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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 75 111
Rank change year-on-year +21 +36 -6
Contract jobs citing REST 882 467 375
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.34% 3.47% 2.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.47% 11.72% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 313 236
10th Percentile £400 £359 £413
25th Percentile £450 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £638
90th Percentile £738 £713 £750
England median daily rate £525 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +6.65% -6.24% -8.70%
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 £57.50 £50.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +15.00% -32.43% +11.70%

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 5,355 3,986 4,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.35% 29.59% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,602 2,747 3,411
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £454 £432 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £680 £702
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 22
10th Percentile £26.25 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +22.28% -32.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.81 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.00
England median hourly rate £66.83 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +21.51% -12.60% +0.68%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +14 106 £550 -4.35% 104
South London 0 16 £700 +12.54% 6
East London -2 3 £525 -2.78% 6
West London -29 2 £539 +47.60% 22
North London - 1 - - 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 36 (4.08%) Confluence
2 22 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.70%) Apache
4 13 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.13%) Camunda
5 10 (1.13%) IIS
6 9 (1.02%) Anypoint
7 7 (0.79%) Mule
8 6 (0.68%) CMS
8 6 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.68%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.45%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.45%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) Mendix
11 2 (0.23%) nginx
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.45%) Windchill
2 3 (0.34%) Trello
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (2.04%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.57%) Shopify
6 4 (0.45%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.45%) Quorum
6 4 (0.45%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.45%) Ripple
6 4 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.34%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.34%) Workfront
8 2 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.23%) Infor LN
8 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 357 (40.48%) Azure
2 290 (32.88%) AWS
3 158 (17.91%) GitHub
4 117 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
5 108 (12.24%) GCP
6 93 (10.54%) Serverless
7 88 (9.98%) GitHub Actions
8 67 (7.60%) Entra ID
9 54 (6.12%) Power Platform
10 50 (5.67%) SaaS
11 47 (5.33%) Amazon S3
12 42 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
13 37 (4.20%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (3.63%) Boomi
16 28 (3.17%) Azure Functions
16 28 (3.17%) PowerApps
17 27 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (3.06%) GitHub Copilot
18 26 (2.95%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.83%) HTTP
2 14 (1.59%) DNS
3 11 (1.25%) Firewall
4 9 (1.02%) BGP
4 9 (1.02%) HTTPS
4 9 (1.02%) Network Security
5 7 (0.79%) SSH
6 6 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (0.68%) FTP
6 6 (0.68%) SSL
6 6 (0.68%) VXLAN
7 5 (0.57%) Internet
7 5 (0.57%) NX-OS
7 5 (0.57%) TACACS
7 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.45%) VPN
9 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.34%) SAN
9 3 (0.34%) SMS
9 3 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (13.27%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (9.98%) Relational Database
3 78 (8.84%) SQL Server
4 54 (6.12%) NoSQL
5 38 (4.31%) MongoDB
6 34 (3.85%) Power BI
7 29 (3.29%) Redis
8 27 (3.06%) MySQL
9 20 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (2.04%) Metadata
11 17 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.59%) DynamoDB
14 13 (1.47%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (1.36%) Big Data
16 11 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
16 11 (1.25%) Data Lake
16 11 (1.25%) Oracle Database
16 11 (1.25%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 167 (18.93%) Git
2 87 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 68 (7.71%) JIRA
4 59 (6.69%) GitLab
5 45 (5.10%) JUnit
6 28 (3.17%) Gradle
6 28 (3.17%) Maven
7 23 (2.61%) Cypress.io
8 21 (2.38%) Postman
9 20 (2.27%) Selenium
10 17 (1.93%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.81%) Mockito
12 14 (1.59%) REST Assured
12 14 (1.59%) Visual Studio
13 13 (1.47%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.47%) CircleCI
13 13 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
14 10 (1.13%) Eclipse
14 10 (1.13%) Storybook
15 9 (1.02%) JMeter
General
1 256 (29.02%) Finance
2 244 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 116 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (10.20%) Banking
5 71 (8.05%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.31%) Retail
7 27 (3.06%) Telecoms
8 25 (2.83%) Marketing
9 19 (2.15%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 14 (1.59%) Publishing
11 12 (1.36%) Front Office
11 12 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.25%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.13%) Billing
13 10 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.02%) Legal
14 9 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.91%) Law
Job Titles
1 360 (40.82%) Developer
2 158 (17.91%) Senior
3 156 (17.69%) Architect
4 80 (9.07%) Senior Developer
5 57 (6.46%) Full-Stack Developer
6 56 (6.35%) Java Developer
7 53 (6.01%) Lead
8 45 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
9 43 (4.88%) Python Developer
10 42 (4.76%) Software Engineer
11 31 (3.51%) .NET Developer
12 28 (3.17%) React Developer
13 26 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 26 (2.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 26 (2.95%) Java Engineer
14 24 (2.72%) Consultant
15 21 (2.38%) ServiceNow Developer
16 19 (2.15%) Technical Architect
17 18 (2.04%) C# Developer
17 18 (2.04%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (24.26%) SOAP
2 136 (15.42%) .NET
3 128 (14.51%) JSON
3 128 (14.51%) React
4 116 (13.15%) Kafka
5 111 (12.59%) RESTful
6 109 (12.36%) Spring
7 101 (11.45%) Spring Boot
8 94 (10.66%) OAuth
9 93 (10.54%) Terraform
10 87 (9.86%) XML
11 81 (9.18%) HTML
12 79 (8.96%) CSS
13 74 (8.39%) GraphQL
14 66 (7.48%) Middleware
15 64 (7.26%) Node.js
15 64 (7.26%) OAuth2
16 61 (6.92%) AngularJS
16 61 (6.92%) Web Services
17 37 (4.20%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 154 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 81 (9.18%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (8.16%) Product Ownership
4 58 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (4.54%) AI Agents
5 40 (4.54%) CMDB
5 40 (4.54%) Onboarding
6 31 (3.51%) Mobile App
7 24 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (2.72%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.49%) Data Structures
9 20 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (2.15%) Low-Code
11 16 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.59%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.13%) Data Centre
13 10 (1.13%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.02%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 66 (7.48%) Linux
2 36 (4.08%) Windows
3 27 (3.06%) Unix
4 20 (2.27%) Android
5 11 (1.25%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) CentOS
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (48.19%) CI/CD
2 322 (36.51%) Agile
3 297 (33.67%) DevOps
4 228 (25.85%) Microservices
5 189 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 185 (20.98%) AI
7 171 (19.39%) Event-Driven
8 154 (17.46%) Test Automation
9 129 (14.63%) Software Engineering
10 127 (14.40%) Integration Patterns
10 127 (14.40%) Scrum
11 125 (14.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 124 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
13 119 (13.49%) Data Modelling
14 115 (13.04%) Containerisation
15 114 (12.93%) Full-Stack Development
16 105 (11.90%) Observability
17 100 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
18 99 (11.22%) Technical Leadership
19 91 (10.32%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 281 (31.86%) Python
2 245 (27.78%) SQL
3 229 (25.96%) Java
4 205 (23.24%) JavaScript
5 163 (18.48%) TypeScript
6 128 (14.51%) C#
7 55 (6.24%) PowerShell
8 27 (3.06%) Bash
8 27 (3.06%) Kotlin
9 25 (2.83%) Apex Code
10 23 (2.61%) Groovy
11 20 (2.27%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.93%) Bicep
13 16 (1.81%) Go
14 13 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (1.47%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.13%) SOQL
15 10 (1.13%) SOSL
16 9 (1.02%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 191 (21.66%) Security Cleared
2 158 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.14%) Degree
4 31 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.83%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (2.04%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.02%) CISSP
10 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.68%) CISM
11 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 6 (0.68%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.68%) PMP
12 5 (0.57%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.57%) MBA
12 5 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (11.00%) QA
2 39 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.51%) GDPR
4 27 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.38%) GRC
6 17 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.25%) HIPAA
9 10 (1.13%) NIST
9 10 (1.13%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.02%) SLA
11 8 (0.91%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.91%) WCAG
12 5 (0.57%) HL7
12 5 (0.57%) SEPA
13 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.34%) Basel III
14 3 (0.34%) NCSC
15 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 158 (17.91%) Docker
2 35 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Postfix
7 2 (0.23%) Varnish
8 1 (0.11%) Ceph
8 1 (0.11%) RACF
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 160 (18.14%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.85%) Ansible
3 28 (3.17%) Grafana
4 21 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.79%) Control-M
7 5 (0.57%) Kibana
8 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.34%) Bosun
9 3 (0.34%) Istio
10 2 (0.23%) Avamar
10 2 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.23%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.23%) Netcool
10 2 (0.23%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 2 (0.23%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.23%) SCCM
10 2 (0.23%) systemd
10 2 (0.23%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.23%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 146 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 114 (12.93%) Oracle
3 93 (10.54%) ServiceNow
4 79 (8.96%) Salesforce
5 44 (4.99%) Google
6 42 (4.76%) SAP
7 40 (4.54%) Databricks
8 29 (3.29%) OpenAI
9 27 (3.06%) MuleSoft
10 26 (2.95%) Splunk
11 25 (2.83%) IBM
12 23 (2.61%) CyberArk
13 16 (1.81%) Workday
14 15 (1.70%) Cisco
15 12 (1.36%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.36%) VMware
16 10 (1.13%) Foundry
16 10 (1.13%) Okta
16 10 (1.13%) OutSystems
17 9 (1.02%) New Relic