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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 91 97
Rank change year-on-year +27 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing REST 770 415 426
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.88% 3.05% 2.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.14% 11.71% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 299 293
10th Percentile £400 £360 £400
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £625
90th Percentile £716 £750 £775
England median daily rate £520 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.31% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £47.90 - -
25th Percentile £58.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £67.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £83.25 - -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £50.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +22.00% -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 4,493 3,543 4,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.63% 26.06% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,979 2,486 3,228
10th Percentile £394 £370 £376
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 £786 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 25
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £51.44 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.87% +37.17% -43.18%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +8 91 £550 - 36
South London -8 17 £563 -9.57% 7
East London +4 4 £400 -39.92% 7
West London -22 4 £539 +2.62% 7
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 29 (3.77%) Confluence
2 26 (3.38%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.21%) Apache
4 15 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.30%) Anypoint
5 10 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.04%) IIS
6 8 (1.04%) Mule
7 7 (0.91%) Camunda
8 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.65%) CICS
9 5 (0.65%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.52%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.52%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.39%) Appian
11 3 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.39%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
1 3 (0.39%) Trello
2 2 (0.26%) 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 (1.95%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.65%) Shopify
5 4 (0.52%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.52%) Quorum
5 4 (0.52%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.52%) Ripple
6 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
7 2 (0.26%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.26%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.26%) Magento
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.26%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 272 (35.32%) Azure
2 237 (30.78%) AWS
3 124 (16.10%) GitHub
4 88 (11.43%) GCP
5 80 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
6 75 (9.74%) GitHub Actions
7 62 (8.05%) Serverless
8 52 (6.75%) Entra ID
9 44 (5.71%) Power Platform
10 40 (5.19%) SaaS
11 35 (4.55%) Amazon S3
12 32 (4.16%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (3.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 24 (3.12%) Boomi
15 24 (3.12%) PaaS
16 23 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (2.99%) OCI
17 22 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.60%) HTTP
2 7 (0.91%) HTTPS
3 6 (0.78%) FTP
4 5 (0.65%) BGP
4 5 (0.65%) Network Security
4 5 (0.65%) SSL
5 4 (0.52%) DNS
5 4 (0.52%) Firewall
5 4 (0.52%) MPLS
5 4 (0.52%) OSPF
5 4 (0.52%) WAN
6 3 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.26%) Internet
7 2 (0.26%) Intranet
7 2 (0.26%) SMS
7 2 (0.26%) SNMP
7 2 (0.26%) VLAN
7 2 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (11.56%) Relational Database
3 77 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 33 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 32 (4.16%) NoSQL
6 29 (3.77%) Power BI
7 25 (3.25%) Redis
8 20 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (2.47%) MySQL
10 17 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (1.95%) Big Data
12 14 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (1.69%) Metadata
14 11 (1.43%) BigQuery
15 10 (1.30%) DynamoDB
16 9 (1.17%) Data Lake
17 8 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 7 (0.91%) Db2
18 7 (0.91%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 115 (14.94%) Git
2 62 (8.05%) Jenkins
3 55 (7.14%) JIRA
4 41 (5.32%) GitLab
5 33 (4.29%) JUnit
6 23 (2.99%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.34%) Gradle
7 18 (2.34%) Maven
8 15 (1.95%) Selenium
9 14 (1.82%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.82%) Mockito
9 14 (1.82%) Postman
10 13 (1.69%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.43%) CircleCI
12 10 (1.30%) Eclipse
13 9 (1.17%) Ant
13 9 (1.17%) JMeter
14 8 (1.04%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.04%) Visual Studio
14 8 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 219 (28.44%) Finance
2 186 (24.16%) Social Skills
3 104 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (8.57%) Banking
4 66 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 40 (5.19%) Retail
6 29 (3.77%) Telecoms
7 20 (2.60%) Marketing
8 17 (2.21%) Publishing
9 15 (1.95%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.30%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.30%) Front Office
12 9 (1.17%) Billing
12 9 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.04%) Legal
14 6 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.78%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 312 (40.52%) Developer
2 134 (17.40%) Architect
3 123 (15.97%) Senior
4 63 (8.18%) Senior Developer
5 53 (6.88%) Java Developer
6 48 (6.23%) Full-Stack Developer
7 43 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
8 40 (5.19%) Software Engineer
9 38 (4.94%) Lead
10 36 (4.68%) Python Developer
11 27 (3.51%) React Developer
12 26 (3.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 23 (2.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (2.99%) ServiceNow Architect
14 22 (2.86%) .NET Developer
14 22 (2.86%) Consultant
15 20 (2.60%) ServiceNow Developer
16 19 (2.47%) C# Developer
17 18 (2.34%) Cloud Engineer
17 18 (2.34%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (27.92%) SOAP
2 115 (14.94%) React
3 110 (14.29%) .NET
4 109 (14.16%) JSON
4 109 (14.16%) RESTful
5 99 (12.86%) Spring
6 88 (11.43%) Spring Boot
7 87 (11.30%) Kafka
8 82 (10.65%) Web Services
9 77 (10.00%) OAuth
10 73 (9.48%) XML
11 72 (9.35%) CSS
12 70 (9.09%) HTML
13 62 (8.05%) AngularJS
14 61 (7.92%) Node.js
15 60 (7.79%) GraphQL
15 60 (7.79%) Middleware
16 46 (5.97%) OAuth2
17 31 (4.03%) FastAPI
18 30 (3.90%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 111 (14.42%) Cloud Native
2 71 (9.22%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (7.53%) Product Ownership
4 51 (6.62%) CMDB
5 36 (4.68%) Mobile App
6 34 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (3.77%) Management Information System
8 26 (3.38%) AI Agents
9 25 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (3.12%) Data Structures
11 19 (2.47%) Onboarding
12 18 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (2.21%) Virtual Team
14 16 (2.08%) Low-Code
15 15 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.56%) Equities
16 12 (1.56%) Security Posture
17 11 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
17 11 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
18 9 (1.17%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.55%) Linux
2 21 (2.73%) Windows
3 19 (2.47%) Android
4 18 (2.34%) Unix
5 8 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.65%) zOS
7 4 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.13%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (44.16%) CI/CD
2 275 (35.71%) Agile
3 252 (32.73%) DevOps
4 191 (24.81%) Microservices
5 165 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (18.70%) AI
7 125 (16.23%) Event-Driven
8 115 (14.94%) Data Modelling
8 115 (14.94%) Integration Patterns
9 114 (14.81%) Containerisation
10 112 (14.55%) Test Automation
11 107 (13.90%) Scrum
12 105 (13.64%) Observability
13 103 (13.38%) Software Engineering
14 96 (12.47%) Full-Stack Development
15 88 (11.43%) Analytics
16 87 (11.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 85 (11.04%) Roadmaps
18 81 (10.52%) Stakeholder Management
19 80 (10.39%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 208 (27.01%) Python
2 204 (26.49%) Java
3 197 (25.58%) SQL
4 181 (23.51%) JavaScript
5 130 (16.88%) TypeScript
6 108 (14.03%) C#
7 42 (5.45%) PowerShell
8 33 (4.29%) Kotlin
9 24 (3.12%) Apex Code
10 21 (2.73%) Groovy
11 16 (2.08%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.82%) Bicep
13 13 (1.69%) Bash
14 12 (1.56%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.43%) Shell Script
15 11 (1.43%) SOQL
16 10 (1.30%) Go
17 9 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (1.17%) SOSL
18 6 (0.78%) Swift
Qualifications
1 148 (19.22%) Security Cleared
2 128 (16.62%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.49%) Degree
4 21 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.17%) CISSP
9 8 (1.04%) CISM
10 7 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.78%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.78%) PMP
12 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.65%) MBA
12 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.26%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (9.09%) QA
2 35 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 26 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 26 (3.38%) GDPR
4 18 (2.34%) GRC
5 14 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (1.43%) HIPAA
6 11 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.30%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.91%) WCAG
9 6 (0.78%) SLA
10 5 (0.65%) HL7
11 4 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.52%) PMO
11 4 (0.52%) SEPA
12 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.39%) NIST
13 2 (0.26%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 2 (0.26%) ITGC
System Software
1 129 (16.75%) Docker
2 20 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.39%) Postfix
6 2 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.26%) Varnish
6 2 (0.26%) 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
1 135 (17.53%) Kubernetes
2 77 (10.00%) Terraform
3 28 (3.64%) Grafana
4 24 (3.12%) Ansible
5 16 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.78%) Control-M
8 3 (0.39%) Bosun
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.26%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (0.26%) Avamar
9 2 (0.26%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.26%) Istio
9 2 (0.26%) Kibana
9 2 (0.26%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.13%) linkerd
10 1 (0.13%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 112 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 108 (14.03%) Oracle
3 95 (12.34%) ServiceNow
4 72 (9.35%) Salesforce
5 42 (5.45%) Google
6 31 (4.03%) SAP
7 27 (3.51%) Splunk
8 26 (3.38%) MuleSoft
9 21 (2.73%) Workday
10 17 (2.21%) IBM
10 17 (2.21%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.56%) Databricks
11 12 (1.56%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.30%) New Relic
13 9 (1.17%) Atlassian
13 9 (1.17%) CyberArk
13 9 (1.17%) OutSystems
14 8 (1.04%) Cisco
15 7 (0.91%) Adobe
15 7 (0.91%) OpenText