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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 91 97
Rank change year-on-year +25 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing REST 798 416 416
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.95% 3.07% 2.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.45% 11.76% 9.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 292 285
10th Percentile £393 £363 £413
25th Percentile £436 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £636 £673 £625
90th Percentile £713 £749 £783
England median daily rate £515 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +4.67% -6.29% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £45.50 - -
25th Percentile £52.06 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £47.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.42% -29.10% +1.13%
75th Percentile £72.19 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £81.88 - -
England median hourly rate £59.50 £50.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +19.00% -30.56% +33.66%

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 4,574 3,537 4,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.64% 26.08% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,034 2,469 3,189
10th Percentile £390 £370 £377
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 24
10th Percentile £26.48 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.41 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +31.25% -40.30%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.13 £53.42
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -11.00%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 93 £533 -3.18% 70
South London -7 17 £563 -9.57% 6
East London +2 4 £400 -39.92% 12
West London -24 4 £539 +2.62% 4
North London - 1 - - 3
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 29 (3.63%) Confluence
2 24 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.01%) Apache
4 14 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.25%) Anypoint
5 10 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.13%) Camunda
7 8 (1.00%) IIS
8 7 (0.88%) Mule
9 6 (0.75%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.50%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.50%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.38%) CICS
12 3 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.38%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.25%) CMS
13 2 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
1 3 (0.38%) Trello
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.88%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.63%) Shopify
5 4 (0.50%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.50%) Quorum
5 4 (0.50%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.50%) Ripple
6 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.25%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.25%) Magento
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.25%) Workfront
8 1 (0.13%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 288 (36.09%) Azure
2 240 (30.08%) AWS
3 130 (16.29%) GitHub
4 91 (11.40%) GCP
5 90 (11.28%) Azure DevOps
6 79 (9.90%) GitHub Actions
7 63 (7.89%) Serverless
8 56 (7.02%) Entra ID
9 47 (5.89%) Power Platform
10 42 (5.26%) SaaS
11 35 (4.39%) Amazon S3
12 32 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (3.26%) PowerApps
16 25 (3.13%) Boomi
16 25 (3.13%) PaaS
16 25 (3.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 24 (3.01%) OCI
17 24 (3.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.51%) HTTP
2 7 (0.88%) HTTPS
3 6 (0.75%) FTP
4 5 (0.63%) BGP
4 5 (0.63%) DNS
4 5 (0.63%) Firewall
4 5 (0.63%) Network Security
4 5 (0.63%) SSL
5 4 (0.50%) MPLS
5 4 (0.50%) OSPF
5 4 (0.50%) WAN
6 3 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.38%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.25%) Internet
7 2 (0.25%) Intranet
7 2 (0.25%) SMS
7 2 (0.25%) SNMP
7 2 (0.25%) VLAN
7 2 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (12.53%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (11.15%) Relational Database
3 74 (9.27%) SQL Server
4 36 (4.51%) NoSQL
5 32 (4.01%) MongoDB
6 29 (3.63%) Power BI
7 25 (3.13%) Redis
8 20 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (2.38%) MySQL
10 18 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.75%) Big Data
12 14 (1.75%) Metadata
13 12 (1.50%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.25%) DynamoDB
15 9 (1.13%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 7 (0.88%) InterSystems Cache
16 7 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 122 (15.29%) Git
2 68 (8.52%) Jenkins
3 57 (7.14%) JIRA
4 46 (5.76%) GitLab
5 35 (4.39%) JUnit
6 24 (3.01%) Cypress.io
7 20 (2.51%) Gradle
8 19 (2.38%) Maven
9 17 (2.13%) Selenium
10 16 (2.01%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.75%) Mockito
11 14 (1.75%) Postman
12 12 (1.50%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.50%) Visual Studio
13 11 (1.38%) CircleCI
14 10 (1.25%) Eclipse
14 10 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
15 9 (1.13%) JMeter
15 9 (1.13%) Storybook
16 8 (1.00%) Ant
General
1 224 (28.07%) Finance
2 190 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 108 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (9.15%) Banking
5 67 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 41 (5.14%) Retail
7 29 (3.63%) Telecoms
8 21 (2.63%) Marketing
9 17 (2.13%) Publishing
10 15 (1.88%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.25%) Billing
11 10 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.13%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.13%) Front Office
12 9 (1.13%) Legal
12 9 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.88%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 325 (40.73%) Developer
2 139 (17.42%) Architect
3 132 (16.54%) Senior
4 67 (8.40%) Senior Developer
5 54 (6.77%) Java Developer
6 49 (6.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 44 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
8 42 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 38 (4.76%) Lead
9 38 (4.76%) Python Developer
10 27 (3.38%) React Developer
11 26 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 25 (3.13%) Consultant
13 24 (3.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 23 (2.88%) .NET Developer
15 22 (2.76%) ServiceNow Architect
16 20 (2.51%) C# Developer
16 20 (2.51%) ServiceNow Developer
17 19 (2.38%) Java Engineer
18 17 (2.13%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (26.57%) SOAP
2 118 (14.79%) React
3 117 (14.66%) .NET
4 115 (14.41%) JSON
5 108 (13.53%) RESTful
6 101 (12.66%) Spring
7 94 (11.78%) Kafka
8 89 (11.15%) Spring Boot
9 81 (10.15%) XML
10 78 (9.77%) OAuth
11 75 (9.40%) Web Services
12 70 (8.77%) CSS
13 68 (8.52%) HTML
14 60 (7.52%) AngularJS
14 60 (7.52%) GraphQL
14 60 (7.52%) Middleware
14 60 (7.52%) Node.js
15 48 (6.02%) OAuth2
16 31 (3.88%) FastAPI
16 31 (3.88%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 119 (14.91%) Cloud Native
2 75 (9.40%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (7.02%) Product Ownership
4 50 (6.27%) CMDB
5 39 (4.89%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (4.51%) Mobile App
7 29 (3.63%) Management Information System
8 26 (3.26%) AI Agents
9 25 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (3.01%) Data Structures
11 22 (2.76%) Onboarding
12 18 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (2.13%) Virtual Team
14 16 (2.01%) Low-Code
15 15 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.50%) Security Posture
17 11 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
18 10 (1.25%) Equities
18 10 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
19 9 (1.13%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 42 (5.26%) Linux
2 24 (3.01%) Windows
3 19 (2.38%) Android
4 18 (2.26%) Unix
5 8 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.38%) zOS
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (44.99%) CI/CD
2 275 (34.46%) Agile
3 269 (33.71%) DevOps
4 198 (24.81%) Microservices
5 168 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 150 (18.80%) AI
7 133 (16.67%) Event-Driven
8 123 (15.41%) Integration Patterns
9 120 (15.04%) Test Automation
10 116 (14.54%) Containerisation
11 112 (14.04%) Data Modelling
12 109 (13.66%) Observability
12 109 (13.66%) Software Engineering
13 107 (13.41%) Scrum
14 101 (12.66%) Full-Stack Development
15 89 (11.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 89 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
16 86 (10.78%) Analytics
16 86 (10.78%) Roadmaps
17 83 (10.40%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 214 (26.82%) Python
2 213 (26.69%) Java
3 207 (25.94%) SQL
4 184 (23.06%) JavaScript
5 135 (16.92%) TypeScript
6 115 (14.41%) C#
7 42 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 33 (4.14%) Kotlin
9 25 (3.13%) Apex Code
10 20 (2.51%) Groovy
11 17 (2.13%) PL/SQL
12 16 (2.01%) Bicep
13 14 (1.75%) Bash
14 13 (1.63%) Shell Script
15 12 (1.50%) Go
15 12 (1.50%) SOQL
16 10 (1.25%) SOSL
16 10 (1.25%) T-SQL
17 8 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 160 (20.05%) Security Cleared
2 136 (17.04%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.64%) Degree
4 24 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.51%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.63%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.13%) CISSP
9 8 (1.00%) CISM
10 7 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.75%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.75%) PMP
12 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.63%) MBA
13 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (9.27%) QA
2 34 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 26 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 25 (3.13%) GDPR
5 18 (2.26%) GRC
6 14 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.38%) HIPAA
7 11 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.25%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.88%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.88%) WCAG
10 6 (0.75%) SLA
11 5 (0.63%) HL7
12 4 (0.50%) NIST
12 4 (0.50%) PMO
12 4 (0.50%) SEPA
13 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.25%) IEC 62304
14 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 2 (0.25%) ITGC
System Software
1 136 (17.04%) Docker
2 22 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.38%) Postfix
6 2 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.25%) Varnish
6 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) Ceph
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) IAG
7 1 (0.13%) RACF
7 1 (0.13%) UAG
7 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 143 (17.92%) Kubernetes
2 78 (9.77%) Terraform
3 28 (3.51%) Grafana
4 24 (3.01%) Ansible
5 17 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.88%) Control-M
8 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.38%) Bosun
10 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
10 2 (0.25%) Avamar
10 2 (0.25%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.25%) Istio
10 2 (0.25%) Kibana
10 2 (0.25%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.13%) linkerd
11 1 (0.13%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 122 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 112 (14.04%) Oracle
3 95 (11.90%) ServiceNow
4 74 (9.27%) Salesforce
5 42 (5.26%) Google
6 31 (3.88%) SAP
7 26 (3.26%) MuleSoft
7 26 (3.26%) Splunk
8 20 (2.51%) Workday
9 17 (2.13%) IBM
10 16 (2.01%) Databricks
11 15 (1.88%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.50%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.25%) New Relic
13 10 (1.25%) OutSystems
14 9 (1.13%) Atlassian
14 9 (1.13%) CyberArk
15 8 (1.00%) Cisco
16 7 (0.88%) Adobe
16 7 (0.88%) OpenText