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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 102 129
Rank change year-on-year -4 +27 -32
Permanent jobs citing REST 415 396 779
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.32% 2.97% 2.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.98% 9.75% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 211 270 710
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,050 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,574 £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 £96,250 £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 3,198 4,060 8,526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.90% 30.43% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,295 3,247 7,466
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,690 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% +10.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 21 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 12 (2.89%) WebSphere
3 6 (1.45%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.20%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.96%) 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
8 1 (0.24%) Camunda
8 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.24%) Mendix
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.89%) Shopify
2 10 (2.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
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
1 162 (39.04%) Azure
2 119 (28.67%) AWS
3 62 (14.94%) Entra ID
4 56 (13.49%) Google Workspace
5 52 (12.53%) GitHub
6 41 (9.88%) SaaS
7 36 (8.67%) GCP
8 35 (8.43%) GitHub Copilot
9 34 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (6.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 27 (6.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 20 (4.82%) Serverless
12 11 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (2.41%) Power Automate
14 9 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (1.93%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (1.93%) OpenShift
15 8 (1.93%) Salesforce Einstein
16 7 (1.69%) Apigee
16 7 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 99 (23.86%) Broadband
2 29 (6.99%) HTTP
3 10 (2.41%) Firewall
4 9 (2.17%) SMTP
5 7 (1.69%) SSL
6 6 (1.45%) AMQP
6 6 (1.45%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (1.20%) PuTTY
8 4 (0.96%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.96%) Network Security
9 3 (0.72%) Modbus
9 3 (0.72%) RTP
9 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.72%) VoIP
9 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.24%) Intranet
10 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.19%) SQL Server
2 27 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.06%) NoSQL
4 20 (4.82%) Relational Database
5 18 (4.34%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.65%) MySQL
7 6 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.20%) DocumentDB
8 5 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.96%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.96%) Neo4j
9 4 (0.96%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.48%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.48%) Power BI
10 2 (0.48%) Redis
11 1 (0.24%) Cloud Spanner
11 1 (0.24%) Cloudera CDH
11 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 49 (11.81%) Git
2 42 (10.12%) Jenkins
3 41 (9.88%) GitLab
4 34 (8.19%) SonarQube
5 16 (3.86%) JIRA
6 12 (2.89%) Selenium
7 10 (2.41%) SpecFlow
8 9 (2.17%) Maven
8 9 (2.17%) WebDriver
9 7 (1.69%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.45%) Gradle
11 5 (1.20%) JUnit
12 4 (0.96%) NUnit
13 3 (0.72%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.72%) JMeter
13 3 (0.72%) Postman
13 3 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.48%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
General
1 142 (34.22%) Social Skills
2 118 (28.43%) Finance
3 86 (20.72%) Games
4 75 (18.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (14.70%) Organisational Skills
6 49 (11.81%) Marketing
7 40 (9.64%) Banking
8 32 (7.71%) Public Sector
9 26 (6.27%) Law
10 25 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (4.82%) Back Office
12 18 (4.34%) Telecoms
13 17 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (3.13%) Retail
15 12 (2.89%) Financial Institution
16 11 (2.65%) Polish Language
17 4 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.96%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.96%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 138 (33.25%) Developer
2 123 (29.64%) Senior
3 64 (15.42%) Architect
4 55 (13.25%) Software Engineer
5 34 (8.19%) Senior Developer
6 33 (7.95%) Salesforce Architect
7 27 (6.51%) Senior Software Engineer
8 26 (6.27%) Development Engineer
9 25 (6.02%) Lead
10 24 (5.78%) Software Development Engineer
11 21 (5.06%) IAM Developer
11 21 (5.06%) Salesforce Developer
12 20 (4.82%) Senior Architect
13 19 (4.58%) Java Developer
14 18 (4.34%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (4.34%) Salesforce Engineer
14 18 (4.34%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 18 (4.34%) Technical Architect
15 17 (4.10%) Consultant
15 17 (4.10%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (46.27%) SOAP
2 81 (19.52%) GraphQL
2 81 (19.52%) OAuth
3 76 (18.31%) SAML
4 72 (17.35%) Lightning Web Components
5 65 (15.66%) .NET
6 63 (15.18%) LDAP
7 62 (14.94%) OpenID
8 55 (13.25%) Visualforce
9 50 (12.05%) React
10 49 (11.81%) Spring
11 43 (10.36%) Middleware
12 39 (9.40%) JSON
13 36 (8.67%) Web Services
14 32 (7.71%) Spring Boot
15 30 (7.23%) XML
16 29 (6.99%) Node.js
17 27 (6.51%) RESTful
18 25 (6.02%) AngularJS
19 24 (5.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 85 (20.48%) Product Ownership
2 58 (13.98%) Cyber Threat
2 58 (13.98%) Cyberattack
3 40 (9.64%) Cloud Native
4 31 (7.47%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (6.02%) Public Cloud
6 17 (4.10%) Low-Code
7 14 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.89%) DataPower
10 10 (2.41%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.93%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.69%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.69%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.45%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.45%) CUDA
14 5 (1.20%) Educational Technology
14 5 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.51%) Linux
2 17 (4.10%) Android
3 10 (2.41%) Windows
4 9 (2.17%) Unix
5 8 (1.93%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.96%) 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
1 153 (36.87%) Roadmaps
2 152 (36.63%) CI/CD
3 130 (31.33%) DevOps
4 128 (30.84%) Agile
5 105 (25.30%) Mentoring
6 95 (22.89%) Software Engineering
7 90 (21.69%) AI
8 86 (20.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 84 (20.24%) Event-Driven
10 70 (16.87%) Microservices
10 70 (16.87%) Test Automation
11 63 (15.18%) Cybersecurity
11 63 (15.18%) OO
12 61 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
13 60 (14.46%) Identity Access Management
14 58 (13.98%) Programme Delivery
15 57 (13.73%) Regulatory Compliance
16 54 (13.01%) Data Modelling
17 53 (12.77%) Scrum
18 50 (12.05%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 111 (26.75%) SQL
2 109 (26.27%) Java
3 76 (18.31%) Apex Code
4 70 (16.87%) JavaScript
5 69 (16.63%) Python
6 68 (16.39%) PowerShell
6 68 (16.39%) T-SQL
7 58 (13.98%) Bash
8 47 (11.33%) C#
9 36 (8.67%) SOQL
9 36 (8.67%) SOSL
10 34 (8.19%) TypeScript
11 18 (4.34%) Go
12 10 (2.41%) C++
13 8 (1.93%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.93%) PHP
14 3 (0.72%) Bicep
14 3 (0.72%) C
14 3 (0.72%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (12.77%) Degree
2 40 (9.64%) Security Cleared
3 38 (9.16%) SC Cleared
4 32 (7.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
5 4 (0.96%) CISSP
5 4 (0.96%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (14.22%) NIST
2 58 (13.98%) NCSC
3 31 (7.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (6.27%) QA
5 7 (1.69%) GDPR
6 4 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.24%) HL7
System Software
1 70 (16.87%) Active Directory
2 57 (13.73%) Docker
3 5 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.72%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 47 (11.33%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.78%) Terraform
3 7 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.20%) Ansible
5 3 (0.72%) Argo
6 2 (0.48%) Kibana
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.48%) MIIS
7 1 (0.24%) Grafana
7 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 79 (19.04%) Salesforce
2 42 (10.12%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.16%) Splunk
4 26 (6.27%) MuleSoft
5 23 (5.54%) ServiceNow
6 17 (4.10%) Oracle
7 11 (2.65%) CyberArk
8 9 (2.17%) ConnectWise
8 9 (2.17%) WooCommerce
9 7 (1.69%) IBM
9 7 (1.69%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.69%) SAP
10 6 (1.45%) Cisco
10 6 (1.45%) F5
10 6 (1.45%) Juniper
10 6 (1.45%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.20%) Ericsson
11 5 (1.20%) Mavenir
11 5 (1.20%) Nokia
12 4 (0.96%) Talend