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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 132 160
Rank change year-on-year -17 +28 -62
Permanent jobs citing REST 417 416 534
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.83% 2.50% 2.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.11% 10.51% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 246 263 459
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +20.69% -13.43%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £73,288
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4,126 3,960 6,479
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.15% 23.84% 26.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,113 2,647 5,196
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,550 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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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 13 August 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 11 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (1.20%) Camunda
4 4 (0.96%) Confluence
5 3 (0.72%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.72%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.48%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) Documentum
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Moqups
2 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.72%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.72%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.48%) Magento
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.48%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.24%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 199 (47.72%) AWS
2 176 (42.21%) Azure
3 51 (12.23%) SaaS
4 50 (11.99%) GCP
5 40 (9.59%) GitHub
6 37 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (5.52%) Power Platform
7 23 (5.52%) Serverless
8 19 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (4.32%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (3.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 13 (3.12%) GitHub Copilot
11 13 (3.12%) Power Automate
11 13 (3.12%) PowerApps
12 12 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (2.88%) Figma
13 11 (2.64%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (2.64%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (2.40%) Anthropic Claude
14 10 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.63%) HTTP
2 30 (7.19%) Broadband
3 10 (2.40%) Firewall
4 7 (1.68%) Network Security
5 6 (1.44%) Kerberos
5 6 (1.44%) SSL
6 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (0.96%) SMTP
8 3 (0.72%) Modbus
9 1 (0.24%) BGP
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.24%) Intranet
9 1 (0.24%) LAN
9 1 (0.24%) MQTT
9 1 (0.24%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.24%) OSPF
9 1 (0.24%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (13.43%) SQL Server
3 40 (9.59%) Relational Database
4 23 (5.52%) NoSQL
5 19 (4.56%) MongoDB
6 17 (4.08%) MySQL
7 14 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (2.16%) Redis
10 8 (1.92%) Power BI
11 6 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.20%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.96%) Ataccama
13 4 (0.96%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.96%) IBM InfoSphere
13 4 (0.96%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.96%) TIBCO EBX
14 3 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.72%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 91 (21.82%) Git
2 29 (6.95%) GitLab
3 28 (6.71%) Jenkins
4 20 (4.80%) SonarQube
5 16 (3.84%) JUnit
6 15 (3.60%) JIRA
7 14 (3.36%) Mockito
8 13 (3.12%) Selenium
9 12 (2.88%) Maven
10 9 (2.16%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.44%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.44%) Postman
12 3 (0.72%) NUnit
12 3 (0.72%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.72%) Storybook
12 3 (0.72%) Subversion
12 3 (0.72%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.72%) WebDriver
General
1 129 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 119 (28.54%) Finance
3 62 (14.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 52 (12.47%) Banking
5 35 (8.39%) Public Sector
6 33 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (6.71%) Games
8 24 (5.76%) Marketing
9 21 (5.04%) Law
10 16 (3.84%) Manufacturing
11 14 (3.36%) Legal
12 13 (3.12%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.40%) Back Office
13 10 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.40%) Retail
14 8 (1.92%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.92%) Legal Technology
15 7 (1.68%) Polish Language
16 6 (1.44%) Front Office
17 5 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 141 (33.81%) Developer
2 89 (21.34%) Senior
3 74 (17.75%) Lead
4 69 (16.55%) Software Engineer
5 48 (11.51%) Architect
6 32 (7.67%) Senior Developer
7 31 (7.43%) Development Engineer
7 31 (7.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 31 (7.43%) Software Development Engineer
8 27 (6.47%) .NET Developer
8 27 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (6.24%) Lead Software Engineer
10 23 (5.52%) Salesforce Architect
11 20 (4.80%) Python Engineer
12 19 (4.56%) Consultant
13 18 (4.32%) Java Developer
13 18 (4.32%) Java Engineer
13 18 (4.32%) Technical Architect
13 18 (4.32%) Technical Leader
14 17 (4.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (23.98%) React
2 89 (21.34%) .NET
3 75 (17.99%) SOAP
4 48 (11.51%) Spring
5 37 (8.87%) Node.js
6 33 (7.91%) Lightning Web Components
7 32 (7.67%) AngularJS
8 29 (6.95%) ASP.NET
8 29 (6.95%) Spring Boot
8 29 (6.95%) Visualforce
9 27 (6.47%) .NET Core
9 27 (6.47%) Kafka
10 26 (6.24%) CSS
11 24 (5.76%) OAuth
12 21 (5.04%) Blazor
12 21 (5.04%) JSON
12 21 (5.04%) RESTful
13 19 (4.56%) Django
14 17 (4.08%) GraphQL
15 16 (3.84%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 80 (19.18%) Product Ownership
2 36 (8.63%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (8.39%) Cloud Native
4 33 (7.91%) Public Cloud
5 31 (7.43%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (4.08%) Low-Code
8 15 (3.60%) Mobile App
9 14 (3.36%) AI Agents
10 13 (3.12%) Onboarding
11 11 (2.64%) CMDB
11 11 (2.64%) Video\Live Streaming
12 10 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.92%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.92%) IoT
14 6 (1.44%) CUDA
15 5 (1.20%) Data Structures
15 5 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
16 4 (0.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.00%) Linux
2 11 (2.64%) Android
3 9 (2.16%) Apple iOS
3 9 (2.16%) Windows
4 5 (1.20%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (49.16%) CI/CD
2 138 (33.09%) Software Engineering
3 136 (32.61%) Agile
4 124 (29.74%) DevOps
5 113 (27.10%) AI
6 111 (26.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 97 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (23.02%) Full-Stack Development
9 89 (21.34%) Microservices
10 85 (20.38%) Mentoring
11 84 (20.14%) Event-Driven
11 84 (20.14%) Roadmaps
12 81 (19.42%) Technical Leadership
13 72 (17.27%) Test Automation
14 66 (15.83%) OO
15 59 (14.15%) Scrum
16 56 (13.43%) TDD
17 55 (13.19%) Containerisation
18 52 (12.47%) Infrastructure as Code
19 48 (11.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 112 (26.86%) Java
2 103 (24.70%) SQL
3 87 (20.86%) JavaScript
4 83 (19.90%) C#
5 80 (19.18%) Python
6 65 (15.59%) TypeScript
7 36 (8.63%) Apex Code
8 23 (5.52%) SOQL
9 21 (5.04%) SOSL
10 17 (4.08%) PowerShell
11 14 (3.36%) Go
11 14 (3.36%) PL/SQL
12 9 (2.16%) Bash
13 7 (1.68%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.44%) Ruby
15 5 (1.20%) Bicep
16 4 (0.96%) PHP
17 3 (0.72%) DataWeave
18 2 (0.48%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 58 (13.91%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.43%) Degree
4 23 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.44%) CISSP
7 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CCIE
9 1 (0.24%) CCNP
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CSPO
9 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (14.87%) QA
2 15 (3.60%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.64%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.20%) GDPR
6 4 (0.96%) NIST
6 4 (0.96%) WCAG
7 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) NCSC
8 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) GRC
System Software
1 109 (26.14%) Docker
2 15 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (14.87%) Kubernetes
2 43 (10.31%) Terraform
3 8 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (1.68%) Ansible
5 3 (0.72%) Grafana
5 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.48%) Argo
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.48%) MIIS
7 1 (0.24%) Kibana
7 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 60 (14.39%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.07%) Salesforce
3 26 (6.24%) Oracle
4 24 (5.76%) Splunk
5 22 (5.28%) ServiceNow
6 15 (3.60%) MuleSoft
7 12 (2.88%) Informatica
8 9 (2.16%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.92%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.68%) Google
11 5 (1.20%) Cisco
11 5 (1.20%) IBM
11 5 (1.20%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.96%) F5
12 4 (0.96%) Juniper
12 4 (0.96%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.96%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.96%) Sage
12 4 (0.96%) SAP
13 3 (0.72%) iManage