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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 91 97
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing REST 692 375 444
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.59% 2.91% 2.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.72% 11.06% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 268 318
10th Percentile £393 £371 £400
25th Percentile £430 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £547 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% +4.24% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £647
90th Percentile £750 £729 £788
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £51.13 - -
25th Percentile £62.19 - -
Median hourly rate £78.75 - £67.00
75th Percentile £93.44 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -28.57% +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 4,402 3,392 4,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.84% 26.31% 26.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,914 2,364 3,451
10th Percentile £381 £376 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £711
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 28
10th Percentile £24.30 - £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.88% -36.80%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £61.70
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -10.54%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +10 88 £558 +1.36% 37
South London +2 14 £516 +2.89%
East London +2 5 £416 -37.48% 4
West London -21 5 £375 -31.82% 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 22 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.89%) Confluence
3 13 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.73%) Camunda
5 11 (1.59%) Apache
6 10 (1.45%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.45%) Hyperledger
7 8 (1.16%) Appian
7 8 (1.16%) IIS
8 7 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.87%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.72%) CICS
10 5 (0.72%) Mule
10 5 (0.72%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.43%) WordPress
13 2 (0.29%) Drupal
13 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Maya
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.87%) Shopify
4 5 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.72%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.58%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.58%) Quorum
5 4 (0.58%) Ripple
6 3 (0.43%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.43%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.29%) Magento
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 247 (35.69%) Azure
2 211 (30.49%) AWS
3 90 (13.01%) GitHub
4 74 (10.69%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (10.55%) GCP
6 62 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
7 59 (8.53%) Serverless
8 42 (6.07%) Entra ID
9 41 (5.92%) Power Platform
10 33 (4.77%) Amazon S3
11 32 (4.62%) SaaS
12 26 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (3.76%) OCI
13 23 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (3.32%) PaaS
14 22 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (3.18%) Azure Functions
14 22 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
14 22 (3.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 21 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.75%) HTTP
2 7 (1.01%) HTTPS
3 6 (0.87%) FTP
4 5 (0.72%) BGP
4 5 (0.72%) DNS
4 5 (0.72%) Network Security
5 4 (0.58%) Firewall
5 4 (0.58%) MPLS
5 4 (0.58%) OSPF
5 4 (0.58%) SMS
5 4 (0.58%) WAN
6 3 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.29%) Internet
7 2 (0.29%) Intranet
7 2 (0.29%) SNMP
7 2 (0.29%) SSL
7 2 (0.29%) VLAN
7 2 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (12.43%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (12.28%) Relational Database
3 71 (10.26%) SQL Server
4 37 (5.35%) NoSQL
5 30 (4.34%) MongoDB
6 25 (3.61%) Power BI
7 19 (2.75%) Redis
8 18 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (2.17%) MySQL
11 14 (2.02%) Big Data
12 11 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.45%) Data Lake
13 10 (1.45%) DynamoDB
13 10 (1.45%) Metadata
13 10 (1.45%) Pinecone
14 9 (1.30%) BigQuery
14 9 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (1.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 105 (15.17%) Git
2 58 (8.38%) Jenkins
3 48 (6.94%) JIRA
4 38 (5.49%) JUnit
5 37 (5.35%) GitLab
6 22 (3.18%) Postman
7 20 (2.89%) Cypress.io
8 18 (2.60%) Selenium
9 17 (2.46%) Cucumber
9 17 (2.46%) REST Assured
10 16 (2.31%) Maven
11 15 (2.17%) Gradle
11 15 (2.17%) Mockito
12 10 (1.45%) Eclipse
13 9 (1.30%) Ant
13 9 (1.30%) JMeter
14 8 (1.16%) SonarQube
14 8 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
15 7 (1.01%) CircleCI
16 6 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 185 (26.73%) Finance
2 163 (23.55%) Social Skills
3 91 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.53%) Banking
5 54 (7.80%) Public Sector
6 31 (4.48%) Retail
7 22 (3.18%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.89%) Marketing
9 15 (2.17%) Publishing
10 14 (2.02%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.73%) Front Office
12 11 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.45%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.30%) Legal
15 7 (1.01%) Billing
16 6 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.58%) Automotive
17 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (0.43%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 276 (39.88%) Developer
2 114 (16.47%) Architect
3 100 (14.45%) Senior
4 48 (6.94%) Java Developer
4 48 (6.94%) Senior Developer
5 40 (5.78%) Full-Stack Developer
6 36 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
7 34 (4.91%) Software Engineer
8 32 (4.62%) Lead
8 32 (4.62%) Python Developer
9 28 (4.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 24 (3.47%) Consultant
11 22 (3.18%) React Developer
12 20 (2.89%) ServiceNow Architect
13 17 (2.46%) Data Engineer
14 16 (2.31%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (2.31%) Java Engineer
14 16 (2.31%) ServiceNow Developer
15 15 (2.17%) Backend Developer
15 15 (2.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (26.88%) SOAP
2 102 (14.74%) React
3 97 (14.02%) Spring
4 96 (13.87%) RESTful
5 91 (13.15%) JSON
6 90 (13.01%) Spring Boot
7 87 (12.57%) .NET
8 84 (12.14%) Web Services
9 83 (11.99%) Kafka
10 70 (10.12%) OAuth
11 67 (9.68%) AngularJS
12 60 (8.67%) CSS
12 60 (8.67%) HTML
13 58 (8.38%) GraphQL
13 58 (8.38%) Node.js
13 58 (8.38%) XML
14 54 (7.80%) Middleware
15 33 (4.77%) OAuth2
16 30 (4.34%) JWT
17 27 (3.90%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 85 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.53%) Product Ownership
3 52 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (5.64%) CMDB
5 33 (4.77%) Mobile App
6 26 (3.76%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (2.75%) Low-Code
10 18 (2.60%) Virtual Team
11 17 (2.46%) Data Structures
12 16 (2.31%) Security Posture
13 15 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (2.17%) Onboarding
14 14 (2.02%) AI Agents
15 13 (1.88%) Equities
15 13 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (1.45%) Public Cloud
17 9 (1.30%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.05%) Linux
2 19 (2.75%) Windows
3 14 (2.02%) Unix
4 12 (1.73%) Android
5 5 (0.72%) zOS
6 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) VMS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (42.34%) CI/CD
2 240 (34.68%) Agile
3 224 (32.37%) DevOps
4 171 (24.71%) Microservices
5 146 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
6 110 (15.90%) AI
7 102 (14.74%) Data Modelling
7 102 (14.74%) Test Automation
8 101 (14.60%) Event-Driven
9 100 (14.45%) Containerisation
9 100 (14.45%) Integration Patterns
9 100 (14.45%) Scrum
10 94 (13.58%) Observability
11 87 (12.57%) Software Engineering
12 76 (10.98%) Analytics
13 74 (10.69%) Full-Stack Development
14 73 (10.55%) Workflow
15 68 (9.83%) ITSM
15 68 (9.83%) Roadmaps
16 66 (9.54%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 200 (28.90%) Python
2 194 (28.03%) Java
3 174 (25.14%) SQL
4 145 (20.95%) JavaScript
5 121 (17.49%) TypeScript
6 91 (13.15%) C#
7 44 (6.36%) PowerShell
8 22 (3.18%) Kotlin
9 21 (3.03%) Apex Code
10 14 (2.02%) Bicep
11 13 (1.88%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.73%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.45%) Bash
13 10 (1.45%) Groovy
13 10 (1.45%) SOQL
14 8 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.16%) SOSL
15 7 (1.01%) Go
15 7 (1.01%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 122 (17.63%) Security Cleared
2 106 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.08%) Degree
4 19 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.30%) CISSP
8 8 (1.16%) CISM
8 8 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.87%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.87%) PMP
10 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.72%) MBA
11 4 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.29%) CCIE
13 2 (0.29%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.96%) QA
2 36 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.05%) GDPR
4 24 (3.47%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.88%) GRC
5 13 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (1.59%) HIPAA
6 11 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.30%) WCAG
8 6 (0.87%) SLA
9 4 (0.58%) NIST
10 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.43%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.43%) SEPA
11 2 (0.29%) Basel III
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.29%) PMO
12 1 (0.14%) ITGC
12 1 (0.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 113 (16.33%) Docker
2 22 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.43%) Postfix
6 2 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) IAG
7 1 (0.14%) RACF
7 1 (0.14%) UAG
7 1 (0.14%) Varnish
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 120 (17.34%) Kubernetes
2 65 (9.39%) Terraform
3 26 (3.76%) Grafana
4 24 (3.47%) Ansible
5 11 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.45%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.29%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.29%) Avamar
7 2 (0.29%) Control-M
7 2 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.29%) Kibana
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.29%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.14%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.14%) Puppet
8 1 (0.14%) TrustSec
8 1 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 97 (14.02%) Oracle
2 93 (13.44%) Microsoft
3 82 (11.85%) ServiceNow
4 54 (7.80%) Salesforce
5 26 (3.76%) Google
6 25 (3.61%) SAP
7 21 (3.03%) MuleSoft
7 21 (3.03%) Splunk
8 18 (2.60%) Workday
9 17 (2.46%) OpenAI
10 15 (2.17%) IBM
11 13 (1.88%) CyberArk
11 13 (1.88%) Databricks
11 13 (1.88%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.30%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.30%) Guidewire
13 8 (1.16%) Cisco
13 8 (1.16%) OutSystems
14 7 (1.01%) OpenText
14 7 (1.01%) UiPath