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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 128 148
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 -42
Permanent jobs citing REST 413 436 701
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.03% 2.79% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.14% 10.22% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 216 270 623
10th Percentile £42,706 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,744 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -9.43%
75th Percentile £77,813 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 3,708 4,268 9,143
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.19% 27.29% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,774 2,879 7,795
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -11.11%

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 25 June 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 7 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.45%) JBoss
3 3 (0.73%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.73%) Apache Solr
3 3 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.73%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.48%) Apache
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.48%) Camunda
4 2 (0.48%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.24%) Confluence
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.97%) Magento
1 4 (0.97%) Shopify
2 2 (0.48%) Carpe Diem
2 2 (0.48%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.48%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 150 (36.32%) AWS
2 149 (36.08%) Azure
3 50 (12.11%) Entra ID
4 44 (10.65%) Google Workspace
5 36 (8.72%) SaaS
6 34 (8.23%) GitHub
7 30 (7.26%) GCP
8 20 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (4.84%) Serverless
9 18 (4.36%) Power Platform
10 17 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (3.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 13 (3.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 10 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.18%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (2.18%) PowerApps
14 8 (1.94%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (1.94%) Power Automate
15 7 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 85 (20.58%) Broadband
2 34 (8.23%) HTTP
3 12 (2.91%) Firewall
4 9 (2.18%) SMTP
5 7 (1.69%) Network Security
5 7 (1.69%) SSL
6 6 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (1.45%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.21%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.97%) AMQP
9 3 (0.73%) Modbus
9 3 (0.73%) RTP
9 3 (0.73%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.73%) VoIP
9 3 (0.73%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.48%) PuTTY
11 1 (0.24%) Intranet
11 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.99%) SQL Server
3 23 (5.57%) Relational Database
4 22 (5.33%) NoSQL
5 21 (5.08%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.87%) MySQL
7 8 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.69%) Power BI
9 6 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.21%) MariaDB
10 5 (1.21%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.21%) Redis
10 5 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.97%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.73%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.73%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.48%) Big Data
13 2 (0.48%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 60 (14.53%) Git
2 42 (10.17%) GitLab
3 40 (9.69%) Jenkins
4 34 (8.23%) SonarQube
5 14 (3.39%) JIRA
6 12 (2.91%) JUnit
7 11 (2.66%) Maven
8 9 (2.18%) Selenium
9 8 (1.94%) Mockito
9 8 (1.94%) SpecFlow
10 7 (1.69%) WebDriver
11 6 (1.45%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.45%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.97%) Gradle
12 4 (0.97%) NUnit
12 4 (0.97%) Postman
13 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.73%) Subversion
13 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
General
1 125 (30.27%) Social Skills
2 110 (26.63%) Finance
3 77 (18.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 64 (15.50%) Games
5 54 (13.08%) Banking
6 48 (11.62%) Organisational Skills
7 41 (9.93%) Public Sector
8 40 (9.69%) Marketing
9 29 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (4.84%) Law
11 15 (3.63%) Back Office
11 15 (3.63%) Financial Institution
12 13 (3.15%) Manufacturing
12 13 (3.15%) Retail
13 11 (2.66%) Polish Language
14 10 (2.42%) Legal
15 9 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (2.18%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.94%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.94%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 128 (30.99%) Developer
2 90 (21.79%) Senior
3 70 (16.95%) Software Engineer
4 68 (16.46%) Architect
5 48 (11.62%) Lead
6 35 (8.47%) Salesforce Architect
7 29 (7.02%) Development Engineer
7 29 (7.02%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.02%) Software Development Engineer
8 25 (6.05%) Technical Architect
9 24 (5.81%) Consultant
9 24 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 22 (5.33%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (4.84%) Java Developer
12 19 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (4.36%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 17 (4.12%) Salesforce Developer
15 16 (3.87%) Java Engineer
16 15 (3.63%) IAM Developer
16 15 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (33.90%) SOAP
2 74 (17.92%) React
3 70 (16.95%) .NET
4 69 (16.71%) OAuth
5 64 (15.50%) SAML
6 58 (14.04%) GraphQL
7 54 (13.08%) OpenID
8 53 (12.83%) LDAP
8 53 (12.83%) Spring
9 52 (12.59%) Lightning Web Components
10 51 (12.35%) Visualforce
11 37 (8.96%) Spring Boot
12 33 (7.99%) Node.js
13 31 (7.51%) AngularJS
13 31 (7.51%) JSON
14 29 (7.02%) Middleware
15 23 (5.57%) CSS
16 22 (5.33%) Kafka
17 20 (4.84%) .NET Core
17 20 (4.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (19.85%) Product Ownership
2 44 (10.65%) Cyber Threat
2 44 (10.65%) Cyberattack
3 34 (8.23%) Cloud Native
4 32 (7.75%) Public Cloud
5 29 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.63%) Low-Code
8 14 (3.39%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.66%) CMDB
10 11 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (2.42%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.94%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.94%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.94%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.45%) CUDA
14 5 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
15 4 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.05%) Linux
2 11 (2.66%) Windows
3 9 (2.18%) Android
4 6 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.45%) Unix
5 4 (0.97%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) CentOS
6 1 (0.24%) Debian
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (39.47%) CI/CD
2 144 (34.87%) Roadmaps
3 124 (30.02%) Agile
4 117 (28.33%) Software Engineering
5 114 (27.60%) DevOps
6 94 (22.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 91 (22.03%) Mentoring
8 84 (20.34%) Event-Driven
9 78 (18.89%) AI
10 74 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
11 73 (17.68%) Microservices
12 70 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
13 69 (16.71%) OO
14 62 (15.01%) Technical Leadership
15 61 (14.77%) Scrum
16 57 (13.80%) Test Automation
17 53 (12.83%) Cybersecurity
17 53 (12.83%) Design Patterns
18 50 (12.11%) Identity Access Management
19 49 (11.86%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 109 (26.39%) Java
2 105 (25.42%) SQL
3 80 (19.37%) JavaScript
4 76 (18.40%) Python
5 57 (13.80%) PowerShell
6 55 (13.32%) Apex Code
7 54 (13.08%) C#
8 51 (12.35%) T-SQL
9 46 (11.14%) Bash
10 44 (10.65%) TypeScript
11 37 (8.96%) SOQL
11 37 (8.96%) SOSL
12 12 (2.91%) Go
13 8 (1.94%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.45%) Ruby
15 5 (1.21%) Bicep
16 4 (0.97%) PHP
17 3 (0.73%) C
17 3 (0.73%) C++
17 3 (0.73%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 53 (12.83%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.69%) Degree
2 40 (9.69%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.63%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.45%) CISSP
6 4 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.73%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (10.90%) NIST
2 44 (10.65%) NCSC
3 40 (9.69%) QA
4 35 (8.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.45%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.97%) GDPR
8 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.73%) SLA
9 2 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 71 (17.19%) Docker
2 60 (14.53%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.73%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 51 (12.35%) Kubernetes
2 29 (7.02%) Terraform
3 9 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.45%) Ansible
5 5 (1.21%) Argo
6 4 (0.97%) Grafana
6 4 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.48%) Kibana
7 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.48%) MIIS
8 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 59 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 47 (11.38%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.20%) Splunk
4 27 (6.54%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.12%) Oracle
6 16 (3.87%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.18%) CyberArk
8 7 (1.69%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.69%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.45%) Cisco
9 6 (1.45%) F5
9 6 (1.45%) Google
9 6 (1.45%) Juniper
9 6 (1.45%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.97%) ConnectWise
10 4 (0.97%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.73%) BT
11 3 (0.73%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.73%) Mitel
11 3 (0.73%) Revolut