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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 131 143
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 -42
Permanent jobs citing REST 415 415 733
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.20% 2.84% 2.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.35% 9.76% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 202 248 668
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,188 £51,250 £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 £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,375 £97,500
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 3,359 4,250 8,631
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.81% 29.10% 26.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,436 2,824 7,556
10th Percentile £41,588 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,236 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,313 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,240 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +10.40% -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 May 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 10 (2.41%) JBoss
2 7 (1.69%) WebSphere
3 5 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.96%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.72%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.48%) Apache
6 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.48%) Confluence
6 2 (0.48%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (2.17%) Dynamics NAV
1 9 (2.17%) Magento
1 9 (2.17%) Shopify
2 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (37.11%) Azure
2 136 (32.77%) AWS
3 59 (14.22%) Entra ID
4 52 (12.53%) Google Workspace
5 49 (11.81%) GitHub
6 33 (7.95%) SaaS
7 31 (7.47%) GCP
8 25 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (5.54%) GitHub Copilot
9 23 (5.54%) Serverless
10 19 (4.58%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 19 (4.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 18 (4.34%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.65%) Power Platform
13 9 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.69%) Apigee
14 7 (1.69%) Kong
14 7 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 94 (22.65%) Broadband
2 33 (7.95%) HTTP
3 12 (2.89%) Firewall
4 9 (2.17%) SMTP
5 6 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.45%) Kerberos
5 6 (1.45%) Network Security
5 6 (1.45%) SSL
6 5 (1.20%) AMQP
6 5 (1.20%) PuTTY
6 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.72%) Modbus
7 3 (0.72%) RTP
7 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.72%) VoIP
7 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.24%) Intranet
8 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (7.71%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.30%) NoSQL
4 21 (5.06%) MongoDB
4 21 (5.06%) Relational Database
5 13 (3.13%) MySQL
6 6 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.96%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.96%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.96%) MariaDB
8 4 (0.96%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.96%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.72%) Power BI
9 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.48%) Big Data
10 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 54 (13.01%) Git
2 42 (10.12%) Jenkins
3 40 (9.64%) GitLab
4 34 (8.19%) SonarQube
5 19 (4.58%) JIRA
6 13 (3.13%) Maven
7 11 (2.65%) Selenium
8 10 (2.41%) JUnit
8 10 (2.41%) SpecFlow
9 9 (2.17%) WebDriver
10 7 (1.69%) Mockito
10 7 (1.69%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.96%) Gradle
11 4 (0.96%) NUnit
11 4 (0.96%) Postman
12 3 (0.72%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.48%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 131 (31.57%) Social Skills
2 111 (26.75%) Finance
3 75 (18.07%) Games
4 72 (17.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (13.49%) Organisational Skills
6 48 (11.57%) Banking
7 44 (10.60%) Marketing
8 36 (8.67%) Public Sector
9 27 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (4.82%) Back Office
11 19 (4.58%) Law
12 13 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (3.13%) Retail
13 12 (2.89%) Financial Institution
13 12 (2.89%) Telecoms
14 11 (2.65%) Manufacturing
14 11 (2.65%) Polish Language
15 8 (1.93%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 128 (30.84%) Developer
2 109 (26.27%) Senior
3 67 (16.14%) Architect
4 66 (15.90%) Software Engineer
5 36 (8.67%) Lead
6 34 (8.19%) Salesforce Architect
6 34 (8.19%) Senior Developer
7 28 (6.75%) Development Engineer
7 28 (6.75%) Software Development Engineer
8 23 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
9 22 (5.30%) Consultant
9 22 (5.30%) Technical Architect
10 21 (5.06%) Java Developer
11 19 (4.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 18 (4.34%) IAM Developer
12 18 (4.34%) Salesforce Developer
12 18 (4.34%) Salesforce Technical Architect
13 16 (3.86%) Java Engineer
13 16 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (40.96%) SOAP
2 75 (18.07%) OAuth
3 74 (17.83%) React
4 73 (17.59%) SAML
5 70 (16.87%) GraphQL
6 62 (14.94%) .NET
6 62 (14.94%) Lightning Web Components
6 62 (14.94%) OpenID
7 61 (14.70%) LDAP
8 52 (12.53%) Visualforce
9 51 (12.29%) Spring
10 38 (9.16%) Middleware
11 35 (8.43%) Node.js
12 34 (8.19%) JSON
12 34 (8.19%) Spring Boot
13 30 (7.23%) AngularJS
14 26 (6.27%) CSS
14 26 (6.27%) Web Services
14 26 (6.27%) XML
15 19 (4.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 84 (20.24%) Product Ownership
2 53 (12.77%) Cyber Threat
2 53 (12.77%) Cyberattack
3 33 (7.95%) Cloud Native
4 29 (6.99%) Public Cloud
5 27 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (3.37%) Low-Code
8 13 (3.13%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.41%) CMDB
11 9 (2.17%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.93%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.93%) Video\Live Streaming
13 7 (1.69%) DataPower
14 6 (1.45%) CUDA
14 6 (1.45%) Management Information System
15 5 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
16 4 (0.96%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.27%) Linux
2 12 (2.89%) Android
3 10 (2.41%) Windows
4 7 (1.69%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.45%) Unix
6 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) CentOS
7 1 (0.24%) Debian
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (37.11%) CI/CD
2 147 (35.42%) Roadmaps
3 121 (29.16%) Agile
4 119 (28.67%) DevOps
5 106 (25.54%) Mentoring
6 104 (25.06%) Software Engineering
7 90 (21.69%) AI
8 89 (21.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (18.31%) Event-Driven
10 68 (16.39%) Test Automation
11 67 (16.14%) OO
12 66 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (15.66%) Microservices
14 63 (15.18%) Scrum
15 61 (14.70%) Full-Stack Development
16 60 (14.46%) Cybersecurity
17 56 (13.49%) Identity Access Management
17 56 (13.49%) Technical Leadership
18 53 (12.77%) Programme Delivery
18 53 (12.77%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 109 (26.27%) SQL
2 107 (25.78%) Java
3 77 (18.55%) JavaScript
4 66 (15.90%) Apex Code
5 65 (15.66%) PowerShell
5 65 (15.66%) Python
6 64 (15.42%) T-SQL
7 55 (13.25%) Bash
8 44 (10.60%) C#
9 41 (9.88%) TypeScript
10 37 (8.92%) SOQL
10 37 (8.92%) SOSL
11 12 (2.89%) Go
12 6 (1.45%) C++
12 6 (1.45%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.96%) Ruby
14 3 (0.72%) C
14 3 (0.72%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.72%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 52 (12.53%) Security Cleared
2 45 (10.84%) Degree
3 42 (10.12%) SC Cleared
4 29 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.89%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.45%) CISSP
7 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.72%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (13.01%) NIST
2 53 (12.77%) NCSC
3 35 (8.43%) QA
4 32 (7.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.72%) SLA
7 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.48%) GDPR
7 2 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.24%) HL7
System Software
1 68 (16.39%) Active Directory
2 61 (14.70%) Docker
3 6 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.72%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 45 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.02%) Terraform
3 9 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.45%) Ansible
5 4 (0.96%) Argo
6 2 (0.48%) Grafana
6 2 (0.48%) Kibana
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.48%) MIIS
6 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 69 (16.63%) Salesforce
2 42 (10.12%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.16%) Splunk
4 30 (7.23%) ServiceNow
5 19 (4.58%) MuleSoft
6 17 (4.10%) Oracle
7 10 (2.41%) CyberArk
8 9 (2.17%) ConnectWise
8 9 (2.17%) WooCommerce
9 7 (1.69%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.45%) Cisco
10 6 (1.45%) F5
10 6 (1.45%) Google
10 6 (1.45%) Juniper
10 6 (1.45%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.20%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.72%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.72%) Mitel
12 3 (0.72%) Revolut
12 3 (0.72%) SAP