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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 133 165
Rank change year-on-year -22 +32 -65
Permanent jobs citing REST 404 386 485
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.66% 2.38% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.95% 10.01% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 246 236 346
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,238
25th Percentile £55,875 £54,688 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +21.74% -14.81%
75th Percentile £84,375 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +20.69% -17.14%

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 4,516 3,857 6,751
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.58% 23.74% 28.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,331 2,567 4,829
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,250 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%

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 17 September 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 14 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (1.49%) Confluence
4 4 (0.99%) Camunda
5 2 (0.50%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.50%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.25%) Documentum
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Moqups
2 3 (0.74%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.74%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.74%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.50%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.50%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 193 (47.77%) AWS
2 171 (42.33%) Azure
3 51 (12.62%) SaaS
4 42 (10.40%) GCP
5 35 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (8.66%) GitHub
6 31 (7.67%) Power Platform
7 25 (6.19%) Serverless
8 20 (4.95%) Azure Service Bus
9 18 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (4.21%) Power Automate
11 16 (3.96%) Microsoft Copilot
11 16 (3.96%) PowerApps
12 14 (3.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (3.22%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (3.22%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (3.22%) GitHub Copilot
14 11 (2.72%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (2.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 40 (9.90%) HTTP
2 12 (2.97%) Broadband
3 6 (1.49%) Network Security
4 5 (1.24%) Firewall
4 5 (1.24%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.74%) SSL
5 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.50%) VPN
6 2 (0.50%) X.509
7 1 (0.25%) BGP
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.25%) DHCP
7 1 (0.25%) DNS
7 1 (0.25%) Intranet
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) LTE
7 1 (0.25%) MQTT
7 1 (0.25%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.25%) OSPF
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (14.85%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (13.86%) SQL Server
3 42 (10.40%) Relational Database
4 21 (5.20%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.46%) MySQL
6 16 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (3.47%) Power BI
8 11 (2.72%) MongoDB
9 10 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (2.23%) Redis
11 8 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.99%) Ataccama
13 4 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.99%) IBM InfoSphere
13 4 (0.99%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.99%) TIBCO EBX
14 3 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.74%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 97 (24.01%) Git
2 19 (4.70%) JIRA
3 18 (4.46%) JUnit
4 17 (4.21%) Jenkins
5 16 (3.96%) Mockito
6 15 (3.71%) GitLab
7 14 (3.47%) Maven
8 13 (3.22%) Cypress.io
9 11 (2.72%) Postman
9 11 (2.72%) Selenium
10 7 (1.73%) Claude Code
10 7 (1.73%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.49%) Storybook
12 5 (1.24%) IntelliJ
13 3 (0.74%) Subversion
13 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.50%) Gradle
14 2 (0.50%) NUnit
14 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
14 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 125 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 118 (29.21%) Finance
3 53 (13.12%) Banking
4 38 (9.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (6.68%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.21%) Law
7 17 (4.21%) Legal
8 14 (3.47%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.22%) Marketing
10 10 (2.48%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.48%) Retail
11 9 (2.23%) Back Office
11 9 (2.23%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.98%) Games
12 8 (1.98%) Legal Technology
13 7 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.49%) Front Office
15 5 (1.24%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 139 (34.41%) Developer
2 99 (24.50%) Senior
3 83 (20.54%) Lead
4 73 (18.07%) Software Engineer
5 34 (8.42%) Development Engineer
5 34 (8.42%) Senior Developer
5 34 (8.42%) Software Development Engineer
6 31 (7.67%) Architect
7 30 (7.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 29 (7.18%) Lead Software Engineer
9 28 (6.93%) .NET Developer
10 26 (6.44%) Full-Stack Developer
11 20 (4.95%) Java Engineer
11 20 (4.95%) Technical Leader
12 19 (4.70%) Java Developer
13 18 (4.46%) Software Developer
14 17 (4.21%) Python Engineer
15 16 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
16 15 (3.71%) Consultant
16 15 (3.71%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (25.99%) React
2 83 (20.54%) .NET
3 60 (14.85%) SOAP
4 55 (13.61%) Spring
5 47 (11.63%) Terraform
6 36 (8.91%) AngularJS
6 36 (8.91%) Spring Boot
7 34 (8.42%) Node.js
8 31 (7.67%) CSS
9 28 (6.93%) ASP.NET
10 27 (6.68%) Kafka
11 26 (6.44%) .NET Core
12 25 (6.19%) OAuth
13 22 (5.45%) Blazor
13 22 (5.45%) RESTful
14 19 (4.70%) GraphQL
15 18 (4.46%) Lightning Web Components
16 17 (4.21%) Playwright
17 16 (3.96%) Django
17 16 (3.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (15.10%) Product Ownership
2 38 (9.41%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (8.91%) Public Cloud
4 34 (8.42%) Enterprise Software
5 33 (8.17%) Cloud Native
6 17 (4.21%) Mobile App
7 16 (3.96%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.72%) CMDB
8 11 (2.72%) Low-Code
8 11 (2.72%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.98%) IoT
10 8 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.24%) Video\Live Streaming
13 4 (0.99%) CUDA
13 4 (0.99%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.99%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.99%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.95%) Linux
2 12 (2.97%) Android
3 10 (2.48%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.49%) Windows
5 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (48.51%) CI/CD
2 140 (34.65%) Software Engineering
3 126 (31.19%) Agile
4 120 (29.70%) AI
5 107 (26.49%) DevOps
6 105 (25.99%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (25.74%) Mentoring
8 94 (23.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 93 (23.02%) Full-Stack Development
10 92 (22.77%) Technical Leadership
11 86 (21.29%) Microservices
12 78 (19.31%) Roadmaps
13 72 (17.82%) Event-Driven
14 66 (16.34%) Test Automation
15 61 (15.10%) TDD
16 57 (14.11%) OO
17 48 (11.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 48 (11.88%) SDLC
18 47 (11.63%) Scrum
19 46 (11.39%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 119 (29.46%) Java
2 103 (25.50%) SQL
3 83 (20.54%) C#
3 83 (20.54%) JavaScript
4 68 (16.83%) Python
5 66 (16.34%) TypeScript
6 22 (5.45%) PowerShell
7 20 (4.95%) Apex Code
8 14 (3.47%) PL/SQL
9 12 (2.97%) SOQL
10 11 (2.72%) Bash
11 10 (2.48%) Go
12 8 (1.98%) SOSL
13 7 (1.73%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (1.49%) Ruby
15 4 (0.99%) Bicep
15 4 (0.99%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.74%) PHP
17 2 (0.50%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (13.37%) Security Cleared
2 32 (7.92%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.94%) Degree
4 17 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (4.21%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.24%) CISSP
6 3 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.25%) CCIE
8 1 (0.25%) CCNP
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.25%) CSPO
8 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (13.86%) QA
2 19 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.47%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.24%) GDPR
5 5 (1.24%) NIST
5 5 (1.24%) WCAG
6 4 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.74%) NCSC
7 3 (0.74%) SLA
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 109 (26.98%) Docker
2 13 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (15.35%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.48%) Ansible
3 5 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.74%) Argo
4 3 (0.74%) Grafana
4 3 (0.74%) Kibana
4 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.25%) Consul
6 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) logstash
6 1 (0.25%) MIIS
6 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 70 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.19%) Oracle
2 25 (6.19%) Salesforce
3 18 (4.46%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.97%) Informatica
5 11 (2.72%) MuleSoft
5 11 (2.72%) OpenAI
6 9 (2.23%) Google
6 9 (2.23%) Splunk
7 7 (1.73%) Sage
8 6 (1.49%) IBM
9 5 (1.24%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.24%) SAP
9 5 (1.24%) TIBCO
10 4 (0.99%) Foundry
11 3 (0.74%) Aderant
11 3 (0.74%) HighQ
11 3 (0.74%) iManage
11 3 (0.74%) Intapp
11 3 (0.74%) VMware