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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 132 166
Rank change year-on-year -23 +34 -63
Permanent jobs citing REST 399 388 488
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.64% 2.38% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.87% 10.01% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 244 236 343
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,290
25th Percentile £56,125 £53,750 £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 £85,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +20.69% -17.14%

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 4,499 3,876 6,799
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.48% 23.76% 28.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,320 2,575 4,839
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £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 £86,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%

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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 18 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 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (1.50%) Confluence
4 4 (1.00%) Camunda
5 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.50%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
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 6 (1.50%) 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%) 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%) Dynamics CRM
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
1 191 (47.87%) AWS
2 170 (42.61%) Azure
3 51 (12.78%) SaaS
4 41 (10.28%) GCP
5 35 (8.77%) GitHub
6 34 (8.52%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (7.77%) Power Platform
8 25 (6.27%) Serverless
9 20 (5.01%) Azure Service Bus
10 18 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (4.26%) Power Automate
12 16 (4.01%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (4.01%) PowerApps
13 14 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (3.26%) Azure Key Vault
14 13 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (2.76%) Anthropic Claude
15 11 (2.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 39 (9.77%) HTTP
2 11 (2.76%) Broadband
3 6 (1.50%) Network Security
4 5 (1.25%) Firewall
4 5 (1.25%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.75%) SSL
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%) MQTT
7 1 (0.25%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.25%) OSPF
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.79%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (14.04%) SQL Server
3 41 (10.28%) Relational Database
4 20 (5.01%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.51%) MySQL
6 16 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (3.51%) Power BI
8 11 (2.76%) MongoDB
9 10 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (2.26%) Redis
11 8 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.25%) Azure SQL 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%) TIBCO EBX
14 3 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 96 (24.06%) Git
2 19 (4.76%) JIRA
3 18 (4.51%) JUnit
4 16 (4.01%) Jenkins
4 16 (4.01%) Mockito
5 14 (3.51%) GitLab
5 14 (3.51%) Maven
6 13 (3.26%) Cypress.io
7 11 (2.76%) Postman
7 11 (2.76%) Selenium
8 7 (1.75%) Claude Code
9 6 (1.50%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.50%) Storybook
10 5 (1.25%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.75%) Subversion
11 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.50%) Gradle
12 2 (0.50%) NUnit
12 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 124 (31.08%) Social Skills
2 116 (29.07%) Finance
3 52 (13.03%) Banking
4 37 (9.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (6.77%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.26%) Law
7 17 (4.26%) Legal
8 14 (3.51%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.01%) Marketing
10 10 (2.51%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.51%) Retail
11 9 (2.26%) Back Office
11 9 (2.26%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.01%) Legal Technology
13 7 (1.75%) Games
13 7 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.50%) Front Office
15 5 (1.25%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 138 (34.59%) Developer
2 98 (24.56%) Senior
3 82 (20.55%) Lead
4 71 (17.79%) Software Engineer
5 34 (8.52%) Senior Developer
6 33 (8.27%) Development Engineer
6 33 (8.27%) Software Development Engineer
7 30 (7.52%) Architect
7 30 (7.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 28 (7.02%) .NET Developer
8 28 (7.02%) Lead Software Engineer
9 26 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (5.01%) Technical Leader
11 19 (4.76%) Java Developer
11 19 (4.76%) Java Engineer
12 18 (4.51%) Software Developer
13 16 (4.01%) Python Engineer
14 15 (3.76%) Consultant
14 15 (3.76%) Lead Developer
14 15 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (26.57%) React
2 83 (20.80%) .NET
3 58 (14.54%) SOAP
4 54 (13.53%) Spring
5 45 (11.28%) Terraform
6 36 (9.02%) AngularJS
7 35 (8.77%) Spring Boot
8 34 (8.52%) Node.js
9 31 (7.77%) CSS
10 28 (7.02%) ASP.NET
11 26 (6.52%) .NET Core
11 26 (6.52%) Kafka
12 25 (6.27%) OAuth
13 22 (5.51%) Blazor
13 22 (5.51%) RESTful
14 19 (4.76%) GraphQL
15 17 (4.26%) Lightning Web Components
15 17 (4.26%) Playwright
16 16 (4.01%) HTML
17 15 (3.76%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 59 (14.79%) Product Ownership
2 39 (9.77%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (8.77%) Public Cloud
4 34 (8.52%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (8.02%) Cloud Native
6 17 (4.26%) Mobile App
7 16 (4.01%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.76%) CMDB
8 11 (2.76%) Low-Code
8 11 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.01%) IoT
10 8 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.75%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
13 4 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (1.00%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.00%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.01%) Linux
2 12 (3.01%) Android
3 10 (2.51%) 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
1 192 (48.12%) CI/CD
2 137 (34.34%) Software Engineering
3 125 (31.33%) Agile
4 120 (30.08%) AI
5 105 (26.32%) DevOps
6 104 (26.07%) Mentoring
6 104 (26.07%) Problem-Solving
7 93 (23.31%) Full-Stack Development
8 92 (23.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 91 (22.81%) Technical Leadership
10 84 (21.05%) Microservices
11 76 (19.05%) Roadmaps
12 70 (17.54%) Event-Driven
13 65 (16.29%) Test Automation
14 59 (14.79%) TDD
15 55 (13.78%) OO
16 49 (12.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 48 (12.03%) SDLC
18 46 (11.53%) Containerisation
18 46 (11.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 118 (29.57%) Java
2 102 (25.56%) SQL
3 84 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 82 (20.55%) C#
5 67 (16.79%) Python
6 66 (16.54%) TypeScript
7 22 (5.51%) PowerShell
8 19 (4.76%) Apex Code
9 14 (3.51%) PL/SQL
10 11 (2.76%) Bash
10 11 (2.76%) Go
10 11 (2.76%) SOQL
11 7 (1.75%) SOSL
11 7 (1.75%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.50%) Ruby
13 4 (1.00%) Bicep
13 4 (1.00%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.75%) PHP
15 2 (0.50%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (13.53%) Security Cleared
2 32 (8.02%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.02%) Degree
4 17 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.25%) CISSP
6 3 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.25%) CCIE
8 1 (0.25%) CCNP
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.25%) CSPO
8 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (14.04%) QA
2 19 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.51%) 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
7 3 (0.75%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 108 (27.07%) Docker
2 13 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (15.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.51%) Ansible
3 5 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.75%) Argo
4 3 (0.75%) Grafana
4 3 (0.75%) Kibana
4 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.25%) Consul
6 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) logstash
6 1 (0.25%) MIIS
6 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 70 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.27%) Oracle
3 24 (6.02%) Salesforce
4 18 (4.51%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.01%) Informatica
6 11 (2.76%) OpenAI
7 10 (2.51%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.26%) Google
9 8 (2.01%) Splunk
10 7 (1.75%) Sage
11 6 (1.50%) IBM
12 5 (1.25%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.25%) SAP
12 5 (1.25%) TIBCO
13 4 (1.00%) Foundry
14 3 (0.75%) Aderant
14 3 (0.75%) HighQ
14 3 (0.75%) iManage
14 3 (0.75%) Intapp
14 3 (0.75%) VMware