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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 130 159
Rank change year-on-year -18 +29 -56
Permanent jobs citing REST 427 431 565
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.96% 2.61% 2.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.44% 10.30% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 239 272 500
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,363 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £81,750 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £93,750
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 4,090 4,186 7,040
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.73% 25.40% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,083 2,839 5,833
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +5.76% -4.36%
75th Percentile £83,125 £85,625 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 26 July 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 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (0.94%) Camunda
4 3 (0.70%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.70%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.70%) Confluence
4 3 (0.70%) JBoss
5 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.47%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.23%) Documentum
6 1 (0.23%) IIS
6 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Moqups
2 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.70%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.70%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.70%) Magento
2 3 (0.70%) Shopify
3 2 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.47%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 183 (42.86%) AWS
2 165 (38.64%) Azure
3 45 (10.54%) SaaS
4 44 (10.30%) GCP
5 40 (9.37%) GitHub
6 30 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (5.62%) Entra ID
8 22 (5.15%) Serverless
9 21 (4.92%) Power Platform
10 20 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (3.51%) Google Workspace
12 14 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (2.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (2.58%) GitHub Copilot
13 11 (2.58%) Power Automate
13 11 (2.58%) PowerApps
14 10 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (2.11%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (2.11%) Figma
16 8 (1.87%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 58 (13.58%) Broadband
2 36 (8.43%) HTTP
3 13 (3.04%) Firewall
4 8 (1.87%) Network Security
5 7 (1.64%) Kerberos
5 7 (1.64%) SMTP
5 7 (1.64%) SSL
6 6 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (1.17%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.70%) Modbus
9 2 (0.47%) RTP
9 2 (0.47%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.47%) VoIP
9 2 (0.47%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.23%) AMQP
10 1 (0.23%) BGP
10 1 (0.23%) Intranet
10 1 (0.23%) LAN
10 1 (0.23%) OSPF
10 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (11.24%) SQL Server
3 34 (7.96%) Relational Database
4 22 (5.15%) MongoDB
4 22 (5.15%) NoSQL
5 20 (4.68%) MySQL
6 11 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.87%) Power BI
8 8 (1.87%) Redis
9 6 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.41%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.17%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.94%) Ataccama
11 4 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.94%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.94%) IBM InfoSphere
11 4 (0.94%) TIBCO EBX
12 3 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.70%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 78 (18.27%) Git
2 45 (10.54%) GitLab
3 42 (9.84%) Jenkins
4 34 (7.96%) SonarQube
5 14 (3.28%) JIRA
6 12 (2.81%) JUnit
7 11 (2.58%) Selenium
8 10 (2.34%) Maven
8 10 (2.34%) Mockito
9 7 (1.64%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.17%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.17%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.17%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.94%) Postman
12 3 (0.70%) Gradle
12 3 (0.70%) NUnit
12 3 (0.70%) Storybook
12 3 (0.70%) Subversion
12 3 (0.70%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 126 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 120 (28.10%) Finance
3 79 (18.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (12.41%) Banking
5 50 (11.71%) Games
6 40 (9.37%) Public Sector
7 39 (9.13%) Marketing
8 32 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (4.45%) Law
9 19 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (3.51%) Financial Institution
11 14 (3.28%) Manufacturing
12 13 (3.04%) Back Office
12 13 (3.04%) Legal
13 11 (2.58%) Retail
14 9 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (2.11%) Polish Language
15 8 (1.87%) Investment Banking
15 8 (1.87%) Legal Technology
16 7 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 135 (31.62%) Developer
2 85 (19.91%) Senior
3 69 (16.16%) Lead
4 66 (15.46%) Architect
4 66 (15.46%) Software Engineer
5 36 (8.43%) Salesforce Architect
6 30 (7.03%) Development Engineer
6 30 (7.03%) Software Development Engineer
7 29 (6.79%) Senior Developer
8 28 (6.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 25 (5.85%) Lead Software Engineer
9 25 (5.85%) Technical Architect
10 24 (5.62%) Consultant
10 24 (5.62%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (4.22%) .NET Developer
11 18 (4.22%) Java Developer
11 18 (4.22%) Salesforce Technical Architect
11 18 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (3.98%) Python Engineer
13 16 (3.75%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (24.12%) SOAP
2 89 (20.84%) React
3 79 (18.50%) .NET
4 48 (11.24%) Lightning Web Components
5 46 (10.77%) Spring
6 45 (10.54%) Visualforce
7 41 (9.60%) OAuth
8 37 (8.67%) Node.js
9 34 (7.96%) Spring Boot
10 33 (7.73%) GraphQL
10 33 (7.73%) SAML
11 31 (7.26%) AngularJS
12 27 (6.32%) OpenID
13 26 (6.09%) JSON
13 26 (6.09%) Kafka
14 25 (5.85%) ASP.NET
14 25 (5.85%) LDAP
15 24 (5.62%) CSS
15 24 (5.62%) RESTful
16 23 (5.39%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 88 (20.61%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.96%) Cloud Native
2 34 (7.96%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (7.73%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
6 15 (3.51%) Cyberattack
6 15 (3.51%) Low-Code
7 13 (3.04%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.81%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.58%) CMDB
9 11 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.34%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.34%) Video\Live Streaming
11 8 (1.87%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.41%) CUDA
13 5 (1.17%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.85%) Linux
2 12 (2.81%) Windows
3 9 (2.11%) Android
4 7 (1.64%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.64%) Unix
5 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (46.60%) CI/CD
2 143 (33.49%) Agile
3 131 (30.68%) DevOps
4 126 (29.51%) Software Engineering
5 116 (27.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 115 (26.93%) Roadmaps
7 97 (22.72%) AI
8 91 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (21.08%) Event-Driven
10 86 (20.14%) Mentoring
11 85 (19.91%) Full-Stack Development
12 84 (19.67%) Microservices
13 75 (17.56%) OO
14 71 (16.63%) Technical Leadership
15 67 (15.69%) Scrum
15 67 (15.69%) Test Automation
16 54 (12.65%) Design Patterns
17 53 (12.41%) Infrastructure as Code
18 52 (12.18%) Containerisation
19 48 (11.24%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 110 (25.76%) Java
2 100 (23.42%) SQL
3 86 (20.14%) JavaScript
4 82 (19.20%) Python
5 69 (16.16%) C#
6 62 (14.52%) TypeScript
7 51 (11.94%) Apex Code
8 36 (8.43%) SOQL
9 35 (8.20%) SOSL
10 32 (7.49%) PowerShell
11 22 (5.15%) T-SQL
12 21 (4.92%) Bash
13 13 (3.04%) Go
14 11 (2.58%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.41%) Ruby
16 5 (1.17%) Bicep
16 5 (1.17%) PHP
17 3 (0.70%) C++
17 3 (0.70%) DataWeave
18 2 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 55 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 38 (8.90%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.43%) Degree
4 26 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.64%) CISSP
7 4 (0.94%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.23%) CCIE
9 1 (0.23%) CCNP
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (11.94%) QA
2 22 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (4.22%) NIST
4 17 (3.98%) NCSC
5 13 (3.04%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.58%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.17%) GDPR
8 3 (0.70%) SLA
8 3 (0.70%) WCAG
9 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 96 (22.48%) Docker
2 32 (7.49%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.47%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 59 (13.82%) Kubernetes
2 37 (8.67%) Terraform
3 10 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (1.64%) Ansible
5 4 (0.94%) Argo
5 4 (0.94%) Grafana
5 4 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.47%) Kibana
6 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.47%) MIIS
Vendors
1 57 (13.35%) Microsoft
1 57 (13.35%) Salesforce
2 38 (8.90%) Splunk
3 26 (6.09%) ServiceNow
4 22 (5.15%) Oracle
5 16 (3.75%) MuleSoft
6 10 (2.34%) CyberArk
6 10 (2.34%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.11%) Informatica
8 7 (1.64%) Cisco
8 7 (1.64%) Google
9 6 (1.41%) F5
9 6 (1.41%) Juniper
9 6 (1.41%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.41%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.17%) IBM
10 5 (1.17%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.70%) Databricks
11 3 (0.70%) iManage
11 3 (0.70%) WooCommerce