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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 89 123
Rank change year-on-year -18 +34 -28
Permanent jobs citing REST 414 462 787
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.39% 3.56% 2.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.16% 11.28% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 216 267 718
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,050 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £50,269 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £92,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -13.60%

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 3,145 4,096 8,678
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.17% 31.54% 27.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,276 3,278 7,503
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,160 £39,517
25th Percentile £52,304 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +10.35% -8.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 April 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 (3.86%) JBoss
2 13 (3.14%) WebSphere
3 8 (1.93%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.21%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.21%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.97%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.72%) NServiceBus
6 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.48%) Apache
7 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.48%) Confluence
7 2 (0.48%) Mendix
8 1 (0.24%) Camunda
8 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.38%) Shopify
2 10 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (2.17%) Magento
4 3 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 164 (39.61%) Azure
2 119 (28.74%) AWS
3 61 (14.73%) Entra ID
4 56 (13.53%) Google Workspace
5 50 (12.08%) GitHub
6 43 (10.39%) SaaS
7 36 (8.70%) GCP
8 34 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (7.97%) GitHub Copilot
10 28 (6.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 28 (6.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 21 (5.07%) Serverless
12 13 (3.14%) Power Automate
13 12 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.93%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.93%) OpenShift
15 8 (1.93%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 99 (23.91%) Broadband
2 25 (6.04%) HTTP
3 9 (2.17%) Firewall
3 9 (2.17%) SMTP
4 7 (1.69%) SSL
5 6 (1.45%) AMQP
5 6 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (1.21%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.72%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.72%) Modbus
7 3 (0.72%) Network Security
7 3 (0.72%) RTP
7 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.72%) VoIP
7 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.24%) Intranet
8 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.45%) SQL Server
2 28 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 20 (4.83%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 12 (2.90%) MySQL
7 6 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.21%) DocumentDB
8 5 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.97%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.97%) Neo4j
9 4 (0.97%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.72%) Power BI
10 3 (0.72%) Redis
11 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.48%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.48%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 47 (11.35%) Git
2 43 (10.39%) Jenkins
3 41 (9.90%) GitLab
4 34 (8.21%) SonarQube
5 16 (3.86%) JIRA
6 12 (2.90%) Selenium
7 10 (2.42%) SpecFlow
8 9 (2.17%) Maven
8 9 (2.17%) WebDriver
9 7 (1.69%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.97%) Gradle
10 4 (0.97%) NUnit
11 3 (0.72%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.72%) JMeter
11 3 (0.72%) Postman
11 3 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.72%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.48%) Serenity BDD
General
1 144 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 114 (27.54%) Finance
3 88 (21.26%) Games
4 76 (18.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (14.73%) Organisational Skills
6 49 (11.84%) Marketing
7 35 (8.45%) Banking
8 34 (8.21%) Public Sector
9 29 (7.00%) Law
10 24 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (4.83%) Back Office
12 18 (4.35%) Telecoms
13 15 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (3.14%) Retail
15 12 (2.90%) Financial Institution
16 11 (2.66%) Polish Language
17 5 (1.21%) Legal
18 4 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.97%) Manufacturing
19 3 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 144 (34.78%) Developer
2 122 (29.47%) Senior
3 64 (15.46%) Architect
4 48 (11.59%) Software Engineer
5 34 (8.21%) Senior Developer
6 33 (7.97%) Salesforce Architect
7 25 (6.04%) Senior Software Engineer
8 24 (5.80%) Development Engineer
9 22 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (5.31%) Salesforce Developer
10 21 (5.07%) IAM Developer
10 21 (5.07%) Lead
10 21 (5.07%) Senior Architect
11 20 (4.83%) Software Development Engineer
12 19 (4.59%) Java Developer
13 18 (4.35%) Salesforce Engineer
13 18 (4.35%) Salesforce Technical Architect
13 18 (4.35%) Technical Architect
14 16 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (47.10%) SOAP
2 81 (19.57%) GraphQL
3 80 (19.32%) OAuth
4 75 (18.12%) SAML
5 73 (17.63%) Lightning Web Components
6 67 (16.18%) .NET
7 62 (14.98%) LDAP
8 61 (14.73%) OpenID
9 56 (13.53%) Visualforce
10 51 (12.32%) React
11 50 (12.08%) Spring
12 46 (11.11%) Middleware
13 44 (10.63%) JSON
14 39 (9.42%) Web Services
15 34 (8.21%) XML
16 31 (7.49%) Spring Boot
17 30 (7.25%) Node.js
18 26 (6.28%) RESTful
19 25 (6.04%) AngularJS
20 23 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 84 (20.29%) Product Ownership
2 58 (14.01%) Cyber Threat
2 58 (14.01%) Cyberattack
3 41 (9.90%) Cloud Native
4 30 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
5 21 (5.07%) Public Cloud
6 20 (4.83%) Low-Code
7 14 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.14%) DataPower
8 13 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.42%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.69%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.69%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
11 6 (1.45%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.45%) CUDA
11 6 (1.45%) Educational Technology
12 5 (1.21%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.00%) Linux
2 15 (3.62%) Android
3 11 (2.66%) Unix
4 10 (2.42%) Windows
5 8 (1.93%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.97%) 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
1 150 (36.23%) Roadmaps
2 148 (35.75%) CI/CD
3 131 (31.64%) DevOps
4 130 (31.40%) Agile
5 102 (24.64%) Mentoring
6 91 (21.98%) AI
7 89 (21.50%) Software Engineering
8 85 (20.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 83 (20.05%) Event-Driven
10 70 (16.91%) Microservices
11 65 (15.70%) Test Automation
12 62 (14.98%) Cybersecurity
13 61 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
14 59 (14.25%) Identity Access Management
15 58 (14.01%) OO
15 58 (14.01%) Programme Delivery
16 57 (13.77%) Regulatory Compliance
17 56 (13.53%) Data Modelling
18 53 (12.80%) Scrum
19 50 (12.08%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 117 (28.26%) SQL
2 107 (25.85%) Java
3 79 (19.08%) JavaScript
4 77 (18.60%) Apex Code
5 73 (17.63%) Python
6 70 (16.91%) T-SQL
7 68 (16.43%) PowerShell
8 58 (14.01%) Bash
9 50 (12.08%) C#
10 36 (8.70%) SOQL
10 36 (8.70%) SOSL
10 36 (8.70%) TypeScript
11 18 (4.35%) Go
12 10 (2.42%) C++
13 9 (2.17%) PHP
14 7 (1.69%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.21%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.72%) Bicep
16 3 (0.72%) C
16 3 (0.72%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 53 (12.80%) Degree
2 40 (9.66%) Security Cleared
3 38 (9.18%) SC Cleared
4 31 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.97%) Azure Certification
5 4 (0.97%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.72%) CISSP
7 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (14.25%) NIST
2 58 (14.01%) NCSC
3 31 (7.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (6.04%) QA
5 9 (2.17%) GDPR
6 4 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.97%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) HL7
8 2 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 69 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 59 (14.25%) Docker
3 5 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.72%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 48 (11.59%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.28%) Terraform
3 6 (1.45%) Ansible
3 6 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.72%) Argo
5 2 (0.48%) Kibana
5 2 (0.48%) MIIS
6 1 (0.24%) Grafana
6 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 80 (19.32%) Salesforce
2 42 (10.14%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.18%) Splunk
4 29 (7.00%) MuleSoft
5 22 (5.31%) ServiceNow
6 19 (4.59%) Oracle
7 11 (2.66%) CyberArk
8 9 (2.17%) ConnectWise
8 9 (2.17%) IBM
8 9 (2.17%) SAP
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%) Juniper
10 6 (1.45%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.45%) Talend
11 5 (1.21%) IFS
11 5 (1.21%) Mavenir
11 5 (1.21%) Workday