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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 131 163
Rank change year-on-year -18 +32 -62
Permanent jobs citing REST 419 430 559
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.91% 2.61% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.20% 10.36% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 239 272 496
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £81,750 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 4,106 4,149 6,942
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.74% 25.21% 25.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,099 2,804 5,745
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,150 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,000 £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 £83,750 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 28 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 11 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (0.95%) Camunda
4 3 (0.72%) Anypoint
4 3 (0.72%) Apache Solr
4 3 (0.72%) Confluence
4 3 (0.72%) JBoss
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.48%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.24%) Documentum
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Moqups
2 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.72%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.72%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.72%) Magento
2 3 (0.72%) Shopify
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%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 186 (44.39%) AWS
2 165 (39.38%) Azure
3 47 (11.22%) SaaS
4 44 (10.50%) GCP
5 39 (9.31%) GitHub
6 30 (7.16%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (5.25%) Power Platform
7 22 (5.25%) Serverless
8 21 (5.01%) Entra ID
9 19 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (3.34%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (2.86%) Google Workspace
11 12 (2.86%) Power Automate
11 12 (2.86%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
13 10 (2.39%) Anthropic Claude
13 10 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (2.15%) Figma
15 8 (1.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (11.46%) Broadband
2 35 (8.35%) HTTP
3 13 (3.10%) Firewall
4 8 (1.91%) Network Security
5 7 (1.67%) Kerberos
5 7 (1.67%) SSL
6 6 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (1.19%) SMTP
7 5 (1.19%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.72%) Modbus
9 1 (0.24%) AMQP
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.24%) Intranet
9 1 (0.24%) LAN
9 1 (0.24%) MQTT
9 1 (0.24%) OSPF
9 1 (0.24%) RTP
9 1 (0.24%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.24%) VoIP
9 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (14.56%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (11.46%) SQL Server
3 35 (8.35%) Relational Database
4 22 (5.25%) NoSQL
5 21 (5.01%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.53%) MySQL
7 11 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.91%) Power BI
9 8 (1.91%) Redis
10 6 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.43%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.19%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.95%) Ataccama
12 4 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.95%) IBM InfoSphere
12 4 (0.95%) TIBCO EBX
13 3 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.72%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 79 (18.85%) Git
2 38 (9.07%) GitLab
3 35 (8.35%) Jenkins
4 27 (6.44%) SonarQube
5 14 (3.34%) JIRA
6 13 (3.10%) JUnit
7 12 (2.86%) Selenium
8 11 (2.63%) Maven
8 11 (2.63%) Mockito
9 7 (1.67%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.19%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.19%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.19%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.95%) Postman
12 3 (0.72%) Gradle
12 3 (0.72%) NUnit
12 3 (0.72%) Storybook
12 3 (0.72%) Subversion
12 3 (0.72%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 123 (29.36%) Social Skills
2 121 (28.88%) Finance
3 70 (16.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (12.65%) Banking
5 41 (9.79%) Games
6 38 (9.07%) Public Sector
7 32 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (7.64%) Marketing
8 19 (4.53%) Law
9 16 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (3.58%) Financial Institution
11 14 (3.34%) Manufacturing
12 13 (3.10%) Back Office
12 13 (3.10%) Legal
13 12 (2.86%) Retail
14 9 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (2.15%) Polish Language
15 8 (1.91%) Investment Banking
15 8 (1.91%) Legal Technology
16 7 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 137 (32.70%) Developer
2 83 (19.81%) Senior
3 69 (16.47%) Lead
4 66 (15.75%) Software Engineer
5 57 (13.60%) Architect
6 30 (7.16%) Development Engineer
6 30 (7.16%) Salesforce Architect
6 30 (7.16%) Software Development Engineer
7 29 (6.92%) Senior Developer
8 28 (6.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 26 (6.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 25 (5.97%) Lead Software Engineer
11 22 (5.25%) Consultant
11 22 (5.25%) Technical Architect
12 19 (4.53%) .NET Developer
12 19 (4.53%) Java Developer
13 17 (4.06%) Python Engineer
14 16 (3.82%) Java Engineer
14 16 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (3.58%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (22.20%) SOAP
2 91 (21.72%) React
3 80 (19.09%) .NET
4 48 (11.46%) Spring
5 41 (9.79%) Lightning Web Components
6 38 (9.07%) Node.js
6 38 (9.07%) Visualforce
7 37 (8.83%) OAuth
8 34 (8.11%) Spring Boot
9 31 (7.40%) AngularJS
10 30 (7.16%) GraphQL
11 28 (6.68%) SAML
12 26 (6.21%) JSON
12 26 (6.21%) Kafka
13 25 (5.97%) ASP.NET
14 24 (5.73%) CSS
14 24 (5.73%) OpenID
14 24 (5.73%) RESTful
15 23 (5.49%) .NET Core
16 22 (5.25%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 83 (19.81%) Product Ownership
2 34 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 34 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (7.88%) Public Cloud
4 25 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.82%) Low-Code
7 13 (3.10%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
8 12 (2.86%) Cyberattack
8 12 (2.86%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.63%) AI Agents
9 11 (2.63%) CMDB
9 11 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.39%) Video\Live Streaming
11 8 (1.91%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.43%) CUDA
13 5 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.97%) Linux
2 10 (2.39%) Windows
3 9 (2.15%) Android
4 7 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.67%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (46.30%) CI/CD
2 139 (33.17%) Agile
3 127 (30.31%) Software Engineering
4 126 (30.07%) DevOps
5 109 (26.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 105 (25.06%) Roadmaps
7 99 (23.63%) AI
8 91 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
9 89 (21.24%) Full-Stack Development
10 87 (20.76%) Microservices
11 85 (20.29%) Mentoring
12 84 (20.05%) Event-Driven
13 72 (17.18%) Technical Leadership
14 67 (15.99%) OO
14 67 (15.99%) Test Automation
15 61 (14.56%) Scrum
16 54 (12.89%) Infrastructure as Code
17 52 (12.41%) Containerisation
18 49 (11.69%) TDD
19 47 (11.22%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 112 (26.73%) Java
2 101 (24.11%) SQL
3 88 (21.00%) JavaScript
4 81 (19.33%) Python
5 70 (16.71%) C#
6 62 (14.80%) TypeScript
7 44 (10.50%) Apex Code
8 29 (6.92%) PowerShell
8 29 (6.92%) SOQL
9 28 (6.68%) SOSL
10 19 (4.53%) Bash
10 19 (4.53%) T-SQL
11 13 (3.10%) Go
12 12 (2.86%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.43%) Ruby
14 5 (1.19%) Bicep
14 5 (1.19%) PHP
15 3 (0.72%) DataWeave
16 2 (0.48%) C++
16 2 (0.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 54 (12.89%) Security Cleared
2 37 (8.83%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.59%) Degree
4 26 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.67%) CISSP
7 4 (0.95%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.24%) CCIE
10 1 (0.24%) CCNP
10 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (12.41%) QA
2 20 (4.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.58%) NIST
4 14 (3.34%) NCSC
5 13 (3.10%) Accessibility
6 11 (2.63%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.19%) GDPR
8 3 (0.72%) SLA
8 3 (0.72%) WCAG
9 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 98 (23.39%) Docker
2 27 (6.44%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 61 (14.56%) Kubernetes
2 39 (9.31%) Terraform
3 10 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (1.67%) Ansible
5 4 (0.95%) Grafana
5 4 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.72%) Argo
7 2 (0.48%) Kibana
7 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.48%) MIIS
Vendors
1 57 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 50 (11.93%) Salesforce
3 31 (7.40%) Splunk
4 26 (6.21%) ServiceNow
5 23 (5.49%) Oracle
6 16 (3.82%) MuleSoft
7 10 (2.39%) OpenAI
8 9 (2.15%) Informatica
9 8 (1.91%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.67%) Cisco
10 7 (1.67%) Google
11 6 (1.43%) F5
11 6 (1.43%) Juniper
11 6 (1.43%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.43%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.19%) IBM
12 5 (1.19%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.72%) Databricks
13 3 (0.72%) iManage
13 3 (0.72%) SAP