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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 122 91
Rank change year-on-year +55 -31 -11
Contract jobs citing REST 580 297 439
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.06% 2.14% 2.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.47% 8.22% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 145 299
10th Percentile £359 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £750
90th Percentile £832 £775 £850
England median daily rate £506 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -6.08% -2.05% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £44.65 - £48.25
25th Percentile £46.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 - £57.50
75th Percentile £63.00 - £76.25
90th Percentile £67.20 - £86.75
England median hourly rate £68.00 £74.22 £76.53
% change year-on-year -8.38% -3.02% +27.55%

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 3,750 3,611 4,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.25% 26.01% 25.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,542 2,362 3,462
10th Percentile £363 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -0.86% -4.92%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £41.25 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year -4.00% +14.62% -16.11%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +16 54 £550 +2.80% 48
East London +2 5 £540 -11.11% 14
West London -14 5 £365 -30.48% 12
North London - 4 - -
South London -5 3 £510 +34.21% 20
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 16 (2.76%) Confluence
1 16 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.90%) Apache
3 9 (1.55%) Jupyter
4 8 (1.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (1.21%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.69%) Appian
7 4 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.52%) Camunda
8 3 (0.52%) LiveLink
8 3 (0.52%) SAS
9 2 (0.34%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.17%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.69%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.17%) InVision
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (3.79%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.52%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (0.52%) Shopify
4 2 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
4 2 (0.34%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.34%) Maximo
4 2 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.17%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) Summit
5 1 (0.17%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 199 (34.31%) Azure
2 152 (26.21%) AWS
3 72 (12.41%) GitHub
4 71 (12.24%) GCP
5 48 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (7.41%) Serverless
7 40 (6.90%) OCI
8 39 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (6.72%) Power Platform
9 36 (6.21%) IaaS
10 31 (5.34%) PaaS
11 29 (5.00%) Entra ID
12 28 (4.83%) Azure Logic Apps
12 28 (4.83%) Azure Monitor
13 24 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
14 21 (3.62%) Amazon S3
15 19 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (3.28%) Power Automate
16 17 (2.93%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.72%) SSL
2 8 (1.38%) DNS
2 8 (1.38%) SMS
3 6 (1.03%) HTTP
3 6 (1.03%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.52%) Firewall
6 2 (0.34%) SAN
6 2 (0.34%) VPN
7 1 (0.17%) BGP
7 1 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.17%) IPFIX
7 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.17%) Modbus
7 1 (0.17%) SNMP
7 1 (0.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 32 (5.52%) NoSQL
2 32 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (5.52%) Relational Database
3 17 (2.93%) MongoDB
3 17 (2.93%) MySQL
3 17 (2.93%) Power BI
4 12 (2.07%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 12 (2.07%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (1.90%) Oracle Database
5 11 (1.90%) RDBMS
6 10 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (1.72%) Redis
7 9 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.55%) DynamoDB
7 9 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.38%) DocumentDB
9 7 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.03%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 84 (14.48%) Git
2 55 (9.48%) JIRA
3 37 (6.38%) Jenkins
4 35 (6.03%) Postman
5 29 (5.00%) JUnit
6 21 (3.62%) GitLab
7 20 (3.45%) Cucumber
8 18 (3.10%) Mockito
9 17 (2.93%) Selenium
10 11 (1.90%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.90%) JMeter
10 11 (1.90%) REST Assured
11 9 (1.55%) Maven
11 9 (1.55%) SoapUI
12 8 (1.38%) Cypress.io
13 7 (1.21%) Gatling
13 7 (1.21%) SonarQube
14 6 (1.03%) Gradle
14 6 (1.03%) MLflow
14 6 (1.03%) SpecFlow
General
1 191 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 128 (22.07%) Finance
3 85 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (10.52%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.24%) Banking
6 23 (3.97%) Front Office
7 19 (3.28%) Marketing
8 15 (2.59%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.07%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.38%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.38%) Military
12 7 (1.21%) Billing
12 7 (1.21%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.21%) Retail
13 5 (0.86%) Back Office
13 5 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.86%) Law
14 4 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 237 (40.86%) Developer
2 109 (18.79%) Architect
3 55 (9.48%) Senior
4 34 (5.86%) CyberArk Architect
5 32 (5.52%) Java Developer
6 30 (5.17%) Senior Developer
7 28 (4.83%) ServiceNow Developer
8 26 (4.48%) Python Developer
9 25 (4.31%) Consultant
9 25 (4.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (3.97%) Lead
11 22 (3.79%) Business Analyst
12 21 (3.62%) Angular Developer
13 20 (3.45%) Analyst
14 18 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (2.93%) C# Developer
16 16 (2.76%) Integration Specialist
17 15 (2.59%) Cloud Specialist
18 14 (2.41%) Oracle Developer
18 14 (2.41%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (31.72%) SOAP
2 124 (21.38%) JSON
3 74 (12.76%) Web Services
4 69 (11.90%) HTML
5 63 (10.86%) React
6 60 (10.34%) OAuth
7 59 (10.17%) CSS
8 58 (10.00%) Kafka
8 58 (10.00%) XML
9 56 (9.66%) AngularJS
10 55 (9.48%) Spring Boot
11 54 (9.31%) Spring
12 52 (8.97%) RESTful
13 43 (7.41%) .NET
14 38 (6.55%) LDAP
15 36 (6.21%) GraphQL
15 36 (6.21%) Oracle Fusion
16 29 (5.00%) Middleware
17 28 (4.83%) Pandas
18 25 (4.31%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.76%) Enterprise Software
2 43 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 37 (6.38%) Security Posture
4 33 (5.69%) CMDB
5 29 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (4.66%) PKI
7 24 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (4.14%) Product Ownership
8 20 (3.45%) Equities
9 19 (3.28%) Public Cloud
10 18 (3.10%) Onboarding
11 14 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (2.41%) Hedge funds
12 13 (2.24%) Fixed Income
12 13 (2.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 11 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.72%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.55%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (1.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 50 (8.62%) Linux
2 15 (2.59%) Windows
3 9 (1.55%) Unix
4 8 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.21%) Android
6 5 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.69%) Solaris
8 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (36.21%) Agile
2 164 (28.28%) DevOps
3 161 (27.76%) CI/CD
4 154 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
5 113 (19.48%) Microservices
6 78 (13.45%) ITSM
6 78 (13.45%) Test Automation
7 75 (12.93%) Integration Patterns
7 75 (12.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 70 (12.07%) API Integration
9 68 (11.72%) Analytics
10 64 (11.03%) Full-Stack Development
10 64 (11.03%) Scrum
11 63 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
12 56 (9.66%) Event-Driven
13 54 (9.31%) AI
14 53 (9.14%) ERP
15 51 (8.79%) Data Modelling
16 50 (8.62%) Observability
17 47 (8.10%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 152 (26.21%) Python
2 138 (23.79%) SQL
3 122 (21.03%) Java
4 118 (20.34%) JavaScript
5 94 (16.21%) PowerShell
6 66 (11.38%) TypeScript
7 61 (10.52%) C#
8 15 (2.59%) Apex Code
9 12 (2.07%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.72%) Groovy
10 10 (1.72%) VBA
11 9 (1.55%) Bash
11 9 (1.55%) Bicep
11 9 (1.55%) Go
12 7 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (1.03%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.03%) PHP
14 5 (0.86%) C++
14 5 (0.86%) Korn
15 4 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 164 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 152 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.86%) Degree
4 27 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.55%) ISTQB
6 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.21%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (0.86%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.69%) CISSP
11 3 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.34%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.34%) PMP
13 1 (0.17%) CCNP
13 1 (0.17%) CCSP
13 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (10.34%) QA
2 30 (5.17%) GDPR
3 18 (3.10%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.10%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.90%) WCAG
6 8 (1.38%) NIST
7 7 (1.21%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.52%) SLA
10 2 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.34%) GRC
10 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.34%) NCSC
10 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.17%) FISMA
11 1 (0.17%) HL7
11 1 (0.17%) MiFID
11 1 (0.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 85 (14.66%) Docker
2 53 (9.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.69%) NFS
3 4 (0.69%) Veritas File System
3 4 (0.69%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 4 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 71 (12.24%) Kubernetes
2 43 (7.41%) Terraform
3 15 (2.59%) Ansible
4 12 (2.07%) Grafana
5 8 (1.38%) logstash
5 8 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.21%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.03%) Kibana
7 6 (1.03%) QRadar
8 5 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.69%) Pingdom
9 4 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.34%) Control-M
10 2 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.34%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.34%) Puppet
10 2 (0.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 69 (11.90%) Oracle
2 60 (10.34%) ServiceNow
3 59 (10.17%) Microsoft
4 45 (7.76%) CyberArk
5 36 (6.21%) BeyondTrust
6 34 (5.86%) Centrify
7 27 (4.66%) Salesforce
8 20 (3.45%) Splunk
9 17 (2.93%) OpenAI
10 16 (2.76%) SAP
11 10 (1.72%) Adobe
11 10 (1.72%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.72%) Google
11 10 (1.72%) Guidewire
12 8 (1.38%) MuleSoft
13 7 (1.21%) Okta
13 7 (1.21%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.21%) Solace
14 6 (1.03%) Axway
14 6 (1.03%) Databricks