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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 135 155
Rank change year-on-year -23 +20 -54
Permanent jobs citing REST 403 390 494
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.69% 2.40% 2.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.97% 10.04% 7.31%
Number of salaries quoted 244 239 362
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,125 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +21.74% -14.81%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +21.74% -17.86%

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 4,491 3,885 6,762
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.78% 23.93% 28.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,314 2,589 4,926
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £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 £119,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 12 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 15 (3.72%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (1.24%) Confluence
4 4 (0.99%) 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 5 (1.24%) Moqups
2 3 (0.74%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.74%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.74%) Elite 3E
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%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 197 (48.88%) AWS
2 173 (42.93%) Azure
3 51 (12.66%) SaaS
4 45 (11.17%) GCP
5 36 (8.93%) GitHub
6 34 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (7.94%) Power Platform
8 24 (5.96%) Serverless
9 19 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
10 18 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (4.47%) PowerApps
11 17 (4.22%) Power Automate
12 16 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (3.97%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (3.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
15 12 (2.98%) Azure Key Vault
16 11 (2.73%) Entra ID
17 10 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 39 (9.68%) HTTP
2 17 (4.22%) Broadband
3 6 (1.49%) Firewall
3 6 (1.49%) Network Security
4 5 (1.24%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.99%) SSL
5 4 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.50%) X.509
7 1 (0.25%) BGP
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.25%) DNS
7 1 (0.25%) Intranet
7 1 (0.25%) LTE
7 1 (0.25%) Modbus
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%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (13.90%) SQL Server
3 41 (10.17%) Relational Database
4 20 (4.96%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.22%) MySQL
6 16 (3.97%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (3.23%) Power BI
9 11 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (2.23%) Redis
11 6 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.99%) Ataccama
12 4 (0.99%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (0.99%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.99%) TIBCO EBX
13 3 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.74%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 96 (23.82%) Git
2 18 (4.47%) JIRA
2 18 (4.47%) JUnit
3 16 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.97%) Mockito
4 15 (3.72%) GitLab
5 14 (3.47%) Maven
6 12 (2.98%) Cypress.io
7 10 (2.48%) Selenium
8 9 (2.23%) Postman
9 7 (1.74%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.49%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.49%) Storybook
11 5 (1.24%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.74%) Subversion
13 2 (0.50%) Gradle
13 2 (0.50%) NUnit
13 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 124 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 117 (29.03%) Finance
3 53 (13.15%) Banking
4 37 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (6.70%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.47%) Law
8 17 (4.22%) Legal
9 15 (3.72%) Manufacturing
10 13 (3.23%) Games
10 13 (3.23%) Marketing
11 10 (2.48%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.23%) Back Office
12 9 (2.23%) Investment Banking
12 9 (2.23%) Retail
13 8 (1.99%) Legal Technology
13 8 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.49%) Front Office
15 5 (1.24%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 138 (34.24%) Developer
2 95 (23.57%) Senior
3 83 (20.60%) Lead
4 72 (17.87%) Software Engineer
5 34 (8.44%) Architect
5 34 (8.44%) Development Engineer
5 34 (8.44%) Software Development Engineer
6 31 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 31 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.20%) Lead Software Engineer
8 28 (6.95%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (6.70%) .NET Developer
10 20 (4.96%) Java Engineer
10 20 (4.96%) Technical Leader
11 19 (4.71%) Java Developer
12 18 (4.47%) Python Engineer
13 17 (4.22%) Software Developer
14 16 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
15 15 (3.72%) Consultant
15 15 (3.72%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (25.06%) React
2 79 (19.60%) .NET
3 59 (14.64%) SOAP
4 54 (13.40%) Spring
5 45 (11.17%) Terraform
6 37 (9.18%) Node.js
7 35 (8.68%) Spring Boot
8 32 (7.94%) AngularJS
9 28 (6.95%) ASP.NET
9 28 (6.95%) CSS
10 27 (6.70%) Kafka
11 25 (6.20%) .NET Core
12 24 (5.96%) OAuth
13 22 (5.46%) Blazor
14 21 (5.21%) RESTful
15 19 (4.71%) GraphQL
16 18 (4.47%) Lightning Web Components
17 17 (4.22%) Playwright
18 16 (3.97%) Django
19 15 (3.72%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 65 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 38 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (8.93%) Public Cloud
4 33 (8.19%) Cloud Native
5 31 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.97%) Low-Code
6 16 (3.97%) Mobile App
7 14 (3.47%) AI Agents
7 14 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.73%) CMDB
8 11 (2.73%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.48%) Video\Live Streaming
10 9 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.99%) IoT
12 7 (1.74%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.74%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (0.99%) Educational Technology
13 4 (0.99%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.96%) Linux
2 11 (2.73%) Android
3 9 (2.23%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.99%) Windows
5 2 (0.50%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (47.64%) CI/CD
2 140 (34.74%) Software Engineering
3 123 (30.52%) Agile
4 118 (29.28%) AI
5 103 (25.56%) DevOps
6 101 (25.06%) Problem-Solving
7 99 (24.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 99 (24.57%) Mentoring
8 96 (23.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 88 (21.84%) Technical Leadership
10 87 (21.59%) Microservices
11 78 (19.35%) Roadmaps
12 71 (17.62%) Event-Driven
13 70 (17.37%) Test Automation
14 62 (15.38%) TDD
15 57 (14.14%) OO
16 48 (11.91%) Containerisation
17 47 (11.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 46 (11.41%) Scrum
19 45 (11.17%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 116 (28.78%) Java
2 100 (24.81%) SQL
3 82 (20.35%) JavaScript
4 78 (19.35%) C#
5 71 (17.62%) Python
6 67 (16.63%) TypeScript
7 22 (5.46%) PowerShell
8 20 (4.96%) Apex Code
9 15 (3.72%) Go
10 14 (3.47%) PL/SQL
11 12 (2.98%) SOQL
12 10 (2.48%) Bash
13 8 (1.99%) SOSL
14 7 (1.74%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.49%) Ruby
16 5 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.99%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.99%) PHP
18 3 (0.74%) Bicep
19 2 (0.50%) Dart
Qualifications
1 52 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 31 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.71%) Degree
4 19 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.24%) CISSP
7 3 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CCIE
9 1 (0.25%) CCNP
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CSPO
9 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (14.89%) QA
2 19 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.23%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.24%) GDPR
5 5 (1.24%) NIST
5 5 (1.24%) WCAG
6 4 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.74%) NCSC
7 3 (0.74%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 107 (26.55%) Docker
2 12 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 61 (15.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.48%) Ansible
3 5 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.74%) Grafana
4 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.50%) Argo
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.25%) Consul
6 1 (0.25%) Kibana
6 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) MIIS
6 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 68 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.45%) Salesforce
3 25 (6.20%) Oracle
4 17 (4.22%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.98%) Informatica
6 10 (2.48%) MuleSoft
6 10 (2.48%) OpenAI
6 10 (2.48%) Splunk
7 9 (2.23%) Google
8 7 (1.74%) Sage
9 6 (1.49%) IBM
10 5 (1.24%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.24%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.99%) SAP
12 3 (0.74%) Aderant
12 3 (0.74%) HighQ
12 3 (0.74%) iManage
12 3 (0.74%) Intapp
13 2 (0.50%) Guidewire
13 2 (0.50%) OneLogin