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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 103 95
Rank change year-on-year +34 -8 +16
Contract jobs citing REST 681 336 440
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.64% 2.75% 2.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.83% 10.37% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 230 313
10th Percentile £375 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% - -12.13%
75th Percentile £650 £659 £650
90th Percentile £750 £728 £798
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £48.20 - -
25th Percentile £59.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £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 4,303 3,240 4,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.02% 26.50% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,859 2,263 3,428
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £447 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £720 £700
90th Percentile £775 £833 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 18 29
10th Percentile £22.63 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £29.52 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £43.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% +2.72% -35.61%
75th Percentile £59.99 £64.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £87.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +5 77 £553 +7.80% 45
South London -4 14 £516 +2.89%
East London -2 6 £432 -35.04% 8
West London -15 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 18 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.35%) Confluence
3 12 (1.76%) Camunda
4 10 (1.47%) Apache
4 10 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.47%) Ethereum
4 10 (1.47%) Hyperledger
5 9 (1.32%) Appian
6 6 (0.88%) IIS
7 5 (0.73%) CICS
7 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.59%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.44%) Mule
9 3 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.44%) WordPress
10 2 (0.29%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.44%) 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 (2.20%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.88%) Shopify
4 5 (0.73%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.59%) Quorum
5 4 (0.59%) Ripple
6 3 (0.44%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.44%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.44%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.29%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.29%) Magento
7 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.15%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 253 (37.15%) Azure
2 228 (33.48%) AWS
3 95 (13.95%) GCP
4 80 (11.75%) GitHub
5 60 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
6 59 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (8.22%) Serverless
8 47 (6.90%) Power Platform
9 34 (4.99%) Entra ID
10 33 (4.85%) OCI
11 32 (4.70%) Amazon S3
12 27 (3.96%) PaaS
13 26 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
14 25 (3.67%) SaaS
15 21 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
15 21 (3.08%) Power Automate
16 20 (2.94%) Azure Functions
16 20 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
17 19 (2.79%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.79%) HTTP
2 9 (1.32%) SMS
3 7 (1.03%) DNS
4 5 (0.73%) BGP
4 5 (0.73%) FTP
4 5 (0.73%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.59%) MPLS
5 4 (0.59%) Network Security
5 4 (0.59%) OSPF
5 4 (0.59%) WAN
6 3 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.44%) Firewall
6 3 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.29%) NaaS
7 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.29%) SNMP
7 2 (0.29%) SSL
7 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.29%) VLAN
8 1 (0.15%) IPFIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (11.89%) Relational Database
2 72 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (9.69%) SQL Server
4 35 (5.14%) NoSQL
5 25 (3.67%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.67%) Power BI
6 19 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (2.20%) MySQL
7 15 (2.20%) Redis
8 14 (2.06%) DynamoDB
9 13 (1.91%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.76%) Pinecone
10 12 (1.76%) RDBMS
11 11 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.47%) Big Data
13 9 (1.32%) Metadata
13 9 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 88 (12.92%) Git
2 50 (7.34%) Jenkins
3 39 (5.73%) JIRA
4 35 (5.14%) GitLab
5 32 (4.70%) JUnit
6 28 (4.11%) Postman
7 17 (2.50%) Cucumber
7 17 (2.50%) Cypress.io
7 17 (2.50%) Selenium
8 16 (2.35%) REST Assured
9 13 (1.91%) Gradle
9 13 (1.91%) Mockito
10 12 (1.76%) Maven
11 9 (1.32%) SoapUI
11 9 (1.32%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.17%) JMeter
12 8 (1.17%) MLflow
13 7 (1.03%) Ant
13 7 (1.03%) CircleCI
14 6 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 189 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 165 (24.23%) Finance
3 73 (10.72%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (7.34%) Banking
5 45 (6.61%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.38%) Marketing
7 22 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 19 (2.79%) Retail
9 15 (2.20%) Publishing
10 13 (1.91%) Front Office
11 11 (1.62%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.47%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.32%) Billing
14 8 (1.17%) Legal
15 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.73%) Military
15 5 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.59%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 260 (38.18%) Developer
2 129 (18.94%) Architect
3 88 (12.92%) Senior
4 41 (6.02%) Java Developer
4 41 (6.02%) Senior Developer
5 36 (5.29%) CyberArk Architect
6 33 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
7 32 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
8 31 (4.55%) Lead
8 31 (4.55%) Software Engineer
9 29 (4.26%) Python Developer
10 25 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 24 (3.52%) Consultant
12 20 (2.94%) React Developer
13 19 (2.79%) ServiceNow Architect
14 17 (2.50%) C# Developer
14 17 (2.50%) Java Engineer
15 16 (2.35%) Automation Engineer
15 16 (2.35%) Data Engineer
16 14 (2.06%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (28.93%) SOAP
2 93 (13.66%) RESTful
2 93 (13.66%) Spring
3 89 (13.07%) JSON
4 87 (12.78%) React
4 87 (12.78%) Web Services
5 86 (12.63%) Kafka
5 86 (12.63%) Spring Boot
6 79 (11.60%) .NET
7 69 (10.13%) OAuth
8 66 (9.69%) AngularJS
9 61 (8.96%) CSS
10 60 (8.81%) HTML
11 53 (7.78%) XML
12 50 (7.34%) Node.js
13 49 (7.20%) GraphQL
13 49 (7.20%) Middleware
14 42 (6.17%) LDAP
15 31 (4.55%) JWT
16 29 (4.26%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 62 (9.10%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.64%) Product Ownership
3 50 (7.34%) Enterprise Software
4 45 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
5 42 (6.17%) Security Posture
6 34 (4.99%) CMDB
7 29 (4.26%) Mobile App
8 25 (3.67%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.94%) Low-Code
10 19 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (2.35%) Data Structures
11 16 (2.35%) Public Cloud
12 15 (2.20%) Equities
13 13 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.91%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.91%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.32%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.32%) Hedge funds
14 9 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.96%) Linux
2 17 (2.50%) Windows
3 12 (1.76%) Unix
4 10 (1.47%) Android
5 5 (0.73%) 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
1 256 (37.59%) CI/CD
2 207 (30.40%) Agile
3 205 (30.10%) DevOps
4 152 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
5 149 (21.88%) Microservices
6 124 (18.21%) Integration Patterns
7 100 (14.68%) Data Modelling
8 97 (14.24%) Event-Driven
8 97 (14.24%) Test Automation
9 93 (13.66%) AI
10 91 (13.36%) Observability
11 87 (12.78%) ITSM
12 85 (12.48%) Containerisation
13 82 (12.04%) Technical Leadership
14 80 (11.75%) Scrum
15 77 (11.31%) Software Engineering
16 73 (10.72%) Analytics
17 67 (9.84%) Workflow
18 66 (9.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 64 (9.40%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 209 (30.69%) Python
2 183 (26.87%) Java
3 178 (26.14%) SQL
4 137 (20.12%) JavaScript
5 102 (14.98%) TypeScript
6 88 (12.92%) C#
7 68 (9.99%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.64%) Kotlin
9 14 (2.06%) Apex Code
10 12 (1.76%) Bicep
11 11 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.47%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.17%) Bash
13 8 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.03%) Groovy
14 7 (1.03%) SOQL
15 5 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.73%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.73%) Solidity
15 5 (0.73%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 133 (19.53%) Security Cleared
2 116 (17.03%) SC Cleared
3 44 (6.46%) Degree
4 18 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.91%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.17%) CISSP
9 7 (1.03%) CISM
9 7 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.88%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.88%) PMP
11 5 (0.73%) MBA
12 4 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (8.81%) QA
2 35 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.11%) GDPR
4 16 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.62%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.47%) HIPAA
9 9 (1.32%) GRC
9 9 (1.32%) WCAG
10 7 (1.03%) NIST
10 7 (1.03%) SLA
11 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.29%) Basel III
12 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.29%) PMO
12 2 (0.29%) SEPA
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 103 (15.12%) Docker
2 48 (7.05%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.44%) Postfix
6 2 (0.29%) 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
1 111 (16.30%) Kubernetes
2 53 (7.78%) Terraform
3 25 (3.67%) Grafana
4 20 (2.94%) Ansible
5 11 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.29%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.29%) Avamar
7 2 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.29%) Istio
7 2 (0.29%) Kibana
7 2 (0.29%) PowerCLI
7 2 (0.29%) Puppet
8 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
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 Orchestrator
Vendors
1 94 (13.80%) Oracle
2 79 (11.60%) Microsoft
3 78 (11.45%) ServiceNow
4 40 (5.87%) CyberArk
5 38 (5.58%) Salesforce
6 34 (4.99%) BeyondTrust
6 34 (4.99%) Centrify
7 25 (3.67%) SAP
8 20 (2.94%) Google
9 19 (2.79%) Workday
10 18 (2.64%) OpenAI
11 15 (2.20%) Databricks
12 14 (2.06%) Dynatrace
13 13 (1.91%) Guidewire
13 13 (1.91%) MuleSoft
13 13 (1.91%) Splunk
14 11 (1.62%) Adobe
14 11 (1.62%) IBM
15 9 (1.32%) Atlassian
15 9 (1.32%) UiPath