REST Contract Job Trends in London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 118 102
Rank change year-on-year +45 -16 +2
Contract jobs citing REST 643 295 424
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.68% 2.32% 2.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.24% 8.91% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 195 296
10th Percentile £363 £380 £406
25th Percentile £419 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +2.16% -7.30%
75th Percentile £688 £653 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £850
England median daily rate £513 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -0.24% -2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £53.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.00 - -
Median hourly rate £69.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £74.44
% change year-on-year +27.27% -26.11% +38.18%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,218 3,310 4,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.13% 26.03% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,845 2,320 3,317
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 15 21
10th Percentile £23.33 £33.95 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £37.13 £24.18
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.50 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -23.42% +50.65% -45.01%
75th Percentile £60.94 £66.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.80 £83.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

REST job vacancy trend in London

REST
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in London over the 6 months to 22 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in London

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing REST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing REST

REST
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in London over the 6 months to 22 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in London

REST
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 22 April 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
Central London -5 64 £525 -1.87% 43
South London -9 14 £510 +34.21% 5
West London -28 6 £375 -32.31% 3
East London -1 5 £432 -33.28% 7
North London - 4 - - 1
REST
England

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (3.58%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.64%) Confluence
3 11 (1.71%) Apache
4 10 (1.56%) Camunda
4 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.40%) Appian
6 8 (1.24%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.93%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.93%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.62%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.62%) CICS
8 4 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.31%) Drupal
9 2 (0.31%) Mule
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.31%) WordPress
10 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.16%) InVision
3 1 (0.16%) Maya
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Sketch
3 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.62%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.62%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.31%) Magento
5 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.31%) Shopify
5 2 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.16%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 215 (33.44%) Azure
2 193 (30.02%) AWS
3 90 (14.00%) GCP
4 68 (10.58%) GitHub
5 49 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (6.84%) Serverless
7 43 (6.69%) GitHub Actions
8 37 (5.75%) Power Platform
9 36 (5.60%) IaaS
10 35 (5.44%) Entra ID
10 35 (5.44%) OCI
11 34 (5.29%) PaaS
12 26 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
13 24 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
14 23 (3.58%) Power Automate
14 23 (3.58%) SaaS
15 21 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (3.27%) Amazon S3
16 20 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
17 18 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.64%) HTTP
2 9 (1.40%) SMS
3 6 (0.93%) DNS
4 5 (0.78%) Firewall
5 4 (0.62%) BGP
5 4 (0.62%) FTP
6 3 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.47%) MPLS
6 3 (0.47%) OSPF
6 3 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.47%) SSL
7 2 (0.31%) Modbus
7 2 (0.31%) NaaS
7 2 (0.31%) SAN
7 2 (0.31%) SNMP
7 2 (0.31%) VPN
7 2 (0.31%) WAN
8 1 (0.16%) DHCP
8 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.16%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (9.33%) Relational Database
2 54 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (8.24%) SQL Server
4 38 (5.91%) NoSQL
5 27 (4.20%) MongoDB
6 18 (2.80%) MySQL
7 15 (2.33%) Power BI
8 13 (2.02%) RDBMS
9 12 (1.87%) Pinecone
9 12 (1.87%) Redis
10 11 (1.71%) Data Lake
10 11 (1.71%) DynamoDB
11 10 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (1.40%) Metadata
13 8 (1.24%) DocumentDB
14 7 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 80 (12.44%) Git
2 44 (6.84%) JIRA
3 37 (5.75%) Jenkins
4 31 (4.82%) Postman
5 30 (4.67%) JUnit
6 24 (3.73%) GitLab
7 21 (3.27%) Cucumber
7 21 (3.27%) Selenium
8 17 (2.64%) REST Assured
9 16 (2.49%) Mockito
10 14 (2.18%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.56%) Maven
11 10 (1.56%) SoapUI
12 8 (1.24%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.24%) JMeter
12 8 (1.24%) MLflow
12 8 (1.24%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.93%) SpecFlow
14 5 (0.78%) Gradle
14 5 (0.78%) MSTest
General
1 178 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 142 (22.08%) Finance
3 89 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (8.55%) Public Sector
5 44 (6.84%) Banking
6 24 (3.73%) Front Office
7 17 (2.64%) Marketing
8 15 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.87%) Retail
11 10 (1.56%) Publishing
12 9 (1.40%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.24%) Billing
13 8 (1.24%) Legal
14 6 (0.93%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.62%) Military
17 3 (0.47%) Law
17 3 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 236 (36.70%) Developer
2 138 (21.46%) Architect
3 61 (9.49%) Senior
4 40 (6.22%) Java Developer
5 34 (5.29%) CyberArk Architect
6 31 (4.82%) Python Developer
7 30 (4.67%) Lead
8 28 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
10 26 (4.04%) Software Engineer
11 25 (3.89%) Senior Developer
12 20 (3.11%) Consultant
13 17 (2.64%) C# Developer
14 15 (2.33%) Automation Engineer
14 15 (2.33%) Business Analyst
14 15 (2.33%) Integration Specialist
15 14 (2.18%) Analyst
15 14 (2.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 14 (2.18%) Cloud Specialist
15 14 (2.18%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (29.39%) SOAP
2 111 (17.26%) JSON
3 88 (13.69%) Web Services
4 79 (12.29%) React
4 79 (12.29%) RESTful
5 78 (12.13%) Spring
6 77 (11.98%) Kafka
7 74 (11.51%) Spring Boot
8 72 (11.20%) AngularJS
9 70 (10.89%) .NET
10 65 (10.11%) CSS
11 62 (9.64%) HTML
12 56 (8.71%) OAuth
13 48 (7.47%) XML
14 44 (6.84%) GraphQL
15 42 (6.53%) Middleware
16 40 (6.22%) LDAP
17 39 (6.07%) Node.js
18 33 (5.13%) Pandas
19 31 (4.82%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.00%) Cloud Native
1 45 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
2 42 (6.53%) Product Ownership
2 42 (6.53%) Security Posture
3 35 (5.44%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (4.35%) CMDB
6 26 (4.04%) PKI
7 24 (3.73%) Equities
8 22 (3.42%) Management Information System
9 20 (3.11%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (2.80%) Mobile App
12 16 (2.49%) Data Structures
13 15 (2.33%) Onboarding
14 14 (2.18%) Hedge funds
15 13 (2.02%) Low-Code
16 12 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
16 12 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
17 11 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.98%) Linux
2 20 (3.11%) Windows
3 9 (1.40%) Unix
4 6 (0.93%) zOS
5 4 (0.62%) Android
5 4 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (32.81%) Agile
2 205 (31.88%) CI/CD
3 182 (28.30%) DevOps
4 147 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (19.75%) Microservices
6 110 (17.11%) Integration Patterns
7 89 (13.84%) Test Automation
8 81 (12.60%) Technical Leadership
9 79 (12.29%) Data Modelling
9 79 (12.29%) Observability
10 76 (11.82%) Containerisation
11 75 (11.66%) ITSM
12 72 (11.20%) Analytics
13 71 (11.04%) AI
14 68 (10.58%) Event-Driven
15 65 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 63 (9.80%) Scrum
17 62 (9.64%) API Integration
18 60 (9.33%) Validation
19 59 (9.18%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 178 (27.68%) Python
2 151 (23.48%) SQL
3 150 (23.33%) Java
4 113 (17.57%) JavaScript
5 88 (13.69%) PowerShell
6 84 (13.06%) TypeScript
7 82 (12.75%) C#
8 13 (2.02%) Kotlin
9 12 (1.87%) Apex Code
10 11 (1.71%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.24%) Bicep
12 8 (1.24%) VBA
13 6 (0.93%) Go
13 6 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.78%) Bash
14 5 (0.78%) PHP
15 4 (0.62%) Groovy
15 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 161 (25.04%) Security Cleared
2 149 (23.17%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.13%) Degree
4 22 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.24%) CISSP
6 8 (1.24%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.93%) CISM
8 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.62%) MBA
10 3 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.31%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.31%) OSCP
11 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.86%) QA
2 27 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 25 (3.89%) GDPR
4 13 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.40%) NIST
6 9 (1.40%) WCAG
7 7 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (1.09%) SLA
8 6 (0.93%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.62%) GRC
10 3 (0.47%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.31%) HL7
11 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.31%) NCSC
11 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.31%) PMO
11 2 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 91 (14.15%) Docker
2 50 (7.78%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 2 (0.31%) Postfix
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) IAG
5 1 (0.16%) UAG
5 1 (0.16%) Varnish
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 93 (14.46%) Kubernetes
2 51 (7.93%) Terraform
3 24 (3.73%) Grafana
4 14 (2.18%) Ansible
5 11 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.62%) Pingdom
8 2 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.31%) Avamar
8 2 (0.31%) Control-M
8 2 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.31%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.31%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.31%) Istio
8 2 (0.31%) logstash
8 2 (0.31%) Puppet
8 2 (0.31%) QRadar
8 2 (0.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 79 (12.29%) Oracle
2 74 (11.51%) ServiceNow
3 69 (10.73%) Microsoft
4 39 (6.07%) CyberArk
5 34 (5.29%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.29%) Centrify
6 27 (4.20%) Salesforce
7 21 (3.27%) SAP
8 18 (2.80%) Google
9 17 (2.64%) OpenAI
9 17 (2.64%) Splunk
10 15 (2.33%) Workday
11 12 (1.87%) Adobe
11 12 (1.87%) MuleSoft
12 11 (1.71%) Guidewire
13 10 (1.56%) IBM
14 9 (1.40%) Dynatrace
14 9 (1.40%) UiPath
15 8 (1.24%) Automation Anywhere
15 8 (1.24%) Pega