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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 113 134
Rank change year-on-year +2 +21 -38
Permanent jobs citing REST 411 380 777
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.29% 2.85% 2.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.93% 9.46% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 207 271 708
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £50,269 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £96,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -13.60%

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 3,179 4,018 8,563
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.71% 30.11% 26.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,286 3,226 7,512
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,300 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £98,722
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 24 April 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 (3.65%) JBoss
2 11 (2.68%) WebSphere
3 5 (1.22%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.22%) Apache Pulsar
3 5 (1.22%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.97%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.73%) NServiceBus
5 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.49%) Apache
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.49%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.73%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (2.68%) Shopify
2 10 (2.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (2.19%) Magento
4 3 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 158 (38.44%) Azure
2 119 (28.95%) AWS
3 62 (15.09%) Entra ID
4 56 (13.63%) Google Workspace
5 52 (12.65%) GitHub
6 38 (9.25%) SaaS
7 36 (8.76%) GCP
8 35 (8.52%) GitHub Copilot
9 32 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (6.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 26 (6.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 21 (5.11%) Serverless
12 10 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.19%) Power Automate
14 8 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.95%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.95%) Salesforce Einstein
15 7 (1.70%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 99 (24.09%) Broadband
2 31 (7.54%) HTTP
3 10 (2.43%) Firewall
4 9 (2.19%) SMTP
5 7 (1.70%) SSL
6 6 (1.46%) AMQP
6 6 (1.46%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (1.22%) PuTTY
8 4 (0.97%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.97%) Network Security
9 3 (0.73%) Modbus
9 3 (0.73%) RTP
9 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.73%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.73%) VoIP
9 3 (0.73%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.24%) Intranet
10 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.27%) SQL Server
2 27 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.11%) NoSQL
4 18 (4.38%) MongoDB
4 18 (4.38%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.68%) MySQL
6 6 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.22%) DocumentDB
7 5 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.97%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.97%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.97%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.49%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.49%) Power BI
9 2 (0.49%) Redis
10 1 (0.24%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.24%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 49 (11.92%) Git
2 42 (10.22%) Jenkins
3 41 (9.98%) GitLab
4 34 (8.27%) SonarQube
5 16 (3.89%) JIRA
6 12 (2.92%) Selenium
7 10 (2.43%) SpecFlow
8 9 (2.19%) Maven
8 9 (2.19%) WebDriver
9 7 (1.70%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.46%) Gradle
11 5 (1.22%) JUnit
12 4 (0.97%) NUnit
13 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.73%) JMeter
13 3 (0.73%) Postman
13 3 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.49%) Android Studio
14 2 (0.49%) Serenity BDD
General
1 140 (34.06%) Social Skills
2 116 (28.22%) Finance
3 84 (20.44%) Games
4 73 (17.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (14.84%) Organisational Skills
6 48 (11.68%) Marketing
7 41 (9.98%) Banking
8 33 (8.03%) Public Sector
9 26 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
10 22 (5.35%) Law
11 18 (4.38%) Back Office
11 18 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (4.38%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.68%) Retail
13 10 (2.43%) Financial Institution
14 9 (2.19%) Polish Language
15 5 (1.22%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.97%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 137 (33.33%) Developer
2 123 (29.93%) Senior
3 63 (15.33%) Architect
4 56 (13.63%) Software Engineer
5 34 (8.27%) Senior Developer
6 33 (8.03%) Salesforce Architect
7 28 (6.81%) Development Engineer
7 28 (6.81%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (6.57%) Lead
9 26 (6.33%) Software Development Engineer
10 21 (5.11%) IAM Developer
10 21 (5.11%) Salesforce Developer
11 20 (4.87%) Java Developer
12 19 (4.62%) Senior Architect
13 18 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (4.38%) Salesforce Technical Architect
13 18 (4.38%) Senior Development Engineer
13 18 (4.38%) Senior Software Development Engineer
13 18 (4.38%) Technical Architect
14 17 (4.14%) Salesforce Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (45.74%) SOAP
2 81 (19.71%) OAuth
3 80 (19.46%) GraphQL
4 76 (18.49%) SAML
5 71 (17.27%) Lightning Web Components
6 64 (15.57%) .NET
7 63 (15.33%) LDAP
8 62 (15.09%) OpenID
9 55 (13.38%) Visualforce
10 51 (12.41%) React
11 50 (12.17%) Spring
12 43 (10.46%) Middleware
13 38 (9.25%) JSON
14 34 (8.27%) Web Services
15 33 (8.03%) Spring Boot
16 29 (7.06%) Node.js
16 29 (7.06%) XML
17 26 (6.33%) AngularJS
17 26 (6.33%) RESTful
18 24 (5.84%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 83 (20.19%) Product Ownership
2 58 (14.11%) Cyber Threat
2 58 (14.11%) Cyberattack
3 40 (9.73%) Cloud Native
4 29 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (6.57%) Public Cloud
6 15 (3.65%) Low-Code
7 14 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.68%) DataPower
10 10 (2.43%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.95%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.70%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.70%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.70%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.46%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.46%) CUDA
14 5 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
15 4 (0.97%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.33%) Linux
2 16 (3.89%) Android
3 10 (2.43%) Windows
4 8 (1.95%) Unix
5 7 (1.70%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) CentOS
7 1 (0.24%) Debian
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (36.98%) Roadmaps
2 150 (36.50%) CI/CD
3 128 (31.14%) DevOps
4 127 (30.90%) Agile
5 107 (26.03%) Mentoring
6 95 (23.11%) Software Engineering
7 87 (21.17%) AI
8 85 (20.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 81 (19.71%) Event-Driven
10 70 (17.03%) Microservices
10 70 (17.03%) Test Automation
11 65 (15.82%) OO
12 63 (15.33%) Cybersecurity
13 62 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
14 60 (14.60%) Identity Access Management
15 58 (14.11%) Programme Delivery
16 57 (13.87%) Regulatory Compliance
17 54 (13.14%) Scrum
18 52 (12.65%) Data Modelling
19 51 (12.41%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 111 (27.01%) Java
2 109 (26.52%) SQL
3 75 (18.25%) Apex Code
4 68 (16.55%) PowerShell
4 68 (16.55%) Python
4 68 (16.55%) T-SQL
5 67 (16.30%) JavaScript
6 58 (14.11%) Bash
7 45 (10.95%) C#
8 36 (8.76%) SOQL
8 36 (8.76%) SOSL
9 34 (8.27%) TypeScript
10 18 (4.38%) Go
11 10 (2.43%) C++
12 7 (1.70%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.70%) PHP
13 3 (0.73%) Bicep
13 3 (0.73%) C
13 3 (0.73%) DataWeave
14 2 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 53 (12.90%) Degree
2 41 (9.98%) Security Cleared
3 39 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 32 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.97%) Azure Certification
5 4 (0.97%) CISSP
5 4 (0.97%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.49%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (14.36%) NIST
2 58 (14.11%) NCSC
3 31 (7.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (6.33%) QA
5 6 (1.46%) GDPR
6 4 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.73%) SLA
8 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.24%) HL7
System Software
1 70 (17.03%) Active Directory
2 56 (13.63%) Docker
3 5 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.73%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 46 (11.19%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.08%) Terraform
3 7 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.22%) Ansible
5 3 (0.73%) Argo
6 2 (0.49%) Kibana
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.49%) MIIS
7 1 (0.24%) Grafana
7 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 78 (18.98%) Salesforce
2 42 (10.22%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.25%) Splunk
4 25 (6.08%) MuleSoft
5 22 (5.35%) ServiceNow
6 17 (4.14%) Oracle
7 11 (2.68%) CyberArk
8 9 (2.19%) ConnectWise
8 9 (2.19%) WooCommerce
9 7 (1.70%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.46%) Cisco
10 6 (1.46%) F5
10 6 (1.46%) IBM
10 6 (1.46%) Juniper
10 6 (1.46%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.46%) SAP
11 5 (1.22%) Ericsson
11 5 (1.22%) Mavenir
11 5 (1.22%) Nokia
12 3 (0.73%) Talend