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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 119 96
Rank change year-on-year +48 -23 +2
Contract jobs citing REST 648 290 429
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.74% 2.29% 2.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.29% 8.79% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 186 294
10th Percentile £363 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £700 £654 £688
90th Percentile £800 £758 £850
England median daily rate £503 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.01% -0.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £53.50 - £48.33
25th Percentile £62.00 - £51.44
Median hourly rate £69.00 - £57.25
75th Percentile £90.00 - £62.44
90th Percentile £95.00 - £65.18
England median hourly rate £70.00 £82.96 £62.00
% change year-on-year -15.62% +33.81% -0.80%

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 4,239 3,298 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.44% 26.06% 24.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,868 2,303 3,334
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 22
10th Percentile £22.79 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.02 £39.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £54.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +44.01% -43.19%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.63 £61.25
90th Percentile £77.00 £81.25 £69.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +10 66 £525 -1.87% 58
South London -6 13 £510 +34.21% 3
West London -24 6 £375 -32.31% 2
East London -1 5 £432 -31.43% 10
North London - 4 - -
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 24 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 20 (3.09%) Confluence
3 11 (1.70%) Apache
4 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.39%) Appian
5 9 (1.39%) Camunda
6 7 (1.08%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.93%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.93%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.62%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.62%) CICS
9 3 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.31%) Drupal
10 2 (0.31%) Mule
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.31%) SAS
10 2 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.15%) InVision
4 1 (0.15%) Maya
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Sketch
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.47%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.62%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.62%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.46%) 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%) Shopify
5 2 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 217 (33.49%) Azure
2 194 (29.94%) AWS
3 88 (13.58%) GCP
4 68 (10.49%) GitHub
5 50 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (6.94%) Serverless
7 42 (6.48%) GitHub Actions
7 42 (6.48%) Power Platform
8 38 (5.86%) IaaS
9 36 (5.56%) OCI
9 36 (5.56%) PaaS
10 33 (5.09%) Entra ID
11 25 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
12 24 (3.70%) Power Automate
13 21 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (3.24%) Amazon S3
13 21 (3.24%) SaaS
14 20 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
15 18 (2.78%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.62%) HTTP
2 9 (1.39%) SMS
3 6 (0.93%) DNS
4 5 (0.77%) Firewall
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%) FTP
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%) PCoIP
8 1 (0.15%) SSH
8 1 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.10%) Relational Database
2 52 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (7.56%) SQL Server
4 39 (6.02%) NoSQL
5 28 (4.32%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.09%) Power BI
7 19 (2.93%) MySQL
8 13 (2.01%) RDBMS
9 12 (1.85%) Redis
10 11 (1.70%) Pinecone
11 10 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (1.54%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.54%) DynamoDB
11 10 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.39%) Metadata
13 8 (1.23%) DocumentDB
14 7 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 88 (13.58%) Git
2 47 (7.25%) JIRA
3 36 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 35 (5.40%) Postman
5 30 (4.63%) JUnit
6 24 (3.70%) Cucumber
7 23 (3.55%) GitLab
8 22 (3.40%) Selenium
9 19 (2.93%) REST Assured
10 16 (2.47%) Cypress.io
10 16 (2.47%) Mockito
11 11 (1.70%) Maven
11 11 (1.70%) SoapUI
12 8 (1.23%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.23%) JMeter
12 8 (1.23%) MLflow
13 7 (1.08%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.77%) Jasmine
14 5 (0.77%) SpecFlow
14 5 (0.77%) Zephyr
General
1 180 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 145 (22.38%) Finance
3 93 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (9.10%) Public Sector
5 51 (7.87%) Banking
6 28 (4.32%) Front Office
7 16 (2.47%) Marketing
8 13 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.01%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.70%) Retail
10 10 (1.54%) Publishing
11 9 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.23%) Billing
13 7 (1.08%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.08%) Legal
14 5 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.62%) Military
16 3 (0.46%) Games
16 3 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 230 (35.49%) Developer
2 140 (21.60%) Architect
3 61 (9.41%) Senior
4 40 (6.17%) Java Developer
5 37 (5.71%) Python Developer
6 34 (5.25%) CyberArk Architect
7 32 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
8 29 (4.48%) Lead
9 27 (4.17%) Senior Developer
10 26 (4.01%) Full-Stack Developer
10 26 (4.01%) Software Engineer
11 21 (3.24%) Consultant
12 18 (2.78%) C# Developer
13 16 (2.47%) Analyst
13 16 (2.47%) Business Analyst
13 16 (2.47%) Integration Specialist
14 15 (2.31%) Automation Engineer
14 15 (2.31%) Cloud Specialist
15 14 (2.16%) Data Engineer
16 13 (2.01%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (28.40%) SOAP
2 111 (17.13%) JSON
3 95 (14.66%) Web Services
4 80 (12.35%) Spring
5 79 (12.19%) RESTful
6 78 (12.04%) React
7 76 (11.73%) Kafka
8 75 (11.57%) Spring Boot
9 72 (11.11%) AngularJS
10 70 (10.80%) .NET
11 61 (9.41%) HTML
12 60 (9.26%) CSS
13 52 (8.02%) XML
14 49 (7.56%) OAuth
15 46 (7.10%) Middleware
16 41 (6.33%) GraphQL
17 37 (5.71%) LDAP
17 37 (5.71%) Node.js
17 37 (5.71%) Pandas
18 32 (4.94%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.79%) Enterprise Software
3 41 (6.33%) Product Ownership
3 41 (6.33%) Security Posture
4 36 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (4.48%) CMDB
6 27 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (4.17%) PKI
7 26 (4.01%) Equities
8 21 (3.24%) Management Information System
8 21 (3.24%) Public Cloud
9 19 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.78%) Mobile App
11 17 (2.62%) Hedge funds
12 16 (2.47%) Data Structures
13 15 (2.31%) Onboarding
14 13 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (1.54%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.86%) Linux
2 22 (3.40%) Windows
3 11 (1.70%) Unix
4 6 (0.93%) zOS
5 5 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.46%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (32.87%) Agile
2 201 (31.02%) CI/CD
3 183 (28.24%) DevOps
4 156 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
5 132 (20.37%) Microservices
6 111 (17.13%) Integration Patterns
7 89 (13.73%) Test Automation
8 81 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
9 80 (12.35%) Data Modelling
10 79 (12.19%) Analytics
10 79 (12.19%) Observability
11 76 (11.73%) ITSM
12 74 (11.42%) Containerisation
13 69 (10.65%) Event-Driven
14 66 (10.19%) AI
15 65 (10.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 60 (9.26%) API Integration
16 60 (9.26%) Scrum
17 59 (9.10%) ERP
18 58 (8.95%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 183 (28.24%) Python
2 153 (23.61%) SQL
3 150 (23.15%) Java
4 108 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 90 (13.89%) PowerShell
6 83 (12.81%) C#
6 83 (12.81%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.31%) Apex Code
8 11 (1.70%) Kotlin
8 11 (1.70%) VBA
9 10 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (1.23%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.08%) Bicep
12 6 (0.93%) Bash
12 6 (0.93%) Go
13 5 (0.77%) PHP
13 5 (0.77%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.62%) Groovy
14 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 168 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 155 (23.92%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.09%) Degree
4 22 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.77%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.77%) CISSP
8 5 (0.77%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.62%) MBA
10 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.46%) CISM
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 60 (9.26%) QA
2 26 (4.01%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.55%) GDPR
4 15 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.70%) WCAG
6 10 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.39%) NIST
8 7 (1.08%) SLA
9 6 (0.93%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.62%) GRC
10 4 (0.62%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.46%) 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 94 (14.51%) Docker
2 51 (7.87%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) IAG
5 1 (0.15%) Postfix
5 1 (0.15%) UAG
5 1 (0.15%) Varnish
5 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 94 (14.51%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.56%) Terraform
3 23 (3.55%) Grafana
4 17 (2.62%) Ansible
5 11 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.93%) 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%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 71 (10.96%) Oracle
1 71 (10.96%) ServiceNow
2 68 (10.49%) Microsoft
3 39 (6.02%) CyberArk
4 34 (5.25%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (5.25%) Centrify
5 29 (4.48%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.78%) Google
6 18 (2.78%) SAP
6 18 (2.78%) Splunk
7 17 (2.62%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.01%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.85%) Adobe
10 11 (1.70%) Guidewire
10 11 (1.70%) Workday
11 10 (1.54%) IBM
12 9 (1.39%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.23%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.23%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (1.23%) UiPath