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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 126 151
Rank change year-on-year -12 +25 -43
Permanent jobs citing REST 407 438 696
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.00% 2.80% 2.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.00% 10.29% 7.77%
Number of salaries quoted 215 271 620
10th Percentile £42,706 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,738 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -8.40%
75th Percentile £78,125 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 3,699 4,258 8,955
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.15% 27.22% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,774 2,874 7,621
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,482
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -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 26 June 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 7 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.47%) JBoss
3 3 (0.74%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.74%) Apache Solr
3 3 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.74%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.49%) Apache
4 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.49%) Camunda
4 2 (0.49%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) IIS
5 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.98%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.98%) Magento
1 4 (0.98%) Shopify
2 2 (0.49%) Carpe Diem
2 2 (0.49%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.49%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 150 (36.86%) AWS
2 145 (35.63%) Azure
3 45 (11.06%) Entra ID
4 39 (9.58%) Google Workspace
5 36 (8.85%) SaaS
6 34 (8.35%) GitHub
7 30 (7.37%) GCP
8 21 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (4.91%) Serverless
10 18 (4.42%) Power Platform
11 17 (4.18%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (3.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 13 (3.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (2.21%) PowerApps
15 8 (1.97%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.97%) Power Automate
16 7 (1.72%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 80 (19.66%) Broadband
2 34 (8.35%) HTTP
3 12 (2.95%) Firewall
4 9 (2.21%) SMTP
5 7 (1.72%) Network Security
5 7 (1.72%) SSL
6 6 (1.47%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (1.47%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.23%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.98%) AMQP
9 3 (0.74%) Modbus
9 3 (0.74%) RTP
9 3 (0.74%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.74%) VoIP
9 3 (0.74%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.25%) Intranet
10 1 (0.25%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.25%) MQTT
10 1 (0.25%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 23 (5.65%) Relational Database
4 22 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 21 (5.16%) MongoDB
6 17 (4.18%) MySQL
7 8 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.72%) Power BI
9 6 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.23%) MariaDB
10 5 (1.23%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.23%) Redis
10 5 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.98%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.74%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.74%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.49%) Big Data
13 2 (0.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 60 (14.74%) Git
2 42 (10.32%) GitLab
3 40 (9.83%) Jenkins
4 34 (8.35%) SonarQube
5 13 (3.19%) JIRA
6 12 (2.95%) JUnit
7 11 (2.70%) Maven
8 9 (2.21%) Selenium
9 8 (1.97%) Mockito
9 8 (1.97%) SpecFlow
10 7 (1.72%) WebDriver
11 6 (1.47%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.47%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.98%) Gradle
12 4 (0.98%) NUnit
12 4 (0.98%) Postman
13 3 (0.74%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.74%) Subversion
13 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.49%) JMeter
General
1 125 (30.71%) Social Skills
2 110 (27.03%) Finance
3 77 (18.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 64 (15.72%) Games
5 54 (13.27%) Banking
6 43 (10.57%) Organisational Skills
7 41 (10.07%) Public Sector
8 40 (9.83%) Marketing
9 29 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (4.91%) Law
11 15 (3.69%) Back Office
11 15 (3.69%) Financial Institution
12 13 (3.19%) Manufacturing
12 13 (3.19%) Retail
13 11 (2.70%) Polish Language
14 10 (2.46%) Legal
15 9 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.97%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.97%) Legal Technology
16 8 (1.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 126 (30.96%) Developer
2 86 (21.13%) Senior
3 70 (17.20%) Software Engineer
4 68 (16.71%) Architect
5 49 (12.04%) Lead
6 35 (8.60%) Salesforce Architect
7 29 (7.13%) Development Engineer
7 29 (7.13%) Software Development Engineer
8 28 (6.88%) Senior Developer
9 25 (6.14%) Technical Architect
10 24 (5.90%) Consultant
10 24 (5.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 23 (5.65%) Lead Software Engineer
12 20 (4.91%) Java Developer
13 18 (4.42%) Salesforce Technical Architect
13 18 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (4.18%) Salesforce Developer
15 16 (3.93%) Java Engineer
16 15 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (33.17%) SOAP
2 74 (18.18%) React
3 70 (17.20%) .NET
4 64 (15.72%) OAuth
5 59 (14.50%) SAML
6 53 (13.02%) GraphQL
6 53 (13.02%) Spring
7 52 (12.78%) Lightning Web Components
8 51 (12.53%) Visualforce
9 49 (12.04%) OpenID
10 48 (11.79%) LDAP
11 37 (9.09%) Spring Boot
12 33 (8.11%) Node.js
13 31 (7.62%) AngularJS
14 30 (7.37%) JSON
15 29 (7.13%) Middleware
16 23 (5.65%) CSS
17 22 (5.41%) Kafka
18 20 (4.91%) ASP.NET
19 19 (4.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (20.15%) Product Ownership
2 39 (9.58%) Cyber Threat
2 39 (9.58%) Cyberattack
3 34 (8.35%) Cloud Native
4 32 (7.86%) Public Cloud
5 29 (7.13%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.69%) Low-Code
8 14 (3.44%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.70%) CMDB
10 11 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.70%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.97%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.97%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.97%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (1.47%) CUDA
12 6 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
14 4 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.90%) Linux
2 11 (2.70%) Windows
3 9 (2.21%) Android
4 6 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.47%) Unix
5 4 (0.98%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) CentOS
6 1 (0.25%) Debian
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (40.05%) CI/CD
2 139 (34.15%) Roadmaps
3 124 (30.47%) Agile
4 117 (28.75%) Software Engineering
5 115 (28.26%) DevOps
6 95 (23.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 87 (21.38%) Mentoring
8 84 (20.64%) Event-Driven
9 78 (19.16%) AI
10 74 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
11 72 (17.69%) Microservices
12 71 (17.44%) Full-Stack Development
13 69 (16.95%) OO
14 62 (15.23%) Technical Leadership
15 61 (14.99%) Scrum
16 56 (13.76%) Test Automation
17 53 (13.02%) Design Patterns
18 49 (12.04%) Containerisation
19 48 (11.79%) Cybersecurity
20 47 (11.55%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 108 (26.54%) Java
2 100 (24.57%) SQL
3 80 (19.66%) JavaScript
4 75 (18.43%) Python
5 55 (13.51%) Apex Code
6 54 (13.27%) C#
7 52 (12.78%) PowerShell
8 46 (11.30%) T-SQL
9 44 (10.81%) TypeScript
10 41 (10.07%) Bash
11 37 (9.09%) SOQL
11 37 (9.09%) SOSL
12 12 (2.95%) Go
13 8 (1.97%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.47%) Ruby
15 5 (1.23%) Bicep
16 4 (0.98%) PHP
17 3 (0.74%) C
17 3 (0.74%) C++
17 3 (0.74%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 53 (13.02%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.83%) Degree
2 40 (9.83%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.69%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.47%) CISSP
6 4 (0.98%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.74%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.83%) NIST
2 39 (9.58%) NCSC
2 39 (9.58%) QA
3 30 (7.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.47%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.98%) GDPR
7 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.74%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 70 (17.20%) Docker
2 55 (13.51%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.74%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 50 (12.29%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.88%) Terraform
3 9 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.47%) Ansible
5 5 (1.23%) Argo
6 4 (0.98%) Grafana
6 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.49%) Kibana
7 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.49%) MIIS
8 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 59 (14.50%) Salesforce
2 48 (11.79%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.34%) Splunk
4 27 (6.63%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.18%) Oracle
6 16 (3.93%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.21%) CyberArk
8 7 (1.72%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.72%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.47%) Cisco
9 6 (1.47%) F5
9 6 (1.47%) Google
9 6 (1.47%) Juniper
9 6 (1.47%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.98%) ConnectWise
10 4 (0.98%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.74%) BT
11 3 (0.74%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.74%) Mitel
11 3 (0.74%) Revolut