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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 81 114
Rank change year-on-year -31 +33 -23
Permanent jobs citing REST 377 638 751
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.35% 4.02% 2.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.22% 12.81% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 219 256 672
10th Percentile £41,650 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -6.47% +6.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £87,813
90th Percentile £105,000 £90,000 £109,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -1.52% -5.71%

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 2,852 4,982 8,211
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.81% 31.37% 29.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,142 3,228 7,144
10th Percentile £42,050 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,367 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% +8.80% -6.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £109,875 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £61,551
% change year-on-year -1.52% +7.23% -8.81%

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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 8 February 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 16 (4.24%) JBoss
2 13 (3.45%) WebSphere
3 5 (1.33%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.33%) Apache Pulsar
3 5 (1.33%) Confluence
4 4 (1.06%) IIS
4 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.53%) Mendix
6 2 (0.53%) nginx
6 2 (0.53%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.27%) Apache
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.27%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.80%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (4.51%) Shopify
2 12 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (2.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (2.12%) Magento
4 8 (2.12%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.53%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 156 (41.38%) Azure
2 82 (21.75%) AWS
3 59 (15.65%) Entra ID
4 55 (14.59%) Google Workspace
5 48 (12.73%) SaaS
6 47 (12.47%) GitHub
7 37 (9.81%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (8.75%) GitHub Copilot
9 25 (6.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 25 (6.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 19 (5.04%) Azure Logic Apps
10 19 (5.04%) GCP
11 18 (4.77%) Boomi
11 18 (4.77%) Power Automate
12 17 (4.51%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (4.51%) Serverless
13 12 (3.18%) Power Platform
13 12 (3.18%) Salesforce Einstein
14 11 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (2.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 81 (21.49%) Broadband
2 16 (4.24%) HTTP
3 6 (1.59%) AMQP
4 5 (1.33%) PuTTY
4 5 (1.33%) VoIP
5 4 (1.06%) SMTP
6 3 (0.80%) IP Telephony
6 3 (0.80%) RTP
6 3 (0.80%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.80%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.53%) PSTN
8 1 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.27%) Firewall
8 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.61%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.04%) MySQL
2 19 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.04%) Relational Database
3 18 (4.77%) NoSQL
4 9 (2.39%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.33%) Redis
6 4 (1.06%) Power BI
6 4 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.80%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.53%) Big Data
8 2 (0.53%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.53%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.53%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.27%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 41 (10.88%) Git
2 38 (10.08%) Jenkins
3 26 (6.90%) GitLab
4 24 (6.37%) JIRA
4 24 (6.37%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.12%) Maven
5 8 (2.12%) Selenium
6 7 (1.86%) SpecFlow
6 7 (1.86%) WebDriver
7 6 (1.59%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.06%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (1.06%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.06%) Gradle
8 4 (1.06%) JMeter
8 4 (1.06%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.80%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.80%) JUnit
9 3 (0.80%) Postman
9 3 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 137 (36.34%) Social Skills
2 105 (27.85%) Finance
3 74 (19.63%) Games
4 57 (15.12%) Organisational Skills
5 51 (13.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (11.14%) Marketing
7 28 (7.43%) Public Sector
8 24 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (5.84%) Law
10 17 (4.51%) Banking
11 15 (3.98%) Back Office
11 15 (3.98%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (2.65%) Retail
13 8 (2.12%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.86%) Polish Language
15 5 (1.33%) Legal
16 3 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.53%) Billing
17 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 147 (38.99%) Developer
2 123 (32.63%) Senior
3 47 (12.47%) Architect
4 31 (8.22%) Software Engineer
5 30 (7.96%) Senior Developer
6 22 (5.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (5.84%) IAM Developer
6 22 (5.84%) Salesforce Architect
7 20 (5.31%) Integration Developer
8 19 (5.04%) Java Developer
9 18 (4.77%) Senior Architect
10 17 (4.51%) C# Developer
10 17 (4.51%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (4.24%) Lead
11 16 (4.24%) Salesforce Developer
11 16 (4.24%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (3.98%) Analyst
13 14 (3.71%) Development Engineer
13 14 (3.71%) Integration Engineer
14 13 (3.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (54.11%) SOAP
2 89 (23.61%) GraphQL
3 76 (20.16%) SAML
4 74 (19.63%) OAuth
5 63 (16.71%) .NET
6 62 (16.45%) Lightning Web Components
7 55 (14.59%) LDAP
7 55 (14.59%) OpenID
8 52 (13.79%) Middleware
8 52 (13.79%) React
9 43 (11.41%) Web Services
10 42 (11.14%) Spring
11 40 (10.61%) JSON
11 40 (10.61%) Visualforce
12 33 (8.75%) XML
13 30 (7.96%) CSS
14 29 (7.69%) Node.js
15 25 (6.63%) Spring Boot
16 23 (6.10%) AngularJS
16 23 (6.10%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (17.51%) Product Ownership
2 57 (15.12%) Cyber Threat
2 57 (15.12%) Cyberattack
3 27 (7.16%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.45%) DataPower
7 11 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.65%) Low-Code
8 10 (2.65%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.33%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.33%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.33%) Educational Technology
11 5 (1.33%) Mobile Games
11 5 (1.33%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.06%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.06%) IoT
12 4 (1.06%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.10%) Linux
2 14 (3.71%) Android
3 7 (1.86%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.59%) Unix
5 4 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.06%) Windows
6 1 (0.27%) CentOS
6 1 (0.27%) Debian
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (38.73%) Agile
2 143 (37.93%) Roadmaps
3 123 (32.63%) CI/CD
4 113 (29.97%) Mentoring
5 111 (29.44%) DevOps
6 83 (22.02%) AI
7 68 (18.04%) Event-Driven
8 63 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (16.18%) Microservices
10 57 (15.12%) Cybersecurity
10 57 (15.12%) Programme Delivery
11 55 (14.59%) Identity Access Management
11 55 (14.59%) Regulatory Compliance
12 53 (14.06%) Test Automation
13 51 (13.53%) Data Modelling
14 50 (13.26%) Software Engineering
15 48 (12.73%) User Experience
16 46 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
17 44 (11.67%) Scrum
17 44 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 120 (31.83%) SQL
2 88 (23.34%) JavaScript
3 85 (22.55%) Java
4 76 (20.16%) PowerShell
5 72 (19.10%) T-SQL
6 63 (16.71%) Apex Code
7 58 (15.38%) Bash
8 53 (14.06%) C#
8 53 (14.06%) Python
9 34 (9.02%) TypeScript
10 26 (6.90%) SOQL
10 26 (6.90%) SOSL
11 19 (5.04%) PHP
12 12 (3.18%) Go
13 10 (2.65%) C++
14 9 (2.39%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.33%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.80%) C
16 3 (0.80%) Ruby
17 2 (0.53%) XAML
Qualifications
1 43 (11.41%) Degree
2 31 (8.22%) Security Cleared
3 29 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.80%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.80%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.80%) PhD
7 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.53%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (15.12%) NCSC
1 57 (15.12%) NIST
2 30 (7.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (4.77%) GDPR
4 12 (3.18%) QA
5 8 (2.12%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.33%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.80%) HL7
7 3 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.53%) WCAG
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (15.92%) Active Directory
2 47 (12.47%) Docker
3 3 (0.80%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 38 (10.08%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.31%) Terraform
3 9 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.33%) Ansible
5 3 (0.80%) Argo
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 74 (19.63%) Salesforce
2 46 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 33 (8.75%) MuleSoft
4 25 (6.63%) Oracle
5 24 (6.37%) ServiceNow
5 24 (6.37%) Splunk
6 14 (3.71%) SAP
7 13 (3.45%) IBM
7 13 (3.45%) Workday
8 8 (2.12%) ConnectWise
8 8 (2.12%) WooCommerce
9 6 (1.59%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.59%) Epicor
9 6 (1.59%) SnapLogic
9 6 (1.59%) Talend
10 5 (1.33%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.33%) Infor
10 5 (1.33%) Informatica
10 5 (1.33%) Nokia
10 5 (1.33%) TIBCO