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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 125 153
Rank change year-on-year -38 +28 -47
Permanent jobs citing REST 402 400 494
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.62% 2.42% 2.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.88% 10.42% 7.26%
Number of salaries quoted 255 239 320
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,650 £42,238
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,125 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +21.74% -14.18%
75th Percentile £85,625 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £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 4,528 3,840 6,801
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.27% 23.25% 29.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,335 2,521 4,689
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £49,383
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.99%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
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 26 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 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (1.74%) Confluence
4 4 (1.00%) Camunda
5 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
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%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Documentum
7 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
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 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.49%) 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
1 191 (47.51%) AWS
2 176 (43.78%) Azure
3 56 (13.93%) SaaS
4 42 (10.45%) GCP
5 40 (9.95%) GitHub
6 38 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (8.46%) Power Platform
8 29 (7.21%) Serverless
9 24 (5.97%) Azure Service Bus
10 20 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (4.73%) Power Automate
12 18 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (4.23%) PowerApps
14 16 (3.98%) Entra ID
14 16 (3.98%) Microsoft Copilot
15 15 (3.73%) Azure Key Vault
16 14 (3.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 12 (2.99%) Anthropic Claude
17 12 (2.99%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (9.45%) HTTP
2 6 (1.49%) Network Security
3 5 (1.24%) Firewall
3 5 (1.24%) Kerberos
4 4 (1.00%) Broadband
5 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.50%) SSL
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 60 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (14.18%) SQL Server
3 43 (10.70%) Relational Database
4 20 (4.98%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.48%) MySQL
6 16 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (3.73%) Power BI
8 11 (2.74%) Redis
8 11 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (2.49%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.24%) 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%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 95 (23.63%) Git
2 20 (4.98%) JIRA
3 18 (4.48%) JUnit
4 16 (3.98%) Mockito
5 14 (3.48%) Cypress.io
5 14 (3.48%) Maven
6 12 (2.99%) Postman
7 11 (2.74%) Selenium
8 10 (2.49%) GitLab
8 10 (2.49%) Jenkins
9 7 (1.74%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.49%) Storybook
11 5 (1.24%) 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%) Karma Test Runner
14 1 (0.25%) Servoy
14 1 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 134 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 116 (28.86%) Finance
3 51 (12.69%) Banking
4 32 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 31 (7.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (4.23%) Legal
7 16 (3.98%) Law
8 14 (3.48%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.24%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.24%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.24%) Retail
10 8 (1.99%) Back Office
10 8 (1.99%) Legal Technology
11 6 (1.49%) Front Office
11 6 (1.49%) Marketing
11 6 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.00%) Aviation
12 4 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 140 (34.83%) Developer
2 103 (25.62%) Senior
3 83 (20.65%) Lead
4 71 (17.66%) Software Engineer
5 36 (8.96%) Senior Developer
6 32 (7.96%) Development Engineer
6 32 (7.96%) Software Development Engineer
7 30 (7.46%) .NET Developer
7 30 (7.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 29 (7.21%) Architect
8 29 (7.21%) Lead Software Engineer
9 26 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (4.98%) Technical Leader
11 19 (4.73%) Java Developer
11 19 (4.73%) Java Engineer
12 17 (4.23%) Python Engineer
12 17 (4.23%) Software Developer
13 15 (3.73%) Consultant
13 15 (3.73%) Lead Developer
14 14 (3.48%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (26.62%) React
2 88 (21.89%) .NET
3 54 (13.43%) Spring
4 50 (12.44%) SOAP
5 47 (11.69%) Terraform
6 37 (9.20%) AngularJS
7 36 (8.96%) Node.js
8 35 (8.71%) Spring Boot
9 31 (7.71%) CSS
10 29 (7.21%) ASP.NET
11 28 (6.97%) .NET Core
12 26 (6.47%) Kafka
13 24 (5.97%) OAuth
14 22 (5.47%) Blazor
15 21 (5.22%) GraphQL
15 21 (5.22%) RESTful
16 17 (4.23%) Playwright
17 16 (3.98%) HTML
18 15 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
18 15 (3.73%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.69%) Product Ownership
2 42 (10.45%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (9.20%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (8.46%) Public Cloud
5 33 (8.21%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.48%) Mobile App
7 17 (4.23%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.74%) CMDB
8 11 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (2.24%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.99%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.99%) IoT
11 8 (1.99%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.24%) Reference Data
12 5 (1.24%) Video\Live Streaming
13 4 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (1.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.73%) Linux
2 13 (3.23%) Android
3 11 (2.74%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.49%) 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 (49.25%) CI/CD
2 143 (35.57%) Software Engineering
3 127 (31.59%) Agile
4 125 (31.09%) AI
5 108 (26.87%) Mentoring
6 106 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
7 105 (26.12%) DevOps
8 94 (23.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 94 (23.38%) Technical Leadership
9 92 (22.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 86 (21.39%) Microservices
11 73 (18.16%) Roadmaps
12 69 (17.16%) Test Automation
13 68 (16.92%) Event-Driven
14 60 (14.93%) TDD
15 52 (12.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 51 (12.69%) SDLC
17 48 (11.94%) OO
17 48 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
18 47 (11.69%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 119 (29.60%) Java
2 108 (26.87%) SQL
3 87 (21.64%) C#
4 86 (21.39%) JavaScript
5 68 (16.92%) Python
5 68 (16.92%) TypeScript
6 22 (5.47%) PowerShell
7 14 (3.48%) PL/SQL
8 13 (3.23%) Apex Code
9 11 (2.74%) Bash
10 10 (2.49%) Go
11 8 (1.99%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.49%) Bicep
12 6 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.49%) Ruby
13 5 (1.24%) SOQL
14 4 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.75%) C
15 3 (0.75%) PHP
16 2 (0.50%) Dart
Qualifications
1 59 (14.68%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.20%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.22%) Degree
4 17 (4.23%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.24%) CISSP
7 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
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%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (13.68%) QA
2 21 (5.22%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.73%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.24%) GDPR
5 5 (1.24%) NIST
5 5 (1.24%) WCAG
6 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.75%) NCSC
8 2 (0.50%) SLA
9 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 111 (27.61%) Docker
2 13 (3.23%) 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 62 (15.42%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.49%) Ansible
3 9 (2.24%) Grafana
4 5 (1.24%) 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 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.72%) Oracle
3 18 (4.48%) Salesforce
3 18 (4.48%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.99%) Informatica
4 12 (2.99%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.49%) Google
6 9 (2.24%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.74%) Sage
8 6 (1.49%) IBM
9 5 (1.24%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.24%) SAP
9 5 (1.24%) 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