REST Contracts in London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 105 72
Rank change year-on-year +4 -33 -7
Contract jobs citing REST 425 643 1,369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.40% 2.45% 3.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.45% 9.00% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 490 1,009
10th Percentile £406 £430 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +11.63%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £840 £788 £751
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £41.38 £33.63
25th Percentile - £50.94 £46.56
Median hourly rate £67.00 £73.75 £65.55
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% +12.51% -
75th Percentile - £90.00 £75.51
90th Percentile - - £75.71
England median hourly rate £74.44 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +29.46% +4.55% +49.72%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,498 7,148 11,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.44% 27.22% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 5,348 9,245
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £810 £788
England median daily rate £550 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 40 69
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £32.25
25th Percentile £23.80 £41.97 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £67.25 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -40.52% +38.43% -2.84%
75th Percentile £63.13 £75.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £72.60 £82.33 £78.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for REST in London

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in London.

Daily rate trend for REST in London

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in London

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in London.

Hourly rate trend for REST in London

REST
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +11 57 £500 -16.67% 17
West London +23 15 £450 - 10
South London +1 14 £513 +12.64%
East London -8 3 £850 +43.58% 3
REST
England

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (6.12%) Confluence
2 12 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.35%) Anypoint
3 10 (2.35%) Apache
4 9 (2.12%) Site Server
5 8 (1.88%) CMS
6 6 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.41%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.18%) Mule
7 5 (1.18%) Mule ESB
8 4 (0.94%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.71%) nginx
10 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.47%) IIS
10 2 (0.47%) JBoss
10 2 (0.47%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.47%) SAS
10 2 (0.47%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.71%) Shopify
3 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.24%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 121 (28.47%) Azure
2 117 (27.53%) AWS
3 40 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (9.41%) GitHub
4 33 (7.76%) GCP
5 30 (7.06%) Serverless
6 29 (6.82%) Amazon S3
7 21 (4.94%) IaaS
7 21 (4.94%) npm
8 20 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (4.47%) SaaS
10 18 (4.24%) Entra ID
11 17 (4.00%) PaaS
12 16 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (3.76%) Power Platform
13 14 (3.29%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (3.06%) Azure API Management
14 13 (3.06%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (2.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.59%) HTTP
2 6 (1.41%) SSH
3 3 (0.71%) DNS
3 3 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.71%) VoIP
4 2 (0.47%) BGP
4 2 (0.47%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.47%) Internet
4 2 (0.47%) MPLS
4 2 (0.47%) SMS
4 2 (0.47%) VPN
5 1 (0.24%) AMQP
5 1 (0.24%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.24%) FTP
5 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.24%) MQTT
5 1 (0.24%) NAS
5 1 (0.24%) SAN
5 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (8.71%) NoSQL
2 37 (8.71%) SQL Server
3 32 (7.53%) Relational Database
4 15 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (3.29%) MySQL
6 11 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.35%) DynamoDB
7 10 (2.35%) GIS
7 10 (2.35%) Power BI
8 9 (2.12%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.18%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.94%) Big Data
11 4 (0.94%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.47%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 112 (26.35%) Git
2 62 (14.59%) JIRA
3 60 (14.12%) Jenkins
4 39 (9.18%) JUnit
5 29 (6.82%) Maven
6 27 (6.35%) Selenium
7 23 (5.41%) Cucumber
8 21 (4.94%) webpack
9 19 (4.47%) Gradle
10 18 (4.24%) Postman
10 18 (4.24%) TeamCity
11 15 (3.53%) JMeter
12 14 (3.29%) GitLab
12 14 (3.29%) Visual Studio
13 12 (2.82%) SpecFlow
14 10 (2.35%) Bitbucket
14 10 (2.35%) CircleCI
14 10 (2.35%) Cypress.io
15 9 (2.12%) TestNG
16 7 (1.65%) Mockito
General
1 90 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 81 (19.06%) Finance
3 46 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 39 (9.18%) Front Office
6 27 (6.35%) Banking
7 11 (2.59%) Retail
8 9 (2.12%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.18%) Back Office
11 5 (1.18%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.18%) Law
11 5 (1.18%) Marketing
11 5 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.71%) Aviation
14 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Local Government
14 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 240 (56.47%) Developer
2 65 (15.29%) Senior
3 63 (14.82%) Java Developer
4 47 (11.06%) Architect
5 36 (8.47%) Full Stack Developer
6 28 (6.59%) Software Engineer
7 26 (6.12%) Angular Developer
7 26 (6.12%) Senior Developer
8 20 (4.71%) Applications Developer
8 20 (4.71%) C# Developer
8 20 (4.71%) Python Developer
8 20 (4.71%) UI Developer
9 18 (4.24%) Java Engineer
9 18 (4.24%) Lead
10 17 (4.00%) .NET Developer
11 16 (3.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 16 (3.76%) React Developer
12 15 (3.53%) Real Time Developer
12 15 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (3.53%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (20.71%) Spring
2 80 (18.82%) React
3 72 (16.94%) Web Services
4 71 (16.71%) .NET
5 68 (16.00%) CSS
5 68 (16.00%) Spring Boot
6 67 (15.76%) AngularJS
7 63 (14.82%) JSON
8 59 (13.88%) SOAP
9 58 (13.65%) HTML
10 47 (11.06%) XML
11 41 (9.65%) Node.js
12 36 (8.47%) GraphQL
13 31 (7.29%) Hibernate
13 31 (7.29%) JPA
14 27 (6.35%) Swagger
15 26 (6.12%) WebSockets
16 25 (5.88%) Kafka
17 24 (5.65%) .NET Core
18 22 (5.18%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (3.76%) Data Structures
2 16 (3.76%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.06%) Algorithms
5 13 (3.06%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.82%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.12%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.88%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.88%) Legacy Code
9 8 (1.88%) Wiki
10 6 (1.41%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.41%) IoT
10 6 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.35%) Linux
2 18 (4.24%) Apple iOS
3 17 (4.00%) Windows
4 15 (3.53%) Android
4 15 (3.53%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) AIX
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (40.71%) Agile
2 109 (25.65%) CI/CD
3 91 (21.41%) Microservices
4 88 (20.71%) DevOps
5 82 (19.29%) Software Engineering
6 71 (16.71%) TDD
7 70 (16.47%) Test Automation
8 67 (15.76%) Scrum
9 59 (13.88%) Design Patterns
10 51 (12.00%) Front End Development
11 50 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (11.06%) Unit Testing
13 46 (10.82%) Full Stack Development
14 41 (9.65%) OO
15 39 (9.18%) BDD
16 38 (8.94%) Continuous Integration
17 31 (7.29%) Mentoring
18 30 (7.06%) Computer Science
19 29 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
20 28 (6.59%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 156 (36.71%) Java
2 128 (30.12%) JavaScript
3 93 (21.88%) Python
4 92 (21.65%) SQL
5 82 (19.29%) C#
6 69 (16.24%) TypeScript
7 29 (6.82%) PowerShell
8 20 (4.71%) Kotlin
9 15 (3.53%) Go
10 11 (2.59%) C++
11 9 (2.12%) Korn
11 9 (2.12%) Swift
12 8 (1.88%) Perl
12 8 (1.88%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.65%) Apex Code
13 7 (1.65%) Groovy
13 7 (1.65%) PHP
13 7 (1.65%) Rust
14 6 (1.41%) Bicep
14 6 (1.41%) C
Qualifications
1 68 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 64 (15.06%) Degree
3 61 (14.35%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.35%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.94%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.71%) CISSP
8 3 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.47%) PMP
10 1 (0.24%) ISEB
10 1 (0.24%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.47%) QA
2 14 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.12%) WCAG
5 6 (1.41%) GDPR
5 6 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.18%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.18%) SLA
7 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.71%) GRC
8 2 (0.47%) HL7
8 2 (0.47%) MiFID
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 77 (18.12%) Docker
2 18 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.24%) IAG
4 1 (0.24%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.24%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 39 (9.18%) Terraform
3 16 (3.76%) Ansible
3 16 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (3.29%) Grafana
5 7 (1.65%) Kibana
6 5 (1.18%) CloudHub
6 5 (1.18%) Podman
7 4 (0.94%) Argo
7 4 (0.94%) Packer
8 3 (0.71%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.71%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.47%) Istio
9 2 (0.47%) logstash
9 2 (0.47%) PingFederate
9 2 (0.47%) Puppet
10 1 (0.24%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.24%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.24%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 55 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.76%) Oracle
3 28 (6.59%) Google
4 26 (6.12%) Salesforce
5 22 (5.18%) MuleSoft
6 18 (4.24%) SAP
7 15 (3.53%) Splunk
8 10 (2.35%) ESRI
8 10 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.41%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.41%) WSO2
10 5 (1.18%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.94%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.94%) Dell
11 4 (0.94%) IBM
11 4 (0.94%) New Relic
12 3 (0.71%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.71%) Intel
12 3 (0.71%) Okta
12 3 (0.71%) Optimizely