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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 77 101
Rank change year-on-year +25 +24 +2
Contract jobs citing REST 916 489 399
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.47% 3.65% 2.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.89% 12.40% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 324 227
10th Percentile £400 £358 £413
25th Percentile £450 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £760
England median daily rate £525 £495 £533
% change year-on-year +6.06% -7.13% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £45.50 £44.48 -
25th Percentile £50.31 £45.56 -
Median hourly rate £56.00 £50.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% - -
75th Percentile £63.00 £55.56 -
90th Percentile £76.25 £56.43 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +15.00% -32.43% -1.33%

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 5,424 3,945 4,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.45% 29.47% 30.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,662 2,693 3,255
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £456 £430 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £667 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £788 £850
England median daily rate £535 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +3.28% -5.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 33 23
10th Percentile £36.00 £31.94 £23.88
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.48 £36.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +21.04% -32.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £61.25 £61.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £84.40 £74.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +12 103 £550 -4.35% 29
South London -1 14 £700 +12.54% 1
East London +1 3 £525 -2.78% 6
West London -25 3 £539 +47.60% 11
North London - 3 £650 - 3
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 33 (3.60%) Confluence
2 22 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.53%) Apache
3 14 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.20%) IIS
5 10 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.98%) Anypoint
6 9 (0.98%) Camunda
7 7 (0.76%) Mule
8 6 (0.66%) CMS
8 6 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.66%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.44%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.44%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.33%) nginx
10 3 (0.33%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.44%) Windchill
3 3 (0.33%) Trello
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (2.07%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.53%) Oracle EBS
2 14 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.55%) Shopify
5 4 (0.44%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.44%) Quorum
5 4 (0.44%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.44%) Ripple
6 3 (0.33%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.33%) Workfront
7 2 (0.22%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 393 (42.90%) Azure
2 301 (32.86%) AWS
3 176 (19.21%) GitHub
4 141 (15.39%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (12.12%) GCP
6 104 (11.35%) Serverless
7 100 (10.92%) GitHub Actions
8 75 (8.19%) Entra ID
9 62 (6.77%) Power Platform
10 54 (5.90%) Amazon S3
11 49 (5.35%) SaaS
12 48 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
15 37 (4.04%) Azure Service Bus
16 35 (3.82%) Azure Functions
17 33 (3.60%) Boomi
18 31 (3.38%) Azure API Management
19 30 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
20 29 (3.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.62%) HTTP
2 16 (1.75%) DNS
3 9 (0.98%) BGP
3 9 (0.98%) Firewall
3 9 (0.98%) Network Security
4 8 (0.87%) HTTPS
4 8 (0.87%) SSH
5 7 (0.76%) Ethernet VPN
5 7 (0.76%) SAN
6 6 (0.66%) SSL
6 6 (0.66%) VPN
6 6 (0.66%) VXLAN
7 5 (0.55%) Internet
7 5 (0.55%) NX-OS
7 5 (0.55%) TACACS
7 5 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.44%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.44%) NAS
8 4 (0.44%) WAN
9 3 (0.33%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (11.03%) SQL Server
3 78 (8.52%) Relational Database
4 54 (5.90%) NoSQL
5 42 (4.59%) MongoDB
6 36 (3.93%) Power BI
7 32 (3.49%) Redis
8 28 (3.06%) MySQL
9 26 (2.84%) Metadata
10 25 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (1.86%) DynamoDB
13 15 (1.64%) Oracle Database
14 13 (1.42%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (1.31%) Big Data
16 11 (1.20%) Data Lake
17 10 (1.09%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 184 (20.09%) Git
2 102 (11.14%) Jenkins
3 73 (7.97%) JIRA
4 70 (7.64%) GitLab
5 51 (5.57%) JUnit
6 37 (4.04%) Gradle
7 32 (3.49%) Maven
8 28 (3.06%) Selenium
9 27 (2.95%) Postman
10 26 (2.84%) Cypress.io
11 19 (2.07%) Cucumber
12 18 (1.97%) REST Assured
13 17 (1.86%) CircleCI
13 17 (1.86%) Mockito
14 16 (1.75%) Bitbucket
14 16 (1.75%) Visual Studio
15 14 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
16 10 (1.09%) Storybook
16 10 (1.09%) XCTest
16 10 (1.09%) XCUITest
General
1 279 (30.46%) Finance
2 261 (28.49%) Social Skills
3 129 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (12.77%) Banking
5 85 (9.28%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.04%) Retail
7 30 (3.28%) Investment Banking
8 25 (2.73%) Marketing
8 25 (2.73%) Telecoms
9 21 (2.29%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.53%) Front Office
10 14 (1.53%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.20%) Publishing
13 10 (1.09%) Billing
13 10 (1.09%) Law
13 10 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.98%) Legal
15 8 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 372 (40.61%) Developer
2 167 (18.23%) Senior
3 157 (17.14%) Architect
4 83 (9.06%) Senior Developer
5 59 (6.44%) Lead
6 58 (6.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 55 (6.00%) Java Developer
8 48 (5.24%) Python Developer
9 44 (4.80%) Software Engineer
10 42 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (3.93%) .NET Developer
12 29 (3.17%) Java Engineer
13 28 (3.06%) React Developer
14 24 (2.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 23 (2.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 22 (2.40%) C# Developer
16 22 (2.40%) Consultant
17 21 (2.29%) Technical Architect
18 19 (2.07%) Backend Developer
18 19 (2.07%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (22.49%) SOAP
2 145 (15.83%) .NET
3 129 (14.08%) React
4 127 (13.86%) JSON
5 116 (12.66%) Terraform
6 115 (12.55%) Kafka
7 113 (12.34%) RESTful
8 111 (12.12%) Spring
9 103 (11.24%) Spring Boot
10 102 (11.14%) OAuth
11 86 (9.39%) XML
12 80 (8.73%) HTML
13 78 (8.52%) CSS
14 69 (7.53%) GraphQL
15 67 (7.31%) Middleware
15 67 (7.31%) OAuth2
16 63 (6.88%) Web Services
17 60 (6.55%) Node.js
18 56 (6.11%) AngularJS
19 41 (4.48%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 163 (17.79%) Cloud Native
2 86 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (8.30%) Product Ownership
4 73 (7.97%) Enterprise Software
5 41 (4.48%) AI Agents
6 40 (4.37%) Onboarding
7 38 (4.15%) CMDB
8 36 (3.93%) Mobile App
9 26 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (2.51%) Data Structures
11 22 (2.40%) Management Information System
12 19 (2.07%) Low-Code
12 19 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (1.75%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (1.20%) Derivative
16 10 (1.09%) Data Centre
16 10 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (1.09%) Security Posture
17 9 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 80 (8.73%) Linux
2 43 (4.69%) Windows
3 32 (3.49%) Unix
4 24 (2.62%) Android
5 15 (1.64%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) CentOS
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (51.42%) CI/CD
2 336 (36.68%) Agile
2 336 (36.68%) DevOps
3 239 (26.09%) Microservices
4 193 (21.07%) AI
5 192 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
6 185 (20.20%) Event-Driven
7 179 (19.54%) Test Automation
8 140 (15.28%) Software Engineering
9 138 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 132 (14.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 125 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 125 (13.65%) Scrum
12 123 (13.43%) Integration Patterns
13 116 (12.66%) Data Modelling
14 114 (12.45%) Containerisation
15 112 (12.23%) Full-Stack Development
16 108 (11.79%) Infrastructure as Code
17 101 (11.03%) Migration
17 101 (11.03%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 300 (32.75%) Python
2 267 (29.15%) SQL
3 229 (25.00%) Java
4 212 (23.14%) JavaScript
5 161 (17.58%) TypeScript
6 141 (15.39%) C#
7 66 (7.21%) PowerShell
8 32 (3.49%) Bash
9 31 (3.38%) Kotlin
10 28 (3.06%) Apex Code
11 26 (2.84%) Shell Script
12 24 (2.62%) Bicep
13 23 (2.51%) Groovy
14 18 (1.97%) Go
15 12 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (1.31%) Swift
16 11 (1.20%) PL/SQL
17 10 (1.09%) SOQL
17 10 (1.09%) SOSL
18 9 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 214 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 179 (19.54%) SC Cleared
3 63 (6.88%) Degree
4 28 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (3.06%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (2.18%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.18%) Azure Certification
7 9 (0.98%) CISSP
7 9 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.87%) ISTQB
8 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.66%) CISM
10 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.66%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.66%) PMP
11 4 (0.44%) CESG Certified Professional
11 4 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (12.77%) QA
2 43 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.49%) Accessibility
4 30 (3.28%) GDPR
5 20 (2.18%) GRC
6 17 (1.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.20%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.20%) NIST
8 11 (1.20%) SLA
9 10 (1.09%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.98%) WCAG
11 8 (0.87%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.55%) SEPA
13 4 (0.44%) HL7
13 4 (0.44%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.33%) Basel III
14 3 (0.33%) NCSC
15 2 (0.22%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 2 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 169 (18.45%) Docker
2 40 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.22%) Postfix
7 1 (0.11%) Ceph
7 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.11%) RACF
7 1 (0.11%) Varnish
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 169 (18.45%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.82%) Ansible
2 35 (3.82%) Grafana
3 22 (2.40%) Prometheus
4 15 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.09%) Kibana
6 7 (0.76%) Control-M
7 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.33%) Bosun
8 3 (0.33%) Istio
9 2 (0.22%) Netcool
9 2 (0.22%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 2 (0.22%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.22%) SCCM
9 2 (0.22%) systemd
9 2 (0.22%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.22%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 1 (0.11%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.11%) SCOM
10 1 (0.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 168 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 121 (13.21%) Oracle
3 86 (9.39%) ServiceNow
4 82 (8.95%) Salesforce
5 47 (5.13%) Databricks
6 44 (4.80%) Google
7 42 (4.59%) SAP
8 31 (3.38%) OpenAI
9 28 (3.06%) Splunk
10 27 (2.95%) MuleSoft
11 25 (2.73%) CyberArk
12 22 (2.40%) IBM
13 16 (1.75%) Cisco
13 16 (1.75%) Dynatrace
14 14 (1.53%) VMware
15 13 (1.42%) Foundry
15 13 (1.42%) Workday
16 11 (1.20%) UiPath
17 10 (1.09%) Okta
17 10 (1.09%) OutSystems