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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 133 165
Rank change year-on-year -27 +32 -65
Permanent jobs citing REST 397 386 485
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.65% 2.38% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.86% 10.01% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 241 236 346
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,238
25th Percentile £55,750 £54,688 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +21.74% -14.81%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 4,481 3,857 6,751
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.59% 23.74% 28.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,311 2,567 4,829
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,250 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -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 16 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 14 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (1.51%) Confluence
4 4 (1.01%) Camunda
5 2 (0.50%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.25%) Documentum
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Moqups
2 3 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.76%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.76%) Elite 3E
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%) Dynamics CRM
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
1 190 (47.86%) AWS
2 167 (42.07%) Azure
3 51 (12.85%) SaaS
4 42 (10.58%) GCP
5 35 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (8.56%) GitHub
7 31 (7.81%) Power Platform
8 24 (6.05%) Serverless
9 20 (5.04%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (4.28%) Power Automate
11 16 (4.03%) Microsoft Copilot
11 16 (4.03%) PowerApps
12 14 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (3.27%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (3.27%) GitHub Copilot
14 11 (2.77%) Entra ID
15 10 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 40 (10.08%) HTTP
2 12 (3.02%) Broadband
3 6 (1.51%) Network Security
4 5 (1.26%) Firewall
4 5 (1.26%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.76%) SSL
5 3 (0.76%) TCP/IP
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%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.25%) OSPF
7 1 (0.25%) VPN
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (14.36%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (13.35%) SQL Server
3 42 (10.58%) Relational Database
4 19 (4.79%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (4.03%) MySQL
6 14 (3.53%) Power BI
7 11 (2.77%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (2.27%) Redis
10 6 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.01%) Ataccama
12 4 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.01%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (1.01%) TIBCO EBX
13 3 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.76%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.76%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 95 (23.93%) Git
2 19 (4.79%) JIRA
3 18 (4.53%) JUnit
4 16 (4.03%) Jenkins
4 16 (4.03%) Mockito
5 14 (3.53%) GitLab
5 14 (3.53%) Maven
6 13 (3.27%) Cypress.io
7 11 (2.77%) Selenium
8 10 (2.52%) Postman
9 7 (1.76%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.51%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.51%) Storybook
11 5 (1.26%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.76%) Subversion
12 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.50%) Gradle
13 2 (0.50%) NUnit
13 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 122 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 116 (29.22%) Finance
3 53 (13.35%) Banking
4 37 (9.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (6.80%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.28%) Law
7 17 (4.28%) Legal
8 14 (3.53%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.27%) Marketing
10 10 (2.52%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.52%) Retail
11 9 (2.27%) Back Office
11 9 (2.27%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.02%) Games
12 8 (2.02%) Legal Technology
13 7 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.51%) Front Office
15 5 (1.26%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 137 (34.51%) Developer
2 95 (23.93%) Senior
3 83 (20.91%) Lead
4 71 (17.88%) Software Engineer
5 34 (8.56%) Development Engineer
5 34 (8.56%) Software Development Engineer
6 32 (8.06%) Senior Developer
7 31 (7.81%) Architect
8 30 (7.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 29 (7.30%) Lead Software Engineer
10 28 (7.05%) .NET Developer
11 25 (6.30%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (5.04%) Java Engineer
12 20 (5.04%) Technical Leader
13 19 (4.79%) Java Developer
14 17 (4.28%) Python Engineer
14 17 (4.28%) Software Developer
15 16 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
16 15 (3.78%) Consultant
16 15 (3.78%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (25.19%) React
2 78 (19.65%) .NET
3 59 (14.86%) SOAP
4 55 (13.85%) Spring
5 46 (11.59%) Terraform
6 36 (9.07%) Spring Boot
7 34 (8.56%) AngularJS
8 33 (8.31%) Node.js
9 29 (7.30%) CSS
10 28 (7.05%) ASP.NET
11 27 (6.80%) Kafka
12 25 (6.30%) .NET Core
12 25 (6.30%) OAuth
13 22 (5.54%) Blazor
14 20 (5.04%) RESTful
15 19 (4.79%) GraphQL
16 17 (4.28%) Lightning Web Components
16 17 (4.28%) Playwright
17 15 (3.78%) RabbitMQ
17 15 (3.78%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 61 (15.37%) Product Ownership
2 37 (9.32%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (9.07%) Public Cloud
4 32 (8.06%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (7.81%) Cloud Native
6 17 (4.28%) Mobile App
7 14 (3.53%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.77%) CMDB
8 11 (2.77%) Low-Code
8 11 (2.77%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.02%) IoT
10 8 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.76%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.26%) Video\Live Streaming
13 4 (1.01%) CUDA
13 4 (1.01%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.01%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.01%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.79%) Linux
2 12 (3.02%) Android
3 10 (2.52%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.26%) 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
1 191 (48.11%) CI/CD
2 134 (33.75%) Software Engineering
3 126 (31.74%) Agile
4 115 (28.97%) AI
5 102 (25.69%) DevOps
6 101 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (25.19%) Mentoring
8 93 (23.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 90 (22.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 90 (22.67%) Technical Leadership
10 84 (21.16%) Microservices
11 77 (19.40%) Roadmaps
12 71 (17.88%) Event-Driven
13 65 (16.37%) Test Automation
14 61 (15.37%) TDD
15 57 (14.36%) OO
16 47 (11.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 47 (11.84%) Scrum
17 45 (11.34%) SDLC
18 44 (11.08%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 119 (29.97%) Java
2 98 (24.69%) SQL
3 79 (19.90%) JavaScript
4 77 (19.40%) C#
5 66 (16.62%) TypeScript
6 65 (16.37%) Python
7 22 (5.54%) PowerShell
8 19 (4.79%) Apex Code
9 14 (3.53%) PL/SQL
10 12 (3.02%) SOQL
11 10 (2.52%) Bash
11 10 (2.52%) Go
12 8 (2.02%) SOSL
13 7 (1.76%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (1.51%) Ruby
15 4 (1.01%) Bicep
15 4 (1.01%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.76%) PHP
17 2 (0.50%) C
Qualifications
1 53 (13.35%) Security Cleared
2 31 (7.81%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.05%) Degree
4 17 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (4.28%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.26%) CISSP
6 3 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.25%) CCIE
8 1 (0.25%) CCNP
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.25%) CSPO
8 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (14.11%) QA
2 19 (4.79%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.53%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.26%) NIST
5 5 (1.26%) WCAG
6 4 (1.01%) GDPR
6 4 (1.01%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.76%) NCSC
7 3 (0.76%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 106 (26.70%) Docker
2 13 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (15.37%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.52%) Ansible
3 5 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.76%) Grafana
4 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.50%) Argo
5 2 (0.50%) Kibana
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.25%) Consul
6 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) logstash
6 1 (0.25%) MIIS
6 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 67 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.30%) Oracle
3 24 (6.05%) Salesforce
4 18 (4.53%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.02%) Informatica
6 10 (2.52%) MuleSoft
6 10 (2.52%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.27%) Google
7 9 (2.27%) Splunk
8 7 (1.76%) Sage
9 6 (1.51%) IBM
10 5 (1.26%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.26%) SAP
10 5 (1.26%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.76%) Aderant
11 3 (0.76%) HighQ
11 3 (0.76%) iManage
11 3 (0.76%) Intapp
11 3 (0.76%) VMware
12 2 (0.50%) OneLogin