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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 130 141
Rank change year-on-year -33 +11 -33
Permanent jobs citing REST 400 405 532
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.61% 2.41% 2.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.05% 10.73% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 262 232 289
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +21.74% -14.81%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £104,750 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 4,418 3,774 6,624
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.83% 22.48% 30.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,243 2,450 4,499
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,513 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +2.26% +2.52%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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 9 October 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 18 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (1.75%) Confluence
4 5 (1.25%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.00%) Camunda
5 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.75%) CMS
6 3 (0.75%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.75%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.25%) Documentum
7 1 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Moqups
2 3 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.75%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.75%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (0.75%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.50%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.50%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 188 (47.00%) AWS
2 182 (45.50%) Azure
3 55 (13.75%) SaaS
4 42 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (10.00%) GitHub
6 39 (9.75%) GCP
6 39 (9.75%) Power Platform
7 32 (8.00%) Serverless
8 25 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
9 23 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (5.75%) Power Automate
10 22 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (5.25%) PowerApps
12 20 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
13 18 (4.50%) Azure Functions
14 17 (4.25%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (4.25%) Entra ID
15 16 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
16 13 (3.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (3.25%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 32 (8.00%) HTTP
2 5 (1.25%) Network Security
3 4 (1.00%) Broadband
3 4 (1.00%) Firewall
3 4 (1.00%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.75%) VPN
5 2 (0.50%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.50%) X.509
6 1 (0.25%) 5G
6 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) DNS
6 1 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.25%) LAN
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.25%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 57 (14.25%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 19 (4.75%) Power BI
5 18 (4.50%) MySQL
6 16 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.50%) Redis
8 10 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.00%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.25%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.00%) Ataccama
12 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.00%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (1.00%) MariaDB
12 4 (1.00%) Metadata
12 4 (1.00%) TIBCO EBX
13 3 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 90 (22.50%) Git
2 22 (5.50%) JUnit
3 20 (5.00%) JIRA
3 20 (5.00%) Mockito
4 15 (3.75%) GitLab
5 14 (3.50%) Cypress.io
5 14 (3.50%) Maven
6 11 (2.75%) Postman
6 11 (2.75%) Selenium
7 10 (2.50%) Jenkins
8 7 (1.75%) Claude Code
9 6 (1.50%) Storybook
10 5 (1.25%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.50%) Gradle
11 2 (0.50%) Subversion
11 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.25%) Karma Test Runner
12 1 (0.25%) MLflow
12 1 (0.25%) Mocha
12 1 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 136 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 108 (27.00%) Finance
3 42 (10.50%) Banking
4 34 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 31 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (5.00%) Legal
8 18 (4.50%) Law
9 13 (3.25%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.25%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.00%) Back Office
11 8 (2.00%) Legal Technology
11 8 (2.00%) Retail
12 6 (1.50%) Front Office
12 6 (1.50%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.50%) Marketing
13 5 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.25%) Police
14 4 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (34.25%) Developer
2 104 (26.00%) Senior
3 85 (21.25%) Lead
4 68 (17.00%) Software Engineer
5 37 (9.25%) Senior Developer
6 31 (7.75%) .NET Developer
7 30 (7.50%) Architect
8 28 (7.00%) Lead Software Engineer
9 27 (6.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 26 (6.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 25 (6.25%) Development Engineer
11 25 (6.25%) Software Development Engineer
12 21 (5.25%) Java Engineer
12 21 (5.25%) Technical Leader
13 19 (4.75%) Java Developer
14 16 (4.00%) Consultant
15 14 (3.50%) Lead Developer
15 14 (3.50%) Software Developer
16 13 (3.25%) Python Engineer
17 12 (3.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (26.00%) React
2 96 (24.00%) .NET
3 55 (13.75%) Spring
4 47 (11.75%) SOAP
5 44 (11.00%) Terraform
6 37 (9.25%) Node.js
7 36 (9.00%) Spring Boot
8 30 (7.50%) .NET Core
8 30 (7.50%) AngularJS
8 30 (7.50%) Kafka
9 29 (7.25%) CSS
10 27 (6.75%) ASP.NET
11 24 (6.00%) GraphQL
11 24 (6.00%) OAuth
12 21 (5.25%) Blazor
13 19 (4.75%) RESTful
14 17 (4.25%) Playwright
15 15 (3.75%) HTML
15 15 (3.75%) Tailwind CSS
16 14 (3.50%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.25%) Distributed Systems
2 47 (11.75%) Product Ownership
3 39 (9.75%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (8.50%) Cloud Native
5 28 (7.00%) Public Cloud
6 17 (4.25%) AI Agents
7 16 (4.00%) Mobile App
8 14 (3.50%) Onboarding
9 12 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.75%) CMDB
11 10 (2.50%) Data Structures
12 9 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (2.25%) Management Information System
13 8 (2.00%) IoT
14 6 (1.50%) Low-Code
15 5 (1.25%) Reference Data
15 5 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
16 4 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
16 4 (1.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.00%) Linux
2 11 (2.75%) Android
3 9 (2.25%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.75%) Windows
5 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (51.50%) CI/CD
2 136 (34.00%) Software Engineering
3 135 (33.75%) Agile
4 128 (32.00%) AI
5 113 (28.25%) DevOps
6 108 (27.00%) Mentoring
7 102 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 92 (23.00%) Microservices
9 92 (23.00%) Technical Leadership
10 91 (22.75%) Full-Stack Development
11 74 (18.50%) Test Automation
12 70 (17.50%) Event-Driven
13 66 (16.50%) Roadmaps
14 59 (14.75%) TDD
15 54 (13.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 54 (13.50%) SDLC
16 52 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 49 (12.25%) Code Quality
17 49 (12.25%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 115 (28.75%) Java
2 110 (27.50%) SQL
3 93 (23.25%) C#
4 84 (21.00%) JavaScript
5 69 (17.25%) Python
6 67 (16.75%) TypeScript
7 23 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.25%) PL/SQL
9 12 (3.00%) Go
9 12 (3.00%) T-SQL
10 11 (2.75%) Apex Code
10 11 (2.75%) Bash
11 7 (1.75%) Bicep
12 6 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.50%) Ruby
13 5 (1.25%) SOQL
14 4 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.75%) C
15 3 (0.75%) PHP
16 2 (0.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 66 (16.50%) Security Cleared
2 44 (11.00%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.00%) Degree
4 17 (4.25%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.00%) CISSP
8 3 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.25%) CCIE
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CSPO
9 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) PhD
9 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.25%) QA
2 21 (5.25%) Accessibility
3 18 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.50%) NIST
5 5 (1.25%) GDPR
5 5 (1.25%) WCAG
6 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.75%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 117 (29.25%) Docker
2 13 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.50%) Grafana
3 10 (2.50%) Ansible
4 4 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.75%) Argo
5 3 (0.75%) Kibana
5 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.25%) Consul
7 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.25%) logstash
7 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 82 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.00%) Oracle
3 17 (4.25%) ServiceNow
4 16 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.00%) Informatica
5 12 (3.00%) OpenAI
6 10 (2.50%) Google
7 9 (2.25%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.75%) Sage
9 6 (1.50%) Intapp
10 5 (1.25%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.25%) Foundry
10 5 (1.25%) IBM
10 5 (1.25%) SAP
10 5 (1.25%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.75%) Aderant
11 3 (0.75%) Adobe
11 3 (0.75%) iManage
11 3 (0.75%) VMware