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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 126 163
Rank change year-on-year -30 +37 -62
Permanent jobs citing REST 411 409 522
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.77% 2.47% 2.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.12% 9.95% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 249 256 432
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,188 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -14.18%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,625
UK median annual salary £71,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.14% +21.74% -17.86%

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 4,508 4,112 6,997
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.40% 24.85% 28.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,361 2,798 5,439
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,434 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +2.21% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £120,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £63,056
% change year-on-year - +7.05% -6.58%

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 27 August 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 11 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (1.22%) Camunda
3 5 (1.22%) Confluence
4 3 (0.73%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.49%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.24%) Documentum
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (1.22%) Moqups
2 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.73%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.73%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.49%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.49%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.24%) Magento
4 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 203 (49.39%) AWS
2 180 (43.80%) Azure
3 53 (12.90%) SaaS
4 51 (12.41%) GCP
5 38 (9.25%) GitHub
6 36 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (6.57%) Power Platform
8 22 (5.35%) Serverless
9 19 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
10 18 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (3.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (3.41%) PowerApps
12 13 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (3.16%) GitHub Copilot
12 13 (3.16%) Power Automate
13 12 (2.92%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (2.92%) Figma
13 12 (2.92%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (2.68%) Entra ID
14 11 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (9.00%) HTTP
2 25 (6.08%) Broadband
3 9 (2.19%) Firewall
4 7 (1.70%) Network Security
5 6 (1.46%) Kerberos
5 6 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.97%) SSL
7 3 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.73%) Modbus
8 2 (0.49%) X.509
9 1 (0.24%) 5G
9 1 (0.24%) BGP
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.24%) Intranet
9 1 (0.24%) LTE
9 1 (0.24%) MQTT
9 1 (0.24%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.24%) OSPF
9 1 (0.24%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (16.06%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (13.63%) SQL Server
3 43 (10.46%) Relational Database
4 22 (5.35%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.38%) MongoDB
6 17 (4.14%) MySQL
7 15 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (2.68%) Power BI
9 10 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (2.19%) Redis
11 6 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.97%) Ataccama
12 4 (0.97%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.97%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (0.97%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.97%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.97%) TIBCO EBX
13 3 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.73%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 98 (23.84%) Git
2 24 (5.84%) GitLab
3 22 (5.35%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.14%) JUnit
5 15 (3.65%) JIRA
5 15 (3.65%) Mockito
6 14 (3.41%) SonarQube
7 13 (3.16%) Maven
8 12 (2.92%) Cypress.io
8 12 (2.92%) Selenium
9 8 (1.95%) Postman
10 6 (1.46%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.46%) Storybook
11 3 (0.73%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.73%) NUnit
11 3 (0.73%) Subversion
11 3 (0.73%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.49%) Jasmine
General
1 130 (31.63%) Social Skills
2 116 (28.22%) Finance
3 53 (12.90%) Banking
4 46 (11.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (7.30%) Public Sector
7 22 (5.35%) Games
8 19 (4.62%) Law
8 19 (4.62%) Marketing
9 17 (4.14%) Manufacturing
10 16 (3.89%) Legal
11 12 (2.92%) Financial Institution
12 10 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (2.19%) Back Office
13 9 (2.19%) Investment Banking
13 9 (2.19%) Retail
14 8 (1.95%) Legal Technology
15 6 (1.46%) Front Office
15 6 (1.46%) Polish Language
16 5 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 140 (34.06%) Developer
2 90 (21.90%) Senior
3 78 (18.98%) Lead
4 70 (17.03%) Software Engineer
5 42 (10.22%) Architect
6 33 (8.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 33 (8.03%) Senior Developer
7 32 (7.79%) Development Engineer
7 32 (7.79%) Software Development Engineer
8 29 (7.06%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (6.57%) .NET Developer
9 27 (6.57%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (4.87%) Python Engineer
11 19 (4.62%) Java Engineer
12 18 (4.38%) Java Developer
12 18 (4.38%) Software Developer
12 18 (4.38%) Technical Leader
13 17 (4.14%) Salesforce Architect
14 15 (3.65%) Lead Developer
14 15 (3.65%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (25.55%) React
2 85 (20.68%) .NET
3 65 (15.82%) SOAP
4 51 (12.41%) Spring
5 49 (11.92%) Terraform
6 38 (9.25%) Node.js
7 32 (7.79%) Spring Boot
8 31 (7.54%) AngularJS
9 30 (7.30%) ASP.NET
9 30 (7.30%) CSS
10 27 (6.57%) .NET Core
11 26 (6.33%) Kafka
12 25 (6.08%) OAuth
13 24 (5.84%) Lightning Web Components
14 22 (5.35%) Blazor
14 22 (5.35%) RESTful
15 20 (4.87%) Visualforce
16 19 (4.62%) GraphQL
17 18 (4.38%) Django
17 18 (4.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 73 (17.76%) Product Ownership
2 37 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (8.76%) Cloud Native
4 34 (8.27%) Public Cloud
5 28 (6.81%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (4.14%) Low-Code
8 16 (3.89%) Mobile App
9 14 (3.41%) AI Agents
10 12 (2.92%) Onboarding
11 11 (2.68%) CMDB
11 11 (2.68%) Video\Live Streaming
12 9 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.95%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.95%) IoT
14 6 (1.46%) CUDA
15 5 (1.22%) Data Structures
16 4 (0.97%) Robotics
16 4 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.84%) Linux
2 11 (2.68%) Android
3 9 (2.19%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.22%) Windows
5 4 (0.97%) Unix
6 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.24%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (49.39%) CI/CD
2 142 (34.55%) Software Engineering
3 129 (31.39%) Agile
4 116 (28.22%) AI
4 116 (28.22%) DevOps
5 106 (25.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 103 (25.06%) Full-Stack Development
7 99 (24.09%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (22.63%) Mentoring
9 90 (21.90%) Microservices
10 85 (20.68%) Technical Leadership
11 80 (19.46%) Roadmaps
12 78 (18.98%) Event-Driven
13 75 (18.25%) Test Automation
14 61 (14.84%) OO
15 57 (13.87%) TDD
16 54 (13.14%) Containerisation
17 53 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
18 52 (12.65%) Scrum
19 48 (11.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 112 (27.25%) Java
2 105 (25.55%) SQL
3 85 (20.68%) JavaScript
4 81 (19.71%) C#
5 75 (18.25%) Python
6 69 (16.79%) TypeScript
7 26 (6.33%) Apex Code
8 20 (4.87%) PowerShell
9 17 (4.14%) SOQL
10 16 (3.89%) Go
11 15 (3.65%) SOSL
12 14 (3.41%) PL/SQL
13 10 (2.43%) Bash
14 7 (1.70%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.46%) Ruby
16 5 (1.22%) Bicep
17 4 (0.97%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.97%) PHP
18 3 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 3 (0.73%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 53 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 32 (7.79%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.81%) Degree
4 23 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.46%) CISSP
7 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.73%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.24%) CCIE
8 1 (0.24%) CCNP
8 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.24%) CSPO
8 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (15.33%) QA
2 19 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 18 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.16%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.46%) NIST
6 5 (1.22%) GDPR
6 5 (1.22%) WCAG
7 4 (0.97%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.73%) NCSC
8 3 (0.73%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) GRC
System Software
1 112 (27.25%) Docker
2 13 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (15.82%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.19%) Ansible
3 6 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.73%) Grafana
4 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.49%) Argo
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.49%) MIIS
6 1 (0.24%) Consul
6 1 (0.24%) Kibana
6 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 64 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.54%) Salesforce
3 25 (6.08%) Oracle
4 18 (4.38%) Splunk
5 17 (4.14%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.92%) Informatica
7 11 (2.68%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.19%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.95%) Google
10 5 (1.22%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.22%) IBM
10 5 (1.22%) Sage
10 5 (1.22%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.97%) Cisco
12 3 (0.73%) Databricks
12 3 (0.73%) iManage
12 3 (0.73%) Juniper
12 3 (0.73%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.73%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.73%) SAP