REST Contracts in Central London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 77 88 55
Rank change year-on-year +11 -33 +27
Contract jobs citing REST 57 95 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.35% 2.52% 4.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.52% 9.12% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 66 166
10th Percentile £387 £406 £413
25th Percentile £425 £513 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £570 £750 £718
90th Percentile £775 £795 £738
London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +11.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central 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 Central 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 542 1,042 1,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.30% 27.64% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 684 1,097
10th Percentile £413 £425 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £820 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.33
25th Percentile - - £53.94
Median hourly rate - - £62.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +255.71%
75th Percentile - - £69.94
90th Percentile - - £74.18
London median hourly rate £40.00 £67.25 £48.58
% change year-on-year -40.52% +38.43% -2.84%

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 9 May 2024.

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 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
City of London +13 49 £475 -20.83% 12
West End of London +5 2 £535 +25.88% 2
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 5 (8.77%) SharePoint
1 5 (8.77%) Site Server
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) nginx
2 2 (3.51%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.75%) SAP HCM
1 1 (1.75%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.86%) Azure
2 22 (38.60%) AWS
3 9 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.28%) Amazon S3
4 7 (12.28%) GitHub
4 7 (12.28%) Power Platform
5 6 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (10.53%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 6 (10.53%) GCP
5 6 (10.53%) IaaS
5 6 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (10.53%) Power Automate
5 6 (10.53%) PowerApps
6 5 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.26%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) DHCP
1 1 (1.75%) DNS
1 1 (1.75%) MQTT
1 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.75%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (12.28%) NoSQL
2 7 (12.28%) Power BI
3 6 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (8.77%) GIS
5 4 (7.02%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.26%) DynamoDB
6 3 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.75%) Metadata
8 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.75%) Parquet
8 1 (1.75%) Redis
8 1 (1.75%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (1.75%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (19.30%) Git
2 9 (15.79%) Postman
2 9 (15.79%) Selenium
3 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.53%) JUnit
4 5 (8.77%) CircleCI
4 5 (8.77%) Maven
5 4 (7.02%) Cucumber
5 4 (7.02%) Cypress.io
5 4 (7.02%) Mercurial
5 4 (7.02%) SpecFlow
6 3 (5.26%) Gradle
6 3 (5.26%) JMeter
6 3 (5.26%) TestNG
7 2 (3.51%) Appium
7 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.51%) EasyMock
7 2 (3.51%) GitLab
7 2 (3.51%) JIRA
7 2 (3.51%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (24.56%) Finance
2 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.28%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.53%) Financial Institution
5 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Back Office
7 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Local Government
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
7 1 (1.75%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.75%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (38.60%) Developer
2 12 (21.05%) Architect
3 11 (19.30%) Senior
4 6 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Platform Architect
4 6 (10.53%) Power Platform Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Systems Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (5.26%) GIS Specialist
6 3 (5.26%) Lead
6 3 (5.26%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Applications Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Digital Architect
7 2 (3.51%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) Spring
1 12 (21.05%) Spring Boot
2 9 (15.79%) JSON
3 8 (14.04%) .NET
4 7 (12.28%) JAX-RS
4 7 (12.28%) XML
5 6 (10.53%) AngularJS
5 6 (10.53%) CSS
5 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (10.53%) Node.js
5 6 (10.53%) Playwright
5 6 (10.53%) Web Services
6 4 (7.02%) .NET Core
6 4 (7.02%) Gherkin
6 4 (7.02%) GWT
6 4 (7.02%) HTML
6 4 (7.02%) React
6 4 (7.02%) RESTful
6 4 (7.02%) Restlet
7 3 (5.26%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (3.51%) Legacy Code
3 2 (3.51%) PKI
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.75%) CBDC
4 1 (1.75%) Digital Currency
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.75%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.75%) Android
2 1 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (36.84%) CI/CD
2 16 (28.07%) Test Automation
3 14 (24.56%) Agile
4 12 (21.05%) DevOps
5 10 (17.54%) Microservices
5 10 (17.54%) TDD
6 8 (14.04%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (12.28%) ETL
8 6 (10.53%) Mentoring
8 6 (10.53%) Network Virtualisation
8 6 (10.53%) OO
8 6 (10.53%) Open Source
8 6 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.53%) Scrum
8 6 (10.53%) XML Parsing
9 5 (8.77%) Computer Science
9 5 (8.77%) MVC
9 5 (8.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 5 (8.77%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (8.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.58%) Java
2 16 (28.07%) JavaScript
3 11 (19.30%) PowerShell
3 11 (19.30%) Python
4 10 (17.54%) C#
5 7 (12.28%) SQL
6 5 (8.77%) Korn
6 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.02%) Swift
8 3 (5.26%) Go
9 2 (3.51%) C++
9 2 (3.51%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.51%) PHP
10 1 (1.75%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.75%) C
10 1 (1.75%) Rust
10 1 (1.75%) SOQL
10 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.28%) Degree
3 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) ISO 20022
2 4 (7.02%) WCAG
3 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.51%) GDPR
5 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Docker
2 6 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.26%) Ansible
2 3 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (5.26%) Terraform
3 2 (3.51%) Kustomize
3 2 (3.51%) Packer
4 1 (1.75%) Grafana
4 1 (1.75%) Kibana
4 1 (1.75%) logstash
4 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.28%) Oracle
3 6 (10.53%) Google
4 5 (8.77%) ESRI
5 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.75%) Foundry
6 1 (1.75%) Informatica
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.75%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) Splunk
6 1 (1.75%) Workday