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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 80 111
Rank change year-on-year -39 +31 -23
Permanent jobs citing REST 344 643 700
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.21% 3.92% 2.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.41% 12.62% 9.47%
Number of salaries quoted 211 255 623
10th Percentile £41,750 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £91,592
90th Percentile £105,000 £90,000 £109,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £63,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.80% -5.56% -3.57%

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 2,773 5,097 7,394
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.84% 31.09% 30.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,117 3,249 6,386
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,594 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,698 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,222
% change year-on-year - +2.81% -6.34%

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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 23 January 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 (4.07%) JBoss
2 12 (3.49%) WebSphere
3 5 (1.45%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.45%) Apache Pulsar
3 5 (1.45%) Confluence
3 5 (1.45%) IIS
4 3 (0.87%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.58%) Mendix
5 2 (0.58%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.29%) Apache
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.29%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.29%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (1.16%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.87%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 15 (4.36%) Shopify
2 12 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (2.33%) Workday HCM
5 7 (2.03%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (1.74%) Magento
7 3 (0.87%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 143 (41.57%) Azure
2 83 (24.13%) AWS
3 47 (13.66%) SaaS
4 44 (12.79%) Entra ID
4 44 (12.79%) GitHub
5 40 (11.63%) Google Workspace
6 36 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (9.59%) GitHub Copilot
8 22 (6.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 22 (6.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 21 (6.10%) GCP
10 19 (5.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 18 (5.23%) Boomi
12 17 (4.94%) Power Automate
13 16 (4.65%) Serverless
14 15 (4.36%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (3.49%) Salesforce Einstein
16 11 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (3.20%) Power Platform
17 9 (2.62%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 57 (16.57%) Broadband
2 14 (4.07%) HTTP
3 5 (1.45%) AMQP
3 5 (1.45%) PuTTY
4 3 (0.87%) IP Telephony
4 3 (0.87%) VoIP
5 2 (0.58%) PSTN
5 2 (0.58%) SMTP
6 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.29%) RTP
6 1 (0.29%) SSL
6 1 (0.29%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.76%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.40%) Relational Database
3 19 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (5.23%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.94%) MySQL
6 9 (2.62%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.45%) Redis
8 4 (1.16%) Power BI
8 4 (1.16%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.58%) Big Data
9 2 (0.58%) DocumentDB
9 2 (0.58%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 39 (11.34%) Git
2 31 (9.01%) Jenkins
3 23 (6.69%) JIRA
4 18 (5.23%) GitLab
5 15 (4.36%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.03%) Selenium
7 6 (1.74%) Maven
7 6 (1.74%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.45%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.45%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.45%) JMeter
8 5 (1.45%) JUnit
8 5 (1.45%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.45%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.16%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (1.16%) Postman
9 4 (1.16%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.87%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.87%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 127 (36.92%) Social Skills
2 99 (28.78%) Finance
3 60 (17.44%) Games
4 42 (12.21%) Organisational Skills
5 36 (10.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (9.30%) Marketing
7 27 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (6.69%) Public Sector
9 20 (5.81%) Law
10 15 (4.36%) Banking
11 14 (4.07%) Telecoms
12 11 (3.20%) Back Office
12 11 (3.20%) Retail
13 10 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (2.03%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.45%) Legal
15 5 (1.45%) Polish Language
16 3 (0.87%) Automotive
16 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 139 (40.41%) Developer
2 113 (32.85%) Senior
3 34 (9.88%) Architect
4 33 (9.59%) Software Engineer
5 26 (7.56%) Senior Developer
6 22 (6.40%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (6.10%) Integration Developer
8 18 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 17 (4.94%) C# Developer
9 17 (4.94%) IAM Developer
10 15 (4.36%) Lead
11 14 (4.07%) Development Engineer
11 14 (4.07%) Integration Engineer
11 14 (4.07%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.07%) Salesforce Architect
11 14 (4.07%) Senior Architect
12 13 (3.78%) .NET Developer
12 13 (3.78%) Analyst
12 13 (3.78%) Salesforce Developer
13 11 (3.20%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (52.91%) SOAP
2 72 (20.93%) GraphQL
3 63 (18.31%) SAML
4 61 (17.73%) OAuth
5 58 (16.86%) .NET
6 53 (15.41%) React
7 50 (14.53%) Lightning Web Components
8 48 (13.95%) Middleware
9 45 (13.08%) Web Services
10 40 (11.63%) LDAP
10 40 (11.63%) OpenID
11 37 (10.76%) JSON
12 35 (10.17%) Spring
13 33 (9.59%) XML
14 32 (9.30%) CSS
15 28 (8.14%) Visualforce
16 26 (7.56%) Node.js
17 25 (7.27%) HTML
18 23 (6.69%) AngularJS
19 21 (6.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 57 (16.57%) Product Ownership
2 42 (12.21%) Cyber Threat
2 42 (12.21%) Cyberattack
3 26 (7.56%) Cloud Native
4 22 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.49%) DataPower
7 10 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.91%) Low-Code
7 10 (2.91%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.03%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.74%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.45%) Educational Technology
10 5 (1.45%) Mobile Games
11 4 (1.16%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.16%) IoT
11 4 (1.16%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.81%) Linux
2 14 (4.07%) Android
3 7 (2.03%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.45%) Unix
5 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.58%) Windows
6 1 (0.29%) CentOS
6 1 (0.29%) Debian
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (38.95%) Agile
2 116 (33.72%) Roadmaps
3 108 (31.40%) CI/CD
4 97 (28.20%) DevOps
5 96 (27.91%) Mentoring
6 80 (23.26%) AI
7 56 (16.28%) Event-Driven
8 53 (15.41%) Microservices
9 52 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (14.53%) Software Engineering
11 49 (14.24%) Test Automation
12 47 (13.66%) Data Modelling
12 47 (13.66%) User Experience
13 46 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (12.21%) Cybersecurity
14 42 (12.21%) Programme Delivery
15 40 (11.63%) Identity Access Management
15 40 (11.63%) Regulatory Compliance
16 37 (10.76%) Clean Code
17 35 (10.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 108 (31.40%) SQL
2 87 (25.29%) JavaScript
3 74 (21.51%) Java
4 60 (17.44%) PowerShell
5 55 (15.99%) T-SQL
6 53 (15.41%) C#
7 51 (14.83%) Apex Code
8 48 (13.95%) Python
9 43 (12.50%) Bash
10 31 (9.01%) TypeScript
11 19 (5.52%) PHP
12 17 (4.94%) SOQL
12 17 (4.94%) SOSL
13 12 (3.49%) Go
14 9 (2.62%) Kotlin
15 8 (2.33%) C++
16 5 (1.45%) Shell Script
17 4 (1.16%) ABAP
18 3 (0.87%) Ruby
19 2 (0.58%) XAML
Qualifications
1 40 (11.63%) Degree
2 25 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 24 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (6.69%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.87%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.87%) PhD
7 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.21%) NCSC
1 42 (12.21%) NIST
2 18 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (4.94%) GDPR
4 11 (3.20%) QA
5 8 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.45%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.87%) HL7
8 2 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.58%) WCAG
9 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.29%) SLA
9 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (13.08%) Docker
2 43 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 35 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.10%) Terraform
3 10 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.45%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) Argo
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 61 (17.73%) Salesforce
2 42 (12.21%) Microsoft
3 30 (8.72%) MuleSoft
4 25 (7.27%) ServiceNow
5 23 (6.69%) Oracle
6 17 (4.94%) SAP
7 16 (4.65%) IBM
8 15 (4.36%) Splunk
9 13 (3.78%) Workday
10 6 (1.74%) ConnectWise
10 6 (1.74%) Epicor
10 6 (1.74%) SnapLogic
10 6 (1.74%) Talend
10 6 (1.74%) WooCommerce
11 5 (1.45%) Dell
11 5 (1.45%) Ericsson
11 5 (1.45%) Informatica
11 5 (1.45%) Nokia
11 5 (1.45%) Software AG
11 5 (1.45%) TIBCO