Hybrid/Remote RESTful Job Trends

RESTful
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring RESTful skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 151 161
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -42
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 428 366 507
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.88% 2.21% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.36% 9.31% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 346 226 359
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

RESTful 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 4,132 3,931 6,456
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.11% 23.73% 26.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,116 2,623 5,177
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,350 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.17% -3.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RESTful and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

RESTful job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

RESTful
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RESTful.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RESTful

RESTful
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing RESTful over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

RESTful salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

RESTful
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 (1.87%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.17%) Mule
3 4 (0.93%) Apache
3 4 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.70%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.70%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.23%) CMS
5 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 259 (60.51%) Azure
2 128 (29.91%) AWS
3 100 (23.36%) Azure DevOps
4 82 (19.16%) Azure AI
5 37 (8.64%) SaaS
6 32 (7.48%) GitHub
7 29 (6.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 28 (6.54%) Serverless
9 21 (4.91%) GCP
10 18 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (3.97%) Google Play
12 14 (3.27%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (2.80%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (2.57%) Amazon S3
15 11 (2.57%) Anthropic Claude
16 10 (2.34%) Power Platform
17 7 (1.64%) Entra ID
17 7 (1.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.94%) Broadband
2 31 (7.24%) Internet
3 4 (0.93%) Intranet
3 4 (0.93%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.93%) SSH
3 4 (0.93%) SSL
4 2 (0.47%) HTTP
4 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.23%) MQTT
5 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (44.39%) MongoDB
2 149 (34.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 93 (21.73%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (8.88%) MySQL
5 29 (6.78%) NoSQL
6 25 (5.84%) Redis
7 17 (3.97%) SQL Server
8 13 (3.04%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (2.10%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.40%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.93%) Delta Lake
12 4 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.70%) Spatial Data
14 2 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (0.47%) Power BI
14 2 (0.47%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 62 (14.49%) Git
2 12 (2.80%) JIRA
3 10 (2.34%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.34%) JUnit
4 9 (2.10%) NUnit
5 8 (1.87%) Claude Code
6 7 (1.64%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.64%) GitLab
6 7 (1.64%) Postman
6 7 (1.64%) Selenium
7 6 (1.40%) Mockito
8 4 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.93%) Maven
9 3 (0.70%) Jasmine
9 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.47%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.47%) Snyk
10 2 (0.47%) Subversion
10 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 122 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.05%) Games
3 32 (7.48%) Finance
4 26 (6.07%) Marketing
5 24 (5.61%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.97%) Law
8 15 (3.50%) Retail
9 12 (2.80%) Banking
10 11 (2.57%) Music Industry
11 9 (2.10%) Back Office
11 9 (2.10%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.93%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.93%) Publishing
12 4 (0.93%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.70%) Advertising
13 3 (0.70%) Military
14 2 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 318 (74.30%) Developer
2 166 (38.79%) .NET Developer
3 75 (17.52%) Lead
3 75 (17.52%) Senior
4 52 (12.15%) Lead Developer
5 41 (9.58%) Software Engineer
6 35 (8.18%) Senior Developer
7 34 (7.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 33 (7.71%) React Developer
9 27 (6.31%) Architect
10 18 (4.21%) Python Developer
11 17 (3.97%) Ruby Developer
12 16 (3.74%) Lead Software Engineer
12 16 (3.74%) Python Engineer
12 16 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (3.27%) Senior Python Developer
15 12 (2.80%) Software Developer
16 11 (2.57%) Java Developer
17 8 (1.87%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (48.83%) .NET
2 179 (41.82%) ASP.NET
3 168 (39.25%) ASP.NET Core
4 160 (37.38%) .NET Core
5 155 (36.21%) React
6 110 (25.70%) Vue
7 107 (25.00%) AngularJS
8 86 (20.09%) Entity Framework
9 82 (19.16%) Blazor
9 82 (19.16%) ML.NET
10 80 (18.69%) ASP.NET Web API
11 67 (15.65%) LINQ
12 49 (11.45%) Node.js
13 44 (10.28%) GraphQL
14 29 (6.78%) CSS
15 28 (6.54%) HTML
16 27 (6.31%) JWT
16 27 (6.31%) React Native
17 26 (6.07%) JSON
18 24 (5.61%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 67 (15.65%) Cloud Native
2 45 (10.51%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (7.94%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (5.84%) Mobile App
5 24 (5.61%) Low-Code
5 24 (5.61%) Video\Live Streaming
6 23 (5.37%) Product Ownership
7 20 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (4.44%) Social Media
9 17 (3.97%) BBC
9 17 (3.97%) iPhone
10 12 (2.80%) Social Network
11 11 (2.57%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.17%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.17%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (0.93%) Cyberattack
14 4 (0.93%) PKI
15 3 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 48 (11.21%) Android
2 28 (6.54%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (56.31%) Full-Stack Development
2 217 (50.70%) Agile
3 164 (38.32%) Multithreading
4 163 (38.08%) AI
5 141 (32.94%) DevOps
6 120 (28.04%) Software Engineering
7 118 (27.57%) Machine Learning
8 114 (26.64%) CI/CD
9 78 (18.22%) Microservices
10 73 (17.06%) API Design
11 63 (14.72%) Containerisation
11 63 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (13.08%) Technical Leadership
13 52 (12.15%) Test Automation
14 51 (11.92%) Scrum
15 50 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 48 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
16 48 (11.21%) OO
17 47 (10.98%) Mentoring
18 45 (10.51%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 212 (49.53%) SQL
2 207 (48.36%) C#
3 157 (36.68%) JavaScript
4 135 (31.54%) TypeScript
5 67 (15.65%) Python
6 43 (10.05%) Java
7 28 (6.54%) Go
8 17 (3.97%) Ruby
9 13 (3.04%) PHP
10 7 (1.64%) Bicep
10 7 (1.64%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.40%) Bash
12 5 (1.17%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.93%) Scala
14 3 (0.70%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.23%) Lua
Qualifications
1 35 (8.18%) Degree
2 19 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (3.97%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.57%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.40%) CISSP
7 4 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.93%) OCP
7 4 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.47%) CASP
9 2 (0.47%) CCSP
9 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.47%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.80%) Accessibility
1 12 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (2.57%) QA
3 7 (1.64%) GDPR
4 6 (1.40%) NIST
5 5 (1.17%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 5 (1.17%) SLA
5 5 (1.17%) WCAG
6 2 (0.47%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 83 (19.39%) Docker
2 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (11.21%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.27%) Terraform
3 5 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.70%) Grafana
5 3 (0.70%) Plesk
6 2 (0.47%) MIIS
6 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.23%) Ansible
7 1 (0.23%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 193 (45.09%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.11%) Google
3 18 (4.21%) Apple
4 17 (3.97%) Facebook
4 17 (3.97%) Sony
4 17 (3.97%) Yahoo!
5 11 (2.57%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.87%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.17%) Splunk
8 4 (0.93%) Databricks
8 4 (0.93%) Thales
9 3 (0.70%) DevExpress
9 3 (0.70%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.70%) Oracle
9 3 (0.70%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.70%) webMethods
10 2 (0.47%) VMware
11 1 (0.23%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.23%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.23%) Solace