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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 136 156
Rank change year-on-year -9 +20 -56
Permanent jobs citing REST 413 431 605
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.91% 2.61% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.21% 10.18% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 231 271 533
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,000 £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 £81,250 £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 4,046 4,233 7,459
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.67% 25.68% 25.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,059 2,881 6,204
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £49,305 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -5.89%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 22 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 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.21%) 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 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.48%) Confluence
5 2 (0.48%) NServiceBus
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%) 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 3 (0.73%) Carpe Diem
1 3 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.73%) Elite 3E
1 3 (0.73%) Magento
1 3 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (0.73%) Shopify
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.48%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 172 (41.65%) AWS
2 155 (37.53%) Azure
3 43 (10.41%) SaaS
4 38 (9.20%) GCP
5 37 (8.96%) GitHub
6 29 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (6.30%) Entra ID
8 22 (5.33%) Serverless
9 21 (5.08%) Power Platform
10 20 (4.84%) Google Workspace
11 19 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (3.15%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (2.66%) Power Automate
13 11 (2.66%) PowerApps
14 10 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (2.42%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (2.18%) Amazon S3
15 9 (2.18%) Anthropic Claude
16 8 (1.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 61 (14.77%) Broadband
2 34 (8.23%) HTTP
3 12 (2.91%) Firewall
4 8 (1.94%) SMTP
5 7 (1.69%) Network Security
5 7 (1.69%) SSL
6 6 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (1.45%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.21%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.73%) Modbus
9 2 (0.48%) AMQP
9 2 (0.48%) RTP
9 2 (0.48%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.48%) VoIP
9 2 (0.48%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.24%) BGP
10 1 (0.24%) Intranet
10 1 (0.24%) LAN
10 1 (0.24%) OSPF
10 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (13.32%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (10.90%) SQL Server
3 33 (7.99%) Relational Database
4 22 (5.33%) MongoDB
4 22 (5.33%) NoSQL
5 19 (4.60%) MySQL
6 10 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.94%) Power BI
9 7 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.45%) Oracle Database
10 6 (1.45%) Redis
11 5 (1.21%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.97%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.73%) Ataccama
13 3 (0.73%) DocumentDB
13 3 (0.73%) IBM InfoSphere
13 3 (0.73%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.73%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 74 (17.92%) Git
2 42 (10.17%) GitLab
3 40 (9.69%) Jenkins
4 34 (8.23%) SonarQube
5 13 (3.15%) JIRA
6 11 (2.66%) JUnit
7 10 (2.42%) Maven
7 10 (2.42%) Selenium
8 9 (2.18%) Mockito
9 7 (1.69%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.21%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.21%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.97%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.97%) Gradle
12 3 (0.73%) Postman
12 3 (0.73%) Subversion
12 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.48%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.48%) NUnit
General
1 122 (29.54%) Social Skills
2 115 (27.85%) Finance
3 80 (19.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (13.08%) Banking
5 51 (12.35%) Games
6 40 (9.69%) Public Sector
7 38 (9.20%) Marketing
8 31 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (4.60%) Law
11 14 (3.39%) Back Office
11 14 (3.39%) Financial Institution
11 14 (3.39%) Manufacturing
12 13 (3.15%) Legal
13 12 (2.91%) Retail
14 10 (2.42%) Polish Language
15 9 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.94%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.94%) Legal Technology
17 7 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 130 (31.48%) Developer
2 81 (19.61%) Senior
3 66 (15.98%) Lead
3 66 (15.98%) Software Engineer
4 64 (15.50%) Architect
5 35 (8.47%) Salesforce Architect
6 30 (7.26%) Development Engineer
6 30 (7.26%) Software Development Engineer
7 26 (6.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 25 (6.05%) Consultant
8 25 (6.05%) Lead Software Engineer
8 25 (6.05%) Senior Developer
8 25 (6.05%) Technical Architect
9 21 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (4.60%) Java Developer
11 18 (4.36%) Salesforce Technical Architect
12 17 (4.12%) .NET Developer
13 16 (3.87%) Java Engineer
13 16 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (3.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (25.42%) SOAP
2 82 (19.85%) React
3 77 (18.64%) .NET
4 47 (11.38%) Lightning Web Components
5 46 (11.14%) Spring
6 45 (10.90%) OAuth
6 45 (10.90%) Visualforce
7 38 (9.20%) SAML
8 37 (8.96%) GraphQL
9 36 (8.72%) Node.js
10 35 (8.47%) Spring Boot
11 31 (7.51%) AngularJS
11 31 (7.51%) OpenID
12 29 (7.02%) LDAP
13 26 (6.30%) JSON
14 24 (5.81%) ASP.NET
14 24 (5.81%) Kafka
14 24 (5.81%) RESTful
15 22 (5.33%) CSS
16 21 (5.08%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 86 (20.82%) Product Ownership
2 33 (7.99%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.99%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (7.99%) Public Cloud
3 20 (4.84%) Cyber Threat
3 20 (4.84%) Cyberattack
4 18 (4.36%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.63%) Low-Code
6 13 (3.15%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.91%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.66%) CMDB
9 10 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.94%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.94%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.94%) Video\Live Streaming
11 6 (1.45%) CUDA
12 5 (1.21%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.05%) Linux
2 12 (2.91%) Windows
3 8 (1.94%) Android
4 7 (1.69%) Unix
5 6 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (44.79%) CI/CD
2 130 (31.48%) Agile
3 126 (30.51%) DevOps
4 121 (29.30%) Software Engineering
5 119 (28.81%) Roadmaps
6 108 (26.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 88 (21.31%) Event-Driven
8 87 (21.07%) AI
9 86 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
10 80 (19.37%) Mentoring
11 79 (19.13%) Microservices
12 78 (18.89%) Full-Stack Development
13 73 (17.68%) OO
14 67 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
15 64 (15.50%) Scrum
16 61 (14.77%) Test Automation
17 54 (13.08%) Design Patterns
18 51 (12.35%) Infrastructure as Code
19 50 (12.11%) Containerisation
20 47 (11.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 109 (26.39%) Java
2 100 (24.21%) SQL
3 80 (19.37%) JavaScript
4 78 (18.89%) Python
5 66 (15.98%) C#
6 54 (13.08%) TypeScript
7 50 (12.11%) Apex Code
8 36 (8.72%) SOQL
9 35 (8.47%) SOSL
10 33 (7.99%) PowerShell
11 26 (6.30%) T-SQL
12 23 (5.57%) Bash
13 12 (2.91%) Go
14 10 (2.42%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.45%) Ruby
16 5 (1.21%) Bicep
16 5 (1.21%) PHP
17 3 (0.73%) C++
17 3 (0.73%) DataWeave
18 2 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 51 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 35 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.23%) Degree
4 24 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.63%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.45%) CISSP
7 4 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
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%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.38%) QA
2 22 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (5.08%) NIST
4 20 (4.84%) NCSC
5 10 (2.42%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.18%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.21%) GDPR
8 3 (0.73%) SLA
8 3 (0.73%) WCAG
9 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 89 (21.55%) Docker
2 35 (8.47%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.48%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 56 (13.56%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.47%) Terraform
3 9 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.45%) Ansible
5 4 (0.97%) Argo
5 4 (0.97%) Grafana
5 4 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.48%) Kibana
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.48%) MIIS
Vendors
1 56 (13.56%) Salesforce
2 55 (13.32%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.20%) Splunk
4 26 (6.30%) ServiceNow
5 21 (5.08%) Oracle
6 15 (3.63%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.18%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.94%) CyberArk
8 8 (1.94%) Informatica
9 7 (1.69%) Cisco
9 7 (1.69%) Google
10 6 (1.45%) F5
10 6 (1.45%) Juniper
10 6 (1.45%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.45%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.97%) IBM
12 3 (0.73%) Databricks
12 3 (0.73%) iManage
12 3 (0.73%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.73%) WooCommerce