RESTful Contracts in the City of London

RESTful
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RESTful 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 83 97 119
Rank change year-on-year +14 +22 -8
Contract jobs citing RESTful 36 30 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.05% 1.37% 1.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.52% 6.25% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 22 41
10th Percentile £435 £515 £365
25th Percentile £525 £578 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £665 £620
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +7.26% +7.83%
75th Percentile £688 £717 £750
90th Percentile £699 £750 £820
Central London median daily rate £600 £665 £620
% change year-on-year -9.77% +7.26% +7.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

RESTful 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 479 480 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.28% 21.85% 28.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 343 676
10th Percentile £413 £401 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £551 £625
% change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RESTful in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for RESTful in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RESTful in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (8.33%) Apache
1 3 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) AWS
2 7 (19.44%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (19.44%) Amazon S3
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 6 (16.67%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) CloudFront
3 6 (16.67%) Route 53
4 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.56%) npm
4 2 (5.56%) Serverless
4 2 (5.56%) Yarn
5 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Run
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 10 (27.78%) NoSQL
3 6 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (16.67%) DocumentDB
3 6 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 6 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (16.67%) Redis
4 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 3 (8.33%) Big Data
5 3 (8.33%) DB2
5 3 (8.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.78%) MySQL
6 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) Ant
2 2 (5.56%) Babel
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
2 2 (5.56%) webpack
3 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.78%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.78%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.78%) JUnit
3 1 (2.78%) MLflow
3 1 (2.78%) Postman
General
1 16 (44.44%) Finance
2 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Banking
4 6 (16.67%) Retail Banking
5 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) Advertising
7 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (72.22%) Developer
2 6 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Java Developer
4 4 (11.11%) React Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) .NET Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Android Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Implementation Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Scala Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) React
2 10 (27.78%) CSS
2 10 (27.78%) GraphQL
2 10 (27.78%) HTML
2 10 (27.78%) Web Services
3 8 (22.22%) .NET
4 6 (16.67%) Spring
5 4 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 4 (11.11%) Redux
6 3 (8.33%) Node.js
6 3 (8.33%) Spring Boot
7 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET
7 2 (5.56%) CSS3
7 2 (5.56%) HTML5
7 2 (5.56%) JWT
7 2 (5.56%) Material-UI
7 2 (5.56%) OAuth
7 2 (5.56%) Semantic UI
7 2 (5.56%) Swagger
7 2 (5.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Public Cloud
2 6 (16.67%) Derivative
3 4 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.78%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.78%) Equities
5 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (2.78%) Android
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.78%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Agile
1 15 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 10 (27.78%) DevOps
3 10 (27.78%) SOLID
4 8 (22.22%) TDD
5 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (16.67%) API Development
6 6 (16.67%) Asset Management
6 6 (16.67%) Secure Coding
6 6 (16.67%) Unit Testing
7 5 (13.89%) Clean Code
7 5 (13.89%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (13.89%) Data Science
7 5 (13.89%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (13.89%) Fintech
7 5 (13.89%) ITSM
7 5 (13.89%) Microservices
7 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.11%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 19 (52.78%) JavaScript
2 10 (27.78%) C#
2 10 (27.78%) Python
3 8 (22.22%) Java
4 7 (19.44%) SQL
5 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 4 (11.11%) Scala
6 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
7 3 (8.33%) Perl
8 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.78%) Bash
8 1 (2.78%) Clojure
8 1 (2.78%) Elixir
8 1 (2.78%) Go
8 1 (2.78%) Haskell
8 1 (2.78%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.78%) Rust
8 1 (2.78%) SOQL
8 1 (2.78%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.89%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) Sybase
3 2 (5.56%) Remedy
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) Google
4 1 (2.78%) Okta
4 1 (2.78%) Splunk