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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 128 150
Rank change year-on-year +11 +22 -49
Permanent jobs citing REST 416 432 715
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.14% 2.86% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.92% 10.13% 7.94%
Number of salaries quoted 207 267 640
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +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 3,491 4,264 9,002
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.95% 28.21% 26.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,535 2,867 7,729
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 10 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 (1.68%) JBoss
2 5 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.96%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.72%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.72%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.48%) Apache
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.48%) Camunda
5 2 (0.48%) Confluence
5 2 (0.48%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.44%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (1.44%) Magento
1 6 (1.44%) Shopify
2 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
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%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 152 (36.54%) Azure
2 147 (35.34%) AWS
3 56 (13.46%) Entra ID
4 50 (12.02%) Google Workspace
5 42 (10.10%) GitHub
6 34 (8.17%) SaaS
7 30 (7.21%) GCP
8 21 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (4.81%) Serverless
10 18 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (3.61%) GitHub Copilot
11 15 (3.61%) Power Platform
11 15 (3.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 15 (3.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 9 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.68%) Apigee
13 7 (1.68%) Kong
13 7 (1.68%) OpenShift
14 6 (1.44%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.44%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 91 (21.88%) Broadband
2 34 (8.17%) HTTP
3 12 (2.88%) Firewall
4 9 (2.16%) SMTP
5 6 (1.44%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.44%) Kerberos
5 6 (1.44%) Network Security
5 6 (1.44%) SSL
6 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.96%) AMQP
8 3 (0.72%) Modbus
8 3 (0.72%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.72%) RTP
8 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.72%) VoIP
8 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.24%) Intranet
9 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (7.21%) SQL Server
3 24 (5.77%) Relational Database
4 21 (5.05%) MongoDB
4 21 (5.05%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.37%) MySQL
6 6 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.96%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.96%) MariaDB
8 4 (0.96%) Power BI
9 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.72%) DocumentDB
9 3 (0.72%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.48%) Big Data
10 2 (0.48%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.48%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (13.22%) Git
2 41 (9.86%) GitLab
3 38 (9.13%) Jenkins
4 34 (8.17%) SonarQube
5 17 (4.09%) JIRA
6 12 (2.88%) JUnit
6 12 (2.88%) Maven
7 9 (2.16%) Selenium
8 8 (1.92%) Mockito
8 8 (1.92%) SpecFlow
9 7 (1.68%) WebDriver
10 6 (1.44%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.96%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.96%) Gradle
11 4 (0.96%) NUnit
11 4 (0.96%) Postman
12 3 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.72%) Subversion
12 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.48%) JMeter
General
1 129 (31.01%) Social Skills
2 113 (27.16%) Finance
3 75 (18.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 71 (17.07%) Games
5 55 (13.22%) Banking
6 53 (12.74%) Organisational Skills
7 41 (9.86%) Marketing
8 39 (9.38%) Public Sector
9 28 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
10 18 (4.33%) Law
11 17 (4.09%) Back Office
12 15 (3.61%) Financial Institution
13 13 (3.13%) Manufacturing
13 13 (3.13%) Retail
14 11 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (2.64%) Polish Language
14 11 (2.64%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.92%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.68%) Legal
17 5 (1.20%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 127 (30.53%) Developer
2 99 (23.80%) Senior
3 71 (17.07%) Software Engineer
4 67 (16.11%) Architect
5 43 (10.34%) Lead
6 34 (8.17%) Salesforce Architect
7 31 (7.45%) Senior Developer
8 30 (7.21%) Development Engineer
8 30 (7.21%) Software Development Engineer
9 25 (6.01%) Technical Architect
10 24 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 23 (5.53%) Consultant
12 21 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
13 20 (4.81%) Java Developer
13 20 (4.81%) Lead Software Engineer
14 18 (4.33%) Salesforce Technical Architect
15 17 (4.09%) IAM Developer
15 17 (4.09%) Salesforce Developer
16 16 (3.85%) Java Engineer
16 16 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (36.06%) SOAP
2 75 (18.03%) OAuth
3 74 (17.79%) React
4 71 (17.07%) SAML
5 66 (15.87%) GraphQL
6 61 (14.66%) .NET
7 60 (14.42%) OpenID
8 59 (14.18%) LDAP
9 55 (13.22%) Lightning Web Components
10 53 (12.74%) Spring
11 51 (12.26%) Visualforce
12 36 (8.65%) Spring Boot
13 33 (7.93%) JSON
13 33 (7.93%) Middleware
13 33 (7.93%) Node.js
14 31 (7.45%) AngularJS
15 24 (5.77%) CSS
16 23 (5.53%) Kafka
17 21 (5.05%) XML
18 19 (4.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 81 (19.47%) Product Ownership
2 50 (12.02%) Cyber Threat
2 50 (12.02%) Cyberattack
3 34 (8.17%) Cloud Native
4 32 (7.69%) Public Cloud
5 25 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.61%) Low-Code
7 15 (3.61%) Onboarding
8 13 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.16%) CMDB
10 9 (2.16%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.92%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.92%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (1.44%) CUDA
13 5 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
14 4 (0.96%) DataPower
14 4 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.25%) Linux
2 10 (2.40%) Android
2 10 (2.40%) Windows
3 6 (1.44%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.44%) Unix
4 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) CentOS
5 1 (0.24%) Debian
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (37.98%) CI/CD
2 151 (36.30%) Roadmaps
3 120 (28.85%) Agile
4 113 (27.16%) Software Engineering
5 110 (26.44%) DevOps
6 99 (23.80%) Mentoring
7 91 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 83 (19.95%) AI
8 83 (19.95%) Event-Driven
9 70 (16.83%) Microservices
9 70 (16.83%) OO
9 70 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
10 68 (16.35%) Full-Stack Development
11 62 (14.90%) Scrum
12 60 (14.42%) Technical Leadership
12 60 (14.42%) Test Automation
13 57 (13.70%) Cybersecurity
14 54 (12.98%) Identity Access Management
15 53 (12.74%) Design Patterns
16 51 (12.26%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 109 (26.20%) Java
2 103 (24.76%) SQL
3 79 (18.99%) JavaScript
4 72 (17.31%) Python
5 63 (15.14%) PowerShell
6 59 (14.18%) Apex Code
6 59 (14.18%) T-SQL
7 52 (12.50%) Bash
8 47 (11.30%) C#
9 44 (10.58%) TypeScript
10 37 (8.89%) SOQL
10 37 (8.89%) SOSL
11 13 (3.13%) Go
12 8 (1.92%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.44%) Ruby
14 5 (1.20%) C++
15 4 (0.96%) Bicep
16 3 (0.72%) DataWeave
16 3 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 51 (12.26%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.10%) Degree
3 40 (9.62%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.44%) CISSP
7 5 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.72%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (12.26%) NIST
2 50 (12.02%) NCSC
3 35 (8.41%) QA
4 32 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) GDPR
8 2 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.24%) HL7
System Software
1 67 (16.11%) Docker
2 66 (15.87%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.72%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 50 (12.02%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.73%) Terraform
3 9 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.96%) Ansible
4 4 (0.96%) Argo
5 3 (0.72%) Grafana
5 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.48%) Kibana
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.48%) MIIS
7 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 62 (14.90%) Salesforce
2 42 (10.10%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.13%) Splunk
4 26 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.09%) Oracle
6 16 (3.85%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.16%) CyberArk
8 7 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.44%) Cisco
9 6 (1.44%) ConnectWise
9 6 (1.44%) F5
9 6 (1.44%) Google
9 6 (1.44%) Juniper
9 6 (1.44%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.44%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.44%) WooCommerce
10 3 (0.72%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.72%) IBM
10 3 (0.72%) Mitel
10 3 (0.72%) Revolut