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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 129 119
Rank change year-on-year -27 -10 -12
Permanent jobs citing REST 423 402 556
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.68% 2.45% 2.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.38% 10.73% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 274 227 275
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,125 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,188 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.43% +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 4,512 3,747 6,535
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.92% 22.82% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,277 2,434 4,399
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +3.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £120,000
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 16 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 20 (4.73%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (1.65%) Confluence
3 7 (1.65%) WebLogic
4 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.95%) Camunda
6 3 (0.71%) CMS
6 3 (0.71%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.71%) nginx
7 2 (0.47%) WordPress
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.24%) Documentum
8 1 (0.24%) HCL Domino
8 1 (0.24%) IIS
8 1 (0.24%) JBoss
8 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (1.65%) Moqups
2 3 (0.71%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.42%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.71%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.71%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (0.71%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.47%) Magento
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle SCM
4 2 (0.47%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.47%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.24%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 193 (45.63%) AWS
2 189 (44.68%) Azure
3 60 (14.18%) SaaS
4 45 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (9.46%) GCP
5 40 (9.46%) GitHub
5 40 (9.46%) Power Platform
6 36 (8.51%) Serverless
7 25 (5.91%) Azure Service Bus
7 25 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (5.67%) Power Automate
9 23 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (5.20%) PowerApps
11 20 (4.73%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (4.49%) Azure Functions
12 19 (4.49%) Entra ID
13 17 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (3.78%) Azure Key Vault
15 15 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (3.31%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.33%) HTTP
2 4 (0.95%) Broadband
2 4 (0.95%) Network Security
3 3 (0.71%) Firewall
3 3 (0.71%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.71%) MQTT
3 3 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.71%) VPN
4 2 (0.47%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.47%) X.509
5 1 (0.24%) 5G
5 1 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.24%) DNS
5 1 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.24%) LTE
5 1 (0.24%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.24%) OSPF
5 1 (0.24%) SSL
5 1 (0.24%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (15.37%) SQL Server
2 61 (14.42%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (8.98%) Relational Database
4 20 (4.73%) MySQL
5 19 (4.49%) Power BI
6 17 (4.02%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (2.60%) Redis
9 10 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (2.13%) MongoDB
11 8 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.42%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.18%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.95%) Ataccama
14 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.95%) IBM InfoSphere
14 4 (0.95%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.95%) Metadata
14 4 (0.95%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 98 (23.17%) Git
2 23 (5.44%) JUnit
3 22 (5.20%) JIRA
4 21 (4.96%) Mockito
5 15 (3.55%) GitLab
6 14 (3.31%) Cypress.io
6 14 (3.31%) Maven
7 11 (2.60%) Jenkins
7 11 (2.60%) Postman
7 11 (2.60%) Selenium
8 9 (2.13%) Claude Code
9 7 (1.65%) IntelliJ
10 6 (1.42%) Storybook
11 2 (0.47%) Mocha
11 2 (0.47%) Subversion
11 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.24%) Appium
12 1 (0.24%) Gradle
12 1 (0.24%) Karma Test Runner
12 1 (0.24%) Servoy
General
1 140 (33.10%) Social Skills
2 111 (26.24%) Finance
3 40 (9.46%) Banking
4 37 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 33 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (4.73%) Legal
8 18 (4.26%) Law
9 14 (3.31%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.13%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.13%) Retail
11 8 (1.89%) Back Office
11 8 (1.89%) Legal Technology
12 6 (1.42%) Marketing
13 5 (1.18%) Billing
13 5 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.18%) Front Office
13 5 (1.18%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.18%) Police
Job Titles
1 150 (35.46%) Developer
2 111 (26.24%) Senior
3 90 (21.28%) Lead
4 67 (15.84%) Software Engineer
5 42 (9.93%) Senior Developer
6 34 (8.04%) .NET Developer
7 31 (7.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 30 (7.09%) Architect
9 29 (6.86%) Lead Software Engineer
10 27 (6.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 24 (5.67%) Development Engineer
11 24 (5.67%) Software Development Engineer
12 23 (5.44%) Java Engineer
12 23 (5.44%) Technical Leader
13 19 (4.49%) Java Developer
14 18 (4.26%) Consultant
15 16 (3.78%) Software Developer
16 15 (3.55%) React Developer
16 15 (3.55%) Senior React Developer
17 14 (3.31%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (25.30%) React
2 102 (24.11%) .NET
3 60 (14.18%) Spring
4 49 (11.58%) SOAP
5 45 (10.64%) Terraform
6 41 (9.69%) Spring Boot
7 38 (8.98%) Node.js
8 33 (7.80%) Kafka
9 32 (7.57%) AngularJS
9 32 (7.57%) CSS
10 30 (7.09%) .NET Core
11 29 (6.86%) ASP.NET
12 24 (5.67%) GraphQL
12 24 (5.67%) OAuth
13 22 (5.20%) Blazor
14 19 (4.49%) RESTful
15 18 (4.26%) HTML
16 17 (4.02%) .NET Framework
16 17 (4.02%) Playwright
17 16 (3.78%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.82%) Distributed Systems
2 48 (11.35%) Product Ownership
3 42 (9.93%) Enterprise Software
4 39 (9.22%) Cloud Native
5 27 (6.38%) Public Cloud
6 18 (4.26%) AI Agents
7 16 (3.78%) Onboarding
8 15 (3.55%) Mobile App
9 13 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.60%) CMDB
11 10 (2.36%) Data Structures
11 10 (2.36%) IoT
12 9 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (2.13%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.42%) Low-Code
14 5 (1.18%) Reference Data
14 5 (1.18%) Video\Live Streaming
15 4 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 4 (0.95%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.96%) Linux
2 10 (2.36%) Android
3 9 (2.13%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.89%) Windows
5 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.24%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.24%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (52.48%) CI/CD
2 145 (34.28%) Agile
3 144 (34.04%) Software Engineering
4 132 (31.21%) AI
5 123 (29.08%) DevOps
6 110 (26.00%) Mentoring
7 107 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (22.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 97 (22.93%) Microservices
9 95 (22.46%) Full-Stack Development
9 95 (22.46%) Technical Leadership
10 81 (19.15%) Test Automation
11 75 (17.73%) Event-Driven
12 66 (15.60%) Roadmaps
13 65 (15.37%) TDD
14 57 (13.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 56 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
16 55 (13.00%) SDLC
17 51 (12.06%) Code Quality
18 50 (11.82%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 120 (28.37%) Java
2 115 (27.19%) SQL
3 101 (23.88%) C#
4 94 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 77 (18.20%) TypeScript
6 72 (17.02%) Python
7 23 (5.44%) PowerShell
8 14 (3.31%) Go
8 14 (3.31%) T-SQL
9 13 (3.07%) Apex Code
9 13 (3.07%) PL/SQL
10 11 (2.60%) Bash
11 7 (1.65%) Bicep
11 7 (1.65%) SOQL
12 6 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.42%) PHP
12 6 (1.42%) Ruby
13 3 (0.71%) C
13 3 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 69 (16.31%) Security Cleared
2 47 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.67%) Degree
4 17 (4.02%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.95%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.71%) CISSP
8 3 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.47%) PhD
10 1 (0.24%) CCIE
10 1 (0.24%) CCNP
10 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.53%) QA
2 25 (5.91%) Accessibility
3 18 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.42%) GDPR
4 6 (1.42%) NIST
5 5 (1.18%) WCAG
6 4 (0.95%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.71%) NCSC
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 124 (29.31%) Docker
2 13 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
4 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (14.66%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.31%) Grafana
3 11 (2.60%) Ansible
4 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.71%) Argo
5 3 (0.71%) Kibana
5 3 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) Consul
6 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.24%) logstash
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 87 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.27%) Oracle
3 18 (4.26%) Salesforce
4 17 (4.02%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.07%) Informatica
5 13 (3.07%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.84%) Google
7 10 (2.36%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.13%) Sage
9 6 (1.42%) Intapp
10 5 (1.18%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.18%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.18%) Foundry
10 5 (1.18%) IBM
10 5 (1.18%) SAP
10 5 (1.18%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.71%) Aderant
11 3 (0.71%) Adobe
11 3 (0.71%) Databricks
11 3 (0.71%) iManage