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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 91 107
Rank change year-on-year +33 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing REST 851 430 392
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.23% 3.21% 2.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.14% 11.02% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 298 257
10th Percentile £400 £359 £410
25th Percentile £438 £425 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% -11.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £630
90th Percentile £715 £733 £775
England median daily rate £520 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +5.69% -6.29% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £46.40 - -
25th Percentile £50.63 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £59.50 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.26% - -
75th Percentile £69.38 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £80.50 - -
England median hourly rate £59.50 £50.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +19.00% -30.56% +32.27%

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 5,271 3,901 4,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.22% 29.15% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,524 2,722 3,486
10th Percentile £400 £370 £383
25th Percentile £450 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 31 18
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.61 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.87 £24.48
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +21.04% -36.57%
75th Percentile £61.50 £61.88 £50.56
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £68.02
England median hourly rate £67.24 £54.70 £62.00
% change year-on-year +22.92% -11.77% -4.62%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 +9 94 £525 -4.55% 58
South London -4 15 £700 +12.54% 6
East London +5 6 £432 -28.30% 9
West London -27 2 £539 +7.75% 23
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 31 (3.64%) Confluence
2 24 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.76%) Apache
4 12 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.18%) Anypoint
5 10 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.06%) Camunda
6 9 (1.06%) IIS
7 7 (0.82%) Mule
8 6 (0.71%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.59%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.47%) CMS
10 4 (0.47%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.24%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Trello
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.12%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.59%) Shopify
7 4 (0.47%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.47%) Quorum
7 4 (0.47%) R3 Corda
7 4 (0.47%) Ripple
8 3 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.24%) Infor LN
9 2 (0.24%) Magento
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
9 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 327 (38.43%) Azure
2 255 (29.96%) AWS
3 139 (16.33%) GitHub
4 105 (12.34%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (10.93%) GCP
6 81 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 77 (9.05%) Serverless
8 64 (7.52%) Entra ID
9 52 (6.11%) Power Platform
10 46 (5.41%) SaaS
11 38 (4.47%) Amazon S3
12 34 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (3.29%) Azure Service Bus
15 28 (3.29%) Boomi
15 28 (3.29%) PowerApps
16 27 (3.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 24 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
17 24 (2.82%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.59%) HTTP
2 10 (1.18%) BGP
3 9 (1.06%) HTTPS
4 8 (0.94%) Firewall
5 7 (0.82%) DNS
5 7 (0.82%) Network Security
6 6 (0.71%) FTP
6 6 (0.71%) SSL
6 6 (0.71%) VXLAN
7 5 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (0.59%) NX-OS
7 5 (0.59%) TACACS
8 4 (0.47%) MPLS
8 4 (0.47%) OSPF
8 4 (0.47%) SSH
8 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.35%) SMS
9 3 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.35%) WAN
9 3 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (11.99%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (10.69%) Relational Database
3 77 (9.05%) SQL Server
4 49 (5.76%) NoSQL
5 37 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 32 (3.76%) Power BI
7 29 (3.41%) Redis
8 21 (2.47%) MySQL
9 19 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (2.00%) Metadata
11 16 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.65%) Big Data
13 13 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (1.41%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (1.29%) DynamoDB
16 9 (1.06%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
18 7 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 140 (16.45%) Git
2 79 (9.28%) Jenkins
3 61 (7.17%) JIRA
4 56 (6.58%) GitLab
5 38 (4.47%) JUnit
6 24 (2.82%) Cypress.io
7 20 (2.35%) Gradle
7 20 (2.35%) Selenium
8 18 (2.12%) Maven
9 17 (2.00%) Postman
10 15 (1.76%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.53%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.53%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.53%) Visual Studio
12 12 (1.41%) Mockito
12 12 (1.41%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
13 11 (1.29%) JMeter
14 10 (1.18%) Eclipse
15 9 (1.06%) Storybook
General
1 238 (27.97%) Finance
2 219 (25.73%) Social Skills
3 118 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (9.28%) Banking
5 76 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.23%) Retail
7 31 (3.64%) Telecoms
8 24 (2.82%) Marketing
9 18 (2.12%) Publishing
10 16 (1.88%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.29%) Billing
12 10 (1.18%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.18%) Front Office
12 10 (1.18%) Legal
12 10 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 351 (41.25%) Developer
2 154 (18.10%) Architect
3 138 (16.22%) Senior
4 70 (8.23%) Senior Developer
5 55 (6.46%) Java Developer
6 54 (6.35%) Full-Stack Developer
7 49 (5.76%) Lead
8 46 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
9 43 (5.05%) Python Developer
9 43 (5.05%) Software Engineer
10 27 (3.17%) .NET Developer
10 27 (3.17%) React Developer
11 25 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 25 (2.94%) Consultant
12 24 (2.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (2.70%) ServiceNow Developer
14 21 (2.47%) Java Engineer
14 21 (2.47%) ServiceNow Architect
15 20 (2.35%) C# Developer
16 19 (2.23%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (25.62%) SOAP
2 131 (15.39%) .NET
3 124 (14.57%) JSON
4 122 (14.34%) React
5 112 (13.16%) RESTful
6 102 (11.99%) Kafka
7 99 (11.63%) Spring
8 90 (10.58%) Spring Boot
9 86 (10.11%) OAuth
10 85 (9.99%) Terraform
11 81 (9.52%) XML
12 78 (9.17%) CSS
13 77 (9.05%) HTML
14 72 (8.46%) Web Services
15 62 (7.29%) GraphQL
16 61 (7.17%) AngularJS
16 61 (7.17%) Middleware
16 61 (7.17%) Node.js
17 55 (6.46%) OAuth2
18 35 (4.11%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 133 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 78 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (7.76%) Product Ownership
4 52 (6.11%) CMDB
5 51 (5.99%) Enterprise Software
6 33 (3.88%) Mobile App
6 33 (3.88%) Onboarding
7 29 (3.41%) AI Agents
8 28 (3.29%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.82%) Data Structures
9 24 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (2.00%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.76%) Low-Code
13 14 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.41%) Security Posture
15 11 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
17 9 (1.06%) Equities
17 9 (1.06%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.35%) Linux
2 29 (3.41%) Windows
3 22 (2.59%) Unix
4 20 (2.35%) Android
5 11 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (45.48%) CI/CD
2 305 (35.84%) Agile
3 285 (33.49%) DevOps
4 210 (24.68%) Microservices
5 188 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
6 165 (19.39%) AI
7 145 (17.04%) Event-Driven
8 134 (15.75%) Test Automation
9 127 (14.92%) Integration Patterns
10 124 (14.57%) Data Modelling
11 115 (13.51%) Scrum
11 115 (13.51%) Software Engineering
12 113 (13.28%) Containerisation
13 107 (12.57%) Full-Stack Development
14 105 (12.34%) Stakeholder Management
15 103 (12.10%) Observability
16 101 (11.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 97 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
18 91 (10.69%) Migration
19 90 (10.58%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 252 (29.61%) Python
2 235 (27.61%) SQL
3 216 (25.38%) Java
4 189 (22.21%) JavaScript
5 140 (16.45%) TypeScript
6 124 (14.57%) C#
7 54 (6.35%) PowerShell
8 27 (3.17%) Apex Code
9 25 (2.94%) Kotlin
10 21 (2.47%) Bash
11 20 (2.35%) Groovy
12 17 (2.00%) Bicep
12 17 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.53%) Go
14 11 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (1.29%) SOQL
15 10 (1.18%) SOSL
15 10 (1.18%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.94%) Swift
Qualifications
1 174 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 147 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.58%) Degree
4 26 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.76%) AWS Certification
6 15 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.29%) CISSP
9 9 (1.06%) CISM
9 9 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.71%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.71%) PMP
12 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.59%) MBA
13 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (9.40%) QA
2 38 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 29 (3.41%) GDPR
4 27 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.35%) GRC
6 19 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.41%) HIPAA
9 10 (1.18%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.06%) NIST
11 8 (0.94%) SLA
12 7 (0.82%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.82%) WCAG
13 5 (0.59%) HL7
14 4 (0.47%) PMO
14 4 (0.47%) SEPA
15 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.35%) Basel III
16 2 (0.24%) ISO 13485
16 2 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 146 (17.16%) Docker
2 31 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.24%) Postfix
7 2 (0.24%) Varnish
8 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.12%) Ceph
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) RACF
8 1 (0.12%) UAG
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 150 (17.63%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.88%) Ansible
3 22 (2.59%) Grafana
4 15 (1.76%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.82%) Control-M
7 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.35%) Bosun
8 3 (0.35%) Istio
8 3 (0.35%) Kibana
9 2 (0.24%) Avamar
9 2 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.24%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.24%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.24%) SCCM
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.12%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.12%) TrustSec
10 1 (0.12%) WMI
Vendors
1 137 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 114 (13.40%) Oracle
3 104 (12.22%) ServiceNow
4 83 (9.75%) Salesforce
5 37 (4.35%) Google
5 37 (4.35%) SAP
6 27 (3.17%) Databricks
7 26 (3.06%) MuleSoft
8 22 (2.59%) Splunk
9 21 (2.47%) Workday
10 17 (2.00%) CyberArk
10 17 (2.00%) IBM
11 16 (1.88%) OpenAI
12 13 (1.53%) Cisco
13 11 (1.29%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.29%) VMware
14 10 (1.18%) New Relic
14 10 (1.18%) OutSystems
15 9 (1.06%) Okta
16 7 (0.82%) TikTok