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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 126 144
Rank change year-on-year -40 +18 -37
Permanent jobs citing REST 401 402 526
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.61% 2.39% 2.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.03% 10.64% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 259 236 297
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £55,363 £52,188 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £86,875 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 4,443 3,777 6,714
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.89% 22.47% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,266 2,453 4,561
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 5 October 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 17 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (1.75%) Confluence
4 4 (1.00%) Camunda
5 3 (0.75%) CMS
5 3 (0.75%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.75%) nginx
5 3 (0.75%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
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 7 (1.75%) Moqups
2 3 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.75%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.75%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.50%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.50%) Magento
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.50%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.50%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 187 (46.63%) AWS
2 179 (44.64%) Azure
3 54 (13.47%) SaaS
4 40 (9.98%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (9.73%) GitHub
6 38 (9.48%) GCP
6 38 (9.48%) Power Platform
7 30 (7.48%) Serverless
8 24 (5.99%) Azure Service Bus
9 22 (5.49%) Power Automate
10 21 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (4.99%) PowerApps
12 19 (4.74%) Microsoft Copilot
13 16 (3.99%) Azure Functions
13 16 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (3.99%) Entra ID
14 15 (3.74%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (3.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 12 (2.99%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.73%) HTTP
2 5 (1.25%) Network Security
3 4 (1.00%) Broadband
3 4 (1.00%) Firewall
3 4 (1.00%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.75%) VPN
5 2 (0.50%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.50%) X.509
6 1 (0.25%) BGP
6 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) DNS
6 1 (0.25%) LAN
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.25%) OSPF
6 1 (0.25%) SSL
6 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 57 (14.21%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (9.98%) Relational Database
4 18 (4.49%) MySQL
4 18 (4.49%) Power BI
5 17 (4.24%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.49%) Redis
7 10 (2.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (2.00%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.25%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.00%) Ataccama
11 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.00%) IBM InfoSphere
11 4 (1.00%) MariaDB
11 4 (1.00%) Metadata
11 4 (1.00%) TIBCO EBX
12 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 89 (22.19%) Git
2 20 (4.99%) JIRA
2 20 (4.99%) JUnit
3 18 (4.49%) Mockito
4 14 (3.49%) Cypress.io
4 14 (3.49%) Maven
5 13 (3.24%) GitLab
6 12 (2.99%) Postman
7 11 (2.74%) Selenium
8 10 (2.49%) Jenkins
9 7 (1.75%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.50%) Storybook
11 5 (1.25%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.50%) Gradle
12 2 (0.50%) Subversion
12 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.25%) Appium
13 1 (0.25%) MLflow
13 1 (0.25%) Servoy
13 1 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 134 (33.42%) Social Skills
2 109 (27.18%) Finance
3 46 (11.47%) Banking
4 35 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (7.48%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.74%) Legal
8 17 (4.24%) Law
9 13 (3.24%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.24%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.00%) Back Office
11 8 (2.00%) Legal Technology
11 8 (2.00%) Retail
12 7 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.75%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.50%) Front Office
13 6 (1.50%) Marketing
14 5 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.00%) Aviation
15 4 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 139 (34.66%) Developer
2 104 (25.94%) Senior
3 84 (20.95%) Lead
4 69 (17.21%) Software Engineer
5 38 (9.48%) Senior Developer
6 31 (7.73%) .NET Developer
7 28 (6.98%) Architect
7 28 (6.98%) Development Engineer
7 28 (6.98%) Lead Software Engineer
7 28 (6.98%) Software Development Engineer
8 27 (6.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 26 (6.48%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (4.99%) Technical Leader
11 19 (4.74%) Java Developer
11 19 (4.74%) Java Engineer
12 17 (4.24%) Consultant
13 14 (3.49%) Lead Developer
13 14 (3.49%) Software Developer
14 13 (3.24%) Python Engineer
15 12 (2.99%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (26.18%) React
2 94 (23.44%) .NET
3 54 (13.47%) Spring
4 49 (12.22%) SOAP
5 43 (10.72%) Terraform
6 37 (9.23%) Node.js
7 35 (8.73%) Spring Boot
8 30 (7.48%) .NET Core
8 30 (7.48%) AngularJS
9 29 (7.23%) CSS
10 28 (6.98%) Kafka
11 27 (6.73%) ASP.NET
12 24 (5.99%) OAuth
13 23 (5.74%) GraphQL
14 21 (5.24%) Blazor
15 20 (4.99%) RESTful
16 17 (4.24%) Playwright
17 15 (3.74%) Tailwind CSS
18 14 (3.49%) gRPC
18 14 (3.49%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.97%) Product Ownership
2 46 (11.47%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (9.48%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (7.73%) Public Cloud
5 30 (7.48%) Cloud Native
6 17 (4.24%) AI Agents
6 17 (4.24%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.74%) CMDB
8 11 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.49%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.00%) IoT
11 8 (2.00%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.75%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.25%) Reference Data
13 5 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
14 4 (1.00%) Educational Technology
14 4 (1.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.99%) Linux
2 12 (2.99%) Android
3 10 (2.49%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.75%) 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
1 203 (50.62%) CI/CD
2 135 (33.67%) Software Engineering
3 130 (32.42%) Agile
4 127 (31.67%) AI
5 109 (27.18%) DevOps
6 107 (26.68%) Mentoring
7 105 (26.18%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (24.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 93 (23.19%) Technical Leadership
10 90 (22.44%) Full-Stack Development
10 90 (22.44%) Microservices
11 71 (17.71%) Test Automation
12 68 (16.96%) Event-Driven
12 68 (16.96%) Roadmaps
13 58 (14.46%) TDD
14 53 (13.22%) SDLC
15 52 (12.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 50 (12.47%) Stakeholder Management
17 48 (11.97%) Code Quality
18 47 (11.72%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 115 (28.68%) Java
2 109 (27.18%) SQL
3 91 (22.69%) C#
4 85 (21.20%) JavaScript
5 67 (16.71%) Python
6 66 (16.46%) TypeScript
7 23 (5.74%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.24%) Apex Code
8 13 (3.24%) PL/SQL
9 12 (2.99%) Go
10 11 (2.74%) Bash
10 11 (2.74%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.50%) Bicep
11 6 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.50%) Ruby
12 5 (1.25%) SOQL
13 4 (1.00%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.75%) C
14 3 (0.75%) PHP
15 2 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 62 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.98%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.99%) Degree
4 17 (4.24%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.00%) CISSP
7 3 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.25%) CCIE
9 1 (0.25%) CCNP
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CSPO
9 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) PhD
9 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (13.47%) QA
2 21 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 18 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (4.24%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.50%) NIST
6 5 (1.25%) GDPR
6 5 (1.25%) WCAG
7 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.75%) NCSC
9 1 (0.25%) GRC
9 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 114 (28.43%) Docker
2 13 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (14.46%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.74%) Grafana
3 10 (2.49%) Ansible
4 4 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.75%) Argo
5 3 (0.75%) Kibana
5 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.25%) Consul
7 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.25%) logstash
7 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 80 (19.95%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.48%) Oracle
3 18 (4.49%) Salesforce
3 18 (4.49%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.99%) Informatica
4 12 (2.99%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.49%) Google
6 9 (2.24%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.75%) Sage
8 5 (1.25%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.25%) Foundry
8 5 (1.25%) IBM
8 5 (1.25%) Intapp
8 5 (1.25%) SAP
8 5 (1.25%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.00%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.75%) Aderant
10 3 (0.75%) HighQ
10 3 (0.75%) iManage
10 3 (0.75%) UiPath