
9 34 (2.77%) PHP 7
9 34 (2.77%) Scala
10 33 (2.69%) PowerShell
11 24 (1.95%) ES6
11 24 (1.95%) Ruby
12 23 (1.87%) Kotlin
13 20 (1.63%) Groovy
14 19 (1.55%) Java 11
15 17 (1.38%) Go
16 13 (1.06%) T-SQL
17 12 (0.98%) C++
18 8 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (5.37%) Degree
2 49 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (1.22%) Security Cleared
5 11 (0.90%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.33%) CESG Certified Professional
6 4 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (0.33%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (0.24%) MBA
8 2 (0.16%) HND
9 1 (0.081%) CISA
9 1 (0.081%) CISM
9 1 (0.081%) CISSP
9 1 (0.081%) ISEB
9 1 (0.081%) ISSAP
9 1 (0.081%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (11.16%) QA
2 43 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.81%) GRC
4 5 (0.41%) NIST
5 4 (0.33%) IASME
5 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.16%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.16%) SLA
6 2 (0.16%) WCAG
7 1 (0.081%) COBIT
7 1 (0.081%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.081%) NCSC
7 1 (0.081%) SOC 2
System Software
1 226 (18.40%) Docker
2 4 (0.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.33%) Varnish
2 4 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.081%) Firmware
4 1 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 153 (12.46%) Kubernetes
2 43 (3.50%) Terraform
3 42 (3.42%) Ansible
4 40 (3.26%) Puppet
5 39 (3.18%) Opscode Chef
6 38 (3.09%) Docker Swarm
7 16 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.81%) Kibana
9 7 (0.57%) logstash
10 4 (0.33%) CASB
10 4 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
11 3 (0.24%) OpenNebula
12 2 (0.16%) BMC PATROL
12 2 (0.16%) Grafana
12 2 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
12 2 (0.16%) Packer
12 2 (0.16%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.16%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.081%) MIIS
Vendors
1 169 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 110 (8.96%) Oracle
3 60 (4.89%) Google
4 30 (2.44%) Salesforce.com
5 26 (2.12%) MuleSoft
6 24 (1.95%) Mercator
7 19 (1.55%) Atlassian
8 18 (1.47%) Rackspace
9 17 (1.38%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 15 (1.22%) Zend
12 12 (0.98%) Xamarin
13 8 (0.65%) SAP
14 7 (0.57%) Apple
15 6 (0.49%) IBM
16 5 (0.41%) New Relic
17 4 (0.33%) Ab Initio
17 4 (0.33%) Alteryx
17 4 (0.33%) HP
17 4 (0.33%) Splunk