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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 130 169
Rank change year-on-year -26 +39 -63
Permanent jobs citing REST 398 387 483
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.63% 2.38% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.84% 10.02% 7.11%
Number of salaries quoted 246 236 337
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,395
25th Percentile £55,750 £53,750 £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 £84,375 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +20.69% -17.14%

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 4,502 3,861 6,792
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.40% 23.73% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,325 2,562 4,814
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £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 20 September 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 15 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (1.51%) Confluence
4 4 (1.01%) Camunda
5 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.50%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.25%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Documentum
6 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Moqups
2 3 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.75%) Carpe Diem
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%) Dynamics CRM
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 (47.24%) AWS
2 170 (42.71%) Azure
3 50 (12.56%) SaaS
4 39 (9.80%) GCP
5 34 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (8.54%) GitHub
6 32 (8.04%) Power Platform
7 26 (6.53%) Serverless
8 20 (5.03%) Azure Service Bus
9 18 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (4.52%) Power Automate
10 17 (4.27%) PowerApps
11 16 (4.02%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (3.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (3.27%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (3.27%) GitHub Copilot
14 11 (2.76%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (2.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 39 (9.80%) HTTP
2 10 (2.51%) Broadband
3 6 (1.51%) Network Security
4 5 (1.26%) Firewall
4 5 (1.26%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.50%) SSL
6 2 (0.50%) VPN
6 2 (0.50%) X.509
7 1 (0.25%) BGP
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.25%) DHCP
7 1 (0.25%) DNS
7 1 (0.25%) Intranet
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) LTE
7 1 (0.25%) MQTT
7 1 (0.25%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.25%) OSPF
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (14.57%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (14.07%) SQL Server
3 41 (10.30%) Relational Database
4 20 (5.03%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.52%) MySQL
6 16 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (3.52%) Power BI
8 10 (2.51%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (2.26%) Redis
10 8 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.01%) Ataccama
12 4 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.01%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (1.01%) MariaDB
12 4 (1.01%) TIBCO EBX
13 3 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 95 (23.87%) Git
2 18 (4.52%) JIRA
2 18 (4.52%) JUnit
3 16 (4.02%) Jenkins
3 16 (4.02%) Mockito
4 14 (3.52%) GitLab
4 14 (3.52%) Maven
5 13 (3.27%) Cypress.io
6 11 (2.76%) Postman
6 11 (2.76%) Selenium
7 7 (1.76%) Claude Code
8 6 (1.51%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.51%) Storybook
9 5 (1.26%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.75%) Subversion
10 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.50%) Gradle
11 2 (0.50%) NUnit
11 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 123 (30.90%) Social Skills
2 115 (28.89%) Finance
3 52 (13.07%) Banking
4 37 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (7.04%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.27%) Law
7 17 (4.27%) Legal
8 14 (3.52%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.02%) Marketing
10 10 (2.51%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.51%) Retail
11 9 (2.26%) Back Office
11 9 (2.26%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.01%) Legal Technology
13 6 (1.51%) Front Office
13 6 (1.51%) Games
13 6 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.26%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 138 (34.67%) Developer
2 98 (24.62%) Senior
3 82 (20.60%) Lead
4 71 (17.84%) Software Engineer
5 34 (8.54%) Senior Developer
6 33 (8.29%) Development Engineer
6 33 (8.29%) Software Development Engineer
7 30 (7.54%) Architect
8 29 (7.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 28 (7.04%) .NET Developer
9 28 (7.04%) Lead Software Engineer
10 26 (6.53%) Full-Stack Developer
11 20 (5.03%) Technical Leader
12 19 (4.77%) Java Developer
12 19 (4.77%) Java Engineer
13 18 (4.52%) Software Developer
14 16 (4.02%) Python Engineer
15 15 (3.77%) Consultant
15 15 (3.77%) Lead Developer
15 15 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (26.63%) React
2 85 (21.36%) .NET
3 57 (14.32%) SOAP
4 54 (13.57%) Spring
5 45 (11.31%) Terraform
6 36 (9.05%) AngularJS
7 35 (8.79%) Node.js
7 35 (8.79%) Spring Boot
8 31 (7.79%) CSS
9 29 (7.29%) ASP.NET
10 27 (6.78%) .NET Core
11 26 (6.53%) Kafka
12 24 (6.03%) OAuth
13 22 (5.53%) Blazor
13 22 (5.53%) RESTful
14 19 (4.77%) GraphQL
15 17 (4.27%) Lightning Web Components
15 17 (4.27%) Playwright
16 16 (4.02%) HTML
17 15 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 57 (14.32%) Product Ownership
2 39 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (8.79%) Public Cloud
4 34 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
5 33 (8.29%) Cloud Native
6 17 (4.27%) Mobile App
7 16 (4.02%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.76%) CMDB
9 10 (2.51%) Low-Code
9 10 (2.51%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.01%) IoT
11 8 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.76%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.01%) Educational Technology
13 4 (1.01%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.01%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.01%) Robotics
13 4 (1.01%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.77%) Linux
2 12 (3.02%) Android
3 10 (2.51%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.51%) 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
1 193 (48.49%) CI/CD
2 135 (33.92%) Software Engineering
3 126 (31.66%) Agile
4 119 (29.90%) AI
5 105 (26.38%) DevOps
5 105 (26.38%) Mentoring
6 104 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (23.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 92 (23.12%) Technical Leadership
8 91 (22.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 85 (21.36%) Microservices
10 76 (19.10%) Roadmaps
11 70 (17.59%) Event-Driven
12 64 (16.08%) Test Automation
13 60 (15.08%) TDD
14 55 (13.82%) OO
15 49 (12.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 49 (12.31%) SDLC
16 46 (11.56%) Scrum
17 45 (11.31%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 118 (29.65%) Java
2 102 (25.63%) SQL
3 84 (21.11%) C#
4 83 (20.85%) JavaScript
5 66 (16.58%) TypeScript
6 65 (16.33%) Python
7 22 (5.53%) PowerShell
8 19 (4.77%) Apex Code
9 14 (3.52%) PL/SQL
10 11 (2.76%) Bash
10 11 (2.76%) SOQL
11 10 (2.51%) Go
12 7 (1.76%) SOSL
12 7 (1.76%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.51%) Ruby
14 4 (1.01%) Bicep
14 4 (1.01%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.75%) PHP
16 2 (0.50%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (13.57%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.04%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.78%) Degree
4 17 (4.27%) DV Cleared
5 16 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.26%) CISSP
7 3 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CCIE
9 1 (0.25%) CCNP
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CSPO
9 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (13.57%) QA
2 19 (4.77%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.52%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.26%) GDPR
5 5 (1.26%) NIST
5 5 (1.26%) WCAG
6 4 (1.01%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.75%) NCSC
8 2 (0.50%) SLA
9 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 108 (27.14%) Docker
2 13 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (15.08%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.51%) Ansible
3 5 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.75%) Argo
4 3 (0.75%) Grafana
4 3 (0.75%) Kibana
4 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.25%) Consul
6 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) logstash
6 1 (0.25%) MIIS
6 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 72 (18.09%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.28%) Oracle
3 24 (6.03%) Salesforce
4 18 (4.52%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.02%) Informatica
6 11 (2.76%) OpenAI
7 10 (2.51%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.26%) Google
9 7 (1.76%) Sage
9 7 (1.76%) Splunk
10 6 (1.51%) IBM
11 5 (1.26%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.26%) SAP
11 5 (1.26%) TIBCO
12 4 (1.01%) Foundry
13 3 (0.75%) Aderant
13 3 (0.75%) HighQ
13 3 (0.75%) iManage
13 3 (0.75%) Intapp
13 3 (0.75%) VMware