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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 88 97
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing REST 766 409 428
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.85% 3.01% 2.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.98% 11.53% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 297 296
10th Percentile £400 £360 £400
25th Percentile £448 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £626
90th Percentile £721 £750 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £519
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.61% -5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £47.90 - -
25th Percentile £58.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £67.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £83.25 - -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +22.00% -28.57% +29.94%

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 4,511 3,547 4,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.70% 26.10% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,980 2,485 3,281
10th Percentile £390 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £725
90th Percentile £785 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 26
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +12.50% -39.39%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £58.76
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +17.12% -1.33% -10.00%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +6 92 £550 - 35
South London -4 16 £556 -10.57% 7
West London -19 5 £539 +2.62% 3
East London +3 4 £400 -39.92% 9
North London - 1 - - 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 27 (3.52%) Confluence
2 26 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.22%) Apache
4 15 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.17%) Anypoint
7 7 (0.91%) Camunda
7 7 (0.91%) IIS
7 7 (0.91%) Mule
8 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.65%) CICS
9 5 (0.65%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.65%) Hyperledger
9 5 (0.65%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.52%) Appian
10 4 (0.52%) WordPress
11 3 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.39%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.26%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.26%) Trello
3 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.83%) NetSuite
2 11 (1.44%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.65%) R3 Corda
6 5 (0.65%) Shopify
7 4 (0.52%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.52%) Quorum
7 4 (0.52%) Ripple
8 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.26%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.26%) Infor LN
9 2 (0.26%) Magento
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
9 2 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.26%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 272 (35.51%) Azure
2 234 (30.55%) AWS
3 121 (15.80%) GitHub
4 86 (11.23%) GCP
5 80 (10.44%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (9.53%) GitHub Actions
7 64 (8.36%) Serverless
8 52 (6.79%) Entra ID
9 44 (5.74%) Power Platform
10 40 (5.22%) SaaS
11 35 (4.57%) Amazon S3
12 32 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (3.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 24 (3.13%) Boomi
15 24 (3.13%) PaaS
16 23 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (3.00%) OCI
17 22 (2.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.61%) HTTP
2 7 (0.91%) HTTPS
3 6 (0.78%) FTP
4 5 (0.65%) BGP
4 5 (0.65%) Network Security
5 4 (0.52%) DNS
5 4 (0.52%) Firewall
5 4 (0.52%) MPLS
5 4 (0.52%) OSPF
5 4 (0.52%) WAN
6 3 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.39%) SSL
6 3 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.26%) Internet
7 2 (0.26%) Intranet
7 2 (0.26%) SNMP
7 2 (0.26%) SSH
7 2 (0.26%) VLAN
7 2 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (12.79%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (11.75%) Relational Database
3 76 (9.92%) SQL Server
4 34 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 31 (4.05%) MongoDB
6 28 (3.66%) Power BI
7 25 (3.26%) Redis
8 19 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.48%) MySQL
9 17 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.96%) Big Data
11 14 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.70%) Metadata
13 12 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (1.44%) BigQuery
15 10 (1.31%) DynamoDB
16 9 (1.17%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 8 (1.04%) Pinecone
18 7 (0.91%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 117 (15.27%) Git
2 63 (8.22%) Jenkins
3 52 (6.79%) JIRA
4 39 (5.09%) GitLab
5 36 (4.70%) JUnit
6 22 (2.87%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.35%) Gradle
7 18 (2.35%) Maven
8 16 (2.09%) Postman
9 14 (1.83%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.83%) Mockito
9 14 (1.83%) Selenium
10 12 (1.57%) REST Assured
11 10 (1.31%) CircleCI
11 10 (1.31%) Eclipse
12 9 (1.17%) Ant
12 9 (1.17%) JMeter
13 8 (1.04%) Storybook
13 8 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (0.91%) Vite
General
1 212 (27.68%) Finance
2 182 (23.76%) Social Skills
3 101 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (8.62%) Banking
4 66 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 39 (5.09%) Retail
6 29 (3.79%) Telecoms
7 18 (2.35%) Marketing
8 17 (2.22%) Publishing
9 15 (1.96%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.31%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.31%) Front Office
12 9 (1.17%) Billing
12 9 (1.17%) Legal
12 9 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.78%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.65%) Law
14 5 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 311 (40.60%) Developer
2 135 (17.62%) Architect
3 121 (15.80%) Senior
4 63 (8.22%) Senior Developer
5 53 (6.92%) Java Developer
6 47 (6.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 42 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
8 39 (5.09%) Lead
9 38 (4.96%) Software Engineer
10 36 (4.70%) Python Developer
11 28 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 26 (3.39%) React Developer
13 23 (3.00%) ServiceNow Architect
14 22 (2.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 20 (2.61%) .NET Developer
15 20 (2.61%) Consultant
15 20 (2.61%) ServiceNow Developer
16 18 (2.35%) C# Developer
16 18 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
16 18 (2.35%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (27.94%) SOAP
2 112 (14.62%) React
3 110 (14.36%) RESTful
4 109 (14.23%) .NET
4 109 (14.23%) JSON
5 102 (13.32%) Spring
6 92 (12.01%) Spring Boot
7 87 (11.36%) Kafka
8 85 (11.10%) Web Services
9 74 (9.66%) OAuth
10 72 (9.40%) CSS
10 72 (9.40%) XML
11 70 (9.14%) HTML
12 63 (8.22%) AngularJS
13 62 (8.09%) Node.js
14 61 (7.96%) Middleware
15 60 (7.83%) GraphQL
16 41 (5.35%) OAuth2
17 33 (4.31%) FastAPI
18 29 (3.79%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 108 (14.10%) Cloud Native
2 70 (9.14%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (7.57%) Product Ownership
4 50 (6.53%) CMDB
5 37 (4.83%) Mobile App
6 31 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (3.79%) Management Information System
8 26 (3.39%) AI Agents
9 25 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (2.87%) Data Structures
11 18 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (2.22%) Low-Code
12 17 (2.22%) Onboarding
13 16 (2.09%) Virtual Team
14 15 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.57%) Equities
15 12 (1.57%) Security Posture
16 10 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
17 9 (1.17%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.44%) Linux
2 20 (2.61%) Windows
3 19 (2.48%) Android
4 18 (2.35%) Unix
5 6 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.65%) zOS
7 4 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) VMS
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (43.73%) CI/CD
2 269 (35.12%) Agile
3 252 (32.90%) DevOps
4 191 (24.93%) Microservices
5 160 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (18.28%) AI
7 121 (15.80%) Event-Driven
8 116 (15.14%) Data Modelling
9 113 (14.75%) Containerisation
9 113 (14.75%) Integration Patterns
10 109 (14.23%) Test Automation
11 107 (13.97%) Observability
12 106 (13.84%) Scrum
13 101 (13.19%) Software Engineering
14 91 (11.88%) Full-Stack Development
15 86 (11.23%) Analytics
16 84 (10.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 84 (10.97%) Roadmaps
17 80 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 80 (10.44%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 207 (27.02%) Python
2 204 (26.63%) Java
3 196 (25.59%) SQL
4 179 (23.37%) JavaScript
5 125 (16.32%) TypeScript
6 111 (14.49%) C#
7 41 (5.35%) PowerShell
8 32 (4.18%) Kotlin
9 24 (3.13%) Apex Code
10 19 (2.48%) Groovy
11 16 (2.09%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.83%) Bicep
13 13 (1.70%) Bash
14 12 (1.57%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.44%) Shell Script
15 11 (1.44%) SOQL
16 10 (1.31%) Go
17 9 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (1.17%) SOSL
18 6 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 146 (19.06%) Security Cleared
2 127 (16.58%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.66%) Degree
4 21 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.83%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.17%) CISSP
8 9 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.04%) CISM
10 6 (0.78%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.78%) PMP
11 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.65%) MBA
11 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.26%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (9.01%) QA
2 37 (4.83%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.66%) GDPR
4 26 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.35%) GRC
6 14 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.44%) HIPAA
7 11 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.31%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.91%) WCAG
10 6 (0.78%) SLA
11 4 (0.52%) HL7
11 4 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.52%) PMO
11 4 (0.52%) SEPA
12 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.39%) NIST
13 2 (0.26%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 2 (0.26%) ITGC
System Software
1 128 (16.71%) Docker
2 20 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.39%) Postfix
6 2 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.26%) Varnish
6 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) Ceph
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) IAG
7 1 (0.13%) RACF
7 1 (0.13%) UAG
7 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 134 (17.49%) Kubernetes
2 76 (9.92%) Terraform
3 28 (3.66%) Grafana
4 24 (3.13%) Ansible
5 15 (1.96%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.65%) Control-M
8 3 (0.39%) Bosun
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.26%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (0.26%) Avamar
9 2 (0.26%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.26%) Kibana
9 2 (0.26%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.13%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) linkerd
10 1 (0.13%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 114 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 110 (14.36%) Oracle
3 92 (12.01%) ServiceNow
4 68 (8.88%) Salesforce
5 41 (5.35%) Google
6 34 (4.44%) SAP
7 26 (3.39%) MuleSoft
7 26 (3.39%) Splunk
8 21 (2.74%) Workday
9 20 (2.61%) OpenAI
10 15 (1.96%) IBM
11 12 (1.57%) Databricks
11 12 (1.57%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.31%) New Relic
13 9 (1.17%) Atlassian
13 9 (1.17%) OutSystems
14 8 (1.04%) Cisco
14 8 (1.04%) CyberArk
15 7 (0.91%) Foundry
15 7 (0.91%) Guidewire