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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 105 99
Rank change year-on-year +36 -6 +16
Contract jobs citing REST 673 322 422
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.65% 2.66% 2.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.85% 10.07% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 217 300
10th Percentile £368 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +4.76% -10.26%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £789
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £69.00 - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +27.27%

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 4,246 3,197 4,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.01% 26.42% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,824 2,232 3,394
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £447 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £721 £700
90th Percentile £775 £831 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 18 28
10th Percentile £22.26 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -35.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.69 £63.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £74.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +7 75 £550 +4.76% 61
South London -7 14 £516 +35.66% 2
East London -2 6 £432 -35.04% 8
West London -21 6 £375 -32.31% 3
North London - 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 17 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.38%) Confluence
3 12 (1.78%) Camunda
4 10 (1.49%) Apache
4 10 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.49%) Ethereum
4 10 (1.49%) Hyperledger
5 9 (1.34%) Appian
6 6 (0.89%) IIS
7 5 (0.74%) CICS
7 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.45%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.45%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.45%) WordPress
10 2 (0.30%) Drupal
10 2 (0.30%) Mule
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (2.23%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.74%) R3 Corda
3 5 (0.74%) Shopify
4 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.59%) Quorum
4 4 (0.59%) Ripple
5 3 (0.45%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.45%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.30%) Magento
6 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.15%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.15%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.15%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 250 (37.15%) Azure
2 223 (33.14%) AWS
3 92 (13.67%) GCP
4 79 (11.74%) GitHub
5 59 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
6 56 (8.32%) Serverless
7 47 (6.98%) Power Platform
8 33 (4.90%) Entra ID
8 33 (4.90%) OCI
9 31 (4.61%) Amazon S3
10 27 (4.01%) PaaS
11 26 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (3.42%) SaaS
13 21 (3.12%) Power Automate
14 20 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (2.97%) Azure Functions
14 20 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
14 20 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.67%) HTTP
2 9 (1.34%) SMS
3 7 (1.04%) DNS
4 5 (0.74%) BGP
4 5 (0.74%) FTP
4 5 (0.74%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.59%) MPLS
5 4 (0.59%) Network Security
5 4 (0.59%) OSPF
5 4 (0.59%) WAN
6 3 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.45%) Firewall
6 3 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.30%) NaaS
7 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.30%) SNMP
7 2 (0.30%) SSL
7 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.30%) VLAN
8 1 (0.15%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (12.04%) Relational Database
2 71 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (9.66%) SQL Server
4 35 (5.20%) NoSQL
5 25 (3.71%) Power BI
6 24 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 18 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.23%) MySQL
8 15 (2.23%) Redis
9 14 (2.08%) DynamoDB
10 13 (1.93%) Data Lake
11 12 (1.78%) Pinecone
11 12 (1.78%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (1.34%) Big Data
14 9 (1.34%) Metadata
14 9 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 86 (12.78%) Git
2 48 (7.13%) Jenkins
3 39 (5.79%) JIRA
4 35 (5.20%) GitLab
5 31 (4.61%) JUnit
6 28 (4.16%) Postman
7 17 (2.53%) Cypress.io
7 17 (2.53%) Selenium
8 16 (2.38%) Cucumber
8 16 (2.38%) REST Assured
9 13 (1.93%) Mockito
10 12 (1.78%) Gradle
11 11 (1.63%) Maven
12 9 (1.34%) SoapUI
12 9 (1.34%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.19%) JMeter
13 8 (1.19%) MLflow
14 7 (1.04%) Ant
14 7 (1.04%) CircleCI
15 6 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 187 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 162 (24.07%) Finance
3 71 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (7.28%) Banking
5 46 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.42%) Marketing
7 22 (3.27%) Telecoms
8 18 (2.67%) Retail
9 15 (2.23%) Publishing
10 14 (2.08%) Front Office
11 11 (1.63%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.49%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.34%) Billing
14 8 (1.19%) Legal
15 5 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.74%) Military
15 5 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.59%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 256 (38.04%) Developer
2 127 (18.87%) Architect
3 86 (12.78%) Senior
4 39 (5.79%) Java Developer
4 39 (5.79%) Senior Developer
5 36 (5.35%) CyberArk Architect
6 32 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
6 32 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
7 31 (4.61%) Lead
7 31 (4.61%) Software Engineer
8 29 (4.31%) Python Developer
9 24 (3.57%) Consultant
10 23 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 19 (2.82%) React Developer
11 19 (2.82%) ServiceNow Architect
12 18 (2.67%) C# Developer
13 17 (2.53%) Java Engineer
14 16 (2.38%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (2.23%) Data Engineer
16 13 (1.93%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (28.53%) SOAP
2 94 (13.97%) RESTful
3 91 (13.52%) Spring
4 85 (12.63%) Kafka
4 85 (12.63%) React
5 84 (12.48%) JSON
5 84 (12.48%) Spring Boot
5 84 (12.48%) Web Services
6 77 (11.44%) .NET
7 68 (10.10%) AngularJS
8 67 (9.96%) OAuth
9 61 (9.06%) CSS
10 60 (8.92%) HTML
11 49 (7.28%) Node.js
12 47 (6.98%) GraphQL
12 47 (6.98%) Middleware
13 46 (6.84%) XML
14 42 (6.24%) LDAP
15 29 (4.31%) JWT
15 29 (4.31%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.06%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.73%) Product Ownership
3 50 (7.43%) Enterprise Software
4 44 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
5 42 (6.24%) Security Posture
6 32 (4.75%) CMDB
7 26 (3.86%) Mobile App
8 25 (3.71%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.97%) Low-Code
10 19 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (2.38%) Data Structures
11 16 (2.38%) Public Cloud
12 15 (2.23%) Equities
13 13 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.93%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.78%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (1.34%) Hedge funds
15 9 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.01%) Linux
2 17 (2.53%) Windows
3 12 (1.78%) Unix
4 10 (1.49%) Android
5 5 (0.74%) zOS
6 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (37.15%) CI/CD
2 204 (30.31%) Agile
2 204 (30.31%) DevOps
3 148 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
4 145 (21.55%) Microservices
5 120 (17.83%) Integration Patterns
6 97 (14.41%) Data Modelling
7 95 (14.12%) Test Automation
8 93 (13.82%) Event-Driven
9 91 (13.52%) AI
10 89 (13.22%) Observability
11 85 (12.63%) Containerisation
11 85 (12.63%) ITSM
12 78 (11.59%) Technical Leadership
13 76 (11.29%) Scrum
13 76 (11.29%) Software Engineering
14 71 (10.55%) Analytics
15 64 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 64 (9.51%) Validation
15 64 (9.51%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 207 (30.76%) Python
2 181 (26.89%) Java
3 177 (26.30%) SQL
4 135 (20.06%) JavaScript
5 101 (15.01%) TypeScript
6 88 (13.08%) C#
7 68 (10.10%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.67%) Kotlin
9 14 (2.08%) Apex Code
10 12 (1.78%) Bicep
11 11 (1.63%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.34%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.19%) Bash
13 8 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.04%) Groovy
14 7 (1.04%) SOQL
15 5 (0.74%) Go
15 5 (0.74%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.74%) Solidity
15 5 (0.74%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 134 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 117 (17.38%) SC Cleared
3 44 (6.54%) Degree
4 18 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.93%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.19%) CISSP
9 7 (1.04%) CISM
9 7 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.89%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.89%) PMP
11 5 (0.74%) MBA
12 4 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.30%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.77%) QA
2 33 (4.90%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.16%) GDPR
4 15 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.49%) HIPAA
9 9 (1.34%) WCAG
10 7 (1.04%) GRC
10 7 (1.04%) NIST
10 7 (1.04%) SLA
11 3 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.30%) Basel III
12 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.30%) PMO
12 2 (0.30%) SEPA
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 104 (15.45%) Docker
2 48 (7.13%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.45%) Postfix
6 2 (0.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.15%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.15%) IAG
7 1 (0.15%) RACF
7 1 (0.15%) UAG
7 1 (0.15%) Varnish
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (16.64%) Kubernetes
2 54 (8.02%) Terraform
3 25 (3.71%) Grafana
4 19 (2.82%) Ansible
5 11 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.30%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.30%) Avamar
7 2 (0.30%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.30%) Istio
7 2 (0.30%) Kibana
7 2 (0.30%) Pingdom
7 2 (0.30%) PowerCLI
7 2 (0.30%) Puppet
8 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.15%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.15%) TrustSec
8 1 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 91 (13.52%) Oracle
2 77 (11.44%) ServiceNow
3 76 (11.29%) Microsoft
4 40 (5.94%) CyberArk
5 34 (5.05%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.05%) Centrify
5 34 (5.05%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.42%) SAP
7 18 (2.67%) Google
7 18 (2.67%) OpenAI
8 17 (2.53%) Workday
9 15 (2.23%) Databricks
10 14 (2.08%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.93%) Guidewire
11 13 (1.93%) Splunk
12 12 (1.78%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.63%) Adobe
13 11 (1.63%) IBM
14 9 (1.34%) Atlassian
14 9 (1.34%) UiPath