REST Contracts in East London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 29 22
Rank change year-on-year +13 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing REST 4 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 3.70% 1.79% 5.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.18% 8.57% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile - £597 £533
25th Percentile £540 £683 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £850 £663
Median % change year-on-year -29.12% +28.30% +14.22%
75th Percentile £704 £875 £888
90th Percentile £717 - £925
London median daily rate £555 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +5.62% -12.50% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 22 35 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 20.37% 20.83% 18.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 35
10th Percentile £316 £300 £418
25th Percentile £400 £409 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% -8.80% +11.92%
75th Percentile £540 £614 £694
90th Percentile £692 £684 £855
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £36.00
London median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -44.03% +21.82%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in East London

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for REST in East London

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in East London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in East London

REST
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Tower Hamlets +5 3 £540 -
REST
London

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) NeoLoad
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Backend Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Developer
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Rust Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Rust Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) JPA
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JMS
2 1 (25.00%) Sass
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) BDD
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Process Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Rust
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
1 1 (25.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Workday