Hybrid/Remote REST Job Trends

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 128 140
Rank change year-on-year +21 +12 -42
Permanent jobs citing REST 415 436 740
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.22% 2.88% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.43% 9.64% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 204 265 675
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,938 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%

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 3,340 4,523 8,598
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.89% 29.87% 26.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,416 3,053 7,528
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +8.75% -11.11%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing REST and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

REST job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing REST

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing REST over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

REST salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (2.65%) JBoss
2 7 (1.69%) WebSphere
3 5 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.96%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.72%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.48%) Apache
6 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.48%) Confluence
6 2 (0.48%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (2.17%) Dynamics NAV
1 9 (2.17%) Magento
1 9 (2.17%) Shopify
2 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (37.11%) Azure
2 134 (32.29%) AWS
3 58 (13.98%) Entra ID
4 52 (12.53%) Google Workspace
5 51 (12.29%) GitHub
6 35 (8.43%) SaaS
7 30 (7.23%) GCP
8 27 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (6.51%) GitHub Copilot
9 22 (5.30%) Serverless
10 21 (5.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 21 (5.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 15 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (2.17%) Power Platform
13 8 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.69%) Apigee
14 7 (1.69%) Kong
14 7 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 94 (22.65%) Broadband
2 36 (8.67%) HTTP
3 11 (2.65%) Firewall
4 9 (2.17%) SMTP
5 6 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.45%) SSL
6 5 (1.20%) AMQP
6 5 (1.20%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.20%) Network Security
6 5 (1.20%) PuTTY
6 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.72%) Modbus
7 3 (0.72%) RTP
7 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.72%) VoIP
7 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.24%) Intranet
8 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.19%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.30%) NoSQL
4 20 (4.82%) MongoDB
4 20 (4.82%) Relational Database
5 14 (3.37%) MySQL
6 6 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.96%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.96%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.96%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.96%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.72%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.48%) Big Data
10 2 (0.48%) Power BI
10 2 (0.48%) Redis
11 1 (0.24%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (0.24%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 54 (13.01%) Git
2 42 (10.12%) Jenkins
3 41 (9.88%) GitLab
4 34 (8.19%) SonarQube
5 19 (4.58%) JIRA
6 11 (2.65%) Maven
6 11 (2.65%) Selenium
7 10 (2.41%) SpecFlow
8 9 (2.17%) WebDriver
9 8 (1.93%) JUnit
10 7 (1.69%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.20%) Mockito
12 4 (0.96%) Gradle
12 4 (0.96%) NUnit
12 4 (0.96%) Postman
13 3 (0.72%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.48%) Android Studio
14 2 (0.48%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 131 (31.57%) Social Skills
2 117 (28.19%) Finance
3 76 (18.31%) Games
4 72 (17.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (13.49%) Organisational Skills
6 49 (11.81%) Banking
7 46 (11.08%) Marketing
8 35 (8.43%) Public Sector
9 25 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (4.82%) Back Office
10 20 (4.82%) Law
11 15 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (3.13%) Retail
12 13 (3.13%) Telecoms
13 12 (2.89%) Financial Institution
14 11 (2.65%) Polish Language
15 9 (2.17%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.69%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
18 3 (0.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 130 (31.33%) Developer
2 114 (27.47%) Senior
3 68 (16.39%) Software Engineer
4 65 (15.66%) Architect
5 36 (8.67%) Senior Developer
6 35 (8.43%) Lead
7 34 (8.19%) Salesforce Architect
8 30 (7.23%) Development Engineer
8 30 (7.23%) Software Development Engineer
9 26 (6.27%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (5.06%) Technical Architect
11 20 (4.82%) Consultant
11 20 (4.82%) Java Developer
12 19 (4.58%) Salesforce Developer
13 18 (4.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 18 (4.34%) IAM Developer
13 18 (4.34%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 16 (3.86%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (40.96%) SOAP
2 73 (17.59%) OAuth
3 72 (17.35%) GraphQL
3 72 (17.35%) SAML
4 71 (17.11%) React
5 65 (15.66%) .NET
5 65 (15.66%) Lightning Web Components
6 60 (14.46%) LDAP
6 60 (14.46%) OpenID
7 53 (12.77%) Visualforce
8 48 (11.57%) Spring
9 39 (9.40%) Middleware
10 34 (8.19%) JSON
10 34 (8.19%) Node.js
11 33 (7.95%) Spring Boot
12 30 (7.23%) AngularJS
13 26 (6.27%) Web Services
13 26 (6.27%) XML
14 24 (5.78%) CSS
15 21 (5.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 86 (20.72%) Product Ownership
2 53 (12.77%) Cyber Threat
2 53 (12.77%) Cyberattack
3 32 (7.71%) Cloud Native
4 31 (7.47%) Public Cloud
5 26 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (3.13%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.89%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.17%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.93%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.93%) CMDB
11 8 (1.93%) Video\Live Streaming
12 7 (1.69%) DataPower
13 6 (1.45%) CUDA
13 6 (1.45%) Management Information System
14 5 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
15 4 (0.96%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.02%) Linux
2 13 (3.13%) Android
3 10 (2.41%) Windows
4 6 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.45%) Unix
5 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) CentOS
6 1 (0.24%) Debian
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (37.59%) CI/CD
2 148 (35.66%) Roadmaps
3 123 (29.64%) DevOps
4 122 (29.40%) Agile
5 105 (25.30%) Mentoring
6 104 (25.06%) Software Engineering
7 88 (21.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (20.72%) AI
9 78 (18.80%) Event-Driven
10 69 (16.63%) OO
11 68 (16.39%) Test Automation
12 65 (15.66%) Microservices
13 64 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
14 61 (14.70%) Scrum
15 59 (14.22%) Cybersecurity
16 58 (13.98%) Full-Stack Development
17 56 (13.49%) Identity Access Management
18 54 (13.01%) Technical Leadership
19 53 (12.77%) Programme Delivery
19 53 (12.77%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 108 (26.02%) Java
2 106 (25.54%) SQL
3 74 (17.83%) JavaScript
4 69 (16.63%) Apex Code
5 64 (15.42%) T-SQL
6 63 (15.18%) PowerShell
6 63 (15.18%) Python
7 54 (13.01%) Bash
8 46 (11.08%) C#
9 42 (10.12%) TypeScript
10 37 (8.92%) SOQL
10 37 (8.92%) SOSL
11 12 (2.89%) Go
12 7 (1.69%) C++
13 5 (1.20%) PHP
14 4 (0.96%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.72%) Bicep
15 3 (0.72%) C
15 3 (0.72%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 50 (12.05%) Security Cleared
2 47 (11.33%) Degree
3 42 (10.12%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.20%) CISSP
7 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.48%) PhD
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (13.01%) NIST
2 53 (12.77%) NCSC
3 36 (8.67%) QA
4 31 (7.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.96%) GDPR
7 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.24%) HL7
System Software
1 67 (16.14%) Active Directory
2 57 (13.73%) Docker
3 6 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.72%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 43 (10.36%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.27%) Terraform
3 8 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.45%) Ansible
5 3 (0.72%) Argo
6 2 (0.48%) Kibana
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.48%) MIIS
7 1 (0.24%) Grafana
7 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 72 (17.35%) Salesforce
2 40 (9.64%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.16%) Splunk
4 28 (6.75%) ServiceNow
5 20 (4.82%) MuleSoft
6 15 (3.61%) Oracle
7 10 (2.41%) CyberArk
8 9 (2.17%) ConnectWise
8 9 (2.17%) WooCommerce
9 7 (1.69%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.45%) Cisco
10 6 (1.45%) F5
10 6 (1.45%) Juniper
10 6 (1.45%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.96%) Google
11 4 (0.96%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.72%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.72%) IBM
12 3 (0.72%) Mitel
12 3 (0.72%) SAP