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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 81 94
Rank change year-on-year -54 +13 -14
Permanent jobs citing REST 310 671 678
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.04% 3.45% 3.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.27% 11.40% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 221 272 598
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,238 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £89,852
90th Percentile £105,000 £87,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.50%

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 2,751 5,886 6,506
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.13% 30.23% 31.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,228 3,854 5,536
10th Percentile £39,929 £40,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

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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 30 November 2025.

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 (3.55%) JBoss
2 9 (2.90%) WebSphere
3 6 (1.94%) Confluence
3 6 (1.94%) IIS
4 5 (1.61%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.29%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.65%) CMS
6 2 (0.65%) Mendix
6 2 (0.65%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.32%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.32%) Strapi
7 1 (0.32%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (3.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.23%) Shopify
3 8 (2.58%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.29%) NetSuite
4 4 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.32%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 126 (40.65%) Azure
2 85 (27.42%) AWS
3 49 (15.81%) SaaS
4 37 (11.94%) GitHub
5 34 (10.97%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (7.42%) GitHub Copilot
7 22 (7.10%) GCP
8 21 (6.77%) Azure Logic Apps
9 19 (6.13%) Boomi
10 18 (5.81%) Power Automate
11 16 (5.16%) Power Platform
12 14 (4.52%) Azure Service Bus
12 14 (4.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 14 (4.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 13 (4.19%) Serverless
14 10 (3.23%) Entra ID
14 10 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (2.90%) PowerApps
15 9 (2.90%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.10%) Broadband
2 9 (2.90%) HTTP
3 3 (0.97%) FTP
4 2 (0.65%) IP Telephony
4 2 (0.65%) PSTN
4 2 (0.65%) VoIP
5 1 (0.32%) AMQP
5 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.32%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.32%) RFID
5 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.94%) SQL Server
2 24 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (6.77%) MySQL
3 21 (6.77%) Relational Database
4 18 (5.81%) NoSQL
5 17 (5.48%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.90%) Redis
7 8 (2.58%) Power BI
8 5 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.29%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.97%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.65%) Big Data
11 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 43 (13.87%) Git
2 29 (9.35%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.10%) GitLab
4 18 (5.81%) JIRA
5 16 (5.16%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.94%) Selenium
6 6 (1.94%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.61%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.61%) Maven
7 5 (1.61%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.29%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (1.29%) JMeter
8 4 (1.29%) JUnit
8 4 (1.29%) MSBuild
8 4 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (1.29%) Postman
8 4 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.97%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.97%) git-flow
9 3 (0.97%) SpecFlow
General
1 101 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 96 (30.97%) Finance
3 36 (11.61%) Games
4 35 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (9.03%) Marketing
7 20 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 17 (5.48%) Law
8 17 (5.48%) Retail
9 12 (3.87%) Banking
10 9 (2.90%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.90%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.26%) Legal
11 7 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.94%) Back Office
12 6 (1.94%) Front Office
12 6 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.61%) Automotive
14 4 (1.29%) Polish Language
15 3 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 133 (42.90%) Developer
2 81 (26.13%) Senior
3 32 (10.32%) Architect
4 23 (7.42%) Integration Developer
5 22 (7.10%) C# Developer
5 22 (7.10%) Full-Stack Developer
6 20 (6.45%) Lead
6 20 (6.45%) Senior Developer
6 20 (6.45%) Software Engineer
7 18 (5.81%) .NET Developer
8 16 (5.16%) Integration Engineer
9 15 (4.84%) Salesforce Architect
10 13 (4.19%) Technical Architect
11 11 (3.55%) Java Developer
11 11 (3.55%) SAP Developer
12 10 (3.23%) Analyst
12 10 (3.23%) Development Engineer
12 10 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (2.90%) C# .NET Developer
13 9 (2.90%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (41.29%) SOAP
2 60 (19.35%) .NET
3 46 (14.84%) React
4 45 (14.52%) JSON
5 41 (13.23%) Web Services
6 39 (12.58%) Lightning Web Components
7 38 (12.26%) Middleware
8 37 (11.94%) CSS
9 35 (11.29%) GraphQL
9 35 (11.29%) XML
10 33 (10.65%) HTML
11 29 (9.35%) SAML
12 28 (9.03%) OAuth
13 27 (8.71%) Spring
14 25 (8.06%) AngularJS
15 22 (7.10%) Node.js
15 22 (7.10%) RESTful
15 22 (7.10%) Visualforce
16 17 (5.48%) Kafka
16 17 (5.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.10%) Product Ownership
2 24 (7.74%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.55%) Low-Code
6 9 (2.90%) DataPower
7 7 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.26%) Cyberattack
7 7 (2.26%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.94%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.61%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.61%) Educational Technology
9 5 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.61%) Mobile Games
10 4 (1.29%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.29%) IoT
10 4 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.97%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.45%) Linux
2 12 (3.87%) Android
3 9 (2.90%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.94%) Unix
5 2 (0.65%) Windows
6 1 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (44.84%) Agile
2 93 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 86 (27.74%) DevOps
4 76 (24.52%) Roadmaps
5 63 (20.32%) AI
6 59 (19.03%) Microservices
7 57 (18.39%) Mentoring
8 54 (17.42%) Event-Driven
9 49 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (12.90%) Test Automation
12 36 (11.61%) Data Modelling
12 36 (11.61%) Software Engineering
13 35 (11.29%) Scrum
14 34 (10.97%) API Integration
15 33 (10.65%) Clean Code
15 33 (10.65%) User Experience
16 32 (10.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 31 (10.00%) Design Patterns
18 30 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 105 (33.87%) SQL
2 91 (29.35%) JavaScript
3 62 (20.00%) C#
4 57 (18.39%) Java
4 57 (18.39%) Python
5 39 (12.58%) Apex Code
6 32 (10.32%) TypeScript
7 27 (8.71%) PowerShell
8 21 (6.77%) PHP
9 16 (5.16%) SOQL
10 15 (4.84%) SOSL
10 15 (4.84%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.23%) Bash
12 9 (2.90%) Go
12 9 (2.90%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.58%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.61%) ABAP
15 4 (1.29%) C++
16 3 (0.97%) Groovy
16 3 (0.97%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (10.97%) Degree
2 19 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.19%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.19%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (0.97%) PhD
5 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.42%) GDPR
2 16 (5.16%) QA
3 7 (2.26%) NCSC
3 7 (2.26%) NIST
4 5 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.29%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.65%) HL7
7 2 (0.65%) WCAG
8 1 (0.32%) MiFID
8 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.32%) SLA
8 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (15.48%) Docker
2 8 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (10.32%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.81%) Terraform
3 12 (3.87%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.32%) Grafana
5 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 51 (16.45%) Salesforce
2 38 (12.26%) Microsoft
3 26 (8.39%) MuleSoft
4 23 (7.42%) Oracle
5 17 (5.48%) SAP
5 17 (5.48%) ServiceNow
6 16 (5.16%) IBM
7 15 (4.84%) Splunk
8 13 (4.19%) Workday
9 7 (2.26%) Talend
10 6 (1.94%) Epicor
10 6 (1.94%) SnapLogic
11 5 (1.61%) Dell
11 5 (1.61%) HubSpot
11 5 (1.61%) IFS
11 5 (1.61%) Infor
11 5 (1.61%) Informatica
11 5 (1.61%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.61%) Software AG
11 5 (1.61%) TIBCO