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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 99 106
Rank change year-on-year -35 +7 -34
Permanent jobs citing REST 394 612 689
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.44% 3.05% 3.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.60% 10.28% 9.46%
Number of salaries quoted 227 263 603
10th Percentile £41,550 £42,238 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +4.25%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.70%

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 3,398 5,954 7,284
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.08% 29.68% 32.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,197 3,933 6,173
10th Percentile £38,650 £40,000 £41,900
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,348 £84,056
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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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 26 October 2025.

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 12 (3.05%) IIS
2 10 (2.54%) Confluence
3 6 (1.52%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.02%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.02%) nginx
6 3 (0.76%) JBoss
7 2 (0.51%) CMS
7 2 (0.51%) Mendix
7 2 (0.51%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.25%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.25%) MetaMask
8 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.25%) Strapi
8 1 (0.25%) SugarCRM
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (4.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.28%) Shopify
3 8 (2.03%) Workday HCM
4 5 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.25%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 218 (55.33%) Azure
2 172 (43.65%) AWS
3 48 (12.18%) SaaS
4 36 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (7.36%) GitHub
6 22 (5.58%) Power Automate
7 20 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 17 (4.31%) Boomi
8 17 (4.31%) GCP
8 17 (4.31%) Power Platform
8 17 (4.31%) Serverless
9 16 (4.06%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (2.79%) Entra ID
12 10 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (2.54%) iPaaS
12 10 (2.54%) PowerApps
13 9 (2.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.28%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.57%) Broadband
2 6 (1.52%) DMARC
2 6 (1.52%) SSL
3 3 (0.76%) FTP
3 3 (0.76%) HTTP
4 2 (0.51%) IP Telephony
4 2 (0.51%) PSTN
4 2 (0.51%) VoIP
5 1 (0.25%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.25%) 4G
5 1 (0.25%) 5G
5 1 (0.25%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.25%) RFID
5 1 (0.25%) SCTP
5 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (34.52%) SQL Server
2 30 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.58%) MySQL
4 21 (5.33%) Relational Database
5 20 (5.08%) MongoDB
6 18 (4.57%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.54%) Redis
9 8 (2.03%) Power BI
9 8 (2.03%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.02%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.51%) Big Data
12 2 (0.51%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.51%) Metadata
12 2 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 115 (29.19%) GitLab
2 113 (28.68%) JIRA
3 110 (27.92%) SonarQube
4 94 (23.86%) Maven
4 94 (23.86%) Selenium
4 94 (23.86%) Sonatype Nexus
5 92 (23.35%) Cucumber
6 91 (23.10%) Bitbucket
7 62 (15.74%) Git
8 32 (8.12%) Jenkins
9 10 (2.54%) Octopus Deploy
9 10 (2.54%) Visual Studio
10 9 (2.28%) MSBuild
10 9 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (1.78%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.52%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.27%) JUnit
14 4 (1.02%) Browser DevTools
14 4 (1.02%) Postman
15 3 (0.76%) git-flow
General
1 160 (40.61%) Finance
2 121 (30.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 112 (28.43%) Retail
4 96 (24.37%) Banking
5 91 (23.10%) Investment Banking
6 90 (22.84%) Corporate Banking
7 87 (22.08%) Social Skills
8 37 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
9 29 (7.36%) Games
10 21 (5.33%) Marketing
11 19 (4.82%) Public Sector
12 13 (3.30%) Law
13 9 (2.28%) Front Office
14 8 (2.03%) Financial Institution
14 8 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.52%) Back Office
15 6 (1.52%) Czech Language
15 6 (1.52%) Legal
15 6 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 138 (35.03%) Developer
2 108 (27.41%) Software Engineer
3 60 (15.23%) Senior
4 34 (8.63%) Architect
5 23 (5.84%) .NET Developer
5 23 (5.84%) C# Developer
5 23 (5.84%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (5.84%) Integration Developer
6 20 (5.08%) Senior Developer
7 19 (4.82%) Lead
8 18 (4.57%) Technical Architect
9 15 (3.81%) Salesforce Architect
10 14 (3.55%) SAP Developer
11 13 (3.30%) Integration Engineer
11 13 (3.30%) Python Engineer
12 12 (3.05%) React Developer
13 11 (2.79%) Analyst
13 11 (2.79%) C# .NET Developer
14 10 (2.54%) Java Developer
14 10 (2.54%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (35.79%) React
2 140 (35.53%) CSS
3 136 (34.52%) HTML
4 110 (27.92%) SOAP
5 109 (27.66%) Spring
6 108 (27.41%) RESTful
6 108 (27.41%) Spring Boot
7 101 (25.63%) Kafka
8 99 (25.13%) HTML5
9 97 (24.62%) CSS3
9 97 (24.62%) Jest
10 96 (24.37%) Sass
11 95 (24.11%) Redux
12 91 (23.10%) JPA
13 68 (17.26%) .NET
14 59 (14.97%) JSON
15 47 (11.93%) XML
16 45 (11.42%) Web Services
17 37 (9.39%) Middleware
18 28 (7.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 136 (34.52%) Product Ownership
2 115 (29.19%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.28%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.52%) BYOD
8 6 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.27%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.27%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.02%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.76%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.76%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.76%) Mobile Games
11 3 (0.76%) Replication
11 3 (0.76%) Smart City
12 2 (0.51%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.87%) Linux
2 14 (3.55%) Windows
3 11 (2.79%) Unix
4 6 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.27%) Android
6 4 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) Debian
7 1 (0.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (58.38%) Agile
2 187 (47.46%) DevOps
3 179 (45.43%) CI/CD
4 160 (40.61%) Microservices
5 137 (34.77%) Mentoring
6 122 (30.96%) Containerisation
6 122 (30.96%) Full-Stack Development
6 122 (30.96%) Migration
7 119 (30.20%) Software Engineering
7 119 (30.20%) Test Automation
8 116 (29.44%) Performance Optimisation
9 114 (28.93%) User Experience
10 110 (27.92%) Front End Development
11 106 (26.90%) SDLC
12 95 (24.11%) Strategic Thinking
13 94 (23.86%) Responsive Web Design
14 66 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
15 65 (16.50%) Roadmaps
16 55 (13.96%) Event-Driven
17 45 (11.42%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 204 (51.78%) SQL
2 203 (51.52%) JavaScript
3 136 (34.52%) Java
4 124 (31.47%) TypeScript
5 78 (19.80%) C#
6 59 (14.97%) Python
7 29 (7.36%) PowerShell
8 25 (6.35%) Apex Code
9 22 (5.58%) PHP
10 16 (4.06%) SOQL
11 15 (3.81%) SOSL
12 10 (2.54%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.78%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.52%) VBA
15 5 (1.27%) ABAP
15 5 (1.27%) Bash
15 5 (1.27%) Kotlin
16 4 (1.02%) Groovy
17 3 (0.76%) Go
17 3 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (7.36%) Degree
2 18 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.54%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.28%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.78%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.76%) SAP Certification
7 2 (0.51%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (28.17%) QA
2 96 (24.37%) Accessibility
3 26 (6.60%) GDPR
4 10 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.02%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.51%) HL7
6 2 (0.51%) NCSC
6 2 (0.51%) NIST
6 2 (0.51%) WCAG
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
7 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 156 (39.59%) Docker
2 10 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) KVM
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 131 (33.25%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.35%) Terraform
3 18 (4.57%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (2.79%) Ansible
5 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.27%) Grafana
7 4 (1.02%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.25%) Kibana
8 1 (0.25%) logstash
8 1 (0.25%) Puppet
8 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 90 (22.84%) Solace
2 44 (11.17%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.64%) Salesforce
4 24 (6.09%) Oracle
5 22 (5.58%) SAP
6 20 (5.08%) MuleSoft
7 19 (4.82%) ServiceNow
8 18 (4.57%) IBM
9 15 (3.81%) Splunk
10 12 (3.05%) Workday
11 7 (1.78%) Trayport
12 5 (1.27%) Dell
12 5 (1.27%) Epicor
12 5 (1.27%) Google
12 5 (1.27%) HubSpot
12 5 (1.27%) SnapLogic
12 5 (1.27%) Talend
13 4 (1.02%) Infor
13 4 (1.02%) Software AG
13 4 (1.02%) TIBCO