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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 109 65
Rank change year-on-year -42 -44 -13
Permanent jobs citing REST 728 1,224 3,795
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.12% 3.08% 5.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.99% 9.03% 11.35%
Number of salaries quoted 662 979 1,638
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £64,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.25% +12.61%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,045 £97,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +13.45%

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 9,113 13,560 33,434
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.53% 34.09% 45.62%
Number of salaries quoted 7,607 10,085 17,254
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,351 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% +4.56% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%

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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 28 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 (9.89%) IIS
2 34 (4.67%) Apache
3 25 (3.43%) OpenStack
4 13 (1.79%) CMS
5 11 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.96%) JBoss
6 7 (0.96%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (0.96%) WordPress
7 4 (0.55%) EPiServer
8 3 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.41%) Confluence
8 3 (0.41%) Drupal
9 2 (0.27%) Moodle
9 2 (0.27%) nginx
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.14%) Kentico
10 1 (0.14%) Mule
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.41%) Trello
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (0.96%) Shopify
2 5 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 238 (32.69%) Azure
2 173 (23.76%) AWS
3 107 (14.70%) Azure DevOps
4 82 (11.26%) SaaS
5 62 (8.52%) Serverless
6 37 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
7 36 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
8 34 (4.67%) GCP
9 28 (3.85%) Power Platform
10 18 (2.47%) GitHub
11 17 (2.34%) PaaS
12 16 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (1.51%) Azure Functions
14 11 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (1.51%) Entra ID
15 10 (1.37%) Azure Cognitive Services
15 10 (1.37%) Firebase
16 9 (1.24%) Azure Service Fabric
17 8 (1.10%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 43 (5.91%) Firewall
2 40 (5.49%) DNS
3 37 (5.08%) HTTP
4 30 (4.12%) Internet
5 25 (3.43%) TCP/IP
6 19 (2.61%) SSL
7 3 (0.41%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) AMQP
9 1 (0.14%) Broadband
9 1 (0.14%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (22.53%) SQL Server
2 111 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (7.97%) Relational Database
4 41 (5.63%) NoSQL
5 36 (4.95%) MongoDB
6 34 (4.67%) MySQL
7 21 (2.88%) Oracle Database
8 16 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (2.20%) Redis
9 14 (1.92%) Power BI
10 12 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.24%) MariaDB
13 8 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.10%) RDBMS
13 8 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.69%) GIS
15 4 (0.55%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
16 3 (0.41%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 180 (24.73%) Git
2 112 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 65 (8.93%) Postman
4 59 (8.10%) Cucumber
5 48 (6.59%) JIRA
6 47 (6.46%) Selenium
7 38 (5.22%) Visual Studio
8 28 (3.85%) Jasmine
8 28 (3.85%) Karma Test Runner
9 22 (3.02%) Oracle APEX
10 20 (2.75%) Eclipse
11 17 (2.34%) Maven
12 15 (2.06%) JUnit
12 15 (2.06%) TeamCity
13 14 (1.92%) Bitbucket
13 14 (1.92%) Cypress.io
14 13 (1.79%) webpack
15 12 (1.65%) Android Studio
15 12 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
16 10 (1.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 162 (22.25%) Social Skills
2 124 (17.03%) Finance
3 40 (5.49%) Law
4 35 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (4.53%) Retail
6 22 (3.02%) Public Sector
7 20 (2.75%) Banking
8 15 (2.06%) Marketing
9 10 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.24%) Legal
11 6 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.69%) Advertising
12 5 (0.69%) Aviation
12 5 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.55%) Back Office
13 4 (0.55%) Local Government
13 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.55%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 413 (56.73%) Developer
2 205 (28.16%) Senior
3 124 (17.03%) Senior Developer
4 87 (11.95%) Lead
5 61 (8.38%) Java Developer
6 59 (8.10%) Software Engineer
7 56 (7.69%) .NET Developer
8 49 (6.73%) C# Developer
9 40 (5.49%) Architect
10 36 (4.95%) Analyst
10 36 (4.95%) PHP Developer
11 34 (4.67%) Full Stack Developer
12 30 (4.12%) Lead Developer
12 30 (4.12%) Support Engineer
13 27 (3.71%) Software Developer
14 25 (3.43%) Python Engineer
15 23 (3.16%) Senior Java Developer
16 22 (3.02%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.02%) Software Support Engineer
17 17 (2.34%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (33.65%) .NET
2 217 (29.81%) Web Services
3 176 (24.18%) JSON
4 169 (23.21%) HTML
5 161 (22.12%) CSS
5 161 (22.12%) SOAP
6 135 (18.54%) AngularJS
7 123 (16.90%) XML
8 122 (16.76%) ASP.NET
9 116 (15.93%) React
10 73 (10.03%) jQuery
11 69 (9.48%) Spring
12 67 (9.20%) GraphQL
13 64 (8.79%) Kafka
14 59 (8.10%) Spring Boot
15 58 (7.97%) Node.js
15 58 (7.97%) Vue
16 55 (7.55%) Laravel
17 54 (7.42%) RabbitMQ
18 52 (7.14%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
3 27 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.02%) Data Structures
5 22 (3.02%) IoT
6 17 (2.34%) Client/Server
7 15 (2.06%) Cloud Native
8 14 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.79%) Management Information System
10 7 (0.96%) Algorithms
10 7 (0.96%) Mobile App
11 6 (0.82%) Blog
11 6 (0.82%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.55%) Blockchain
12 4 (0.55%) CMDB
12 4 (0.55%) Derivative
12 4 (0.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 78 (10.71%) Linux
2 51 (7.01%) Windows
3 26 (3.57%) AIX
4 22 (3.02%) Android
5 17 (2.34%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.69%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (40.93%) Agile
2 219 (30.08%) DevOps
3 183 (25.14%) CI/CD
4 153 (21.02%) TDD
5 152 (20.88%) Microservices
6 121 (16.62%) Scrum
7 120 (16.48%) Software Engineering
8 116 (15.93%) BDD
9 95 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
10 89 (12.23%) Full Stack Development
11 87 (11.95%) MVC
12 83 (11.40%) Test Automation
13 80 (10.99%) Continuous Integration
14 77 (10.58%) Design Patterns
15 76 (10.44%) OO
16 73 (10.03%) Clean Code
17 68 (9.34%) Web Development
18 67 (9.20%) Unit Testing
19 59 (8.10%) API Testing
20 58 (7.97%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 302 (41.48%) SQL
2 263 (36.13%) JavaScript
3 233 (32.01%) C#
4 191 (26.24%) Java
5 113 (15.52%) Python
6 101 (13.87%) TypeScript
7 74 (10.16%) PHP
8 68 (9.34%) T-SQL
9 53 (7.28%) VB.NET
10 50 (6.87%) VB
11 47 (6.46%) Go
12 28 (3.85%) VB6
13 26 (3.57%) PowerShell
14 25 (3.43%) C++
14 25 (3.43%) PL/SQL
15 24 (3.30%) C
16 19 (2.61%) XAML
17 18 (2.47%) XPath
18 17 (2.34%) Objective-C
18 17 (2.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 70 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 62 (8.52%) Degree
3 57 (7.83%) SC Cleared
4 45 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.34%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.06%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.24%) ISEB
7 9 (1.24%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.82%) CISM
8 6 (0.82%) CISSP
8 6 (0.82%) GIAC
8 6 (0.82%) SANS
9 5 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.55%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.41%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 1 (0.14%) ACCA
13 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (13.46%) QA
2 20 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.10%) NIST
4 6 (0.82%) COBIT
4 6 (0.82%) Web Application Security Consortium
5 5 (0.69%) WCAG
6 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.27%) EMIR
7 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.27%) MiFID
8 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 155 (21.29%) Docker
2 21 (2.88%) Hyper-V
3 17 (2.34%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (0.96%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 97 (13.32%) Kubernetes
2 48 (6.59%) Terraform
3 34 (4.67%) Ansible
4 8 (1.10%) Nmap
5 6 (0.82%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 6 (0.82%) Grafana
6 3 (0.41%) Argo
6 3 (0.41%) Consul
6 3 (0.41%) Packer
7 2 (0.27%) Rancher
7 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) cPanel
8 1 (0.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) MIIS
8 1 (0.14%) Podman
8 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 104 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.55%) Oracle
3 33 (4.53%) Google
4 25 (3.43%) WSO2
5 13 (1.79%) UiPath
6 10 (1.37%) Automation Anywhere
6 10 (1.37%) Blue Prism
7 9 (1.24%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 5 (0.69%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.55%) Facebook
10 4 (0.55%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.55%) IBM
10 4 (0.55%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.41%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.41%) Sybase
11 3 (0.41%) Telerik
12 2 (0.27%) Cadence
12 2 (0.27%) Finsemble
12 2 (0.27%) Sparx