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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 97 96
Rank change year-on-year +26 -1 +19
Contract jobs citing REST 692 346 441
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.67% 2.81% 2.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.97% 10.61% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 243 316
10th Percentile £375 £376 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £655 £650
90th Percentile £750 £725 £794
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 4,333 3,262 4,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.97% 26.50% 26.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 2,290 3,459
10th Percentile £375 £380 £375
25th Percentile £447 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 29
10th Percentile £23.65 £32.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.02 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +4.71% -36.57%
75th Percentile £68.38 £61.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £87.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% -19.23%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +2 83 £555 +5.71% 43
South London -1 14 £516 +2.89%
East London 0 6 £432 -35.04% 7
West London -22 6 £375 -32.31% 5
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 18 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.46%) Confluence
3 12 (1.73%) Camunda
4 10 (1.45%) Apache
4 10 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.45%) Ethereum
4 10 (1.45%) Hyperledger
5 9 (1.30%) Appian
6 7 (1.01%) IIS
7 5 (0.72%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.72%) CICS
7 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.58%) Mule
8 4 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.43%) WordPress
10 2 (0.29%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.87%) Shopify
4 5 (0.72%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
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
6 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.29%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.29%) Magento
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%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 260 (37.57%) Azure
2 234 (33.82%) AWS
3 92 (13.29%) GCP
4 84 (12.14%) GitHub
5 64 (9.25%) Azure DevOps
5 64 (9.25%) GitHub Actions
6 57 (8.24%) Serverless
7 45 (6.50%) Power Platform
8 36 (5.20%) Amazon S3
8 36 (5.20%) Entra ID
9 28 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (4.05%) SaaS
10 26 (3.76%) OCI
11 24 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (3.18%) PaaS
13 21 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (2.89%) Anthropic Claude
14 20 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (2.89%) Power Automate
15 19 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.89%) HTTP
2 7 (1.01%) DNS
2 7 (1.01%) HTTPS
2 7 (1.01%) SMS
3 6 (0.87%) FTP
4 5 (0.72%) BGP
4 5 (0.72%) Network Security
5 4 (0.58%) MPLS
5 4 (0.58%) OSPF
5 4 (0.58%) WAN
6 3 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.43%) Firewall
6 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.29%) NaaS
7 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.29%) SNMP
7 2 (0.29%) SSH
7 2 (0.29%) SSL
7 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (11.56%) Relational Database
2 79 (11.42%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (9.39%) SQL Server
4 36 (5.20%) NoSQL
5 28 (4.05%) MongoDB
6 25 (3.61%) Power BI
7 20 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (2.60%) Redis
9 15 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.17%) MySQL
10 14 (2.02%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.88%) Data Lake
12 12 (1.73%) Pinecone
13 11 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.59%) Big Data
13 11 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (1.30%) Metadata
14 9 (1.30%) RDBMS
14 9 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 96 (13.87%) Git
2 57 (8.24%) Jenkins
3 42 (6.07%) JIRA
4 39 (5.64%) GitLab
5 33 (4.77%) JUnit
6 22 (3.18%) Postman
7 18 (2.60%) Cucumber
7 18 (2.60%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.46%) Selenium
9 16 (2.31%) REST Assured
10 14 (2.02%) Gradle
10 14 (2.02%) Mockito
11 13 (1.88%) Maven
12 9 (1.30%) Ant
12 9 (1.30%) Eclipse
12 9 (1.30%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.16%) JMeter
13 8 (1.16%) MLflow
13 8 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (1.01%) CircleCI
General
1 184 (26.59%) Social Skills
2 173 (25.00%) Finance
3 76 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (7.66%) Banking
5 46 (6.65%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.47%) Retail
7 22 (3.18%) Marketing
7 22 (3.18%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.17%) Publishing
9 13 (1.88%) Front Office
10 12 (1.73%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.59%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.30%) Billing
14 8 (1.16%) Legal
15 6 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.58%) Automotive
17 4 (0.58%) Back Office
17 4 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 269 (38.87%) Developer
2 128 (18.50%) Architect
3 95 (13.73%) Senior
4 44 (6.36%) Java Developer
4 44 (6.36%) Senior Developer
5 35 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
6 32 (4.62%) CyberArk Architect
6 32 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
7 31 (4.48%) Lead
7 31 (4.48%) Software Engineer
8 30 (4.34%) Python Developer
9 27 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 24 (3.47%) Consultant
11 21 (3.03%) React Developer
12 19 (2.75%) ServiceNow Architect
13 17 (2.46%) C# Developer
13 17 (2.46%) Data Engineer
13 17 (2.46%) Java Engineer
14 16 (2.31%) Automation Engineer
14 16 (2.31%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (28.47%) SOAP
2 98 (14.16%) Spring
3 95 (13.73%) RESTful
4 93 (13.44%) React
5 91 (13.15%) Spring Boot
6 88 (12.72%) JSON
7 87 (12.57%) Kafka
8 85 (12.28%) Web Services
9 78 (11.27%) .NET
10 68 (9.83%) OAuth
11 67 (9.68%) AngularJS
12 63 (9.10%) HTML
13 61 (8.82%) CSS
14 57 (8.24%) Node.js
15 52 (7.51%) XML
16 50 (7.23%) GraphQL
16 50 (7.23%) Middleware
17 39 (5.64%) LDAP
18 30 (4.34%) OAuth2
18 30 (4.34%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.83%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.66%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (6.65%) Enterprise Software
5 39 (5.64%) Security Posture
6 35 (5.06%) CMDB
7 30 (4.34%) Mobile App
8 25 (3.61%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (2.89%) Low-Code
10 16 (2.31%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.31%) Virtual Team
11 14 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (2.02%) Equities
12 13 (1.88%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.73%) AI Agents
13 12 (1.73%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (1.30%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.05%) Linux
2 17 (2.46%) Windows
3 13 (1.88%) Unix
4 10 (1.45%) Android
5 5 (0.72%) zOS
6 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.29%) 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
1 273 (39.45%) CI/CD
2 215 (31.07%) Agile
3 211 (30.49%) DevOps
4 157 (22.69%) Microservices
5 154 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
6 126 (18.21%) Integration Patterns
7 103 (14.88%) Data Modelling
7 103 (14.88%) Test Automation
8 102 (14.74%) AI
9 96 (13.87%) Event-Driven
10 94 (13.58%) Observability
11 92 (13.29%) Containerisation
12 86 (12.43%) Scrum
13 84 (12.14%) ITSM
14 81 (11.71%) Software Engineering
15 79 (11.42%) Technical Leadership
16 72 (10.40%) Validation
17 71 (10.26%) Analytics
18 70 (10.12%) Workflow
19 67 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 213 (30.78%) Python
2 190 (27.46%) Java
3 173 (25.00%) SQL
4 138 (19.94%) JavaScript
5 106 (15.32%) TypeScript
6 86 (12.43%) C#
7 65 (9.39%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.75%) Apex Code
9 18 (2.60%) Kotlin
10 12 (1.73%) Bicep
10 12 (1.73%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.45%) SOQL
11 10 (1.45%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.16%) Bash
12 8 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (1.16%) SOSL
13 7 (1.01%) Groovy
14 5 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.72%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.72%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 131 (18.93%) Security Cleared
2 114 (16.47%) SC Cleared
3 45 (6.50%) Degree
4 17 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.02%) AWS Certification
5 14 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.73%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.30%) CISSP
8 8 (1.16%) CISM
9 7 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.01%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.01%) 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%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.29%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (8.67%) QA
2 37 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.05%) GDPR
4 21 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.02%) PCI DSS
6 13 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.59%) HIPAA
8 10 (1.45%) GRC
8 10 (1.45%) WCAG
9 7 (1.01%) NIST
10 6 (0.87%) SLA
11 3 (0.43%) 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 (0.14%) ITGC
13 1 (0.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 109 (15.75%) Docker
2 45 (6.50%) 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
1 115 (16.62%) Kubernetes
2 56 (8.09%) Terraform
3 26 (3.76%) Grafana
4 23 (3.32%) Ansible
5 11 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.16%) 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
8 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.14%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.14%) Pingdom
8 1 (0.14%) Puppet
8 1 (0.14%) TrustSec
8 1 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 90 (13.01%) Oracle
2 81 (11.71%) ServiceNow
3 80 (11.56%) Microsoft
4 44 (6.36%) Salesforce
5 36 (5.20%) CyberArk
6 30 (4.34%) BeyondTrust
6 30 (4.34%) Centrify
7 25 (3.61%) SAP
8 22 (3.18%) Google
9 19 (2.75%) Workday
10 18 (2.60%) OpenAI
11 16 (2.31%) MuleSoft
12 15 (2.17%) Databricks
12 15 (2.17%) Dynatrace
12 15 (2.17%) Splunk
13 13 (1.88%) Guidewire
14 12 (1.73%) IBM
15 9 (1.30%) Atlassian
15 9 (1.30%) UiPath
16 8 (1.16%) OutSystems