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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 111 90
Rank change year-on-year +41 -21 +5
Contract jobs citing REST 632 316 446
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.81% 2.46% 2.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.37% 9.39% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 183 306
10th Percentile £356 £380 £400
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £541
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% +1.62% -7.08%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £734
90th Percentile £800 £750 £850
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £48.50 - £49.25
25th Percentile £53.50 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £62.25
75th Percentile £88.75 - £73.69
90th Percentile £95.00 - £85.73
England median hourly rate £70.00 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -15.62% +11.45% +21.53%

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 4,112 3,365 4,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.80% 26.20% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,792 2,333 3,326
10th Percentile £363 £385 £378
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £706 £690
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 27
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £26.76
Median hourly rate £46.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +27.06% -34.62%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -3 62 £525 -0.94% 63
South London -8 9 £516 +35.66% 2
West London -17 6 £375 -43.61% 1
East London 0 5 £432 -28.89% 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 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.22%) Confluence
3 11 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.58%) Apache
4 10 (1.58%) Camunda
5 9 (1.42%) Appian
6 8 (1.27%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.95%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.95%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.95%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.63%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.63%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.63%) CICS
9 3 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.32%) Drupal
10 2 (0.32%) Mule
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.32%) SAS
10 2 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.16%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) InVision
4 1 (0.16%) Maya
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) Sketch
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.69%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.63%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.63%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.32%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.32%) Shopify
6 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 226 (35.76%) Azure
2 192 (30.38%) AWS
3 91 (14.40%) GCP
4 72 (11.39%) GitHub
5 53 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (7.28%) Serverless
7 44 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (6.49%) Power Platform
9 38 (6.01%) IaaS
10 35 (5.54%) OCI
11 34 (5.38%) PaaS
12 33 (5.22%) Entra ID
13 24 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
14 23 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
15 22 (3.48%) Amazon S3
15 22 (3.48%) Power Automate
16 21 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
17 20 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
17 20 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
18 19 (3.01%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.37%) HTTP
2 8 (1.27%) SMS
3 5 (0.79%) DNS
4 4 (0.63%) SSL
5 3 (0.47%) BGP
5 3 (0.47%) Firewall
6 2 (0.32%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.32%) Modbus
6 2 (0.32%) MPLS
6 2 (0.32%) NaaS
6 2 (0.32%) OSPF
6 2 (0.32%) SAN
6 2 (0.32%) SNMP
6 2 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.32%) VPN
6 2 (0.32%) WAN
7 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.16%) IPFIX
7 1 (0.16%) PCoIP
7 1 (0.16%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.07%) SQL Server
2 46 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (6.96%) Relational Database
4 39 (6.17%) NoSQL
5 28 (4.43%) MongoDB
6 21 (3.32%) MySQL
7 18 (2.85%) Power BI
8 12 (1.90%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
9 11 (1.74%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.58%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.58%) Metadata
10 10 (1.58%) Redis
11 9 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.42%) Pinecone
12 8 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.27%) DocumentDB
13 7 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 92 (14.56%) Git
2 45 (7.12%) JIRA
3 43 (6.80%) Jenkins
4 34 (5.38%) JUnit
4 34 (5.38%) Postman
5 31 (4.91%) GitLab
6 27 (4.27%) Cucumber
7 22 (3.48%) Selenium
8 18 (2.85%) REST Assured
9 17 (2.69%) Mockito
10 16 (2.53%) Cypress.io
11 12 (1.90%) Maven
12 11 (1.74%) JMeter
12 11 (1.74%) SoapUI
13 9 (1.42%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.27%) MLflow
15 7 (1.11%) Gatling
15 7 (1.11%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.95%) SpecFlow
17 5 (0.79%) Jasmine
General
1 185 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 142 (22.47%) Finance
3 96 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.70%) Banking
6 27 (4.27%) Front Office
7 16 (2.53%) Marketing
8 14 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.06%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.06%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.74%) Retail
11 8 (1.27%) Billing
11 8 (1.27%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.11%) Publishing
13 6 (0.95%) Military
14 5 (0.79%) Legal
14 5 (0.79%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.63%) Back Office
15 4 (0.63%) Law
15 4 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 237 (37.50%) Developer
2 130 (20.57%) Architect
3 67 (10.60%) Senior
4 39 (6.17%) Java Developer
5 34 (5.38%) CyberArk Architect
6 33 (5.22%) Python Developer
6 33 (5.22%) Senior Developer
7 30 (4.75%) Lead
8 25 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
9 24 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (3.48%) Analyst
11 21 (3.32%) Software Engineer
12 20 (3.16%) Consultant
13 19 (3.01%) Business Analyst
13 19 (3.01%) C# Developer
14 15 (2.37%) Automation Engineer
14 15 (2.37%) Cloud Specialist
14 15 (2.37%) Integration Specialist
15 13 (2.06%) Data Engineer
15 13 (2.06%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (28.32%) SOAP
2 114 (18.04%) JSON
3 94 (14.87%) Web Services
4 78 (12.34%) Kafka
4 78 (12.34%) React
4 78 (12.34%) RESTful
5 75 (11.87%) Spring
6 71 (11.23%) Spring Boot
7 69 (10.92%) AngularJS
8 63 (9.97%) .NET
9 62 (9.81%) CSS
9 62 (9.81%) HTML
10 55 (8.70%) XML
11 52 (8.23%) OAuth
12 42 (6.65%) Middleware
13 38 (6.01%) GraphQL
13 38 (6.01%) LDAP
14 35 (5.54%) Node.js
15 33 (5.22%) Oracle Fusion
16 32 (5.06%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.91%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.44%) Enterprise Software
3 40 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 38 (6.01%) Security Posture
5 33 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (4.91%) CMDB
7 27 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (4.27%) PKI
8 24 (3.80%) Equities
9 21 (3.32%) Public Cloud
10 20 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (3.01%) Mobile App
12 16 (2.53%) Management Information System
13 15 (2.37%) Hedge funds
13 15 (2.37%) Onboarding
14 14 (2.22%) Data Structures
14 14 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (1.90%) Fixed Income
16 11 (1.74%) Algorithms
17 10 (1.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.12%) Linux
2 20 (3.16%) Windows
3 13 (2.06%) Unix
4 6 (0.95%) zOS
5 5 (0.79%) Android
5 5 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (32.59%) Agile
2 200 (31.65%) CI/CD
3 186 (29.43%) DevOps
4 153 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
5 134 (21.20%) Microservices
6 97 (15.35%) Integration Patterns
7 89 (14.08%) Test Automation
8 77 (12.18%) Technical Leadership
9 75 (11.87%) Analytics
9 75 (11.87%) ITSM
10 74 (11.71%) Data Modelling
11 72 (11.39%) Event-Driven
12 71 (11.23%) Observability
13 70 (11.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 68 (10.76%) Containerisation
15 63 (9.97%) AI
16 60 (9.49%) API Integration
17 57 (9.02%) ERP
17 57 (9.02%) Full-Stack Development
17 57 (9.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 174 (27.53%) Python
2 155 (24.53%) SQL
3 149 (23.58%) Java
4 109 (17.25%) JavaScript
5 94 (14.87%) PowerShell
6 82 (12.97%) TypeScript
7 79 (12.50%) C#
8 16 (2.53%) Apex Code
9 14 (2.22%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (1.58%) VBA
11 7 (1.11%) Bicep
11 7 (1.11%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.95%) Go
12 6 (0.95%) PHP
13 5 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.63%) Korn
14 4 (0.63%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.63%) XPath
15 3 (0.47%) C++
Qualifications
1 166 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 153 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.59%) Degree
4 19 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.58%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.11%) CISSP
7 7 (1.11%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.63%) CISM
9 4 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.32%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.32%) OSCP
11 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (11.08%) QA
2 25 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.80%) GDPR
4 19 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.74%) WCAG
6 9 (1.42%) NIST
7 7 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.11%) SLA
8 5 (0.79%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.47%) GRC
9 3 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.32%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.32%) NCSC
10 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.32%) PMO
10 2 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 96 (15.19%) Docker
2 54 (8.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.32%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) IAG
4 1 (0.16%) Postfix
4 1 (0.16%) UAG
Systems Management
1 96 (15.19%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.75%) Terraform
3 24 (3.80%) Grafana
4 13 (2.06%) Ansible
5 10 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.63%) logstash
7 4 (0.63%) Pingdom
8 2 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.32%) Control-M
8 2 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.32%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.32%) Istio
8 2 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.32%) Kibana
8 2 (0.32%) Puppet
8 2 (0.32%) QRadar
8 2 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 68 (10.76%) Microsoft
1 68 (10.76%) Oracle
2 64 (10.13%) ServiceNow
3 41 (6.49%) CyberArk
4 35 (5.54%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.38%) Centrify
6 28 (4.43%) Salesforce
7 19 (3.01%) SAP
8 18 (2.85%) Splunk
9 17 (2.69%) Google
9 17 (2.69%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.74%) Guidewire
10 11 (1.74%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.58%) Adobe
12 9 (1.42%) Workday
13 8 (1.27%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (1.27%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.27%) UiPath
14 7 (1.11%) Bloomberg
14 7 (1.11%) IBM