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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 132 169
Rank change year-on-year -24 +37 -70
Permanent jobs citing REST 393 386 481
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.64% 2.38% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.81% 10.05% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 238 236 348
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,238
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 £84,375 £83,750 £74,000
90th Percentile £96,625 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £57,750
% change year-on-year +3.57% +21.21% -17.50%

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 4,459 3,841 6,695
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.60% 23.73% 28.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,300 2,553 4,843
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,750 £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 £69,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +7.31% -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 15 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 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (1.27%) Confluence
4 4 (1.02%) 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 (1.53%) 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
1 190 (48.35%) AWS
2 168 (42.75%) Azure
3 50 (12.72%) SaaS
4 43 (10.94%) GCP
5 35 (8.91%) GitHub
6 33 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (7.89%) Power Platform
8 23 (5.85%) Serverless
9 19 (4.83%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (4.33%) Power Automate
11 16 (4.07%) Microsoft Copilot
11 16 (4.07%) PowerApps
12 14 (3.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (3.31%) GitHub Copilot
14 12 (3.05%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (2.80%) Entra ID
16 10 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 39 (9.92%) HTTP
2 12 (3.05%) Broadband
3 6 (1.53%) 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 57 (14.50%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (13.74%) SQL Server
3 42 (10.69%) Relational Database
4 19 (4.83%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.07%) MySQL
6 15 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (3.56%) Power BI
8 11 (2.80%) MongoDB
9 10 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (2.29%) Redis
11 6 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.02%) Ataccama
13 4 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.02%) IBM InfoSphere
13 4 (1.02%) TIBCO EBX
14 3 (0.76%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.76%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.76%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 95 (24.17%) Git
2 18 (4.58%) JUnit
3 17 (4.33%) JIRA
4 16 (4.07%) Jenkins
4 16 (4.07%) Mockito
5 14 (3.56%) GitLab
5 14 (3.56%) Maven
6 12 (3.05%) Cypress.io
7 10 (2.54%) Selenium
8 9 (2.29%) Postman
9 7 (1.78%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.53%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.53%) 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
1 123 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 116 (29.52%) Finance
3 53 (13.49%) Banking
4 37 (9.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.87%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.33%) Law
6 17 (4.33%) Legal
7 14 (3.56%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.31%) Marketing
9 10 (2.54%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.29%) Back Office
10 9 (2.29%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.29%) Retail
11 8 (2.04%) Games
11 8 (2.04%) Legal Technology
12 7 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.53%) Front Office
14 5 (1.27%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 135 (34.35%) Developer
2 94 (23.92%) Senior
3 82 (20.87%) Lead
4 72 (18.32%) Software Engineer
5 34 (8.65%) Development Engineer
5 34 (8.65%) Software Development Engineer
6 31 (7.89%) Architect
6 31 (7.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 31 (7.89%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.38%) Lead Software Engineer
8 27 (6.87%) .NET Developer
9 26 (6.62%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (5.09%) Java Engineer
10 20 (5.09%) Technical Leader
11 19 (4.83%) Java Developer
12 17 (4.33%) Python Engineer
13 16 (4.07%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (4.07%) Software Developer
14 15 (3.82%) Consultant
15 14 (3.56%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (25.45%) React
2 76 (19.34%) .NET
3 58 (14.76%) SOAP
4 54 (13.74%) Spring
5 45 (11.45%) Terraform
6 35 (8.91%) Spring Boot
7 34 (8.65%) Node.js
8 33 (8.40%) AngularJS
9 27 (6.87%) ASP.NET
9 27 (6.87%) CSS
9 27 (6.87%) Kafka
10 23 (5.85%) .NET Core
10 23 (5.85%) OAuth
11 22 (5.60%) Blazor
12 20 (5.09%) RESTful
13 19 (4.83%) GraphQL
14 17 (4.33%) Lightning Web Components
14 17 (4.33%) Playwright
15 16 (4.07%) Django
16 15 (3.82%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 61 (15.52%) Product Ownership
2 37 (9.41%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (9.16%) Public Cloud
4 31 (7.89%) Cloud Native
4 31 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (4.33%) Mobile App
6 14 (3.56%) AI Agents
7 12 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.80%) CMDB
8 11 (2.80%) Low-Code
9 10 (2.54%) Onboarding
10 9 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (2.04%) IoT
12 7 (1.78%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
14 4 (1.02%) CUDA
14 4 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
14 4 (1.02%) Reference Data
14 4 (1.02%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.83%) Linux
2 12 (3.05%) Android
3 10 (2.54%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.02%) Windows
5 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (48.09%) CI/CD
2 133 (33.84%) Software Engineering
3 125 (31.81%) Agile
4 113 (28.75%) AI
5 101 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
6 100 (25.45%) DevOps
7 98 (24.94%) Mentoring
8 92 (23.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 92 (23.41%) Full-Stack Development
9 88 (22.39%) Technical Leadership
10 84 (21.37%) Microservices
11 77 (19.59%) Roadmaps
12 70 (17.81%) Event-Driven
13 64 (16.28%) Test Automation
14 61 (15.52%) TDD
15 57 (14.50%) OO
16 47 (11.96%) Scrum
17 46 (11.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 45 (11.45%) Containerisation
19 43 (10.94%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 117 (29.77%) Java
2 99 (25.19%) SQL
3 80 (20.36%) JavaScript
4 75 (19.08%) C#
5 66 (16.79%) TypeScript
6 65 (16.54%) Python
7 21 (5.34%) PowerShell
8 19 (4.83%) Apex Code
9 14 (3.56%) PL/SQL
10 12 (3.05%) SOQL
11 10 (2.54%) Bash
11 10 (2.54%) Go
12 8 (2.04%) SOSL
13 6 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.53%) Ruby
13 6 (1.53%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.76%) Bicep
15 3 (0.76%) PHP
16 2 (0.51%) Dart
Qualifications
1 52 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 31 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.85%) Degree
4 17 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.07%) 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 55 (13.99%) QA
2 19 (4.83%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.56%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.27%) NIST
5 5 (1.27%) WCAG
6 4 (1.02%) GDPR
6 4 (1.02%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.76%) NCSC
8 2 (0.51%) SLA
9 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 107 (27.23%) Docker
2 12 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 61 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.54%) 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 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.36%) Oracle
3 24 (6.11%) Salesforce
4 17 (4.33%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.05%) Informatica
6 10 (2.54%) MuleSoft
6 10 (2.54%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.29%) Google
7 9 (2.29%) Splunk
8 7 (1.78%) Sage
9 6 (1.53%) IBM
10 5 (1.27%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.27%) TIBCO
11 4 (1.02%) 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