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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 126 134
Rank change year-on-year -40 +8 -27
Permanent jobs citing REST 403 403 547
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.62% 2.42% 2.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.07% 10.71% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 260 229 287
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £88,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 4,443 3,762 6,609
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.88% 22.56% 30.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,254 2,436 4,470
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,250 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.87% +2.52%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.88% +6.92% -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 10 October 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 19 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (1.74%) Confluence
4 6 (1.49%) WebLogic
5 4 (0.99%) Camunda
5 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.74%) CMS
6 3 (0.74%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.74%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
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 (1.74%) Moqups
2 3 (0.74%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.74%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.74%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (0.74%) Elite 3E
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
1 188 (46.65%) AWS
2 184 (45.66%) Azure
3 57 (14.14%) SaaS
4 43 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (10.17%) GitHub
6 40 (9.93%) GCP
7 39 (9.68%) Power Platform
8 31 (7.69%) Serverless
9 25 (6.20%) Azure Service Bus
10 24 (5.96%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (5.71%) Power Automate
12 21 (5.21%) PowerApps
13 20 (4.96%) Microsoft Copilot
14 18 (4.47%) Azure Functions
15 17 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (4.22%) Entra ID
16 16 (3.97%) Azure Key Vault
17 13 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 13 (3.23%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.94%) HTTP
2 5 (1.24%) Network Security
3 4 (0.99%) Broadband
3 4 (0.99%) Firewall
3 4 (0.99%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.74%) VPN
5 2 (0.50%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.50%) X.509
6 1 (0.25%) BGP
6 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) DNS
6 1 (0.25%) LAN
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.25%) OSPF
6 1 (0.25%) SSL
6 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (15.14%) SQL Server
2 58 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (9.93%) Relational Database
4 19 (4.71%) Power BI
5 18 (4.47%) MySQL
6 15 (3.72%) NoSQL
7 14 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (2.73%) Redis
9 10 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.74%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.24%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.99%) Ataccama
14 4 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.99%) IBM InfoSphere
14 4 (0.99%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.99%) Metadata
14 4 (0.99%) TIBCO EBX
15 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 90 (22.33%) Git
2 23 (5.71%) JUnit
3 21 (5.21%) Mockito
4 20 (4.96%) JIRA
5 15 (3.72%) GitLab
6 14 (3.47%) Cypress.io
6 14 (3.47%) Maven
7 11 (2.73%) Postman
7 11 (2.73%) Selenium
8 10 (2.48%) Jenkins
9 8 (1.99%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.49%) Storybook
11 5 (1.24%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.50%) Gradle
12 2 (0.50%) Subversion
12 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.25%) Appium
13 1 (0.25%) Karma Test Runner
13 1 (0.25%) MLflow
13 1 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 137 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 109 (27.05%) Finance
3 42 (10.42%) Banking
4 35 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.96%) Legal
7 18 (4.47%) Law
8 14 (3.47%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.23%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.99%) Back Office
10 8 (1.99%) Legal Technology
10 8 (1.99%) Retail
11 6 (1.49%) Front Office
11 6 (1.49%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.49%) Marketing
12 5 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.24%) Police
13 4 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (34.24%) Developer
2 105 (26.05%) Senior
3 86 (21.34%) Lead
4 67 (16.63%) Software Engineer
5 38 (9.43%) Senior Developer
6 33 (8.19%) .NET Developer
7 30 (7.44%) Architect
8 28 (6.95%) Lead Software Engineer
9 27 (6.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (6.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 25 (6.20%) Development Engineer
10 25 (6.20%) Software Development Engineer
11 22 (5.46%) Java Engineer
11 22 (5.46%) Technical Leader
12 19 (4.71%) Java Developer
13 17 (4.22%) Consultant
14 14 (3.47%) Lead Developer
14 14 (3.47%) Software Developer
15 13 (3.23%) Python Engineer
16 12 (2.98%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (25.56%) React
2 99 (24.57%) .NET
3 56 (13.90%) Spring
4 47 (11.66%) SOAP
5 44 (10.92%) Terraform
6 37 (9.18%) Spring Boot
7 36 (8.93%) Node.js
8 31 (7.69%) Kafka
9 30 (7.44%) .NET Core
9 30 (7.44%) AngularJS
10 29 (7.20%) CSS
11 28 (6.95%) ASP.NET
12 24 (5.96%) GraphQL
13 23 (5.71%) OAuth
14 21 (5.21%) Blazor
15 19 (4.71%) RESTful
16 17 (4.22%) Playwright
17 15 (3.72%) HTML
17 15 (3.72%) Tailwind CSS
18 14 (3.47%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.16%) Distributed Systems
2 47 (11.66%) Product Ownership
3 38 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (8.44%) Cloud Native
5 28 (6.95%) Public Cloud
6 17 (4.22%) AI Agents
7 16 (3.97%) Mobile App
8 15 (3.72%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.73%) CMDB
11 10 (2.48%) Data Structures
12 9 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (2.23%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.99%) IoT
14 6 (1.49%) Low-Code
15 5 (1.24%) Reference Data
15 5 (1.24%) Video\Live Streaming
16 4 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 4 (0.99%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.96%) Linux
2 11 (2.73%) Android
3 9 (2.23%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.74%) 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
1 208 (51.61%) CI/CD
2 136 (33.75%) Agile
2 136 (33.75%) Software Engineering
3 128 (31.76%) AI
4 115 (28.54%) DevOps
5 110 (27.30%) Mentoring
6 103 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
7 96 (23.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (23.33%) Microservices
8 94 (23.33%) Technical Leadership
9 92 (22.83%) Full-Stack Development
10 75 (18.61%) Test Automation
11 70 (17.37%) Event-Driven
12 66 (16.38%) Roadmaps
13 60 (14.89%) TDD
14 54 (13.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 54 (13.40%) SDLC
15 53 (13.15%) Stakeholder Management
16 49 (12.16%) Code Quality
16 49 (12.16%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 116 (28.78%) Java
2 110 (27.30%) SQL
3 96 (23.82%) C#
4 84 (20.84%) JavaScript
5 69 (17.12%) Python
6 67 (16.63%) TypeScript
7 23 (5.71%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.23%) PL/SQL
9 12 (2.98%) Go
9 12 (2.98%) T-SQL
10 11 (2.73%) Bash
11 10 (2.48%) Apex Code
12 7 (1.74%) Bicep
13 6 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.49%) Ruby
14 5 (1.24%) SOQL
15 4 (0.99%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.99%) PHP
16 3 (0.74%) C
17 2 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 67 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 45 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.96%) Degree
4 17 (4.22%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.24%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.99%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.99%) CISSP
8 3 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.74%) 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%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) PhD
9 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.15%) QA
2 21 (5.21%) Accessibility
3 18 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.49%) NIST
5 5 (1.24%) GDPR
5 5 (1.24%) WCAG
6 4 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.74%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 119 (29.53%) Docker
2 13 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (15.14%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.47%) Grafana
3 10 (2.48%) Ansible
4 4 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.74%) Argo
5 3 (0.74%) Kibana
5 3 (0.74%) 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 84 (20.84%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.19%) Oracle
3 17 (4.22%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.72%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.98%) Google
5 12 (2.98%) Informatica
5 12 (2.98%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.23%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.74%) Sage
8 6 (1.49%) Intapp
9 5 (1.24%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.24%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.24%) Foundry
9 5 (1.24%) IBM
9 5 (1.24%) SAP
9 5 (1.24%) TIBCO
10 3 (0.74%) Aderant
10 3 (0.74%) Adobe
10 3 (0.74%) iManage
10 3 (0.74%) VMware