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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 132 155
Rank change year-on-year -32 +23 -46
Permanent jobs citing REST 400 403 494
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.61% 2.39% 2.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.96% 10.61% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 258 238 302
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £55,731 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £87,188 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +20.69% -17.14%

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 4,465 3,798 6,720
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.95% 22.57% 30.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,284 2,472 4,592
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £49,580
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 £88,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +6.15% -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 3 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 16 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (1.75%) Confluence
4 4 (1.00%) Camunda
5 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.75%) nginx
5 3 (0.75%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.50%) CMS
6 2 (0.50%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
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%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.75%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.75%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.50%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.50%) Magento
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.50%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.50%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 187 (46.75%) AWS
2 179 (44.75%) Azure
3 54 (13.50%) SaaS
4 39 (9.75%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (9.75%) GitHub
5 38 (9.50%) GCP
5 38 (9.50%) Power Platform
6 29 (7.25%) Serverless
7 24 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 22 (5.50%) Power Automate
9 21 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (5.00%) PowerApps
11 19 (4.75%) Microsoft Copilot
12 17 (4.25%) Entra ID
13 16 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (3.75%) Azure Functions
14 15 (3.75%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (3.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 12 (3.00%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.75%) HTTP
2 6 (1.50%) Network Security
3 5 (1.25%) Firewall
3 5 (1.25%) Kerberos
4 4 (1.00%) Broadband
5 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.75%) VPN
6 2 (0.50%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.50%) X.509
7 1 (0.25%) 5G
7 1 (0.25%) BGP
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.25%) DNS
7 1 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.25%) LTE
7 1 (0.25%) MQTT
7 1 (0.25%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.25%) OSPF
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
7 1 (0.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.75%) SQL Server
2 57 (14.25%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 18 (4.50%) MySQL
4 18 (4.50%) Power BI
5 17 (4.25%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (2.50%) Redis
9 9 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.00%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.25%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.00%) Ataccama
13 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.00%) IBM InfoSphere
13 4 (1.00%) MariaDB
13 4 (1.00%) Metadata
13 4 (1.00%) TIBCO EBX
14 3 (0.75%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 91 (22.75%) Git
2 20 (5.00%) JIRA
2 20 (5.00%) JUnit
3 18 (4.50%) Mockito
4 14 (3.50%) Cypress.io
4 14 (3.50%) Maven
5 13 (3.25%) GitLab
6 12 (3.00%) Postman
7 11 (2.75%) Selenium
8 10 (2.50%) Jenkins
9 7 (1.75%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.50%) Storybook
11 5 (1.25%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.75%) Subversion
13 2 (0.50%) Gradle
13 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
14 1 (0.25%) Karma Test Runner
14 1 (0.25%) MLflow
14 1 (0.25%) Servoy
14 1 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 134 (33.50%) Social Skills
2 109 (27.25%) Finance
3 46 (11.50%) Banking
4 35 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (7.50%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.75%) Legal
8 17 (4.25%) Law
9 14 (3.50%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.25%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.25%) Retail
11 8 (2.00%) Back Office
11 8 (2.00%) Legal Technology
12 7 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.75%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.50%) Front Office
13 6 (1.50%) Marketing
14 5 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.00%) Police
15 4 (1.00%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 140 (35.00%) Developer
2 103 (25.75%) Senior
3 83 (20.75%) Lead
4 67 (16.75%) Software Engineer
5 38 (9.50%) Senior Developer
6 31 (7.75%) .NET Developer
7 29 (7.25%) Architect
8 28 (7.00%) Development Engineer
8 28 (7.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 28 (7.00%) Software Development Engineer
9 27 (6.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 25 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
11 20 (5.00%) Technical Leader
12 19 (4.75%) Java Developer
12 19 (4.75%) Java Engineer
13 16 (4.00%) Consultant
14 15 (3.75%) Software Developer
15 14 (3.50%) Lead Developer
16 13 (3.25%) Python Engineer
17 12 (3.00%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (25.50%) React
2 92 (23.00%) .NET
3 54 (13.50%) Spring
4 50 (12.50%) SOAP
5 43 (10.75%) Terraform
6 36 (9.00%) Node.js
7 35 (8.75%) Spring Boot
8 31 (7.75%) AngularJS
9 29 (7.25%) .NET Core
9 29 (7.25%) CSS
10 28 (7.00%) Kafka
11 27 (6.75%) ASP.NET
12 24 (6.00%) OAuth
13 23 (5.75%) GraphQL
14 21 (5.25%) Blazor
14 21 (5.25%) 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%) Product Ownership
2 44 (11.00%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (9.50%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (7.75%) Public Cloud
5 30 (7.50%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.50%) Mobile App
7 17 (4.25%) AI Agents
8 12 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.75%) CMDB
9 11 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.75%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.50%) Data Structures
11 9 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (2.00%) IoT
12 8 (2.00%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.75%) 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 13 (3.25%) Android
3 11 (2.75%) 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
1 202 (50.50%) CI/CD
2 134 (33.50%) Software Engineering
3 130 (32.50%) Agile
4 127 (31.75%) AI
5 109 (27.25%) DevOps
6 107 (26.75%) Mentoring
7 106 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
8 96 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 93 (23.25%) Technical Leadership
10 90 (22.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 90 (22.50%) Microservices
11 69 (17.25%) Roadmaps
11 69 (17.25%) Test Automation
12 68 (17.00%) Event-Driven
13 59 (14.75%) TDD
14 53 (13.25%) SDLC
15 52 (13.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 50 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 47 (11.75%) Containerisation
18 46 (11.50%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 115 (28.75%) Java
2 110 (27.50%) SQL
3 90 (22.50%) C#
4 85 (21.25%) JavaScript
5 67 (16.75%) Python
6 65 (16.25%) TypeScript
7 24 (6.00%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.25%) Apex Code
8 13 (3.25%) PL/SQL
9 11 (2.75%) Bash
9 11 (2.75%) Go
9 11 (2.75%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.50%) Bicep
10 6 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.50%) Ruby
11 5 (1.25%) SOQL
12 4 (1.00%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.75%) C
13 3 (0.75%) PHP
14 2 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 62 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 40 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.75%) Degree
4 17 (4.25%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.25%) CISSP
7 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.50%) 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%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (13.50%) QA
2 21 (5.25%) Accessibility
3 18 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (4.25%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.50%) NIST
6 5 (1.25%) GDPR
6 5 (1.25%) WCAG
7 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.75%) NCSC
9 1 (0.25%) GRC
9 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 115 (28.75%) Docker
2 14 (3.50%) 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 60 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.75%) Grafana
3 9 (2.25%) Ansible
4 5 (1.25%) 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 80 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.50%) Oracle
3 18 (4.50%) Salesforce
3 18 (4.50%) ServiceNow
4 12 (3.00%) Informatica
4 12 (3.00%) OpenAI
5 10 (2.50%) Google
6 9 (2.25%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.75%) Sage
8 5 (1.25%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.25%) Foundry
8 5 (1.25%) IBM
8 5 (1.25%) Intapp
8 5 (1.25%) SAP
8 5 (1.25%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.00%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.75%) Aderant
10 3 (0.75%) Adobe
10 3 (0.75%) iManage
10 3 (0.75%) VMware