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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 85 99
Rank change year-on-year +18 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing REST 750 409 437
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.78% 3.02% 2.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.70% 11.56% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 294 306
10th Percentile £400 £361 £400
25th Percentile £440 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £636 £672 £636
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.91% -6.36%
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 £62.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -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 4,492 3,537 4,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.67% 26.08% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,968 2,463 3,322
10th Percentile £390 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £672 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £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 £57.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +4 93 £550 - 46
South London -6 15 £556 -10.57% 6
East London +3 5 £416 -37.48% 12
West London -15 5 £539 -2.05% 2
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 26 (3.47%) Confluence
2 23 (3.07%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.00%) Apache
3 15 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.20%) Anypoint
6 8 (1.07%) Camunda
6 8 (1.07%) IIS
7 7 (0.93%) Mule
8 6 (0.80%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.80%) Hyperledger
8 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.67%) Appian
9 5 (0.67%) CICS
9 5 (0.67%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.53%) WordPress
11 3 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.27%) Trello
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.60%) NetSuite
2 9 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.67%) R3 Corda
5 5 (0.67%) Shopify
6 4 (0.53%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.53%) Quorum
6 4 (0.53%) Ripple
7 3 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
8 2 (0.27%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.27%) Infor LN
8 2 (0.27%) Magento
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 266 (35.47%) Azure
2 225 (30.00%) AWS
3 116 (15.47%) GitHub
4 83 (11.07%) GCP
5 79 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (9.47%) GitHub Actions
7 62 (8.27%) Serverless
8 50 (6.67%) Entra ID
9 42 (5.60%) Power Platform
10 37 (4.93%) SaaS
11 35 (4.67%) Amazon S3
12 30 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
12 30 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (3.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 24 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (3.07%) OCI
15 23 (3.07%) PaaS
16 22 (2.93%) Boomi
16 22 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
17 21 (2.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.80%) HTTP
2 7 (0.93%) HTTPS
3 6 (0.80%) FTP
4 5 (0.67%) BGP
4 5 (0.67%) Network Security
5 4 (0.53%) DNS
5 4 (0.53%) Firewall
5 4 (0.53%) MPLS
5 4 (0.53%) OSPF
5 4 (0.53%) WAN
6 3 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.40%) SSL
6 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.27%) Internet
7 2 (0.27%) Intranet
7 2 (0.27%) SNMP
7 2 (0.27%) SSH
7 2 (0.27%) VLAN
7 2 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (12.00%) Relational Database
3 76 (10.13%) SQL Server
4 35 (4.67%) NoSQL
5 29 (3.87%) MongoDB
6 26 (3.47%) Power BI
7 22 (2.93%) Redis
8 19 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.53%) MySQL
9 17 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (2.00%) Big Data
11 14 (1.87%) Metadata
12 13 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (1.47%) BigQuery
15 10 (1.33%) DynamoDB
16 9 (1.20%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 8 (1.07%) Pinecone
18 7 (0.93%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 115 (15.33%) Git
2 62 (8.27%) Jenkins
3 50 (6.67%) JIRA
4 38 (5.07%) GitLab
5 36 (4.80%) JUnit
6 22 (2.93%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.40%) Gradle
7 18 (2.40%) Maven
8 16 (2.13%) Postman
9 15 (2.00%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.87%) Mockito
10 14 (1.87%) Selenium
11 12 (1.60%) REST Assured
12 10 (1.33%) CircleCI
12 10 (1.33%) Eclipse
13 9 (1.20%) Ant
13 9 (1.20%) JMeter
14 8 (1.07%) Storybook
14 8 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
15 7 (0.93%) Vite
General
1 208 (27.73%) Finance
2 175 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 100 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (8.53%) Banking
4 64 (8.53%) Public Sector
5 36 (4.80%) Retail
6 30 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.27%) Marketing
7 17 (2.27%) Publishing
8 14 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.33%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.33%) Front Office
11 9 (1.20%) Legal
11 9 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (0.93%) Billing
13 6 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.80%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 305 (40.67%) Developer
2 134 (17.87%) Architect
3 113 (15.07%) Senior
4 56 (7.47%) Senior Developer
5 49 (6.53%) Java Developer
6 46 (6.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 43 (5.73%) Solutions Architect
8 37 (4.93%) Lead
9 36 (4.80%) Software Engineer
10 35 (4.67%) Python Developer
11 27 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 25 (3.33%) React Developer
13 23 (3.07%) ServiceNow Architect
14 21 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 20 (2.67%) Consultant
15 20 (2.67%) ServiceNow Developer
16 19 (2.53%) .NET Developer
17 18 (2.40%) Data Engineer
17 18 (2.40%) Java Engineer
18 17 (2.27%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (28.40%) SOAP
2 111 (14.80%) React
3 106 (14.13%) .NET
4 105 (14.00%) RESTful
5 104 (13.87%) JSON
6 97 (12.93%) Spring
7 87 (11.60%) Spring Boot
8 85 (11.33%) Web Services
9 83 (11.07%) Kafka
10 74 (9.87%) OAuth
11 70 (9.33%) CSS
11 70 (9.33%) XML
12 68 (9.07%) HTML
13 64 (8.53%) AngularJS
14 61 (8.13%) Middleware
14 61 (8.13%) Node.js
15 60 (8.00%) GraphQL
16 42 (5.60%) OAuth2
17 31 (4.13%) FastAPI
18 29 (3.87%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 102 (13.60%) Cloud Native
2 64 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (7.87%) Product Ownership
4 50 (6.67%) CMDB
5 37 (4.93%) Mobile App
6 29 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (3.87%) Management Information System
7 26 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (3.33%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.80%) Data Structures
10 18 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (2.27%) Onboarding
12 16 (2.13%) Low-Code
12 16 (2.13%) Virtual Team
13 15 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.60%) Equities
14 12 (1.60%) Security Posture
15 10 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.20%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 31 (4.13%) Linux
2 20 (2.67%) Windows
3 19 (2.53%) Android
4 16 (2.13%) Unix
5 6 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.67%) zOS
7 4 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.40%) 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
1 326 (43.47%) CI/CD
2 262 (34.93%) Agile
3 241 (32.13%) DevOps
4 185 (24.67%) Microservices
5 157 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (17.87%) AI
7 115 (15.33%) Event-Driven
8 113 (15.07%) Data Modelling
9 109 (14.53%) Containerisation
9 109 (14.53%) Integration Patterns
10 108 (14.40%) Test Automation
11 103 (13.73%) Scrum
12 102 (13.60%) Observability
13 96 (12.80%) Software Engineering
14 89 (11.87%) Full-Stack Development
15 85 (11.33%) Analytics
16 83 (11.07%) Roadmaps
17 78 (10.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 77 (10.27%) ITSM
18 77 (10.27%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 202 (26.93%) Python
2 201 (26.80%) Java
3 189 (25.20%) SQL
4 171 (22.80%) JavaScript
5 124 (16.53%) TypeScript
6 107 (14.27%) C#
7 40 (5.33%) PowerShell
8 32 (4.27%) Kotlin
9 26 (3.47%) Apex Code
10 17 (2.27%) Groovy
11 15 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.87%) Bicep
13 12 (1.60%) Bash
13 12 (1.60%) T-SQL
14 11 (1.47%) SOQL
15 10 (1.33%) Go
16 9 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (1.20%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.20%) SOSL
17 6 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 140 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 121 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.80%) Degree
4 21 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.87%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.20%) CISSP
8 9 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.07%) CISM
10 6 (0.80%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.80%) PMP
11 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.67%) MBA
12 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.27%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.67%) QA
2 36 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 27 (3.60%) GDPR
4 26 (3.47%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.40%) GRC
6 14 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.47%) HIPAA
7 11 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.33%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.93%) WCAG
10 6 (0.80%) SLA
11 4 (0.53%) HL7
11 4 (0.53%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.53%) PMO
11 4 (0.53%) SEPA
12 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.40%) NIST
13 2 (0.27%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 2 (0.27%) ITGC
System Software
1 123 (16.40%) Docker
2 19 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.40%) Postfix
6 2 (0.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.27%) Varnish
6 2 (0.27%) 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
1 129 (17.20%) Kubernetes
2 71 (9.47%) Terraform
3 28 (3.73%) Grafana
4 24 (3.20%) Ansible
5 15 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.67%) Control-M
8 2 (0.27%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.27%) Avamar
8 2 (0.27%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.27%) Kibana
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.27%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.13%) Istio
9 1 (0.13%) linkerd
9 1 (0.13%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 111 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 108 (14.40%) Oracle
3 91 (12.13%) ServiceNow
4 67 (8.93%) Salesforce
5 39 (5.20%) Google
6 34 (4.53%) SAP
7 26 (3.47%) MuleSoft
8 25 (3.33%) Splunk
9 21 (2.80%) Workday
10 19 (2.53%) OpenAI
11 15 (2.00%) IBM
12 12 (1.60%) Databricks
12 12 (1.60%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.20%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.07%) Cisco
14 8 (1.07%) CyberArk
14 8 (1.07%) OutSystems
15 7 (0.93%) Foundry
15 7 (0.93%) New Relic
15 7 (0.93%) TikTok