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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 122 96
Rank change year-on-year +50 -26 +7
Contract jobs citing REST 648 293 432
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.70% 2.30% 2.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.41% 8.84% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 193 299
10th Percentile £363 £380 £400
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year - +3.19% -7.30%
75th Percentile £688 £655 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £850
England median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £53.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.00 - -
Median hourly rate £69.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £74.44
% change year-on-year +27.27% -26.11% +38.18%

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 4,204 3,314 4,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.00% 26.01% 25.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,833 2,324 3,354
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 17 23
10th Percentile £23.33 £34.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £39.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +53.37% -48.91%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.80 £78.75 £69.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +1 66 £525 - 36
South London -3 14 £510 +34.21% 5
East London 0 6 £432 -33.28% 5
West London -24 6 £375 -32.31% 2
North London - 4 - - 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 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.62%) Confluence
3 11 (1.70%) Apache
4 10 (1.54%) Camunda
4 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.39%) Appian
6 8 (1.23%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.93%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.93%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.62%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.62%) CICS
8 4 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.31%) Drupal
9 2 (0.31%) Mule
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.31%) WordPress
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.15%) InVision
3 1 (0.15%) Maya
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Sketch
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (2.31%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.62%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.62%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.31%) Magento
5 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.31%) Shopify
5 2 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.15%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 216 (33.33%) Azure
2 194 (29.94%) AWS
3 90 (13.89%) GCP
4 68 (10.49%) GitHub
5 48 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (7.10%) Serverless
7 43 (6.64%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (6.02%) Power Platform
9 36 (5.56%) OCI
10 35 (5.40%) IaaS
10 35 (5.40%) PaaS
11 34 (5.25%) Entra ID
12 25 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
13 23 (3.55%) Azure Service Bus
13 23 (3.55%) SaaS
14 22 (3.40%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (3.40%) Amazon S3
14 22 (3.40%) Power Automate
15 19 (2.93%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (2.62%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.93%) HTTP
2 9 (1.39%) SMS
3 6 (0.93%) DNS
4 5 (0.77%) Firewall
4 5 (0.77%) FTP
5 4 (0.62%) BGP
6 3 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.46%) MPLS
6 3 (0.46%) OSPF
6 3 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.46%) SSL
7 2 (0.31%) Modbus
7 2 (0.31%) NaaS
7 2 (0.31%) SAN
7 2 (0.31%) SNMP
7 2 (0.31%) VPN
7 2 (0.31%) WAN
8 1 (0.15%) DHCP
8 1 (0.15%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.15%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (9.41%) Relational Database
2 54 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (7.87%) SQL Server
4 39 (6.02%) NoSQL
5 27 (4.17%) MongoDB
6 18 (2.78%) MySQL
7 16 (2.47%) Power BI
8 13 (2.01%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.85%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.85%) Pinecone
9 12 (1.85%) RDBMS
9 12 (1.85%) Redis
10 10 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (1.39%) Metadata
12 8 (1.23%) DocumentDB
12 8 (1.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 80 (12.35%) Git
2 44 (6.79%) JIRA
3 37 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 31 (4.78%) Postman
5 30 (4.63%) JUnit
6 24 (3.70%) GitLab
7 22 (3.40%) Cucumber
8 21 (3.24%) Selenium
9 17 (2.62%) REST Assured
10 16 (2.47%) Mockito
11 14 (2.16%) Cypress.io
12 10 (1.54%) SoapUI
13 9 (1.39%) Maven
14 8 (1.23%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.23%) JMeter
14 8 (1.23%) MLflow
14 8 (1.23%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.93%) SpecFlow
16 5 (0.77%) Gradle
16 5 (0.77%) MSTest
General
1 180 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 144 (22.22%) Finance
3 88 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 44 (6.79%) Banking
6 24 (3.70%) Front Office
7 17 (2.62%) Marketing
8 15 (2.31%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.85%) Retail
11 11 (1.70%) Publishing
12 9 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.39%) Legal
13 8 (1.23%) Billing
14 6 (0.93%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.62%) Military
17 3 (0.46%) Law
17 3 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 238 (36.73%) Developer
2 139 (21.45%) Architect
3 60 (9.26%) Senior
4 40 (6.17%) Java Developer
5 34 (5.25%) CyberArk Architect
6 32 (4.94%) Python Developer
7 30 (4.63%) Lead
7 30 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
8 26 (4.01%) Full-Stack Developer
8 26 (4.01%) Software Engineer
9 23 (3.55%) Senior Developer
10 20 (3.09%) Consultant
11 17 (2.62%) C# Developer
12 15 (2.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 15 (2.31%) Automation Engineer
12 15 (2.31%) Business Analyst
12 15 (2.31%) Integration Specialist
13 14 (2.16%) Analyst
13 14 (2.16%) Cloud Specialist
13 14 (2.16%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (29.63%) SOAP
2 110 (16.98%) JSON
3 87 (13.43%) Web Services
4 81 (12.50%) RESTful
5 79 (12.19%) Spring
6 78 (12.04%) Kafka
6 78 (12.04%) React
7 75 (11.57%) Spring Boot
8 72 (11.11%) AngularJS
9 67 (10.34%) .NET
10 64 (9.88%) CSS
11 61 (9.41%) HTML
12 57 (8.80%) OAuth
13 48 (7.41%) XML
14 45 (6.94%) GraphQL
15 42 (6.48%) Middleware
16 40 (6.17%) LDAP
16 40 (6.17%) Node.js
17 34 (5.25%) Pandas
18 31 (4.78%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.10%) Enterprise Software
3 42 (6.48%) Security Posture
4 41 (6.33%) Product Ownership
5 34 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (4.32%) CMDB
8 25 (3.86%) Equities
8 25 (3.86%) PKI
9 23 (3.55%) Management Information System
10 20 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (3.09%) Public Cloud
11 18 (2.78%) Mobile App
12 16 (2.47%) Data Structures
13 15 (2.31%) Hedge funds
13 15 (2.31%) Low-Code
14 14 (2.16%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 31 (4.78%) Linux
2 19 (2.93%) Windows
3 9 (1.39%) Unix
4 6 (0.93%) zOS
5 4 (0.62%) Android
5 4 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (32.87%) Agile
2 208 (32.10%) CI/CD
3 186 (28.70%) DevOps
4 149 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
5 131 (20.22%) Microservices
6 113 (17.44%) Integration Patterns
7 91 (14.04%) Test Automation
8 82 (12.65%) Observability
9 81 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
10 79 (12.19%) Containerisation
10 79 (12.19%) Data Modelling
11 76 (11.73%) ITSM
12 72 (11.11%) AI
12 72 (11.11%) Analytics
13 69 (10.65%) Event-Driven
14 65 (10.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 64 (9.88%) API Integration
16 63 (9.72%) Scrum
17 61 (9.41%) Validation
18 60 (9.26%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 181 (27.93%) Python
2 153 (23.61%) Java
2 153 (23.61%) SQL
3 114 (17.59%) JavaScript
4 87 (13.43%) PowerShell
5 84 (12.96%) TypeScript
6 81 (12.50%) C#
7 13 (2.01%) Kotlin
8 12 (1.85%) Apex Code
9 11 (1.70%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (1.23%) Bicep
11 8 (1.23%) VBA
12 6 (0.93%) Go
12 6 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.77%) Bash
13 5 (0.77%) Groovy
13 5 (0.77%) PHP
14 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 165 (25.46%) Security Cleared
2 153 (23.61%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.09%) Degree
4 22 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.23%) CISSP
6 8 (1.23%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.93%) CISM
8 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.62%) MBA
10 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.31%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.31%) OSCP
11 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.95%) QA
2 27 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 26 (4.01%) GDPR
4 13 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.39%) NIST
6 9 (1.39%) WCAG
7 7 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (1.08%) SLA
8 6 (0.93%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.62%) GRC
10 3 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.31%) HL7
11 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.31%) NCSC
11 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.31%) PMO
11 2 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 94 (14.51%) Docker
2 49 (7.56%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 2 (0.31%) Postfix
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) IAG
5 1 (0.15%) UAG
5 1 (0.15%) Varnish
5 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 95 (14.66%) Kubernetes
2 52 (8.02%) Terraform
3 24 (3.70%) Grafana
4 14 (2.16%) Ansible
5 11 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.62%) Pingdom
8 2 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.31%) Avamar
8 2 (0.31%) Control-M
8 2 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.31%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.31%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.31%) Istio
8 2 (0.31%) logstash
8 2 (0.31%) Puppet
8 2 (0.31%) QRadar
8 2 (0.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.15%) linkerd
9 1 (0.15%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 81 (12.50%) Oracle
2 75 (11.57%) ServiceNow
3 69 (10.65%) Microsoft
4 38 (5.86%) CyberArk
5 34 (5.25%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.25%) Centrify
6 27 (4.17%) Salesforce
7 22 (3.40%) SAP
8 18 (2.78%) Google
9 17 (2.62%) Splunk
10 16 (2.47%) OpenAI
11 15 (2.31%) Workday
12 12 (1.85%) Adobe
12 12 (1.85%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.70%) Guidewire
14 10 (1.54%) Dynatrace
14 10 (1.54%) IBM
15 9 (1.39%) UiPath
16 8 (1.23%) Atlassian
16 8 (1.23%) Automation Anywhere