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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 136 160
Rank change year-on-year -8 +24 -55
Permanent jobs citing REST 411 430 630
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.91% 2.62% 2.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.23% 10.12% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 224 270 555
10th Percentile £44,125 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -10.45%
75th Percentile £81,063 £83,750 £75,000
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 4,017 4,249 7,954
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.69% 25.86% 25.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,036 2,897 6,656
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.99% +11.67% -10.45%

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 18 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 10 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (0.97%) JBoss
4 3 (0.73%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.73%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.73%) Camunda
5 2 (0.49%) Confluence
5 2 (0.49%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.24%) Documentum
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.24%) Moqups
1 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.97%) Magento
1 4 (0.97%) Shopify
2 3 (0.73%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.73%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.49%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 166 (40.39%) AWS
2 153 (37.23%) Azure
3 40 (9.73%) SaaS
4 37 (9.00%) GCP
5 35 (8.52%) GitHub
6 30 (7.30%) Entra ID
7 27 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (5.84%) Google Workspace
9 20 (4.87%) Power Platform
9 20 (4.87%) Serverless
10 18 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (2.43%) Power Automate
12 10 (2.43%) PowerApps
12 10 (2.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 10 (2.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 9 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (1.95%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 65 (15.82%) Broadband
2 34 (8.27%) HTTP
3 12 (2.92%) Firewall
4 9 (2.19%) SMTP
5 7 (1.70%) Network Security
5 7 (1.70%) SSL
6 6 (1.46%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (1.46%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.22%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.73%) Modbus
9 2 (0.49%) AMQP
9 2 (0.49%) RTP
9 2 (0.49%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.49%) VoIP
9 2 (0.49%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.24%) Intranet
10 1 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (13.14%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (10.71%) SQL Server
3 32 (7.79%) Relational Database
4 21 (5.11%) MongoDB
4 21 (5.11%) NoSQL
5 19 (4.62%) MySQL
6 9 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (1.95%) Power BI
8 7 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.46%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.46%) Redis
10 5 (1.22%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.97%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.73%) Ataccama
12 3 (0.73%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.73%) IBM InfoSphere
12 3 (0.73%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.73%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 69 (16.79%) Git
2 42 (10.22%) GitLab
3 40 (9.73%) Jenkins
4 34 (8.27%) SonarQube
5 14 (3.41%) JIRA
6 12 (2.92%) JUnit
7 11 (2.68%) Maven
8 9 (2.19%) Mockito
9 8 (1.95%) Selenium
10 7 (1.70%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.22%) SpecFlow
11 5 (1.22%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.97%) Gradle
13 3 (0.73%) Postman
13 3 (0.73%) Subversion
13 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.49%) IntelliJ
14 2 (0.49%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.49%) NUnit
General
1 123 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 116 (28.22%) Finance
3 81 (19.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 55 (13.38%) Banking
5 54 (13.14%) Games
6 42 (10.22%) Public Sector
7 39 (9.49%) Marketing
8 30 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
9 28 (6.81%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (4.87%) Law
11 16 (3.89%) Back Office
12 15 (3.65%) Financial Institution
13 14 (3.41%) Manufacturing
14 13 (3.16%) Retail
15 12 (2.92%) Legal
16 11 (2.68%) Polish Language
17 9 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (1.95%) Investment Banking
18 8 (1.95%) Legal Technology
19 7 (1.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (31.63%) Developer
2 82 (19.95%) Senior
3 64 (15.57%) Architect
3 64 (15.57%) Software Engineer
4 63 (15.33%) Lead
5 35 (8.52%) Salesforce Architect
6 30 (7.30%) Development Engineer
6 30 (7.30%) Software Development Engineer
7 28 (6.81%) Senior Developer
8 26 (6.33%) Consultant
9 25 (6.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 25 (6.08%) Lead Software Engineer
9 25 (6.08%) Technical Architect
10 21 (5.11%) Java Developer
11 19 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (4.38%) Salesforce Technical Architect
13 16 (3.89%) Java Engineer
13 16 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (3.41%) .NET Developer
14 14 (3.41%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (27.49%) SOAP
2 79 (19.22%) React
3 73 (17.76%) .NET
4 49 (11.92%) Lightning Web Components
4 49 (11.92%) OAuth
5 48 (11.68%) Spring
6 47 (11.44%) Visualforce
7 43 (10.46%) SAML
8 38 (9.25%) GraphQL
9 36 (8.76%) Spring Boot
10 35 (8.52%) Node.js
10 35 (8.52%) OpenID
11 33 (8.03%) LDAP
12 31 (7.54%) AngularJS
13 27 (6.57%) JSON
14 24 (5.84%) Kafka
15 23 (5.60%) ASP.NET
15 23 (5.60%) Middleware
15 23 (5.60%) RESTful
16 22 (5.35%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 85 (20.68%) Product Ownership
2 34 (8.27%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (8.03%) Public Cloud
4 32 (7.79%) Cloud Native
5 24 (5.84%) Cyber Threat
5 24 (5.84%) Cyberattack
6 18 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (3.65%) Low-Code
8 14 (3.41%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.68%) CMDB
9 11 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.68%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.95%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.95%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.95%) Video\Live Streaming
11 6 (1.46%) CUDA
12 5 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.84%) Linux
2 12 (2.92%) Windows
3 7 (1.70%) Android
3 7 (1.70%) Unix
4 5 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (43.55%) CI/CD
2 126 (30.66%) Agile
3 124 (30.17%) DevOps
3 124 (30.17%) Roadmaps
4 118 (28.71%) Software Engineering
5 107 (26.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 86 (20.92%) Event-Driven
6 86 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (20.19%) AI
8 82 (19.95%) Mentoring
9 75 (18.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 75 (18.25%) Microservices
10 72 (17.52%) OO
11 67 (16.30%) Technical Leadership
12 64 (15.57%) Scrum
13 57 (13.87%) Test Automation
14 54 (13.14%) Design Patterns
15 49 (11.92%) Containerisation
15 49 (11.92%) Infrastructure as Code
16 46 (11.19%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 110 (26.76%) Java
2 101 (24.57%) SQL
3 81 (19.71%) JavaScript
4 75 (18.25%) Python
5 60 (14.60%) C#
6 52 (12.65%) Apex Code
7 50 (12.17%) TypeScript
8 37 (9.00%) PowerShell
8 37 (9.00%) SOQL
9 36 (8.76%) SOSL
10 31 (7.54%) T-SQL
11 27 (6.57%) Bash
12 12 (2.92%) Go
13 10 (2.43%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.46%) Ruby
15 5 (1.22%) Bicep
15 5 (1.22%) PHP
16 3 (0.73%) DataWeave
17 2 (0.49%) C
17 2 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 54 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.49%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.76%) Degree
4 25 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.46%) CISSP
7 4 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (10.71%) QA
2 25 (6.08%) NIST
3 24 (5.84%) NCSC
4 23 (5.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.43%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.22%) GDPR
8 3 (0.73%) SLA
9 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (20.44%) Docker
2 40 (9.73%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.49%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 51 (12.41%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.54%) Terraform
3 9 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.22%) Ansible
5 4 (0.97%) Argo
5 4 (0.97%) Grafana
5 4 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.49%) Kibana
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.49%) MIIS
Vendors
1 58 (14.11%) Salesforce
2 56 (13.63%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.25%) Splunk
4 27 (6.57%) ServiceNow
5 22 (5.35%) Oracle
6 16 (3.89%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.19%) CyberArk
7 9 (2.19%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.70%) Google
8 7 (1.70%) Informatica
9 6 (1.46%) Cisco
9 6 (1.46%) F5
9 6 (1.46%) Juniper
9 6 (1.46%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.46%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.97%) ConnectWise
10 4 (0.97%) IBM
10 4 (0.97%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.73%) Intapp
11 3 (0.73%) TIBCO