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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 128 135
Rank change year-on-year -32 +7 -27
Permanent jobs citing REST 400 403 534
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.61% 2.40% 2.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.03% 10.69% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 262 236 289
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,188 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 4,432 3,771 6,676
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.87% 22.45% 30.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,258 2,449 4,525
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%

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 8 October 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 18 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (1.75%) Confluence
4 5 (1.25%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.00%) Camunda
5 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.75%) CMS
6 3 (0.75%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.75%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.25%) Documentum
7 1 (0.25%) IIS
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Moqups
2 3 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.75%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.75%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (0.75%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.50%) Magento
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.50%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.50%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 188 (47.00%) AWS
2 182 (45.50%) Azure
3 55 (13.75%) SaaS
4 42 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (10.25%) GitHub
6 39 (9.75%) GCP
6 39 (9.75%) Power Platform
7 32 (8.00%) Serverless
8 25 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
9 23 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (5.75%) Power Automate
10 22 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (5.25%) PowerApps
12 20 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
13 18 (4.50%) Azure Functions
14 17 (4.25%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (4.25%) Entra ID
15 16 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
16 13 (3.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (3.25%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.25%) HTTP
2 5 (1.25%) Network Security
3 4 (1.00%) Broadband
3 4 (1.00%) Firewall
3 4 (1.00%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.75%) VPN
5 2 (0.50%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.50%) X.509
6 1 (0.25%) BGP
6 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) DNS
6 1 (0.25%) LAN
6 1 (0.25%) LTE
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.25%) OSPF
6 1 (0.25%) SSL
6 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 57 (14.25%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 19 (4.75%) Power BI
5 18 (4.50%) MySQL
6 17 (4.25%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.50%) Redis
8 10 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.00%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.25%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.00%) Ataccama
12 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.00%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (1.00%) MariaDB
12 4 (1.00%) Metadata
12 4 (1.00%) TIBCO EBX
13 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 90 (22.50%) Git
2 22 (5.50%) JUnit
3 20 (5.00%) JIRA
3 20 (5.00%) Mockito
4 15 (3.75%) GitLab
5 14 (3.50%) Cypress.io
5 14 (3.50%) Maven
6 11 (2.75%) Postman
6 11 (2.75%) Selenium
7 10 (2.50%) Jenkins
8 7 (1.75%) Claude Code
9 6 (1.50%) Storybook
10 5 (1.25%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.50%) Gradle
11 2 (0.50%) Subversion
11 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.25%) Appium
12 1 (0.25%) Karma Test Runner
12 1 (0.25%) MLflow
12 1 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 136 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 108 (27.00%) Finance
3 43 (10.75%) Banking
4 35 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (7.75%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.00%) Legal
7 18 (4.50%) Law
8 13 (3.25%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.25%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.00%) Back Office
10 8 (2.00%) Legal Technology
10 8 (2.00%) Retail
11 6 (1.50%) Front Office
11 6 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.50%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.50%) Marketing
12 5 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Police
13 4 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (34.25%) Developer
2 105 (26.25%) Senior
3 85 (21.25%) Lead
4 68 (17.00%) Software Engineer
5 37 (9.25%) Senior Developer
6 31 (7.75%) .NET Developer
7 29 (7.25%) Architect
8 28 (7.00%) Lead Software Engineer
9 27 (6.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 26 (6.50%) Development Engineer
10 26 (6.50%) Full-Stack Developer
10 26 (6.50%) Software Development Engineer
11 21 (5.25%) Java Engineer
11 21 (5.25%) Technical Leader
12 19 (4.75%) Java Developer
13 16 (4.00%) Consultant
14 14 (3.50%) Lead Developer
14 14 (3.50%) Software Developer
15 13 (3.25%) Python Engineer
16 12 (3.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (26.00%) React
2 96 (24.00%) .NET
3 55 (13.75%) Spring
4 47 (11.75%) SOAP
5 44 (11.00%) Terraform
6 37 (9.25%) Node.js
7 36 (9.00%) Spring Boot
8 30 (7.50%) .NET Core
8 30 (7.50%) AngularJS
8 30 (7.50%) Kafka
9 29 (7.25%) CSS
10 27 (6.75%) ASP.NET
11 25 (6.25%) GraphQL
12 24 (6.00%) OAuth
13 21 (5.25%) Blazor
14 19 (4.75%) RESTful
15 17 (4.25%) Playwright
16 15 (3.75%) Tailwind CSS
17 14 (3.50%) gRPC
17 14 (3.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.25%) Distributed Systems
2 47 (11.75%) Product Ownership
3 38 (9.50%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (8.00%) Cloud Native
5 29 (7.25%) Public Cloud
6 17 (4.25%) AI Agents
6 17 (4.25%) Mobile App
7 13 (3.25%) Onboarding
8 12 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.75%) CMDB
9 11 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.50%) Data Structures
11 9 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (2.25%) Management Information System
12 8 (2.00%) IoT
13 6 (1.50%) Low-Code
14 5 (1.25%) Reference Data
14 5 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
15 4 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
15 4 (1.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.00%) Linux
2 12 (3.00%) Android
3 10 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.75%) Windows
5 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.25%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (51.75%) CI/CD
2 136 (34.00%) Software Engineering
3 134 (33.50%) Agile
4 128 (32.00%) AI
5 113 (28.25%) DevOps
6 109 (27.25%) Mentoring
7 103 (25.75%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (24.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 94 (23.50%) Technical Leadership
10 92 (23.00%) Microservices
11 90 (22.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 74 (18.50%) Test Automation
13 69 (17.25%) Event-Driven
14 67 (16.75%) Roadmaps
15 59 (14.75%) TDD
16 53 (13.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 53 (13.25%) SDLC
17 52 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 50 (12.50%) Code Quality
19 49 (12.25%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 115 (28.75%) Java
2 111 (27.75%) SQL
3 93 (23.25%) C#
4 84 (21.00%) JavaScript
5 68 (17.00%) Python
6 67 (16.75%) TypeScript
7 23 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.25%) PL/SQL
9 12 (3.00%) Go
9 12 (3.00%) T-SQL
10 11 (2.75%) Apex Code
10 11 (2.75%) Bash
11 7 (1.75%) Bicep
12 6 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.50%) Ruby
13 5 (1.25%) SOQL
14 4 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.75%) C
15 3 (0.75%) PHP
16 2 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 65 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 43 (10.75%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.00%) Degree
4 17 (4.25%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.00%) CISSP
8 3 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.25%) CCIE
9 1 (0.25%) CCNP
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CSPO
9 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) PhD
9 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.25%) QA
2 21 (5.25%) Accessibility
3 18 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.50%) NIST
5 5 (1.25%) GDPR
5 5 (1.25%) WCAG
6 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.75%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 117 (29.25%) Docker
2 13 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.50%) Grafana
3 10 (2.50%) Ansible
4 4 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.75%) Argo
5 3 (0.75%) Kibana
5 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.25%) Consul
7 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.25%) logstash
7 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 82 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.00%) Oracle
3 17 (4.25%) ServiceNow
4 16 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.00%) Informatica
5 12 (3.00%) OpenAI
6 10 (2.50%) Google
7 9 (2.25%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.75%) Sage
9 6 (1.50%) Intapp
10 5 (1.25%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.25%) Foundry
10 5 (1.25%) IBM
10 5 (1.25%) SAP
10 5 (1.25%) TIBCO
11 3 (0.75%) Aderant
11 3 (0.75%) Adobe
11 3 (0.75%) iManage
11 3 (0.75%) VMware