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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 114 136
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 -39
Permanent jobs citing REST 412 438 748
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.23% 3.01% 2.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.40% 10.08% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 204 267 682
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,269 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 3,322 4,347 8,590
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.99% 29.88% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,408 3,113 7,534
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 12 May 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 12 (2.91%) JBoss
2 8 (1.94%) WebSphere
3 6 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.97%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.73%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.73%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.73%) NServiceBus
5 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.49%) Apache
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.49%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.73%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (2.18%) Dynamics NAV
1 9 (2.18%) Magento
1 9 (2.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 157 (38.11%) Azure
2 130 (31.55%) AWS
3 58 (14.08%) Entra ID
4 52 (12.62%) Google Workspace
5 50 (12.14%) GitHub
6 33 (8.01%) GCP
6 33 (8.01%) SaaS
7 30 (7.28%) GitHub Copilot
8 29 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (5.34%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 22 (5.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 22 (5.34%) Serverless
10 12 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.94%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.70%) Apigee
13 7 (1.70%) Kong
13 7 (1.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 94 (22.82%) Broadband
2 35 (8.50%) HTTP
3 11 (2.67%) Firewall
4 9 (2.18%) SMTP
5 6 (1.46%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.46%) SSL
6 5 (1.21%) AMQP
6 5 (1.21%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.21%) Network Security
6 5 (1.21%) PuTTY
6 5 (1.21%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.73%) Modbus
7 3 (0.73%) RTP
7 3 (0.73%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.73%) VoIP
7 3 (0.73%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.24%) Intranet
8 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
1 35 (8.50%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.10%) NoSQL
2 21 (5.10%) Relational Database
3 19 (4.61%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.40%) MySQL
5 6 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.97%) DocumentDB
7 4 (0.97%) Neo4j
7 4 (0.97%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.73%) MariaDB
8 3 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.49%) Power BI
9 2 (0.49%) Redis
10 1 (0.24%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.24%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.24%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 52 (12.62%) Git
2 42 (10.19%) Jenkins
3 41 (9.95%) GitLab
4 34 (8.25%) SonarQube
5 18 (4.37%) JIRA
6 11 (2.67%) Maven
6 11 (2.67%) Selenium
7 10 (2.43%) SpecFlow
8 9 (2.18%) WebDriver
9 8 (1.94%) JUnit
10 7 (1.70%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.21%) Mockito
12 4 (0.97%) Gradle
12 4 (0.97%) NUnit
12 4 (0.97%) Postman
13 3 (0.73%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.49%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.49%) JMeter
14 2 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 129 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 114 (27.67%) Finance
3 76 (18.45%) Games
4 69 (16.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (13.59%) Organisational Skills
6 47 (11.41%) Marketing
7 46 (11.17%) Banking
8 34 (8.25%) Public Sector
9 24 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (4.13%) Back Office
10 17 (4.13%) Law
11 16 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (3.88%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.43%) Retail
13 9 (2.18%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.94%) Polish Language
15 7 (1.70%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.70%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 131 (31.80%) Developer
2 118 (28.64%) Senior
3 65 (15.78%) Architect
4 64 (15.53%) Software Engineer
5 34 (8.25%) Lead
5 34 (8.25%) Salesforce Architect
5 34 (8.25%) Senior Developer
6 30 (7.28%) Development Engineer
6 30 (7.28%) Software Development Engineer
7 26 (6.31%) Senior Software Engineer
8 20 (4.85%) Java Developer
8 20 (4.85%) Technical Architect
9 19 (4.61%) Salesforce Developer
10 18 (4.37%) Consultant
10 18 (4.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 18 (4.37%) IAM Developer
10 18 (4.37%) Salesforce Technical Architect
11 17 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (3.88%) Senior Development Engineer
12 16 (3.88%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (41.75%) SOAP
2 74 (17.96%) OAuth
3 73 (17.72%) GraphQL
4 72 (17.48%) SAML
5 67 (16.26%) Lightning Web Components
5 67 (16.26%) React
6 65 (15.78%) .NET
7 60 (14.56%) LDAP
8 59 (14.32%) OpenID
9 53 (12.86%) Visualforce
10 48 (11.65%) Spring
11 40 (9.71%) Middleware
12 34 (8.25%) JSON
13 33 (8.01%) Node.js
14 32 (7.77%) AngularJS
14 32 (7.77%) Spring Boot
15 28 (6.80%) Web Services
16 26 (6.31%) XML
17 25 (6.07%) RESTful
18 24 (5.83%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 89 (21.60%) Product Ownership
2 53 (12.86%) Cyber Threat
2 53 (12.86%) Cyberattack
3 36 (8.74%) Cloud Native
4 31 (7.52%) Public Cloud
5 26 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (3.16%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.91%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.18%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.94%) DataPower
12 7 (1.70%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.70%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.46%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.46%) CMDB
13 6 (1.46%) CUDA
13 6 (1.46%) Management Information System
14 5 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.07%) Linux
2 15 (3.64%) Android
3 10 (2.43%) Windows
4 6 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.46%) Unix
5 4 (0.97%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) CentOS
6 1 (0.24%) Debian
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (37.62%) CI/CD
2 148 (35.92%) Roadmaps
3 125 (30.34%) DevOps
4 124 (30.10%) Agile
5 106 (25.73%) Mentoring
6 100 (24.27%) Software Engineering
7 89 (21.60%) AI
8 88 (21.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (18.69%) Event-Driven
10 70 (16.99%) Microservices
10 70 (16.99%) Test Automation
11 69 (16.75%) OO
12 63 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
13 59 (14.32%) Cybersecurity
13 59 (14.32%) Scrum
14 56 (13.59%) Full-Stack Development
14 56 (13.59%) Identity Access Management
15 54 (13.11%) Technical Leadership
16 53 (12.86%) Programme Delivery
16 53 (12.86%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 109 (26.46%) Java
2 105 (25.49%) SQL
3 73 (17.72%) JavaScript
4 71 (17.23%) Apex Code
5 65 (15.78%) Python
6 63 (15.29%) PowerShell
6 63 (15.29%) T-SQL
7 54 (13.11%) Bash
8 46 (11.17%) C#
9 38 (9.22%) TypeScript
10 37 (8.98%) SOQL
10 37 (8.98%) SOSL
11 16 (3.88%) Go
12 10 (2.43%) C++
13 5 (1.21%) PHP
14 4 (0.97%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.97%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.73%) Bicep
15 3 (0.73%) C
15 3 (0.73%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 49 (11.89%) Degree
2 47 (11.41%) Security Cleared
3 41 (9.95%) SC Cleared
4 31 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.94%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.21%) CISSP
7 3 (0.73%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.49%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (13.11%) NIST
2 53 (12.86%) NCSC
3 33 (8.01%) QA
4 31 (7.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.97%) GDPR
7 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.73%) SLA
8 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.49%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.24%) HL7
System Software
1 67 (16.26%) Active Directory
2 59 (14.32%) Docker
3 6 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.73%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 45 (10.92%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.07%) Terraform
3 8 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.46%) Ansible
5 3 (0.73%) Argo
6 2 (0.49%) Kibana
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.49%) MIIS
7 1 (0.24%) Grafana
7 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 74 (17.96%) Salesforce
2 42 (10.19%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.22%) Splunk
4 26 (6.31%) ServiceNow
5 21 (5.10%) MuleSoft
6 16 (3.88%) Oracle
7 10 (2.43%) CyberArk
8 9 (2.18%) ConnectWise
8 9 (2.18%) WooCommerce
9 7 (1.70%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.46%) Cisco
10 6 (1.46%) F5
10 6 (1.46%) Juniper
10 6 (1.46%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.97%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.73%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.73%) IBM
12 3 (0.73%) Mavenir
12 3 (0.73%) Mitel
12 3 (0.73%) Revolut