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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 96 98
Rank change year-on-year +22 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing REST 681 362 440
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.56% 2.88% 2.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.64% 10.93% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 253 315
10th Percentile £382 £376 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £750 £735 £788
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 £68.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -27.01% +24.55%

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 4,354 3,313 4,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.76% 26.32% 26.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,890 2,317 3,450
10th Percentile £380 £379 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £702
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 28
10th Percentile £24.30 £32.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +5.29% -36.57%
75th Percentile £73.00 £58.13 £61.70
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.87% -14.42%

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 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 24 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 24 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 -1 81 £560 +6.67% 31
South London -5 14 £516 +2.89%
East London +1 5 £416 -37.48% 3
West London -29 5 £375 -32.31% 6
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 21 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.50%) Confluence
3 12 (1.76%) Camunda
4 11 (1.62%) Apache
4 11 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.47%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.47%) Hyperledger
6 9 (1.32%) Appian
7 7 (1.03%) IIS
8 6 (0.88%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.73%) CICS
9 5 (0.73%) Mule
10 4 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.59%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.44%) WordPress
12 2 (0.29%) Drupal
12 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Maya
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.03%) Shopify
3 6 (0.88%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.73%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.59%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
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
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 (0.15%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.15%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 247 (36.27%) Azure
2 218 (32.01%) AWS
3 84 (12.33%) GitHub
4 79 (11.60%) GCP
5 69 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (9.25%) GitHub Actions
7 58 (8.52%) Serverless
8 42 (6.17%) Power Platform
9 39 (5.73%) Entra ID
10 34 (4.99%) Amazon S3
11 30 (4.41%) SaaS
12 28 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (3.67%) OCI
15 24 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
16 22 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
16 22 (3.23%) PaaS
17 21 (3.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 20 (2.94%) Azure Functions
18 20 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.94%) HTTP
2 8 (1.17%) DNS
3 7 (1.03%) HTTPS
4 6 (0.88%) FTP
5 5 (0.73%) BGP
5 5 (0.73%) Network Security
5 5 (0.73%) SMS
6 4 (0.59%) Firewall
6 4 (0.59%) MPLS
6 4 (0.59%) OSPF
6 4 (0.59%) WAN
7 3 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.29%) NaaS
8 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.29%) SNMP
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
8 2 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (12.19%) PostgreSQL
1 83 (12.19%) Relational Database
2 71 (10.43%) SQL Server
3 35 (5.14%) NoSQL
4 27 (3.96%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.67%) Power BI
6 21 (3.08%) Redis
7 20 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.20%) MySQL
9 13 (1.91%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.76%) Big Data
11 11 (1.62%) Data Lake
11 11 (1.62%) Pinecone
12 10 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.32%) Metadata
13 9 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 98 (14.39%) Git
2 58 (8.52%) Jenkins
3 44 (6.46%) JIRA
4 41 (6.02%) GitLab
5 35 (5.14%) JUnit
6 21 (3.08%) Postman
7 18 (2.64%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.50%) Selenium
9 16 (2.35%) Cucumber
9 16 (2.35%) Gradle
9 16 (2.35%) REST Assured
10 15 (2.20%) Maven
10 15 (2.20%) Mockito
11 10 (1.47%) SonarQube
12 9 (1.32%) Ant
12 9 (1.32%) Eclipse
12 9 (1.32%) JMeter
13 8 (1.17%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (1.03%) CircleCI
14 7 (1.03%) MLflow
General
1 177 (25.99%) Finance
2 168 (24.67%) Social Skills
3 79 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (8.37%) Banking
5 50 (7.34%) Public Sector
6 29 (4.26%) Retail
7 21 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.94%) Marketing
9 15 (2.20%) Publishing
10 14 (2.06%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.76%) Front Office
12 10 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.32%) Billing
13 9 (1.32%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.17%) Legal
15 6 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.59%) Automotive
16 4 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.44%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 270 (39.65%) Developer
2 117 (17.18%) Architect
3 102 (14.98%) Senior
4 48 (7.05%) Senior Developer
5 45 (6.61%) Java Developer
6 35 (5.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 33 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
8 32 (4.70%) Python Developer
8 32 (4.70%) Software Engineer
9 28 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 28 (4.11%) Lead
10 24 (3.52%) Consultant
11 22 (3.23%) React Developer
12 19 (2.79%) ServiceNow Architect
13 17 (2.50%) Java Engineer
14 16 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (2.35%) CyberArk Architect
14 16 (2.35%) Data Engineer
15 15 (2.20%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (2.20%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (27.61%) SOAP
2 98 (14.39%) React
3 95 (13.95%) RESTful
3 95 (13.95%) Spring
4 88 (12.92%) JSON
4 88 (12.92%) Spring Boot
5 85 (12.48%) Kafka
5 85 (12.48%) Web Services
6 84 (12.33%) .NET
7 71 (10.43%) OAuth
8 62 (9.10%) AngularJS
9 58 (8.52%) XML
10 57 (8.37%) CSS
10 57 (8.37%) HTML
11 56 (8.22%) Node.js
12 54 (7.93%) Middleware
13 50 (7.34%) GraphQL
14 33 (4.85%) OAuth2
15 31 (4.55%) JWT
16 28 (4.11%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 78 (11.45%) Cloud Native
2 55 (8.08%) Product Ownership
3 51 (7.49%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (4.99%) CMDB
5 32 (4.70%) Enterprise Software
6 31 (4.55%) Mobile App
7 27 (3.96%) Management Information System
8 25 (3.67%) Security Posture
9 20 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (2.94%) Low-Code
10 18 (2.64%) Virtual Team
11 15 (2.20%) Data Structures
11 15 (2.20%) Onboarding
12 14 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.91%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.91%) Equities
13 13 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.47%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.32%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.11%) Linux
2 19 (2.79%) Windows
3 13 (1.91%) Unix
4 10 (1.47%) Android
5 5 (0.73%) zOS
6 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (42.14%) CI/CD
2 223 (32.75%) Agile
3 217 (31.86%) DevOps
4 165 (24.23%) Microservices
5 144 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
6 109 (16.01%) Integration Patterns
7 106 (15.57%) AI
8 102 (14.98%) Data Modelling
8 102 (14.98%) Test Automation
9 100 (14.68%) Event-Driven
10 94 (13.80%) Observability
11 93 (13.66%) Containerisation
12 90 (13.22%) Scrum
13 83 (12.19%) Software Engineering
14 72 (10.57%) Analytics
14 72 (10.57%) Workflow
15 69 (10.13%) ITSM
16 67 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
16 67 (9.84%) Validation
17 66 (9.69%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 205 (30.10%) Python
2 191 (28.05%) Java
3 172 (25.26%) SQL
4 140 (20.56%) JavaScript
5 113 (16.59%) TypeScript
6 89 (13.07%) C#
7 52 (7.64%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.79%) Apex Code
9 18 (2.64%) Kotlin
10 13 (1.91%) Bicep
11 12 (1.76%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.76%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.47%) Groovy
12 10 (1.47%) SOQL
13 8 (1.17%) Bash
13 8 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (1.17%) SOSL
14 6 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.88%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.73%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 119 (17.47%) Security Cleared
2 103 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.75%) Degree
4 17 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.06%) AWS Certification
5 14 (2.06%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.32%) CISSP
7 8 (1.17%) CISM
8 7 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.03%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.03%) PMP
9 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.73%) MBA
10 4 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.29%) CCIE
12 2 (0.29%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.66%) QA
2 36 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.11%) GDPR
4 23 (3.38%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.06%) PCI DSS
6 13 (1.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.76%) GRC
8 11 (1.62%) HIPAA
9 9 (1.32%) WCAG
10 7 (1.03%) NIST
11 6 (0.88%) SLA
12 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.44%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.44%) SEPA
13 2 (0.29%) Basel III
13 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.29%) PMO
14 1 (0.15%) ITGC
14 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 110 (16.15%) Docker
2 31 (4.55%) 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
1 117 (17.18%) Kubernetes
2 61 (8.96%) Terraform
3 26 (3.82%) Grafana
4 23 (3.38%) Ansible
5 10 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.29%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.29%) Avamar
7 2 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.29%) Kibana
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.29%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.15%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.15%) Puppet
8 1 (0.15%) TrustSec
8 1 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 94 (13.80%) Oracle
2 84 (12.33%) Microsoft
3 80 (11.75%) ServiceNow
4 51 (7.49%) Salesforce
5 24 (3.52%) Google
5 24 (3.52%) SAP
6 22 (3.23%) CyberArk
7 19 (2.79%) MuleSoft
7 19 (2.79%) Workday
8 18 (2.64%) OpenAI
9 16 (2.35%) Splunk
10 14 (2.06%) BeyondTrust
10 14 (2.06%) Centrify
10 14 (2.06%) Databricks
11 13 (1.91%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.91%) Guidewire
11 13 (1.91%) IBM
12 9 (1.32%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.17%) Cisco
13 8 (1.17%) UiPath