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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 116 100
Rank change year-on-year +44 -16 +5
Contract jobs citing REST 641 294 424
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.68% 2.31% 2.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.20% 8.88% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 193 296
10th Percentile £363 £380 £406
25th Percentile £420 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +0.38% -7.30%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £850
England median daily rate £513 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +0.24% -2.62% -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 4,217 3,312 4,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.18% 26.05% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,844 2,320 3,318
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £721 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 21
10th Percentile £23.33 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £38.19 £24.18
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +46.58% -45.22%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.25 £70.00
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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -2 65 £525 -1.87% 46
South London -8 14 £510 +34.21% 5
West London -25 6 £375 -32.31% 3
East London -2 5 £432 -33.28% 9
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 23 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.65%) Confluence
3 11 (1.72%) Apache
4 10 (1.56%) Camunda
4 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.40%) Appian
6 7 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.94%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.94%) 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 (0.16%) GeoServer
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.16%) InVision
4 1 (0.16%) Maya
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) Sketch
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (2.34%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.62%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.62%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.47%) 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 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.16%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 215 (33.54%) Azure
2 191 (29.80%) AWS
3 89 (13.88%) GCP
4 67 (10.45%) GitHub
5 47 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (6.71%) Serverless
7 41 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
8 38 (5.93%) Power Platform
9 36 (5.62%) IaaS
10 35 (5.46%) OCI
11 34 (5.30%) PaaS
12 33 (5.15%) Entra ID
13 25 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
14 24 (3.74%) SaaS
15 23 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
15 23 (3.59%) Power Automate
16 21 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
16 21 (3.28%) Amazon S3
17 20 (3.12%) Azure Monitor
18 18 (2.81%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.65%) HTTP
2 9 (1.40%) SMS
3 6 (0.94%) DNS
4 5 (0.78%) Firewall
5 4 (0.62%) BGP
5 4 (0.62%) FTP
6 3 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.47%) MPLS
6 3 (0.47%) OSPF
6 3 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.47%) 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 (0.16%) DHCP
8 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.16%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.20%) Relational Database
2 54 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 39 (6.08%) NoSQL
5 27 (4.21%) MongoDB
6 18 (2.81%) MySQL
7 16 (2.50%) Power BI
8 13 (2.03%) RDBMS
9 12 (1.87%) Pinecone
9 12 (1.87%) Redis
10 11 (1.72%) DynamoDB
11 10 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.56%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.40%) Metadata
13 8 (1.25%) DocumentDB
14 7 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 80 (12.48%) Git
2 44 (6.86%) JIRA
3 36 (5.62%) Jenkins
4 31 (4.84%) Postman
5 29 (4.52%) JUnit
6 23 (3.59%) GitLab
7 21 (3.28%) Cucumber
7 21 (3.28%) Selenium
8 17 (2.65%) REST Assured
9 16 (2.50%) Mockito
10 15 (2.34%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.56%) Maven
11 10 (1.56%) SoapUI
12 8 (1.25%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.25%) JMeter
12 8 (1.25%) MLflow
12 8 (1.25%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.78%) Jasmine
13 5 (0.78%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.78%) TestRail
General
1 176 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 142 (22.15%) Finance
3 88 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 44 (6.86%) Banking
6 24 (3.74%) Front Office
7 17 (2.65%) Marketing
8 15 (2.34%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.87%) Retail
11 11 (1.72%) Publishing
12 9 (1.40%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.25%) Billing
13 8 (1.25%) Legal
14 6 (0.94%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.62%) Military
17 3 (0.47%) Law
17 3 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 234 (36.51%) Developer
2 139 (21.68%) Architect
3 60 (9.36%) Senior
4 40 (6.24%) Java Developer
5 34 (5.30%) CyberArk Architect
6 31 (4.84%) Python Developer
7 29 (4.52%) Lead
7 29 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
8 27 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (4.06%) Software Engineer
10 25 (3.90%) Senior Developer
11 20 (3.12%) Consultant
12 17 (2.65%) C# Developer
13 15 (2.34%) Business Analyst
13 15 (2.34%) Integration Specialist
14 14 (2.18%) Analyst
14 14 (2.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 14 (2.18%) Automation Engineer
14 14 (2.18%) Cloud Specialist
14 14 (2.18%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (29.02%) SOAP
2 111 (17.32%) JSON
3 88 (13.73%) Web Services
4 80 (12.48%) RESTful
5 79 (12.32%) React
6 78 (12.17%) Spring
7 77 (12.01%) Kafka
8 74 (11.54%) Spring Boot
9 71 (11.08%) AngularJS
10 69 (10.76%) .NET
11 64 (9.98%) CSS
12 62 (9.67%) HTML
13 54 (8.42%) OAuth
14 47 (7.33%) XML
15 43 (6.71%) GraphQL
16 42 (6.55%) Middleware
17 39 (6.08%) LDAP
17 39 (6.08%) Node.js
18 33 (5.15%) Pandas
19 31 (4.84%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
2 44 (6.86%) Cloud Native
3 42 (6.55%) Security Posture
4 41 (6.40%) Product Ownership
5 35 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (4.37%) CMDB
6 28 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (4.06%) PKI
8 24 (3.74%) Equities
9 22 (3.43%) Management Information System
10 20 (3.12%) Public Cloud
11 18 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (2.65%) Mobile App
13 16 (2.50%) Data Structures
14 15 (2.34%) Onboarding
15 14 (2.18%) Hedge funds
16 12 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
16 12 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (1.87%) Low-Code
17 11 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.99%) Linux
2 21 (3.28%) Windows
3 9 (1.40%) Unix
4 6 (0.94%) zOS
5 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.47%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (32.61%) Agile
2 204 (31.83%) CI/CD
3 181 (28.24%) DevOps
4 145 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (19.66%) Microservices
6 111 (17.32%) Integration Patterns
7 88 (13.73%) Test Automation
8 80 (12.48%) Observability
8 80 (12.48%) Technical Leadership
9 79 (12.32%) Data Modelling
10 76 (11.86%) Containerisation
11 75 (11.70%) ITSM
12 71 (11.08%) Analytics
13 69 (10.76%) AI
14 67 (10.45%) Event-Driven
15 65 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 62 (9.67%) Scrum
17 60 (9.36%) API Integration
18 59 (9.20%) ERP
18 59 (9.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 178 (27.77%) Python
2 150 (23.40%) SQL
3 149 (23.24%) Java
4 110 (17.16%) JavaScript
5 88 (13.73%) PowerShell
6 84 (13.10%) TypeScript
7 81 (12.64%) C#
8 13 (2.03%) Apex Code
9 12 (1.87%) Kotlin
10 11 (1.72%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (1.40%) VBA
13 7 (1.09%) Bicep
14 6 (0.94%) Go
14 6 (0.94%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.78%) Bash
15 5 (0.78%) PHP
16 4 (0.62%) Groovy
16 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 162 (25.27%) Security Cleared
2 150 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.15%) Degree
4 22 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.09%) CISSP
6 7 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.78%) CISM
9 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.62%) MBA
10 3 (0.47%) 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 56 (8.74%) QA
2 26 (4.06%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.74%) GDPR
4 14 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.56%) WCAG
6 9 (1.40%) NIST
7 7 (1.09%) SLA
8 6 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.78%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.62%) GRC
11 3 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.31%) HL7
12 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.31%) NCSC
12 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.31%) PMO
12 2 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 91 (14.20%) Docker
2 50 (7.80%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 2 (0.31%) Postfix
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) IAG
5 1 (0.16%) UAG
5 1 (0.16%) Varnish
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 93 (14.51%) Kubernetes
2 50 (7.80%) Terraform
3 24 (3.74%) Grafana
4 14 (2.18%) Ansible
5 11 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.94%) 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 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 78 (12.17%) Oracle
2 72 (11.23%) ServiceNow
3 67 (10.45%) Microsoft
4 39 (6.08%) CyberArk
5 34 (5.30%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.30%) Centrify
6 28 (4.37%) Salesforce
7 20 (3.12%) SAP
8 18 (2.81%) Google
8 18 (2.81%) Splunk
9 17 (2.65%) OpenAI
10 13 (2.03%) Workday
11 12 (1.87%) Adobe
11 12 (1.87%) MuleSoft
12 11 (1.72%) Guidewire
13 10 (1.56%) IBM
14 9 (1.40%) Atlassian
14 9 (1.40%) Dynatrace
14 9 (1.40%) UiPath
15 8 (1.25%) Automation Anywhere