REST Contracts in the City of London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 85 54
Rank change year-on-year +9 -31 +31
Contract jobs citing REST 50 91 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.29% 2.56% 4.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.29% 9.08% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 62 152
10th Percentile £376 £428 £419
25th Percentile £413 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £608
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -1.28% +10.50%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £749
Central London median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of 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 486 1,002 1,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.30% 28.22% 30.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 652 1,032
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £505 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £689 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £820 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
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
Central London median hourly rate - - £62.25
% change year-on-year - - +255.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for REST 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 REST in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for REST in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST 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 REST in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for REST 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 5 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 5 (10.00%) Site Server
2 2 (4.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) nginx
2 2 (4.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (2.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.00%) SAP HCM
1 1 (2.00%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.00%) Azure
2 16 (32.00%) AWS
3 9 (18.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (14.00%) Amazon S3
4 7 (14.00%) GitHub
4 7 (14.00%) Power Platform
5 6 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (12.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (12.00%) Entra ID
5 6 (12.00%) GCP
5 6 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (12.00%) Power Automate
5 6 (12.00%) PowerApps
6 5 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (10.00%) IaaS
7 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) DHCP
1 1 (2.00%) DNS
1 1 (2.00%) Firewall
1 1 (2.00%) Intranet
1 1 (2.00%) MQTT
1 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (14.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (14.00%) Power BI
3 6 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (10.00%) GIS
5 4 (8.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.00%) CouchDB
8 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.00%) Metadata
8 1 (2.00%) Parquet
8 1 (2.00%) PowerCenter
8 1 (2.00%) Redis
8 1 (2.00%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (2.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) Git
2 9 (18.00%) Postman
2 9 (18.00%) Selenium
3 6 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (12.00%) JUnit
4 5 (10.00%) CircleCI
4 5 (10.00%) Maven
5 4 (8.00%) Cucumber
5 4 (8.00%) Cypress.io
5 4 (8.00%) Mercurial
5 4 (8.00%) SpecFlow
6 3 (6.00%) Gradle
6 3 (6.00%) JMeter
6 3 (6.00%) TestNG
7 2 (4.00%) Appium
7 2 (4.00%) EasyMock
7 2 (4.00%) GitLab
7 2 (4.00%) JIRA
7 2 (4.00%) Mockito
7 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (24.00%) Finance
2 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.00%) Financial Institution
4 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Back Office
7 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Local Government
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (40.00%) Developer
2 11 (22.00%) Architect
3 7 (14.00%) Senior
4 6 (12.00%) Java Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Platform Architect
4 6 (12.00%) Power Platform Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Systems Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Digital Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (6.00%) GIS Specialist
6 3 (6.00%) Lead
6 3 (6.00%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Applications Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) GIS Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) JSON
2 8 (16.00%) .NET
2 8 (16.00%) Spring
2 8 (16.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (16.00%) XML
3 7 (14.00%) JAX-RS
4 6 (12.00%) AngularJS
4 6 (12.00%) CSS
4 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (12.00%) Node.js
4 6 (12.00%) Web Services
5 5 (10.00%) HTML
6 4 (8.00%) .NET Core
6 4 (8.00%) Gherkin
6 4 (8.00%) GWT
6 4 (8.00%) Playwright
6 4 (8.00%) React
6 4 (8.00%) RESTful
6 4 (8.00%) Restlet
7 3 (6.00%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) Legacy Code
3 2 (4.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.00%) CBDC
4 1 (2.00%) Digital Currency
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.00%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Android
1 1 (2.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (28.00%) Test Automation
3 12 (24.00%) Agile
3 12 (24.00%) DevOps
4 10 (20.00%) Microservices
4 10 (20.00%) TDD
5 8 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (14.00%) ETL
7 6 (12.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (12.00%) OO
7 6 (12.00%) Open Source
7 6 (12.00%) Scrum
7 6 (12.00%) XML Parsing
8 5 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 5 (10.00%) MVC
8 5 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (10.00%) Unit Testing
8 5 (10.00%) User Experience
9 4 (8.00%) OOP
9 4 (8.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.00%) Java
1 15 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (22.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (22.00%) Python
3 10 (20.00%) C#
4 7 (14.00%) SQL
5 5 (10.00%) Korn
6 3 (6.00%) Go
6 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.00%) C++
7 2 (4.00%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.00%) PHP
8 1 (2.00%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.00%) C
8 1 (2.00%) Rust
8 1 (2.00%) SOQL
8 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) Degree
3 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) QA
2 4 (8.00%) WCAG
3 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.00%) ISO 20022
5 1 (2.00%) GDPR
5 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
2 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Ansible
2 3 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (6.00%) Terraform
3 2 (4.00%) Kustomize
3 2 (4.00%) Packer
4 1 (2.00%) Grafana
4 1 (2.00%) Kibana
4 1 (2.00%) logstash
4 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) Google
2 6 (12.00%) Oracle
3 5 (10.00%) ESRI
4 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.00%) Adobe
5 1 (2.00%) Informatica
5 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) Workday