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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 109 104
Rank change year-on-year +36 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing REST 660 312 423
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.59% 2.57% 2.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.58% 9.85% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 210 305
10th Percentile £368 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £547 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +4.24% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £728 £801
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £69.00 - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £72.22
% change year-on-year +33.33% -27.31% +28.39%

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 4,237 3,169 4,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.04% 26.15% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,813 2,216 3,395
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £441 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -3.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £720 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 26
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.16 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.76 £33.25 £23.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -38.18%
75th Percentile £60.12 £54.06 £64.40
90th Percentile £90.88 £68.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 0 73 £550 +4.76% 32
South London -7 14 £516 +35.66% 2
East London -3 6 £432 -35.04% 7
West London -27 6 £375 -32.31% 4
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 16 (2.42%) Confluence
1 16 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.82%) Camunda
3 10 (1.52%) Apache
3 10 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.36%) Appian
4 9 (1.36%) Ethereum
4 9 (1.36%) Hyperledger
5 5 (0.76%) CICS
5 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.61%) IIS
6 4 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.45%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.45%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.45%) WordPress
8 2 (0.30%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (2.12%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.76%) Shopify
4 4 (0.61%) R3 Corda
5 3 (0.45%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.45%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.45%) Quorum
5 3 (0.45%) Ripple
6 2 (0.30%) Magento
6 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.15%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.15%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.15%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.15%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 244 (36.97%) Azure
2 215 (32.58%) AWS
3 91 (13.79%) GCP
4 75 (11.36%) GitHub
5 58 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (8.48%) GitHub Actions
7 55 (8.33%) Serverless
8 45 (6.82%) Power Platform
9 35 (5.30%) OCI
10 31 (4.70%) Entra ID
11 30 (4.55%) Amazon S3
12 28 (4.24%) PaaS
13 25 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (3.33%) SaaS
15 20 (3.03%) Azure Functions
15 20 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
15 20 (3.03%) Power Automate
16 19 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.73%) HTTP
2 9 (1.36%) SMS
3 7 (1.06%) DNS
4 5 (0.76%) FTP
5 4 (0.61%) BGP
5 4 (0.61%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.45%) MPLS
6 3 (0.45%) OSPF
6 3 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.45%) WAN
7 2 (0.30%) Firewall
7 2 (0.30%) NaaS
7 2 (0.30%) Network Security
7 2 (0.30%) SNMP
7 2 (0.30%) SSL
7 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.30%) VLAN
8 1 (0.15%) SSH
8 1 (0.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (11.67%) Relational Database
2 69 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (9.55%) SQL Server
4 36 (5.45%) NoSQL
5 25 (3.79%) MongoDB
6 23 (3.48%) Power BI
7 17 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.27%) MySQL
9 14 (2.12%) DynamoDB
9 14 (2.12%) Redis
10 13 (1.97%) Data Lake
11 12 (1.82%) Pinecone
12 11 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (1.67%) RDBMS
13 10 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (1.36%) Metadata
14 9 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (1.21%) Big Data
16 7 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 88 (13.33%) Git
2 47 (7.12%) Jenkins
3 39 (5.91%) JIRA
4 34 (5.15%) GitLab
5 31 (4.70%) JUnit
5 31 (4.70%) Postman
6 18 (2.73%) Selenium
7 17 (2.58%) Cucumber
8 16 (2.42%) REST Assured
9 15 (2.27%) Cypress.io
10 14 (2.12%) Mockito
11 11 (1.67%) Gradle
11 11 (1.67%) Maven
12 9 (1.36%) SoapUI
12 9 (1.36%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.21%) JMeter
13 8 (1.21%) MLflow
14 5 (0.76%) Ant
14 5 (0.76%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 182 (27.58%) Social Skills
2 157 (23.79%) Finance
3 67 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (7.12%) Banking
5 46 (6.97%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.48%) Marketing
7 22 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.58%) Retail
9 15 (2.27%) Front Office
9 15 (2.27%) Publishing
10 12 (1.82%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.52%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.36%) Billing
13 8 (1.21%) Legal
14 5 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.61%) Automotive
15 4 (0.61%) Back Office
15 4 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 249 (37.73%) Developer
2 121 (18.33%) Architect
3 81 (12.27%) Senior
4 39 (5.91%) Java Developer
5 36 (5.45%) CyberArk Architect
6 34 (5.15%) Senior Developer
7 31 (4.70%) Lead
8 30 (4.55%) Software Engineer
9 29 (4.39%) Full-Stack Developer
9 29 (4.39%) Python Developer
10 28 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (3.48%) Consultant
12 21 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 19 (2.88%) ServiceNow Architect
14 17 (2.58%) C# Developer
14 17 (2.58%) Java Engineer
14 17 (2.58%) React Developer
15 16 (2.42%) Automation Engineer
16 14 (2.12%) Data Engineer
17 13 (1.97%) Cloud Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (29.24%) SOAP
2 91 (13.79%) RESTful
3 90 (13.64%) Spring
4 87 (13.18%) JSON
5 85 (12.88%) Kafka
5 85 (12.88%) Web Services
6 83 (12.58%) React
6 83 (12.58%) Spring Boot
7 71 (10.76%) .NET
8 69 (10.45%) AngularJS
9 65 (9.85%) OAuth
10 62 (9.39%) CSS
11 60 (9.09%) HTML
12 49 (7.42%) Node.js
13 48 (7.27%) GraphQL
14 47 (7.12%) XML
15 45 (6.82%) Middleware
16 42 (6.36%) LDAP
17 30 (4.55%) Pandas
18 28 (4.24%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.48%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.73%) Product Ownership
3 48 (7.27%) Enterprise Software
4 42 (6.36%) Security Posture
5 41 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (5.00%) CMDB
7 25 (3.79%) Management Information System
8 24 (3.64%) Mobile App
9 19 (2.88%) Low-Code
10 17 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.58%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.42%) Data Structures
11 16 (2.42%) Equities
12 13 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.82%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.52%) Hedge funds
14 10 (1.52%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.79%) Linux
2 15 (2.27%) Windows
3 10 (1.52%) Android
3 10 (1.52%) Unix
4 5 (0.76%) zOS
5 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (37.12%) CI/CD
2 201 (30.45%) DevOps
3 199 (30.15%) Agile
4 148 (22.42%) Problem-Solving
5 139 (21.06%) Microservices
6 114 (17.27%) Integration Patterns
7 94 (14.24%) Data Modelling
7 94 (14.24%) Test Automation
8 88 (13.33%) Event-Driven
9 87 (13.18%) Observability
10 84 (12.73%) AI
10 84 (12.73%) ITSM
11 80 (12.12%) Containerisation
12 77 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
13 75 (11.36%) Software Engineering
14 73 (11.06%) Scrum
15 64 (9.70%) Analytics
15 64 (9.70%) Validation
16 63 (9.55%) Workflow
17 62 (9.39%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 197 (29.85%) Python
2 178 (26.97%) Java
3 174 (26.36%) SQL
4 131 (19.85%) JavaScript
5 97 (14.70%) TypeScript
6 84 (12.73%) C#
7 66 (10.00%) PowerShell
8 17 (2.58%) Kotlin
9 14 (2.12%) Apex Code
10 12 (1.82%) Bicep
11 10 (1.52%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (1.21%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.06%) Bash
14 6 (0.91%) Groovy
14 6 (0.91%) SOQL
15 5 (0.76%) Go
15 5 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.76%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.61%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 132 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 117 (17.73%) SC Cleared
3 43 (6.52%) Degree
4 18 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.36%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.21%) CISSP
7 8 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.06%) CISM
8 7 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.76%) MBA
9 5 (0.76%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.76%) PMP
10 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.64%) QA
2 33 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 27 (4.09%) GDPR
4 14 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.36%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.21%) WCAG
9 7 (1.06%) NIST
9 7 (1.06%) SLA
10 6 (0.91%) GRC
11 3 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.30%) Basel III
12 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.30%) PMO
12 2 (0.30%) SEPA
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 102 (15.45%) Docker
2 47 (7.12%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.45%) Postfix
6 2 (0.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.15%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.15%) IAG
7 1 (0.15%) RACF
7 1 (0.15%) UAG
7 1 (0.15%) Varnish
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 110 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 54 (8.18%) Terraform
3 25 (3.79%) Grafana
4 17 (2.58%) Ansible
5 11 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.61%) Pingdom
8 2 (0.30%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.30%) Avamar
8 2 (0.30%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.30%) Istio
8 2 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.30%) PowerCLI
8 2 (0.30%) Puppet
9 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.15%) linkerd
9 1 (0.15%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.15%) TrustSec
9 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 92 (13.94%) Oracle
2 79 (11.97%) ServiceNow
3 72 (10.91%) Microsoft
4 39 (5.91%) CyberArk
5 34 (5.15%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.15%) Centrify
6 32 (4.85%) Salesforce
7 22 (3.33%) SAP
8 17 (2.58%) Google
8 17 (2.58%) OpenAI
8 17 (2.58%) Workday
9 15 (2.27%) Databricks
10 13 (1.97%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.97%) Guidewire
11 12 (1.82%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.82%) Splunk
12 11 (1.67%) Adobe
12 11 (1.67%) IBM
13 9 (1.36%) Atlassian
13 9 (1.36%) UiPath