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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 129 154
Rank change year-on-year -32 +25 -47
Permanent jobs citing REST 399 398 488
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.61% 2.40% 2.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.91% 10.47% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 253 237 313
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,550 £42,238
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +21.74% -14.50%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £95,000 £87,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 4,479 3,801 6,747
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.10% 22.95% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,300 2,486 4,636
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £49,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -1.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 28 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 15 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (1.75%) Confluence
4 4 (1.00%) Camunda
5 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.50%) CMS
6 2 (0.50%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.50%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Documentum
7 1 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Moqups
2 3 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.75%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.75%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.50%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.50%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 190 (47.62%) AWS
2 176 (44.11%) Azure
3 55 (13.78%) SaaS
4 40 (10.03%) GitHub
5 39 (9.77%) GCP
6 38 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (8.52%) Power Platform
8 30 (7.52%) Serverless
9 24 (6.02%) Azure Service Bus
10 20 (5.01%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (4.76%) Power Automate
12 18 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (4.26%) PowerApps
14 16 (4.01%) Entra ID
14 16 (4.01%) Microsoft Copilot
15 15 (3.76%) Azure Key Vault
16 14 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 13 (3.26%) Azure Functions
18 12 (3.01%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 38 (9.52%) HTTP
2 6 (1.50%) Network Security
3 5 (1.25%) Firewall
3 5 (1.25%) Kerberos
4 4 (1.00%) Broadband
5 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.50%) VPN
6 2 (0.50%) X.509
7 1 (0.25%) BGP
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.25%) DHCP
7 1 (0.25%) DNS
7 1 (0.25%) Intranet
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) LTE
7 1 (0.25%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.25%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.25%) OSPF
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (14.54%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 41 (10.28%) Relational Database
4 20 (5.01%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.51%) MySQL
6 16 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (3.76%) Power BI
8 11 (2.76%) Redis
8 11 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (2.51%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.25%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.00%) Ataccama
13 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.00%) IBM InfoSphere
13 4 (1.00%) MariaDB
13 4 (1.00%) Metadata
13 4 (1.00%) TIBCO EBX
14 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 93 (23.31%) Git
2 19 (4.76%) JIRA
3 18 (4.51%) JUnit
4 16 (4.01%) Mockito
5 14 (3.51%) Cypress.io
5 14 (3.51%) Maven
6 12 (3.01%) Postman
7 11 (2.76%) Selenium
8 10 (2.51%) GitLab
8 10 (2.51%) Jenkins
9 7 (1.75%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.50%) Storybook
11 5 (1.25%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.75%) Subversion
13 2 (0.50%) Gradle
13 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
14 1 (0.25%) Appium
14 1 (0.25%) MLflow
14 1 (0.25%) TestRail
14 1 (0.25%) Vite
General
1 130 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 112 (28.07%) Finance
3 50 (12.53%) Banking
4 32 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 31 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (4.26%) Legal
7 16 (4.01%) Law
8 14 (3.51%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.26%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.26%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.26%) Retail
10 8 (2.01%) Back Office
10 8 (2.01%) Legal Technology
11 6 (1.50%) Front Office
11 6 (1.50%) Marketing
12 5 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.00%) Aviation
13 4 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 138 (34.59%) Developer
2 103 (25.81%) Senior
3 83 (20.80%) Lead
4 71 (17.79%) Software Engineer
5 36 (9.02%) Senior Developer
6 31 (7.77%) Development Engineer
6 31 (7.77%) Software Development Engineer
7 30 (7.52%) .NET Developer
7 30 (7.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 29 (7.27%) Architect
9 28 (7.02%) Lead Software Engineer
10 25 (6.27%) Full-Stack Developer
11 20 (5.01%) Technical Leader
12 19 (4.76%) Java Developer
12 19 (4.76%) Java Engineer
13 17 (4.26%) Software Developer
14 15 (3.76%) Consultant
14 15 (3.76%) Lead Developer
14 15 (3.76%) Python Engineer
15 14 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (27.32%) React
2 89 (22.31%) .NET
3 54 (13.53%) Spring
4 49 (12.28%) SOAP
5 45 (11.28%) Terraform
6 37 (9.27%) AngularJS
6 37 (9.27%) Node.js
7 35 (8.77%) Spring Boot
8 30 (7.52%) CSS
9 29 (7.27%) .NET Core
10 28 (7.02%) ASP.NET
11 26 (6.52%) Kafka
12 24 (6.02%) OAuth
13 22 (5.51%) Blazor
14 21 (5.26%) GraphQL
14 21 (5.26%) RESTful
15 17 (4.26%) Playwright
16 15 (3.76%) HTML
16 15 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (3.76%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.53%) Product Ownership
2 43 (10.78%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (9.27%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (8.27%) Public Cloud
5 32 (8.02%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.51%) Mobile App
7 17 (4.26%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.76%) CMDB
8 11 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.01%) Data Structures
11 8 (2.01%) IoT
11 8 (2.01%) Low-Code
11 8 (2.01%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.25%) Reference Data
12 5 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
13 4 (1.00%) Educational Technology
13 4 (1.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.76%) Linux
2 13 (3.26%) Android
3 11 (2.76%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.50%) Windows
5 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (49.62%) CI/CD
2 140 (35.09%) Software Engineering
3 127 (31.83%) Agile
4 125 (31.33%) AI
5 108 (27.07%) Mentoring
6 105 (26.32%) DevOps
6 105 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 93 (23.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 93 (23.31%) Full-Stack Development
7 93 (23.31%) Technical Leadership
8 87 (21.80%) Microservices
9 72 (18.05%) Roadmaps
10 70 (17.54%) Test Automation
11 69 (17.29%) Event-Driven
12 59 (14.79%) TDD
13 53 (13.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 52 (13.03%) SDLC
15 47 (11.78%) Containerisation
15 47 (11.78%) OO
15 47 (11.78%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 119 (29.82%) Java
2 107 (26.82%) SQL
3 87 (21.80%) C#
4 86 (21.55%) JavaScript
5 69 (17.29%) TypeScript
6 66 (16.54%) Python
7 22 (5.51%) PowerShell
8 14 (3.51%) PL/SQL
9 13 (3.26%) Apex Code
10 11 (2.76%) Bash
10 11 (2.76%) Go
11 8 (2.01%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.50%) Bicep
12 6 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.50%) Ruby
13 5 (1.25%) SOQL
14 4 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.75%) C
15 3 (0.75%) PHP
16 2 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 59 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.27%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.51%) Degree
4 17 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.25%) CISSP
7 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
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 (13.78%) QA
2 21 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.76%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.25%) GDPR
5 5 (1.25%) NIST
5 5 (1.25%) WCAG
6 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.75%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 112 (28.07%) Docker
2 13 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (15.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.51%) Ansible
3 9 (2.26%) Grafana
4 5 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.75%) Argo
5 3 (0.75%) Kibana
5 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.25%) Consul
7 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.25%) logstash
7 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 77 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.77%) Oracle
3 18 (4.51%) Salesforce
3 18 (4.51%) ServiceNow
4 12 (3.01%) Informatica
4 12 (3.01%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.51%) Google
6 9 (2.26%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.75%) Sage
8 6 (1.50%) IBM
9 5 (1.25%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.25%) SAP
9 5 (1.25%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.00%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.00%) Foundry
11 3 (0.75%) Aderant
11 3 (0.75%) Adobe
11 3 (0.75%) HighQ
11 3 (0.75%) iManage
11 3 (0.75%) Intapp