REST Contracts in Central London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 75 76
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -21
Contract jobs citing REST 51 60 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.55% 2.45% 2.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.83% 11.21% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 46 72
10th Percentile - £390 £391
25th Percentile £413 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -18.37% +2.08%
75th Percentile £600 £584 £750
90th Percentile £673 £775 £790
London median daily rate £547 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.24% -8.70% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

REST falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 519 535 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.99% 21.87% 28.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 386 707
10th Percentile £409 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £551 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Central London

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for REST in Central London

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Central London

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in Central London

REST
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +1 45 £550 +13.99% 28
West End of London -2 2 - - 12
City of Westminster - 2 £550 -
REST
London

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (7.84%) Confluence
2 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.92%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.96%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.96%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.96%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) Azure
2 16 (31.37%) AWS
3 6 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (11.76%) GitHub
3 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.84%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.84%) GCP
5 3 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.88%) Power Automate
5 3 (5.88%) PowerApps
5 3 (5.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 3 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (3.92%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.92%) dbt
6 2 (3.92%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) DNS
1 3 (5.88%) Firewall
1 3 (5.88%) HTTP
2 1 (1.96%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.96%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.96%) SMTP
2 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.84%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.88%) Power BI
3 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.92%) Airbyte
4 2 (3.92%) CockroachDB
4 2 (3.92%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.92%) Redis
4 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.96%) Big Data
5 1 (1.96%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.96%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.96%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.96%) MySQL
5 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (31.37%) Git
2 15 (29.41%) JIRA
3 12 (23.53%) Jenkins
4 10 (19.61%) Postman
5 9 (17.65%) REST Assured
6 8 (15.69%) Selenium
7 3 (5.88%) Maven
7 3 (5.88%) Subversion
8 2 (3.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket
8 2 (3.92%) JUnit
8 2 (3.92%) Mockito
8 2 (3.92%) SoapUI
8 2 (3.92%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.92%) TeamCity
8 2 (3.92%) Xcode
8 2 (3.92%) XCTest
9 1 (1.96%) Terragrunt
9 1 (1.96%) Vite
9 1 (1.96%) webpack
General
1 12 (23.53%) Finance
2 8 (15.69%) Banking
3 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.84%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.88%) Marketing
6 3 (5.88%) Publishing
7 1 (1.96%) Back Office
7 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.96%) Front Office
7 1 (1.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (41.18%) Developer
2 10 (19.61%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) Python Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Test Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Senior Test Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Lead
8 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Salesforce Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.92%) CRM Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Django Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Python/Django Developer
9 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (27.45%) SOAP
2 8 (15.69%) pytest
2 8 (15.69%) Web Services
3 7 (13.73%) Kafka
4 6 (11.76%) CSS
4 6 (11.76%) HTML
4 6 (11.76%) OAuth
5 5 (9.80%) .NET
5 5 (9.80%) JSON
5 5 (9.80%) React
6 4 (7.84%) AngularJS
6 4 (7.84%) Hibernate
6 4 (7.84%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (7.84%) OAuth2
6 4 (7.84%) Spring
6 4 (7.84%) Swagger
6 4 (7.84%) XML
7 3 (5.88%) Middleware
7 3 (5.88%) OpenID
7 3 (5.88%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.88%) Equities
2 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.92%) Blockchain
3 2 (3.92%) CMDB
3 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.96%) Derivative
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Unix
2 1 (1.96%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Solaris
2 1 (1.96%) Windows
2 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 20 (39.22%) Agile
3 17 (33.33%) DevOps
4 15 (29.41%) Test Automation
5 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (19.61%) BDD
6 10 (19.61%) TDD
7 9 (17.65%) Open Source
8 8 (15.69%) Test Scripting
9 7 (13.73%) API Integration
9 7 (13.73%) API Testing
9 7 (13.73%) Test Strategy
10 6 (11.76%) API Design
10 6 (11.76%) Code Quality
10 6 (11.76%) Containerisation
10 6 (11.76%) Data Modelling
10 6 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (11.76%) Mentoring
11 5 (9.80%) ITSM
11 5 (9.80%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (52.94%) Python
2 15 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 12 (23.53%) Java
3 12 (23.53%) SQL
4 10 (19.61%) C#
5 4 (7.84%) Apex Code
5 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.88%) Groovy
6 3 (5.88%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.92%) Bash
7 2 (3.92%) DAML
7 2 (3.92%) SPARQL
8 1 (1.96%) Bicep
8 1 (1.96%) COBOL
8 1 (1.96%) DataWeave
8 1 (1.96%) Go
8 1 (1.96%) Perl
8 1 (1.96%) Ruby
8 1 (1.96%) SOQL
8 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.96%) EMIR
3 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.96%) MiFID
3 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (13.73%) Docker
2 3 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) NFS
3 1 (1.96%) OpenAM
3 1 (1.96%) OpenDJ
3 1 (1.96%) OpenIDM
3 1 (1.96%) Veritas File System
3 1 (1.96%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (21.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.80%) Ansible
3 4 (7.84%) Terraform
4 1 (1.96%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.96%) Control-M
4 1 (1.96%) Netcool
4 1 (1.96%) QRadar
4 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.96%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (17.65%) Oracle
2 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.76%) Salesforce
4 5 (9.80%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.88%) MuleSoft
5 3 (5.88%) Splunk
6 2 (3.92%) BMC
6 2 (3.92%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.92%) SAP
7 1 (1.96%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.96%) CQG
7 1 (1.96%) IBM
7 1 (1.96%) Informatica
7 1 (1.96%) Murex
7 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.96%) Remedy
7 1 (1.96%) Reuters
7 1 (1.96%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.96%) VMware