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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 133 170
Rank change year-on-year -24 +37 -70
Permanent jobs citing REST 410 381 488
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.75% 2.37% 2.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.18% 9.85% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 248 234 376
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,063 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -14.18%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £73,269
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +21.74% -17.86%

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 4,467 3,867 6,740
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.11% 24.10% 28.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,319 2,583 5,079
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 4 September 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 13 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (1.22%) Camunda
3 5 (1.22%) Confluence
4 3 (0.73%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.49%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.24%) Documentum
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (1.22%) Moqups
2 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.73%) Carpe Diem
2 3 (0.73%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.49%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.49%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.24%) Magento
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 202 (49.27%) AWS
2 177 (43.17%) Azure
3 51 (12.44%) SaaS
4 49 (11.95%) GCP
5 37 (9.02%) GitHub
6 35 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (7.07%) Power Platform
8 23 (5.61%) Serverless
9 19 (4.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 18 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (3.90%) PowerApps
12 15 (3.66%) Power Automate
13 14 (3.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 14 (3.41%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (3.17%) GitHub Copilot
14 13 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
15 12 (2.93%) Azure Key Vault
16 11 (2.68%) Figma
17 10 (2.44%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 38 (9.27%) HTTP
2 24 (5.85%) Broadband
3 7 (1.71%) Firewall
4 6 (1.46%) Network Security
5 5 (1.22%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.98%) SSL
6 4 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (0.49%) X.509
8 1 (0.24%) BGP
8 1 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.24%) DHCP
8 1 (0.24%) DNS
8 1 (0.24%) Intranet
8 1 (0.24%) LAN
8 1 (0.24%) LTE
8 1 (0.24%) Modbus
8 1 (0.24%) MQTT
8 1 (0.24%) OSPF
8 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (15.85%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (13.41%) SQL Server
3 42 (10.24%) Relational Database
4 20 (4.88%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.15%) MongoDB
5 17 (4.15%) MySQL
6 15 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.68%) Power BI
8 10 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (2.20%) Redis
10 6 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.98%) Ataccama
11 4 (0.98%) IBM InfoSphere
11 4 (0.98%) MariaDB
11 4 (0.98%) TIBCO EBX
12 3 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.73%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 98 (23.90%) Git
2 23 (5.61%) GitLab
2 23 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 18 (4.39%) JUnit
4 16 (3.90%) Mockito
5 15 (3.66%) JIRA
6 14 (3.41%) Maven
6 14 (3.41%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.93%) Cypress.io
8 11 (2.68%) Selenium
9 8 (1.95%) Postman
10 6 (1.46%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.46%) Storybook
11 3 (0.73%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.73%) NUnit
11 3 (0.73%) Subversion
11 3 (0.73%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.49%) Gradle
General
1 127 (30.98%) Social Skills
2 117 (28.54%) Finance
3 53 (12.93%) Banking
4 45 (10.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (7.07%) Public Sector
7 21 (5.12%) Games
8 19 (4.63%) Law
8 19 (4.63%) Marketing
9 17 (4.15%) Legal
10 15 (3.66%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.68%) Financial Institution
12 10 (2.44%) Back Office
12 10 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (2.20%) Investment Banking
13 9 (2.20%) Retail
14 8 (1.95%) Legal Technology
15 7 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.46%) Front Office
16 6 (1.46%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 139 (33.90%) Developer
2 92 (22.44%) Senior
3 82 (20.00%) Lead
4 70 (17.07%) Software Engineer
5 41 (10.00%) Architect
6 33 (8.05%) Development Engineer
6 33 (8.05%) Software Development Engineer
7 32 (7.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 32 (7.80%) Senior Developer
8 29 (7.07%) Full-Stack Developer
9 28 (6.83%) Lead Software Engineer
10 27 (6.59%) .NET Developer
11 21 (5.12%) Java Engineer
12 20 (4.88%) Python Engineer
12 20 (4.88%) Technical Leader
13 19 (4.63%) Java Developer
14 18 (4.39%) Software Developer
15 17 (4.15%) Salesforce Architect
16 15 (3.66%) Lead Developer
16 15 (3.66%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (25.37%) React
2 80 (19.51%) .NET
3 66 (16.10%) SOAP
4 55 (13.41%) Spring
5 49 (11.95%) Terraform
6 38 (9.27%) Node.js
7 35 (8.54%) Spring Boot
8 31 (7.56%) AngularJS
9 29 (7.07%) ASP.NET
9 29 (7.07%) CSS
10 28 (6.83%) Kafka
11 25 (6.10%) .NET Core
12 24 (5.85%) OAuth
13 23 (5.61%) Lightning Web Components
14 22 (5.37%) Blazor
14 22 (5.37%) RESTful
15 19 (4.63%) GraphQL
15 19 (4.63%) Visualforce
16 17 (4.15%) Django
16 17 (4.15%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 72 (17.56%) Product Ownership
2 39 (9.51%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (8.54%) Public Cloud
4 34 (8.29%) Cloud Native
5 29 (7.07%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.90%) Low-Code
6 16 (3.90%) Mobile App
6 16 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (3.41%) AI Agents
8 12 (2.93%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.68%) CMDB
10 10 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
11 9 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.95%) IoT
13 7 (1.71%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.46%) CUDA
15 5 (1.22%) Data Structures
16 4 (0.98%) Reference Data
16 4 (0.98%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.12%) Linux
2 11 (2.68%) Android
3 9 (2.20%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.98%) Windows
5 3 (0.73%) Unix
6 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.24%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (49.51%) CI/CD
2 141 (34.39%) Software Engineering
3 130 (31.71%) Agile
4 112 (27.32%) AI
4 112 (27.32%) DevOps
5 104 (25.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 101 (24.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 99 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (23.41%) Mentoring
9 89 (21.71%) Microservices
10 86 (20.98%) Technical Leadership
11 82 (20.00%) Roadmaps
12 80 (19.51%) Event-Driven
13 72 (17.56%) Test Automation
14 62 (15.12%) OO
15 61 (14.88%) TDD
16 52 (12.68%) Scrum
17 50 (12.20%) Containerisation
18 49 (11.95%) Infrastructure as Code
19 48 (11.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 114 (27.80%) Java
2 101 (24.63%) SQL
3 82 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 77 (18.78%) C#
5 71 (17.32%) Python
6 68 (16.59%) TypeScript
7 25 (6.10%) Apex Code
8 20 (4.88%) PowerShell
9 17 (4.15%) SOQL
10 15 (3.66%) Go
10 15 (3.66%) SOSL
11 14 (3.41%) PL/SQL
12 10 (2.44%) Bash
13 7 (1.71%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.46%) Ruby
15 4 (0.98%) Bicep
15 4 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.98%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.98%) PHP
16 3 (0.73%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 52 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 31 (7.56%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.10%) Degree
4 21 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.15%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.22%) CISSP
7 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.49%) Azure 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 60 (14.63%) QA
2 19 (4.63%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.93%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.22%) GDPR
5 5 (1.22%) NIST
5 5 (1.22%) WCAG
6 4 (0.98%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.73%) NCSC
7 3 (0.73%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
System Software
1 111 (27.07%) Docker
2 11 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.20%) Ansible
3 5 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.73%) Grafana
4 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.49%) Argo
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.49%) MIIS
6 1 (0.24%) Consul
6 1 (0.24%) Kibana
6 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 64 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.32%) Salesforce
3 25 (6.10%) Oracle
4 17 (4.15%) Splunk
5 16 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.93%) Informatica
7 11 (2.68%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.20%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.95%) Google
10 6 (1.46%) IBM
11 5 (1.22%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.22%) Sage
11 5 (1.22%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.73%) Aderant
12 3 (0.73%) Cisco
12 3 (0.73%) HighQ
12 3 (0.73%) iManage
12 3 (0.73%) Intapp
12 3 (0.73%) SAP
13 2 (0.49%) OneLogin