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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 128 155
Rank change year-on-year -17 +27 -53
Permanent jobs citing REST 418 428 588
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.93% 2.60% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.32% 10.19% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 232 270 519
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,544 £51,362 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £81,063 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,875 £96,375 £93,750
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 4,049 4,201 7,259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.66% 25.51% 25.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,051 2,855 6,033
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £39,300
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -5.89%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 24 July 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 11 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.72%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.72%) Apache Solr
3 3 (0.72%) Camunda
3 3 (0.72%) Confluence
3 3 (0.72%) JBoss
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.48%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.24%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.24%) Documentum
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Moqups
2 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.72%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.72%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.72%) Magento
2 3 (0.72%) Shopify
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.48%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 175 (41.87%) AWS
2 158 (37.80%) Azure
3 44 (10.53%) SaaS
4 40 (9.57%) GCP
5 38 (9.09%) GitHub
6 30 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (6.22%) Entra ID
8 22 (5.26%) Serverless
9 21 (5.02%) Power Platform
10 20 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (4.31%) Google Workspace
12 14 (3.35%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (2.63%) Power Automate
13 11 (2.63%) PowerApps
14 10 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (2.39%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (2.15%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (2.15%) Figma
16 8 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 61 (14.59%) Broadband
2 36 (8.61%) HTTP
3 12 (2.87%) Firewall
4 7 (1.67%) Network Security
4 7 (1.67%) SMTP
4 7 (1.67%) SSL
5 6 (1.44%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.44%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.72%) Modbus
8 2 (0.48%) RTP
8 2 (0.48%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.48%) VoIP
8 2 (0.48%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.24%) BGP
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.24%) Intranet
9 1 (0.24%) LAN
9 1 (0.24%) OSPF
9 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.11%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (11.00%) SQL Server
3 33 (7.89%) Relational Database
4 22 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 22 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 19 (4.55%) MySQL
6 11 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.91%) Power BI
9 7 (1.67%) Redis
10 6 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.44%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.20%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.96%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.72%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.72%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.72%) IBM InfoSphere
13 3 (0.72%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 77 (18.42%) Git
2 44 (10.53%) GitLab
3 40 (9.57%) Jenkins
4 34 (8.13%) SonarQube
5 14 (3.35%) JIRA
6 11 (2.63%) JUnit
6 11 (2.63%) Selenium
7 9 (2.15%) Maven
7 9 (2.15%) Mockito
8 7 (1.67%) Claude Code
9 5 (1.20%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.20%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.20%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.96%) Postman
11 3 (0.72%) Gradle
11 3 (0.72%) Storybook
11 3 (0.72%) Subversion
11 3 (0.72%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 124 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 115 (27.51%) Finance
3 78 (18.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (12.68%) Banking
5 50 (11.96%) Games
6 38 (9.09%) Marketing
6 38 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 31 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (4.31%) Law
10 14 (3.35%) Manufacturing
11 13 (3.11%) Back Office
11 13 (3.11%) Financial Institution
11 13 (3.11%) Legal
12 11 (2.63%) Retail
13 9 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (2.15%) Polish Language
14 8 (1.91%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.91%) Legal Technology
15 7 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 132 (31.58%) Developer
2 83 (19.86%) Senior
3 68 (16.27%) Lead
4 65 (15.55%) Software Engineer
5 63 (15.07%) Architect
6 35 (8.37%) Salesforce Architect
7 30 (7.18%) Development Engineer
7 30 (7.18%) Software Development Engineer
8 28 (6.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 27 (6.46%) Senior Developer
10 25 (5.98%) Lead Software Engineer
10 25 (5.98%) Technical Architect
11 24 (5.74%) Consultant
12 23 (5.50%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (4.31%) .NET Developer
13 18 (4.31%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 17 (4.07%) Java Developer
14 17 (4.07%) Python Engineer
15 16 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (24.88%) SOAP
2 86 (20.57%) React
3 77 (18.42%) .NET
4 46 (11.00%) Lightning Web Components
5 44 (10.53%) Spring
5 44 (10.53%) Visualforce
6 43 (10.29%) OAuth
7 36 (8.61%) GraphQL
7 36 (8.61%) Node.js
8 35 (8.37%) SAML
9 34 (8.13%) Spring Boot
10 31 (7.42%) AngularJS
11 29 (6.94%) OpenID
12 27 (6.46%) LDAP
13 26 (6.22%) JSON
14 25 (5.98%) ASP.NET
15 24 (5.74%) CSS
15 24 (5.74%) Kafka
15 24 (5.74%) RESTful
16 22 (5.26%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 86 (20.57%) Product Ownership
2 33 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (7.89%) Public Cloud
3 19 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (4.31%) Cyber Threat
4 18 (4.31%) Cyberattack
4 18 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.59%) Low-Code
6 13 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.87%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.63%) CMDB
9 10 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.39%) Video\Live Streaming
10 8 (1.91%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.91%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.44%) CUDA
12 5 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.74%) Linux
2 12 (2.87%) Windows
3 9 (2.15%) Android
4 7 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.67%) Unix
5 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (45.22%) CI/CD
2 134 (32.06%) Agile
3 126 (30.14%) DevOps
4 121 (28.95%) Software Engineering
5 116 (27.75%) Roadmaps
6 112 (26.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 91 (21.77%) AI
8 88 (21.05%) Event-Driven
9 86 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
10 85 (20.33%) Mentoring
11 82 (19.62%) Full-Stack Development
12 80 (19.14%) Microservices
13 73 (17.46%) OO
14 67 (16.03%) Technical Leadership
15 65 (15.55%) Scrum
15 65 (15.55%) Test Automation
16 54 (12.92%) Design Patterns
17 51 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
18 49 (11.72%) Containerisation
19 47 (11.24%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 107 (25.60%) Java
2 100 (23.92%) SQL
3 82 (19.62%) JavaScript
4 79 (18.90%) Python
5 68 (16.27%) C#
6 60 (14.35%) TypeScript
7 49 (11.72%) Apex Code
8 36 (8.61%) SOQL
9 35 (8.37%) SOSL
10 33 (7.89%) PowerShell
11 25 (5.98%) T-SQL
12 23 (5.50%) Bash
13 13 (3.11%) Go
14 10 (2.39%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.44%) Ruby
16 5 (1.20%) Bicep
16 5 (1.20%) PHP
17 3 (0.72%) C++
17 3 (0.72%) DataWeave
18 2 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.13%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.89%) Degree
4 24 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.44%) CISSP
7 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.24%) CCIE
9 1 (0.24%) CCNP
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (11.96%) QA
2 25 (5.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (5.02%) NIST
4 20 (4.78%) NCSC
5 12 (2.87%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.39%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.20%) GDPR
8 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 3 (0.72%) WCAG
9 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (21.77%) Docker
2 34 (8.13%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.48%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 55 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.37%) Terraform
3 9 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.44%) Ansible
5 4 (0.96%) Argo
5 4 (0.96%) Grafana
5 4 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.48%) Kibana
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.48%) MIIS
Vendors
1 55 (13.16%) Salesforce
2 54 (12.92%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.09%) Splunk
4 26 (6.22%) ServiceNow
5 21 (5.02%) Oracle
6 14 (3.35%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.15%) CyberArk
7 9 (2.15%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.91%) Informatica
9 7 (1.67%) Cisco
9 7 (1.67%) Google
10 6 (1.44%) F5
10 6 (1.44%) Juniper
10 6 (1.44%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.44%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.96%) IBM
12 3 (0.72%) Databricks
12 3 (0.72%) HighQ
12 3 (0.72%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.72%) WooCommerce