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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 135 158
Rank change year-on-year -22 +23 -60
Permanent jobs citing REST 395 386 491
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.65% 2.37% 2.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.89% 9.99% 7.29%
Number of salaries quoted 237 236 358
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,421
25th Percentile £55,750 £54,688 £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 £82,500 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +21.74% -17.86%

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 4,445 3,863 6,733
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.60% 23.74% 28.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,283 2,572 4,888
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,513 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £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 £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 14 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 14 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (1.27%) Confluence
4 4 (1.01%) Camunda
5 2 (0.51%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.51%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.25%) Documentum
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Moqups
2 3 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.52%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.76%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.76%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.51%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.51%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.25%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 192 (48.61%) AWS
2 168 (42.53%) Azure
3 50 (12.66%) SaaS
4 43 (10.89%) GCP
5 35 (8.86%) GitHub
6 33 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (7.85%) Power Platform
8 23 (5.82%) Serverless
9 19 (4.81%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (4.30%) Power Automate
11 16 (4.05%) Microsoft Copilot
11 16 (4.05%) PowerApps
12 14 (3.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (3.29%) GitHub Copilot
14 12 (3.04%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (2.78%) Entra ID
16 10 (2.53%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 39 (9.87%) HTTP
2 15 (3.80%) Broadband
3 6 (1.52%) Network Security
4 5 (1.27%) Firewall
4 5 (1.27%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.76%) SSL
5 3 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.51%) X.509
7 1 (0.25%) 5G
7 1 (0.25%) BGP
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.25%) DNS
7 1 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.25%) Intranet
7 1 (0.25%) LTE
7 1 (0.25%) MQTT
7 1 (0.25%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.25%) OSPF
7 1 (0.25%) VPN
7 1 (0.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.19%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (13.67%) SQL Server
3 41 (10.38%) Relational Database
4 19 (4.81%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.05%) MySQL
6 15 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (3.54%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.54%) Power BI
8 10 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (2.28%) Redis
10 6 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.01%) Ataccama
12 4 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.01%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (1.01%) TIBCO EBX
13 3 (0.76%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.76%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.76%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 95 (24.05%) Git
2 18 (4.56%) JUnit
3 17 (4.30%) JIRA
4 16 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 16 (4.05%) Mockito
5 14 (3.54%) GitLab
5 14 (3.54%) Maven
6 12 (3.04%) Cypress.io
7 10 (2.53%) Selenium
8 9 (2.28%) Postman
9 7 (1.77%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.52%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.52%) Storybook
11 5 (1.27%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.76%) Subversion
13 2 (0.51%) Gradle
13 2 (0.51%) NUnit
13 2 (0.51%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
14 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 122 (30.89%) Social Skills
2 116 (29.37%) Finance
3 53 (13.42%) Banking
4 37 (9.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.30%) Law
6 17 (4.30%) Legal
7 14 (3.54%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.29%) Marketing
9 11 (2.78%) Games
10 10 (2.53%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.28%) Back Office
11 9 (2.28%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.28%) Retail
12 8 (2.03%) Legal Technology
13 7 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.52%) Front Office
15 5 (1.27%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 134 (33.92%) Developer
2 96 (24.30%) Senior
3 82 (20.76%) Lead
4 72 (18.23%) Software Engineer
5 34 (8.61%) Development Engineer
5 34 (8.61%) Software Development Engineer
6 32 (8.10%) Architect
7 31 (7.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 31 (7.85%) Senior Developer
8 29 (7.34%) Lead Software Engineer
9 27 (6.84%) .NET Developer
10 26 (6.58%) Full-Stack Developer
11 20 (5.06%) Java Engineer
11 20 (5.06%) Technical Leader
12 19 (4.81%) Java Developer
13 18 (4.56%) Python Engineer
14 16 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
14 16 (4.05%) Software Developer
15 15 (3.80%) Consultant
16 14 (3.54%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (25.32%) React
2 76 (19.24%) .NET
3 58 (14.68%) SOAP
4 54 (13.67%) Spring
5 45 (11.39%) Terraform
6 35 (8.86%) Spring Boot
7 34 (8.61%) Node.js
8 32 (8.10%) AngularJS
9 27 (6.84%) ASP.NET
9 27 (6.84%) CSS
9 27 (6.84%) Kafka
10 23 (5.82%) .NET Core
10 23 (5.82%) OAuth
11 22 (5.57%) Blazor
12 20 (5.06%) RESTful
13 19 (4.81%) GraphQL
14 17 (4.30%) Lightning Web Components
14 17 (4.30%) Playwright
15 16 (4.05%) Django
16 15 (3.80%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 64 (16.20%) Product Ownership
2 37 (9.37%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (9.11%) Public Cloud
4 31 (7.85%) Cloud Native
4 31 (7.85%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.05%) Mobile App
6 14 (3.54%) AI Agents
6 14 (3.54%) Low-Code
7 12 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.78%) CMDB
9 10 (2.53%) Onboarding
10 9 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (2.03%) IoT
11 8 (2.03%) Video\Live Streaming
12 7 (1.77%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.27%) Algorithms
14 4 (1.01%) CUDA
14 4 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
14 4 (1.01%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.81%) Linux
2 11 (2.78%) Android
3 9 (2.28%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.01%) Windows
5 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (47.59%) CI/CD
2 135 (34.18%) Software Engineering
3 124 (31.39%) Agile
4 116 (29.37%) AI
5 101 (25.57%) Problem-Solving
6 100 (25.32%) DevOps
7 98 (24.81%) Mentoring
8 95 (24.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 94 (23.80%) Full-Stack Development
10 88 (22.28%) Technical Leadership
11 84 (21.27%) Microservices
12 77 (19.49%) Roadmaps
13 70 (17.72%) Event-Driven
14 67 (16.96%) Test Automation
15 61 (15.44%) TDD
16 57 (14.43%) OO
17 47 (11.90%) Scrum
18 46 (11.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 45 (11.39%) Containerisation
20 43 (10.89%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 116 (29.37%) Java
2 98 (24.81%) SQL
3 79 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 75 (18.99%) C#
5 68 (17.22%) Python
6 66 (16.71%) TypeScript
7 21 (5.32%) PowerShell
8 19 (4.81%) Apex Code
9 14 (3.54%) PL/SQL
10 13 (3.29%) Go
11 12 (3.04%) SOQL
12 10 (2.53%) Bash
13 8 (2.03%) SOSL
14 6 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (1.52%) Ruby
14 6 (1.52%) T-SQL
15 4 (1.01%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.76%) Bicep
16 3 (0.76%) PHP
17 2 (0.51%) Dart
Qualifications
1 52 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 31 (7.85%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.57%) Degree
4 17 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.05%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.27%) CISSP
7 3 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.51%) 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%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (14.68%) QA
2 19 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.54%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.27%) NIST
5 5 (1.27%) WCAG
6 4 (1.01%) GDPR
6 4 (1.01%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.76%) NCSC
8 2 (0.51%) SLA
9 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 107 (27.09%) Docker
2 12 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 61 (15.44%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.53%) Ansible
3 5 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.76%) Grafana
4 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.51%) Argo
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.25%) Consul
6 1 (0.25%) Kibana
6 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) MIIS
6 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 66 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.33%) Oracle
3 24 (6.08%) Salesforce
4 17 (4.30%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.04%) Informatica
6 10 (2.53%) MuleSoft
6 10 (2.53%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.28%) Google
7 9 (2.28%) Splunk
8 7 (1.77%) Sage
9 6 (1.52%) IBM
10 5 (1.27%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.27%) TIBCO
11 4 (1.01%) SAP
12 3 (0.76%) Aderant
12 3 (0.76%) HighQ
12 3 (0.76%) iManage
12 3 (0.76%) Intapp
13 2 (0.51%) Databricks
13 2 (0.51%) OneLogin