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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 131 157
Rank change year-on-year -13 +26 -56
Permanent jobs citing REST 408 436 631
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.90% 2.64% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.18% 10.20% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 222 274 555
10th Percentile £43,875 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -10.45%
75th Percentile £80,438 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,875 £96,250 £93,750
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 4,009 4,273 7,986
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.72% 25.91% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,028 2,914 6,683
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,209 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -7.79%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -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 17 July 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 10 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.98%) JBoss
2 4 (0.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.74%) Anypoint
3 3 (0.74%) Apache Solr
3 3 (0.74%) Camunda
4 2 (0.49%) Confluence
4 2 (0.49%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.25%) Documentum
5 1 (0.25%) IIS
5 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.25%) Moqups
1 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.98%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.98%) Magento
1 4 (0.98%) Shopify
2 3 (0.74%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.74%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.49%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 164 (40.20%) AWS
2 153 (37.50%) Azure
3 40 (9.80%) SaaS
4 37 (9.07%) GCP
5 35 (8.58%) GitHub
6 32 (7.84%) Entra ID
7 27 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (6.37%) Google Workspace
9 20 (4.90%) Power Platform
9 20 (4.90%) Serverless
10 18 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (2.45%) Power Automate
12 10 (2.45%) PowerApps
12 10 (2.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 10 (2.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 9 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (1.96%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 67 (16.42%) Broadband
2 34 (8.33%) HTTP
3 12 (2.94%) Firewall
4 9 (2.21%) SMTP
5 7 (1.72%) Network Security
5 7 (1.72%) SSL
6 6 (1.47%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (1.47%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.23%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.74%) Modbus
9 2 (0.49%) AMQP
9 2 (0.49%) RTP
9 2 (0.49%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.49%) VoIP
9 2 (0.49%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.25%) Intranet
10 1 (0.25%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (10.78%) SQL Server
3 31 (7.60%) Relational Database
4 21 (5.15%) MongoDB
4 21 (5.15%) NoSQL
5 19 (4.66%) MySQL
6 9 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (1.96%) Power BI
8 7 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.47%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.47%) Redis
10 5 (1.23%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.98%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.74%) Ataccama
12 3 (0.74%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.74%) IBM InfoSphere
12 3 (0.74%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.74%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 68 (16.67%) Git
2 42 (10.29%) GitLab
3 40 (9.80%) Jenkins
4 34 (8.33%) SonarQube
5 14 (3.43%) JIRA
6 11 (2.70%) JUnit
7 10 (2.45%) Maven
8 8 (1.96%) Mockito
8 8 (1.96%) Selenium
9 7 (1.72%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.23%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.23%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.98%) Gradle
12 3 (0.74%) Postman
12 3 (0.74%) Subversion
12 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.49%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.49%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.49%) NUnit
General
1 123 (30.15%) Social Skills
2 113 (27.70%) Finance
3 81 (19.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 55 (13.48%) Banking
4 55 (13.48%) Games
5 42 (10.29%) Public Sector
6 39 (9.56%) Marketing
7 30 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (7.35%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (4.90%) Law
9 16 (3.92%) Back Office
10 15 (3.68%) Financial Institution
11 14 (3.43%) Manufacturing
12 13 (3.19%) Retail
13 12 (2.94%) Legal
14 11 (2.70%) Polish Language
15 9 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.96%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.96%) Legal Technology
17 7 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 127 (31.13%) Developer
2 82 (20.10%) Senior
3 66 (16.18%) Architect
4 64 (15.69%) Software Engineer
5 62 (15.20%) Lead
6 35 (8.58%) Salesforce Architect
7 30 (7.35%) Development Engineer
7 30 (7.35%) Software Development Engineer
8 26 (6.37%) Consultant
8 26 (6.37%) Senior Developer
9 25 (6.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 25 (6.13%) Lead Software Engineer
9 25 (6.13%) Technical Architect
10 20 (4.90%) Java Developer
11 18 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (4.41%) Salesforce Technical Architect
12 16 (3.92%) Java Engineer
12 16 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (3.43%) .NET Developer
13 14 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (27.94%) SOAP
2 77 (18.87%) React
3 73 (17.89%) .NET
4 51 (12.50%) OAuth
5 49 (12.01%) Lightning Web Components
6 47 (11.52%) Visualforce
7 46 (11.27%) Spring
8 45 (11.03%) SAML
9 40 (9.80%) GraphQL
10 37 (9.07%) OpenID
11 36 (8.82%) Spring Boot
12 35 (8.58%) LDAP
12 35 (8.58%) Node.js
13 31 (7.60%) AngularJS
14 27 (6.62%) JSON
15 24 (5.88%) Kafka
16 23 (5.64%) ASP.NET
16 23 (5.64%) Middleware
16 23 (5.64%) RESTful
17 22 (5.39%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 85 (20.83%) Product Ownership
2 33 (8.09%) Public Cloud
3 32 (7.84%) Cloud Native
3 32 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (6.37%) Cyber Threat
4 26 (6.37%) Cyberattack
5 17 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (3.68%) Low-Code
7 14 (3.43%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.70%) CMDB
8 11 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.70%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.96%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.96%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
10 7 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.47%) CUDA
12 5 (1.23%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.39%) Linux
2 12 (2.94%) Windows
3 7 (1.72%) Android
3 7 (1.72%) Unix
4 5 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (42.65%) CI/CD
2 126 (30.88%) Roadmaps
3 123 (30.15%) Agile
3 123 (30.15%) DevOps
4 117 (28.68%) Software Engineering
5 105 (25.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 85 (20.83%) Event-Driven
7 84 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (20.10%) Mentoring
9 81 (19.85%) AI
10 74 (18.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 74 (18.14%) Microservices
11 72 (17.65%) OO
12 66 (16.18%) Technical Leadership
13 62 (15.20%) Scrum
14 57 (13.97%) Test Automation
15 54 (13.24%) Design Patterns
16 49 (12.01%) Infrastructure as Code
17 47 (11.52%) Containerisation
18 44 (10.78%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 108 (26.47%) Java
2 101 (24.75%) SQL
3 79 (19.36%) JavaScript
4 74 (18.14%) Python
5 60 (14.71%) C#
6 52 (12.75%) Apex Code
7 49 (12.01%) TypeScript
8 39 (9.56%) PowerShell
9 37 (9.07%) SOQL
10 36 (8.82%) SOSL
11 33 (8.09%) T-SQL
12 28 (6.86%) Bash
13 12 (2.94%) Go
14 9 (2.21%) PL/SQL
15 6 (1.47%) Ruby
16 5 (1.23%) Bicep
16 5 (1.23%) PHP
17 3 (0.74%) DataWeave
18 2 (0.49%) C
18 2 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 51 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.07%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.82%) Degree
4 25 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.47%) CISSP
7 4 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.54%) QA
2 27 (6.62%) NIST
3 26 (6.37%) NCSC
4 24 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.45%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.23%) GDPR
8 3 (0.74%) SLA
9 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (20.10%) Docker
2 42 (10.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.49%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 50 (12.25%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.60%) Terraform
3 9 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.23%) Ansible
5 4 (0.98%) Argo
5 4 (0.98%) Grafana
5 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.49%) Kibana
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.49%) MIIS
Vendors
1 58 (14.22%) Salesforce
2 56 (13.73%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.31%) Splunk
4 27 (6.62%) ServiceNow
5 19 (4.66%) Oracle
6 16 (3.92%) MuleSoft
7 9 (2.21%) CyberArk
7 9 (2.21%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.72%) Google
8 7 (1.72%) Informatica
9 6 (1.47%) Cisco
9 6 (1.47%) F5
9 6 (1.47%) Juniper
9 6 (1.47%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.47%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.98%) ConnectWise
10 4 (0.98%) IBM
10 4 (0.98%) WooCommerce
11 3 (0.74%) Revolut
11 3 (0.74%) TIBCO