REST Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Representational State Transfer (REST)
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hillingdon requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing REST 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 4.55% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West London median daily rate £375 £525 £268
% change year-on-year -28.57% +96.26% -51.36%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 23 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 34.85% 12.20% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 3
10th Percentile £363 - £461
25th Percentile £594 - £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -11.63% -0.46%
75th Percentile £716 - £603
90th Percentile £725 £520 £624
West London median daily rate £603 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +26.84% -7.77% -6.36%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon.

REST job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing REST

REST
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
Uxbridge - 3 £375 -
REST
West London

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) API Testing
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle