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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 131 146
Rank change year-on-year -2 +15 -40
Permanent jobs citing REST 415 435 701
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.03% 2.79% 2.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.19% 10.23% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 214 268 622
10th Percentile £42,562 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,181 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -9.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,375 £95,000
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 3,710 4,253 9,151
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.17% 27.32% 26.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,772 2,863 7,788
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,340 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -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 24 June 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 6 (1.45%) JBoss
2 5 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.72%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.72%) Apache Solr
3 3 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.72%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.48%) Apache
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.48%) Camunda
4 2 (0.48%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.24%) Confluence
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.20%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (1.20%) Magento
1 5 (1.20%) Shopify
2 2 (0.48%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 150 (36.14%) Azure
2 149 (35.90%) AWS
3 54 (13.01%) Entra ID
4 48 (11.57%) Google Workspace
5 36 (8.67%) SaaS
6 34 (8.19%) GitHub
7 30 (7.23%) GCP
8 20 (4.82%) Serverless
9 18 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (3.86%) Power Platform
12 13 (3.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 13 (3.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
15 8 (1.93%) Amazon S3
16 7 (1.69%) Apigee
16 7 (1.69%) Kong
16 7 (1.69%) OpenShift
16 7 (1.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 89 (21.45%) Broadband
2 34 (8.19%) HTTP
3 12 (2.89%) Firewall
4 9 (2.17%) 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 (1.20%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.96%) AMQP
9 3 (0.72%) Modbus
9 3 (0.72%) RTP
9 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.72%) VoIP
9 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.48%) PuTTY
11 1 (0.24%) Intranet
11 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
11 1 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (10.60%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (7.71%) SQL Server
3 23 (5.54%) Relational Database
4 22 (5.30%) NoSQL
5 21 (5.06%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.86%) MySQL
7 8 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.20%) MariaDB
9 5 (1.20%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.20%) Power BI
9 5 (1.20%) Redis
10 4 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.96%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.72%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.72%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.48%) Big Data
12 2 (0.48%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 59 (14.22%) Git
2 42 (10.12%) GitLab
3 40 (9.64%) Jenkins
4 34 (8.19%) SonarQube
5 15 (3.61%) JIRA
6 12 (2.89%) JUnit
7 11 (2.65%) Maven
8 9 (2.17%) Selenium
9 8 (1.93%) Mockito
9 8 (1.93%) SpecFlow
10 7 (1.69%) WebDriver
11 6 (1.45%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.45%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.96%) Gradle
12 4 (0.96%) NUnit
12 4 (0.96%) Postman
13 3 (0.72%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.72%) Subversion
13 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
General
1 127 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 107 (25.78%) Finance
3 77 (18.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 68 (16.39%) Games
5 54 (13.01%) Banking
6 52 (12.53%) Organisational Skills
7 41 (9.88%) Public Sector
8 40 (9.64%) Marketing
9 29 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
10 18 (4.34%) Law
11 16 (3.86%) Back Office
12 15 (3.61%) Financial Institution
13 13 (3.13%) Manufacturing
13 13 (3.13%) Retail
14 11 (2.65%) Polish Language
15 9 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (2.17%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.93%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.93%) Legal
16 8 (1.93%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 129 (31.08%) Developer
2 92 (22.17%) Senior
3 70 (16.87%) Software Engineer
4 68 (16.39%) Architect
5 48 (11.57%) Lead
6 35 (8.43%) Salesforce Architect
7 29 (6.99%) Development Engineer
7 29 (6.99%) Senior Developer
7 29 (6.99%) Software Development Engineer
8 25 (6.02%) Technical Architect
9 24 (5.78%) Consultant
9 24 (5.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 22 (5.30%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (4.82%) Java Developer
12 19 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (4.34%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 17 (4.10%) Salesforce Developer
15 16 (3.86%) IAM Developer
15 16 (3.86%) Java Engineer
15 16 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (34.94%) SOAP
2 74 (17.83%) React
3 73 (17.59%) OAuth
4 68 (16.39%) .NET
4 68 (16.39%) SAML
5 62 (14.94%) GraphQL
6 58 (13.98%) OpenID
7 57 (13.73%) LDAP
8 53 (12.77%) Spring
9 52 (12.53%) Lightning Web Components
10 51 (12.29%) Visualforce
11 37 (8.92%) Spring Boot
12 33 (7.95%) Node.js
13 31 (7.47%) AngularJS
13 31 (7.47%) JSON
14 30 (7.23%) Middleware
15 23 (5.54%) CSS
16 22 (5.30%) Kafka
17 20 (4.82%) .NET Core
17 20 (4.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (19.76%) Product Ownership
2 48 (11.57%) Cyber Threat
2 48 (11.57%) Cyberattack
3 34 (8.19%) Cloud Native
4 31 (7.47%) Public Cloud
5 29 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.61%) Low-Code
8 14 (3.37%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.65%) CMDB
10 11 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (2.41%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.93%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.93%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.93%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.45%) CUDA
14 5 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
15 4 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.02%) Linux
2 11 (2.65%) Windows
3 9 (2.17%) Android
4 6 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.45%) Unix
5 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) CentOS
6 1 (0.24%) Debian
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (38.80%) CI/CD
2 146 (35.18%) Roadmaps
3 122 (29.40%) Agile
4 117 (28.19%) Software Engineering
5 112 (26.99%) DevOps
6 95 (22.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 95 (22.89%) Mentoring
7 84 (20.24%) Event-Driven
8 78 (18.80%) AI
9 73 (17.59%) Microservices
10 71 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
11 70 (16.87%) Full-Stack Development
12 69 (16.63%) OO
13 62 (14.94%) Technical Leadership
14 61 (14.70%) Scrum
15 57 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
15 57 (13.73%) Test Automation
16 54 (13.01%) Identity Access Management
17 53 (12.77%) Design Patterns
18 49 (11.81%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 109 (26.27%) Java
2 104 (25.06%) SQL
3 80 (19.28%) JavaScript
4 75 (18.07%) Python
5 60 (14.46%) PowerShell
6 56 (13.49%) T-SQL
7 55 (13.25%) Apex Code
8 52 (12.53%) C#
9 50 (12.05%) Bash
10 44 (10.60%) TypeScript
11 37 (8.92%) SOQL
11 37 (8.92%) SOSL
12 12 (2.89%) Go
13 8 (1.93%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.45%) Ruby
15 4 (0.96%) Bicep
15 4 (0.96%) PHP
16 3 (0.72%) C
16 3 (0.72%) DataWeave
16 3 (0.72%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 53 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 40 (9.64%) Degree
2 40 (9.64%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.45%) CISSP
6 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.72%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.48%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.81%) NIST
2 48 (11.57%) NCSC
3 40 (9.64%) QA
4 33 (7.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.93%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) GDPR
8 2 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 71 (17.11%) Docker
2 64 (15.42%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.72%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 51 (12.29%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.75%) Terraform
3 9 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.45%) Ansible
5 5 (1.20%) Argo
6 4 (0.96%) Grafana
6 4 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.48%) Kibana
7 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.48%) MIIS
8 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 59 (14.22%) Salesforce
2 46 (11.08%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.16%) Splunk
4 28 (6.75%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.86%) MuleSoft
5 16 (3.86%) Oracle
6 9 (2.17%) CyberArk
7 7 (1.69%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.45%) Cisco
8 6 (1.45%) F5
8 6 (1.45%) Google
8 6 (1.45%) Juniper
8 6 (1.45%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.20%) ConnectWise
9 5 (1.20%) WooCommerce
10 3 (0.72%) BT
10 3 (0.72%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.72%) Mitel
10 3 (0.72%) Revolut