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 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 129 154
Rank change year-on-year +5 +25 -50
Permanent jobs citing REST 411 435 708
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.05% 2.82% 2.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.41% 10.24% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 208 269 631
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,850 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,544 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -10.78%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,125 £92,000 £95,000
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 3,601 4,250 9,177
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.99% 27.58% 26.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,653 2,856 7,812
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,271 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.45% -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 June 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 7 (1.70%) JBoss
2 5 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.97%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.73%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.73%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.49%) Apache
5 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.49%) Camunda
5 2 (0.49%) Confluence
5 2 (0.49%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.22%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (1.22%) Magento
1 5 (1.22%) Shopify
2 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 149 (36.25%) Azure
2 145 (35.28%) AWS
3 54 (13.14%) Entra ID
4 48 (11.68%) Google Workspace
5 38 (9.25%) GitHub
6 35 (8.52%) SaaS
7 29 (7.06%) GCP
8 20 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (4.87%) Serverless
9 17 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (3.65%) Power Platform
11 14 (3.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 14 (3.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 12 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (1.70%) Apigee
14 7 (1.70%) Kong
14 7 (1.70%) OpenShift
15 6 (1.46%) Amazon S3
15 6 (1.46%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 89 (21.65%) Broadband
2 34 (8.27%) HTTP
3 12 (2.92%) Firewall
4 9 (2.19%) SMTP
5 7 (1.70%) SSL
6 6 (1.46%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (1.46%) Kerberos
6 6 (1.46%) Network Security
7 5 (1.22%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.97%) AMQP
9 3 (0.73%) Modbus
9 3 (0.73%) RTP
9 3 (0.73%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.73%) VoIP
9 3 (0.73%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.49%) PuTTY
11 1 (0.24%) Intranet
11 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.46%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (7.30%) SQL Server
3 23 (5.60%) Relational Database
4 22 (5.35%) NoSQL
5 21 (5.11%) MongoDB
6 14 (3.41%) MySQL
7 6 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.22%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.97%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.97%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.97%) Power BI
9 4 (0.97%) Redis
10 3 (0.73%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.73%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.49%) Big Data
11 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 57 (13.87%) Git
2 41 (9.98%) GitLab
3 38 (9.25%) Jenkins
4 34 (8.27%) SonarQube
5 16 (3.89%) JIRA
6 12 (2.92%) JUnit
7 11 (2.68%) Maven
8 9 (2.19%) Selenium
9 8 (1.95%) Mockito
9 8 (1.95%) SpecFlow
10 7 (1.70%) WebDriver
11 6 (1.46%) Visual Studio
12 5 (1.22%) Claude Code
13 4 (0.97%) Gradle
13 4 (0.97%) NUnit
13 4 (0.97%) Postman
14 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.73%) Subversion
14 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
15 2 (0.49%) REST Assured
General
1 129 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 109 (26.52%) Finance
3 76 (18.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 68 (16.55%) Games
5 54 (13.14%) Banking
6 52 (12.65%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (9.73%) Marketing
7 40 (9.73%) Public Sector
8 28 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (4.38%) Law
10 16 (3.89%) Back Office
11 15 (3.65%) Financial Institution
12 13 (3.16%) Manufacturing
12 13 (3.16%) Retail
13 11 (2.68%) Polish Language
14 10 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (2.19%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.95%) Investment Banking
17 7 (1.70%) Legal
17 7 (1.70%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 128 (31.14%) Developer
2 93 (22.63%) Senior
3 70 (17.03%) Software Engineer
4 67 (16.30%) Architect
5 45 (10.95%) Lead
6 34 (8.27%) Salesforce Architect
7 29 (7.06%) Development Engineer
7 29 (7.06%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.06%) Software Development Engineer
8 25 (6.08%) Technical Architect
9 24 (5.84%) Consultant
10 23 (5.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 21 (5.11%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (4.87%) Java Developer
12 20 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (4.38%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 17 (4.14%) Salesforce Developer
15 16 (3.89%) IAM Developer
15 16 (3.89%) Java Engineer
15 16 (3.89%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (35.52%) SOAP
2 74 (18.00%) React
3 72 (17.52%) OAuth
4 69 (16.79%) SAML
5 65 (15.82%) .NET
6 64 (15.57%) GraphQL
7 58 (14.11%) OpenID
8 57 (13.87%) LDAP
9 53 (12.90%) Lightning Web Components
9 53 (12.90%) Spring
10 51 (12.41%) Visualforce
11 36 (8.76%) Spring Boot
12 33 (8.03%) Node.js
13 32 (7.79%) JSON
13 32 (7.79%) Middleware
14 30 (7.30%) AngularJS
15 24 (5.84%) CSS
16 21 (5.11%) XML
17 20 (4.87%) Kafka
18 18 (4.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 81 (19.71%) Product Ownership
2 48 (11.68%) Cyber Threat
2 48 (11.68%) Cyberattack
3 33 (8.03%) Cloud Native
4 31 (7.54%) Public Cloud
5 24 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.65%) Low-Code
8 14 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (3.41%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.43%) CMDB
10 10 (2.43%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.95%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.95%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.95%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (1.46%) CUDA
13 5 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
14 4 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.08%) Linux
2 11 (2.68%) Windows
3 9 (2.19%) Android
4 6 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.46%) Unix
5 4 (0.97%) 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
1 159 (38.69%) CI/CD
2 147 (35.77%) Roadmaps
3 119 (28.95%) Agile
4 114 (27.74%) Software Engineering
5 109 (26.52%) DevOps
6 95 (23.11%) Mentoring
7 93 (22.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (19.95%) Event-Driven
9 79 (19.22%) AI
10 71 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
11 70 (17.03%) Microservices
12 69 (16.79%) OO
13 67 (16.30%) Full-Stack Development
14 62 (15.09%) Scrum
15 61 (14.84%) Technical Leadership
16 59 (14.36%) Test Automation
17 56 (13.63%) Cybersecurity
18 53 (12.90%) Design Patterns
18 53 (12.90%) Identity Access Management
19 49 (11.92%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 107 (26.03%) Java
2 102 (24.82%) SQL
3 79 (19.22%) JavaScript
4 73 (17.76%) Python
5 60 (14.60%) PowerShell
6 56 (13.63%) Apex Code
6 56 (13.63%) T-SQL
7 50 (12.17%) Bash
8 49 (11.92%) C#
9 44 (10.71%) TypeScript
10 37 (9.00%) SOQL
10 37 (9.00%) SOSL
11 11 (2.68%) Go
12 8 (1.95%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.46%) Ruby
14 4 (0.97%) Bicep
14 4 (0.97%) PHP
15 3 (0.73%) C
15 3 (0.73%) DataWeave
15 3 (0.73%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 51 (12.41%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.73%) Degree
2 40 (9.73%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.41%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.46%) CISSP
6 4 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.73%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.92%) NIST
2 48 (11.68%) NCSC
3 37 (9.00%) QA
4 32 (7.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.97%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.73%) SLA
8 2 (0.49%) GDPR
8 2 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 67 (16.30%) Docker
2 64 (15.57%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.73%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 49 (11.92%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.81%) Terraform
3 9 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.22%) Ansible
5 4 (0.97%) Argo
6 3 (0.73%) Grafana
6 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.49%) Kibana
7 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.49%) MIIS
8 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 59 (14.36%) Salesforce
2 43 (10.46%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.25%) Splunk
4 27 (6.57%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.89%) Oracle
6 15 (3.65%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.19%) CyberArk
8 7 (1.70%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.46%) Cisco
9 6 (1.46%) F5
9 6 (1.46%) Google
9 6 (1.46%) Juniper
9 6 (1.46%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.46%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.22%) ConnectWise
10 5 (1.22%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.73%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.73%) IBM
11 3 (0.73%) Mitel
11 3 (0.73%) Revolut