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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 104 96
Rank change year-on-year +34 -8 +10
Contract jobs citing REST 695 342 444
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.69% 2.79% 2.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.03% 10.52% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 240 317
10th Percentile £375 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - -11.02%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £650
90th Percentile £750 £725 £793
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £51.13 - -
25th Percentile £62.19 - -
Median hourly rate £78.75 - £67.00
75th Percentile £93.44 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -27.08% +30.91%

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 4,335 3,252 4,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.02% 26.55% 26.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 2,278 3,461
10th Percentile £375 £384 £375
25th Percentile £447 £435 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -3.57% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £843
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 29
10th Percentile £23.65 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.02 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £43.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +2.72% -35.61%
75th Percentile £68.38 £64.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £87.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -1 81 £555 +5.71% 33
South London -1 14 £516 +2.89%
East London -1 6 £432 -35.04% 5
West London -24 6 £375 -32.31% 3
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 18 (2.59%) Confluence
1 18 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.73%) Camunda
3 10 (1.44%) Apache
3 10 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.44%) Ethereum
3 10 (1.44%) Hyperledger
4 9 (1.29%) Appian
5 7 (1.01%) IIS
6 5 (0.72%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.72%) CICS
6 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.58%) Mule
7 4 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.58%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.43%) WordPress
9 2 (0.29%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.73%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.86%) Shopify
4 5 (0.72%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.58%) Quorum
5 4 (0.58%) Ripple
6 3 (0.43%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.43%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.29%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.29%) Magento
7 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 260 (37.41%) Azure
2 235 (33.81%) AWS
3 94 (13.53%) GCP
4 83 (11.94%) GitHub
5 63 (9.06%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (9.06%) GitHub Actions
6 58 (8.35%) Serverless
7 45 (6.47%) Power Platform
8 36 (5.18%) Amazon S3
8 36 (5.18%) Entra ID
9 29 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (4.03%) SaaS
11 27 (3.88%) OCI
12 24 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (3.31%) PaaS
14 22 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (2.88%) Anthropic Claude
15 20 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
15 20 (2.88%) Power Automate
16 19 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.88%) HTTP
2 8 (1.15%) SMS
3 7 (1.01%) DNS
3 7 (1.01%) HTTPS
4 6 (0.86%) FTP
5 5 (0.72%) BGP
5 5 (0.72%) Network Security
6 4 (0.58%) MPLS
6 4 (0.58%) OSPF
6 4 (0.58%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.43%) Firewall
7 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.29%) NaaS
8 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.29%) SNMP
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
8 2 (0.29%) SSL
8 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.80%) Relational Database
2 78 (11.22%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (9.35%) SQL Server
4 36 (5.18%) NoSQL
5 27 (3.88%) MongoDB
6 25 (3.60%) Power BI
7 20 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (2.45%) Redis
9 15 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.16%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.16%) MySQL
10 13 (1.87%) Data Lake
11 12 (1.73%) Pinecone
11 12 (1.73%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.58%) Big Data
12 11 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.29%) Metadata
13 9 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 95 (13.67%) Git
2 55 (7.91%) Jenkins
3 42 (6.04%) JIRA
4 38 (5.47%) GitLab
5 32 (4.60%) JUnit
6 23 (3.31%) Postman
7 18 (2.59%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.45%) Cucumber
8 17 (2.45%) Selenium
9 16 (2.30%) REST Assured
10 14 (2.01%) Gradle
11 13 (1.87%) Maven
11 13 (1.87%) Mockito
12 9 (1.29%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.15%) Ant
13 8 (1.15%) Eclipse
13 8 (1.15%) JMeter
13 8 (1.15%) MLflow
14 7 (1.01%) CircleCI
14 7 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 186 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 172 (24.75%) Finance
3 76 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (7.48%) Banking
5 46 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.31%) Marketing
6 23 (3.31%) Retail
7 22 (3.17%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.16%) Publishing
9 13 (1.87%) Front Office
10 12 (1.73%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.58%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.29%) Billing
14 8 (1.15%) Legal
15 6 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.58%) Automotive
17 4 (0.58%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 271 (38.99%) Developer
2 129 (18.56%) Architect
3 95 (13.67%) Senior
4 44 (6.33%) Java Developer
4 44 (6.33%) Senior Developer
5 36 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
6 34 (4.89%) CyberArk Architect
7 32 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
8 31 (4.46%) Lead
8 31 (4.46%) Software Engineer
9 30 (4.32%) Python Developer
10 27 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 24 (3.45%) Consultant
12 22 (3.17%) React Developer
13 19 (2.73%) ServiceNow Architect
14 17 (2.45%) C# Developer
14 17 (2.45%) Data Engineer
14 17 (2.45%) Java Engineer
15 16 (2.30%) Automation Engineer
15 16 (2.30%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (28.63%) SOAP
2 98 (14.10%) Spring
3 95 (13.67%) RESTful
4 93 (13.38%) React
5 92 (13.24%) JSON
6 91 (13.09%) Spring Boot
7 86 (12.37%) Kafka
8 85 (12.23%) Web Services
9 78 (11.22%) .NET
10 68 (9.78%) AngularJS
10 68 (9.78%) OAuth
11 65 (9.35%) HTML
12 64 (9.21%) CSS
13 56 (8.06%) Node.js
14 52 (7.48%) XML
15 50 (7.19%) GraphQL
15 50 (7.19%) Middleware
16 41 (5.90%) LDAP
17 30 (4.32%) OAuth2
17 30 (4.32%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.78%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.63%) Product Ownership
3 48 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.91%) Enterprise Software
4 41 (5.90%) Security Posture
5 34 (4.89%) CMDB
6 30 (4.32%) Mobile App
7 25 (3.60%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (2.88%) Low-Code
9 16 (2.30%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.30%) Virtual Team
10 14 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (2.01%) Equities
11 13 (1.87%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.73%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.58%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (1.29%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.03%) Linux
2 17 (2.45%) Windows
3 13 (1.87%) Unix
4 10 (1.44%) Android
5 5 (0.72%) zOS
6 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) VMS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (38.71%) CI/CD
2 215 (30.94%) Agile
3 209 (30.07%) DevOps
4 157 (22.59%) Microservices
5 155 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
6 128 (18.42%) Integration Patterns
7 102 (14.68%) Data Modelling
7 102 (14.68%) Test Automation
8 100 (14.39%) AI
9 97 (13.96%) Event-Driven
10 93 (13.38%) Observability
11 92 (13.24%) Containerisation
12 86 (12.37%) Scrum
13 85 (12.23%) ITSM
14 81 (11.65%) Software Engineering
14 81 (11.65%) Technical Leadership
15 73 (10.50%) Analytics
16 70 (10.07%) Validation
17 68 (9.78%) Full-Stack Development
17 68 (9.78%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 214 (30.79%) Python
2 189 (27.19%) Java
3 176 (25.32%) SQL
4 141 (20.29%) JavaScript
5 107 (15.40%) TypeScript
6 86 (12.37%) C#
7 66 (9.50%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.59%) Apex Code
8 18 (2.59%) Kotlin
9 12 (1.73%) Bicep
9 12 (1.73%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.29%) SOQL
12 8 (1.15%) Bash
12 8 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (1.01%) Groovy
13 7 (1.01%) SOSL
14 5 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.72%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.72%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 133 (19.14%) Security Cleared
2 116 (16.69%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.62%) Degree
4 18 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.01%) AWS Certification
5 14 (2.01%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.73%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.29%) CISSP
8 8 (1.15%) CISM
9 7 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.01%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.01%) PMP
10 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.72%) MBA
11 4 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.29%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (8.63%) QA
2 36 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.03%) GDPR
4 19 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.01%) PCI DSS
6 13 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.58%) HIPAA
8 10 (1.44%) GRC
8 10 (1.44%) WCAG
9 7 (1.01%) NIST
10 6 (0.86%) SLA
11 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.29%) Basel III
12 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.29%) PMO
12 2 (0.29%) SEPA
13 1 (0.14%) ITGC
13 1 (0.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 108 (15.54%) Docker
2 47 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.43%) Postfix
6 2 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) IAG
7 1 (0.14%) RACF
7 1 (0.14%) UAG
7 1 (0.14%) Varnish
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 114 (16.40%) Kubernetes
2 57 (8.20%) Terraform
3 26 (3.74%) Grafana
4 23 (3.31%) Ansible
5 11 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.29%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.29%) Avamar
7 2 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.29%) Istio
7 2 (0.29%) Kibana
7 2 (0.29%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.14%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.14%) Pingdom
8 1 (0.14%) Puppet
8 1 (0.14%) TrustSec
8 1 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 91 (13.09%) Oracle
2 81 (11.65%) ServiceNow
3 80 (11.51%) Microsoft
4 43 (6.19%) Salesforce
5 38 (5.47%) CyberArk
6 32 (4.60%) BeyondTrust
6 32 (4.60%) Centrify
7 25 (3.60%) SAP
8 22 (3.17%) Google
9 19 (2.73%) Workday
10 18 (2.59%) OpenAI
11 16 (2.30%) MuleSoft
12 15 (2.16%) Databricks
12 15 (2.16%) Dynatrace
12 15 (2.16%) Splunk
13 13 (1.87%) Guidewire
14 12 (1.73%) IBM
15 10 (1.44%) Adobe
16 9 (1.29%) Atlassian
16 9 (1.29%) UiPath