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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 130 164
Rank change year-on-year -21 +34 -63
Permanent jobs citing REST 416 425 556
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.90% 2.58% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.17% 10.30% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 237 268 490
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £74,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £93,750
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 4,090 4,126 6,857
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.69% 25.07% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,094 2,783 5,649
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,611 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

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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 29 July 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 11 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (0.96%) Camunda
4 3 (0.72%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.72%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.72%) Confluence
4 3 (0.72%) JBoss
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.24%) Documentum
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Moqups
2 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.72%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.72%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.72%) Magento
2 3 (0.72%) Shopify
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.48%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 187 (44.95%) AWS
2 167 (40.14%) Azure
3 47 (11.30%) SaaS
4 45 (10.82%) GCP
5 38 (9.13%) GitHub
6 30 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (5.29%) Power Platform
8 21 (5.05%) Entra ID
8 21 (5.05%) Serverless
9 19 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (2.88%) Google Workspace
11 12 (2.88%) Power Automate
11 12 (2.88%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.64%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (2.64%) GitHub Copilot
13 10 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (2.16%) Figma
14 9 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 47 (11.30%) Broadband
2 35 (8.41%) HTTP
3 13 (3.13%) Firewall
4 8 (1.92%) Network Security
5 7 (1.68%) Kerberos
5 7 (1.68%) SSL
6 6 (1.44%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (1.20%) SMTP
7 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.72%) Modbus
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.24%) LAN
9 1 (0.24%) MQTT
9 1 (0.24%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.24%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.24%) VoIP
9 1 (0.24%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.24%) WAN
9 1 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (14.66%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (11.30%) SQL Server
3 36 (8.65%) Relational Database
4 21 (5.05%) MongoDB
5 20 (4.81%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.33%) MySQL
7 11 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.92%) Power BI
9 8 (1.92%) Redis
10 6 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.44%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.96%) Ataccama
11 4 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.96%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.96%) IBM InfoSphere
11 4 (0.96%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.96%) TIBCO EBX
12 3 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.72%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 81 (19.47%) Git
2 37 (8.89%) GitLab
3 34 (8.17%) Jenkins
4 26 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 14 (3.37%) JIRA
6 13 (3.13%) JUnit
6 13 (3.13%) Selenium
7 11 (2.64%) Maven
7 11 (2.64%) Mockito
8 7 (1.68%) Claude Code
9 5 (1.20%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.20%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.20%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.96%) Postman
11 3 (0.72%) Gradle
11 3 (0.72%) NUnit
11 3 (0.72%) Storybook
11 3 (0.72%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 123 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 120 (28.85%) Finance
3 67 (16.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 52 (12.50%) Banking
5 40 (9.62%) Games
6 36 (8.65%) Public Sector
7 32 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (7.21%) Marketing
9 19 (4.57%) Law
10 16 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (3.61%) Manufacturing
12 14 (3.37%) Financial Institution
12 14 (3.37%) Legal
13 12 (2.88%) Back Office
14 11 (2.64%) Retail
15 9 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.92%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.92%) Legal Technology
16 8 (1.92%) Polish Language
17 7 (1.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 134 (32.21%) Developer
2 81 (19.47%) Senior
3 69 (16.59%) Lead
4 67 (16.11%) Software Engineer
5 56 (13.46%) Architect
6 30 (7.21%) Development Engineer
6 30 (7.21%) Software Development Engineer
7 29 (6.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 29 (6.97%) Salesforce Architect
8 27 (6.49%) Senior Developer
9 26 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 25 (6.01%) Lead Software Engineer
11 22 (5.29%) Consultant
12 21 (5.05%) Technical Architect
13 19 (4.57%) .NET Developer
14 18 (4.33%) Java Developer
15 17 (4.09%) Python Engineer
16 15 (3.61%) Java Engineer
16 15 (3.61%) Senior Software Engineer
16 15 (3.61%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (22.12%) React
1 92 (22.12%) SOAP
2 78 (18.75%) .NET
3 45 (10.82%) Spring
4 39 (9.38%) Lightning Web Components
5 37 (8.89%) Node.js
5 37 (8.89%) OAuth
6 36 (8.65%) Visualforce
7 31 (7.45%) GraphQL
7 31 (7.45%) Spring Boot
8 30 (7.21%) AngularJS
9 28 (6.73%) SAML
10 25 (6.01%) JSON
11 24 (5.77%) ASP.NET
11 24 (5.77%) Kafka
11 24 (5.77%) OpenID
12 23 (5.53%) CSS
12 23 (5.53%) LDAP
13 21 (5.05%) .NET Core
13 21 (5.05%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 83 (19.95%) Product Ownership
2 33 (7.93%) Public Cloud
3 32 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 32 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (6.49%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.85%) Low-Code
7 13 (3.13%) Mobile App
7 13 (3.13%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
8 12 (2.88%) Cyberattack
9 11 (2.64%) AI Agents
9 11 (2.64%) CMDB
9 11 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.40%) Video\Live Streaming
11 8 (1.92%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.44%) CUDA
12 6 (1.44%) IoT
13 5 (1.20%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.01%) Linux
2 10 (2.40%) Android
2 10 (2.40%) Windows
3 8 (1.92%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.68%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (45.67%) CI/CD
2 137 (32.93%) Agile
3 125 (30.05%) Software Engineering
4 123 (29.57%) DevOps
5 108 (25.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 102 (24.52%) AI
7 101 (24.28%) Roadmaps
8 93 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (21.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 84 (20.19%) Mentoring
11 83 (19.95%) Microservices
12 81 (19.47%) Event-Driven
13 74 (17.79%) Technical Leadership
14 66 (15.87%) OO
15 65 (15.63%) Test Automation
16 59 (14.18%) Scrum
17 54 (12.98%) Infrastructure as Code
18 52 (12.50%) Containerisation
19 48 (11.54%) TDD
20 45 (10.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 109 (26.20%) Java
2 99 (23.80%) SQL
3 85 (20.43%) JavaScript
4 80 (19.23%) Python
5 70 (16.83%) C#
6 61 (14.66%) TypeScript
7 42 (10.10%) Apex Code
8 29 (6.97%) PowerShell
9 28 (6.73%) SOQL
10 27 (6.49%) SOSL
11 19 (4.57%) Bash
11 19 (4.57%) T-SQL
12 13 (3.13%) Go
13 12 (2.88%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.44%) Ruby
15 5 (1.20%) Bicep
16 4 (0.96%) PHP
17 3 (0.72%) DataWeave
18 2 (0.48%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (12.74%) Security Cleared
2 36 (8.65%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.93%) Degree
4 24 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.68%) CISSP
7 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CCIE
9 1 (0.24%) CCNP
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (12.50%) QA
2 19 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.61%) NIST
4 14 (3.37%) NCSC
5 13 (3.13%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.64%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.96%) GDPR
8 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 3 (0.72%) WCAG
9 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 97 (23.32%) Docker
2 28 (6.73%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 60 (14.42%) Kubernetes
2 40 (9.62%) Terraform
3 10 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (1.68%) Ansible
5 4 (0.96%) Grafana
5 4 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.72%) Argo
7 2 (0.48%) Kibana
7 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.48%) MIIS
Vendors
1 57 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 47 (11.30%) Salesforce
3 30 (7.21%) Splunk
4 26 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 22 (5.29%) Oracle
6 15 (3.61%) MuleSoft
7 11 (2.64%) OpenAI
8 9 (2.16%) CyberArk
8 9 (2.16%) Informatica
9 7 (1.68%) Cisco
9 7 (1.68%) Google
10 6 (1.44%) F5
10 6 (1.44%) Juniper
10 6 (1.44%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.44%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.20%) IBM
11 5 (1.20%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.72%) Databricks
12 3 (0.72%) SAP
12 3 (0.72%) WooCommerce