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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 83 100
Rank change year-on-year -51 +17 -22
Permanent jobs citing REST 309 674 681
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.03% 3.33% 3.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.06% 11.10% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 229 276 599
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,238 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £88,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.50%

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 2,794 6,070 6,706
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.38% 29.97% 31.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,280 3,984 5,681
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

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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 23 November 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 8 (2.59%) JBoss
2 6 (1.94%) Confluence
2 6 (1.94%) IIS
2 6 (1.94%) WebSphere
3 5 (1.62%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.62%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.29%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.65%) CMS
5 2 (0.65%) Mendix
5 2 (0.65%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.32%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.32%) MetaMask
6 1 (0.32%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.32%) Strapi
6 1 (0.32%) SugarCRM
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.32%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 15 (4.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.24%) Shopify
3 8 (2.59%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.29%) NetSuite
4 4 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.32%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 127 (41.10%) Azure
2 86 (27.83%) AWS
3 50 (16.18%) SaaS
4 34 (11.00%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (10.68%) GitHub
6 22 (7.12%) Azure Logic Apps
6 22 (7.12%) GCP
7 19 (6.15%) Boomi
8 18 (5.83%) Power Automate
9 17 (5.50%) GitHub Copilot
9 17 (5.50%) Power Platform
10 14 (4.53%) Serverless
11 13 (4.21%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (3.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 12 (3.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (3.24%) Entra ID
13 10 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (3.24%) PowerApps
14 9 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (2.59%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.12%) Broadband
2 6 (1.94%) HTTP
3 3 (0.97%) FTP
4 2 (0.65%) IP Telephony
4 2 (0.65%) PSTN
4 2 (0.65%) VoIP
5 1 (0.32%) AMQP
5 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.32%) RFID
5 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.65%) SQL Server
2 25 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (7.12%) Relational Database
4 21 (6.80%) MySQL
5 17 (5.50%) MongoDB
5 17 (5.50%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.91%) Redis
7 8 (2.59%) Power BI
8 6 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.94%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.97%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.65%) Big Data
11 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.65%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 47 (15.21%) Git
2 28 (9.06%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.12%) GitLab
4 18 (5.83%) JIRA
5 17 (5.50%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.94%) TeamCity
6 6 (1.94%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.62%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.62%) MSBuild
7 5 (1.62%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (1.62%) Selenium
7 5 (1.62%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.29%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (1.29%) JMeter
8 4 (1.29%) JUnit
8 4 (1.29%) Maven
8 4 (1.29%) Postman
9 3 (0.97%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.97%) git-flow
9 3 (0.97%) Subversion
General
1 100 (32.36%) Social Skills
2 86 (27.83%) Finance
3 37 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (11.97%) Games
4 35 (11.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (8.09%) Marketing
6 21 (6.80%) Public Sector
7 19 (6.15%) Retail
8 17 (5.50%) Law
9 11 (3.56%) Banking
10 9 (2.91%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.59%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.27%) Front Office
12 7 (2.27%) Legal
12 7 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.94%) Back Office
14 5 (1.62%) Automotive
15 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.29%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 141 (45.63%) Developer
2 74 (23.95%) Senior
3 30 (9.71%) Architect
4 25 (8.09%) Integration Developer
5 24 (7.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (7.44%) C# Developer
7 21 (6.80%) Senior Developer
8 20 (6.47%) Lead
9 18 (5.83%) .NET Developer
10 16 (5.18%) Integration Engineer
10 16 (5.18%) Software Engineer
11 15 (4.85%) Salesforce Architect
12 14 (4.53%) SAP Developer
12 14 (4.53%) Technical Architect
13 11 (3.56%) Java Developer
14 10 (3.24%) Analyst
14 10 (3.24%) Software Developer
15 9 (2.91%) React Developer
15 9 (2.91%) Salesforce Technical Architect
16 8 (2.59%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (39.81%) SOAP
2 63 (20.39%) .NET
3 48 (15.53%) JSON
4 43 (13.92%) React
5 40 (12.94%) CSS
6 39 (12.62%) Middleware
7 38 (12.30%) Web Services
8 36 (11.65%) HTML
9 35 (11.33%) Lightning Web Components
9 35 (11.33%) XML
10 32 (10.36%) GraphQL
10 32 (10.36%) OAuth
10 32 (10.36%) SAML
11 24 (7.77%) AngularJS
11 24 (7.77%) Spring
12 22 (7.12%) Node.js
12 22 (7.12%) Visualforce
13 21 (6.80%) RESTful
14 20 (6.47%) ASP.NET
15 18 (5.83%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 51 (16.50%) Product Ownership
2 24 (7.77%) Cloud Native
3 18 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.56%) Low-Code
6 7 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (2.27%) Cyberattack
7 6 (1.94%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.94%) DataPower
7 6 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.62%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.62%) Educational Technology
8 5 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.62%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.62%) Mobile Games
9 4 (1.29%) BYOD
9 4 (1.29%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.29%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.47%) Linux
2 9 (2.91%) Android
3 8 (2.59%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.94%) Unix
5 4 (1.29%) Windows
6 1 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (44.01%) Agile
2 93 (30.10%) CI/CD
3 89 (28.80%) DevOps
4 74 (23.95%) Roadmaps
5 63 (20.39%) Microservices
6 57 (18.45%) Mentoring
7 56 (18.12%) Event-Driven
8 52 (16.83%) AI
8 52 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (11.33%) API Integration
10 35 (11.33%) Test Automation
11 34 (11.00%) Design Patterns
11 34 (11.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 34 (11.00%) Scrum
12 33 (10.68%) Software Engineering
13 32 (10.36%) Containerisation
13 32 (10.36%) Data Modelling
13 32 (10.36%) Full-Stack Development
14 30 (9.71%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 106 (34.30%) SQL
2 97 (31.39%) JavaScript
3 69 (22.33%) C#
4 59 (19.09%) Python
5 53 (17.15%) Java
6 35 (11.33%) Apex Code
7 31 (10.03%) TypeScript
8 28 (9.06%) PowerShell
9 22 (7.12%) PHP
10 16 (5.18%) SOQL
11 15 (4.85%) SOSL
11 15 (4.85%) T-SQL
12 10 (3.24%) Bash
13 8 (2.59%) Go
13 8 (2.59%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.59%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.62%) ABAP
15 4 (1.29%) C++
16 3 (0.97%) Groovy
16 3 (0.97%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (11.00%) Degree
2 20 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.21%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.88%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.65%) PhD
7 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.77%) GDPR
2 16 (5.18%) QA
3 7 (2.27%) NCSC
3 7 (2.27%) NIST
4 6 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.29%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.65%) HL7
6 2 (0.65%) WCAG
7 1 (0.32%) MiFID
7 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.32%) SLA
7 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (17.80%) Docker
2 8 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.15%) Terraform
3 12 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (2.59%) Ansible
5 1 (0.32%) Grafana
5 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (15.53%) Salesforce
2 39 (12.62%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.09%) MuleSoft
4 21 (6.80%) Oracle
5 20 (6.47%) SAP
6 19 (6.15%) IBM
7 17 (5.50%) ServiceNow
8 15 (4.85%) Splunk
9 13 (4.21%) Workday
10 7 (2.27%) Talend
11 6 (1.94%) Epicor
11 6 (1.94%) SnapLogic
12 5 (1.62%) Dell
12 5 (1.62%) HubSpot
12 5 (1.62%) IFS
12 5 (1.62%) Infor
12 5 (1.62%) Informatica
12 5 (1.62%) Jitterbit
12 5 (1.62%) Software AG
12 5 (1.62%) TIBCO