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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 111 103
Rank change year-on-year +37 -8 +6
Contract jobs citing REST 651 307 420
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.56% 2.54% 2.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.44% 9.76% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 207 305
10th Percentile £363 £380 £403
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £666 £650
90th Percentile £750 £735 £822
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 4,215 3,144 4,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.03% 26.02% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,799 2,201 3,364
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% -1.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 15 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £30.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £29.52 £33.25 £23.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% -38.18%
75th Percentile £59.99 £53.75 £64.40
90th Percentile £89.50 £68.25 £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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -1 71 £550 +2.33% 46
South London -8 14 £516 +35.66% 2
East London -2 6 £432 -35.04% 9
West London -30 6 £375 -32.31% 4
North London - 2 - -
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 (2.46%) Confluence
2 15 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.84%) Camunda
4 10 (1.54%) Apache
5 9 (1.38%) Appian
6 8 (1.23%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.08%) Ethereum
7 7 (1.08%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.77%) CICS
8 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.61%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.61%) IIS
9 4 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.46%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.46%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.46%) WordPress
11 2 (0.31%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.46%) 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 (2.15%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.46%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.46%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.46%) Shopify
4 2 (0.31%) Magento
4 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.31%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.15%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.15%) Remedy AR System
5 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP CS
5 1 (0.15%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.15%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.15%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 237 (36.41%) Azure
2 210 (32.26%) AWS
3 90 (13.82%) GCP
4 69 (10.60%) GitHub
5 55 (8.45%) Serverless
6 54 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (7.83%) GitHub Actions
8 44 (6.76%) Power Platform
9 35 (5.38%) OCI
10 31 (4.76%) Entra ID
11 30 (4.61%) Amazon S3
12 28 (4.30%) PaaS
13 25 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (3.38%) SaaS
15 20 (3.07%) Azure Functions
15 20 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
15 20 (3.07%) Power Automate
16 19 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.76%) HTTP
2 9 (1.38%) SMS
3 7 (1.08%) DNS
4 5 (0.77%) BGP
4 5 (0.77%) FTP
5 4 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (0.61%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.46%) MPLS
6 3 (0.46%) OSPF
6 3 (0.46%) SNMP
6 3 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.46%) WAN
7 2 (0.31%) Firewall
7 2 (0.31%) IPFIX
7 2 (0.31%) NaaS
7 2 (0.31%) Network Security
7 2 (0.31%) SSL
7 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.31%) VLAN
7 2 (0.31%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.98%) Relational Database
2 66 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (9.52%) SQL Server
4 35 (5.38%) NoSQL
5 25 (3.84%) MongoDB
6 23 (3.53%) Power BI
7 17 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.30%) MySQL
9 14 (2.15%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.84%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.84%) Pinecone
10 12 (1.84%) Redis
11 11 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.69%) RDBMS
12 10 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.38%) Metadata
13 9 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 85 (13.06%) Git
2 44 (6.76%) Jenkins
3 38 (5.84%) JIRA
4 31 (4.76%) GitLab
4 31 (4.76%) Postman
5 29 (4.45%) JUnit
6 19 (2.92%) Selenium
7 17 (2.61%) Cucumber
7 17 (2.61%) REST Assured
8 15 (2.30%) Cypress.io
9 13 (2.00%) Mockito
10 11 (1.69%) Maven
11 9 (1.38%) JMeter
11 9 (1.38%) SoapUI
11 9 (1.38%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.23%) Gradle
12 8 (1.23%) MLflow
13 5 (0.77%) MSTest
13 5 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.77%) WebDriver
General
1 179 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 153 (23.50%) Finance
3 67 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (7.07%) Public Sector
5 45 (6.91%) Banking
6 21 (3.23%) Marketing
6 21 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 15 (2.30%) Front Office
7 15 (2.30%) Publishing
7 15 (2.30%) Retail
8 12 (1.84%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.54%) Billing
9 10 (1.54%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.23%) Legal
12 5 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.61%) Automotive
13 4 (0.61%) Military
13 4 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 246 (37.79%) Developer
2 122 (18.74%) Architect
3 76 (11.67%) Senior
4 39 (5.99%) Java Developer
5 36 (5.53%) CyberArk Architect
6 32 (4.92%) Senior Developer
7 31 (4.76%) Lead
8 29 (4.45%) Python Developer
8 29 (4.45%) Software Engineer
8 29 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
9 28 (4.30%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (3.38%) Consultant
11 21 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 18 (2.76%) ServiceNow Architect
13 17 (2.61%) C# Developer
13 17 (2.61%) React Developer
14 15 (2.30%) Automation Engineer
14 15 (2.30%) Java Engineer
15 13 (2.00%) Cloud Specialist
15 13 (2.00%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (29.80%) SOAP
2 87 (13.36%) JSON
2 87 (13.36%) RESTful
3 86 (13.21%) Spring
4 84 (12.90%) Kafka
4 84 (12.90%) Web Services
5 80 (12.29%) Spring Boot
6 79 (12.14%) React
7 69 (10.60%) AngularJS
8 68 (10.45%) .NET
9 65 (9.98%) OAuth
10 62 (9.52%) CSS
11 60 (9.22%) HTML
12 47 (7.22%) GraphQL
12 47 (7.22%) XML
13 46 (7.07%) Node.js
14 45 (6.91%) Middleware
15 42 (6.45%) LDAP
16 30 (4.61%) Pandas
17 28 (4.30%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.99%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.53%) Product Ownership
3 47 (7.22%) Enterprise Software
4 42 (6.45%) Security Posture
5 40 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (5.07%) CMDB
7 25 (3.84%) Management Information System
8 21 (3.23%) Mobile App
9 19 (2.92%) Low-Code
10 18 (2.76%) Public Cloud
11 17 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (2.46%) Equities
13 15 (2.30%) Data Structures
14 13 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (2.00%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (1.54%) Hedge funds
17 9 (1.38%) Virtual Team
18 8 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.99%) Linux
2 17 (2.61%) Windows
3 10 (1.54%) Unix
4 8 (1.23%) Android
5 6 (0.92%) zOS
6 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (36.56%) CI/CD
2 199 (30.57%) DevOps
3 196 (30.11%) Agile
4 146 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
5 136 (20.89%) Microservices
6 113 (17.36%) Integration Patterns
7 94 (14.44%) Test Automation
8 92 (14.13%) Data Modelling
9 86 (13.21%) Event-Driven
10 85 (13.06%) Observability
11 83 (12.75%) Containerisation
11 83 (12.75%) ITSM
12 80 (12.29%) AI
13 79 (12.14%) Technical Leadership
14 73 (11.21%) Scrum
15 70 (10.75%) Software Engineering
16 63 (9.68%) Analytics
16 63 (9.68%) Validation
17 62 (9.52%) Roadmaps
17 62 (9.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 193 (29.65%) Python
2 174 (26.73%) Java
3 170 (26.11%) SQL
4 131 (20.12%) JavaScript
5 92 (14.13%) TypeScript
6 81 (12.44%) C#
7 65 (9.98%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.30%) Kotlin
9 14 (2.15%) Apex Code
10 12 (1.84%) Bicep
11 10 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (1.23%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.08%) Bash
14 6 (0.92%) Go
14 6 (0.92%) Groovy
14 6 (0.92%) SOQL
15 5 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.77%) PHP
15 5 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 132 (20.28%) Security Cleared
2 117 (17.97%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.45%) Degree
4 18 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.84%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.38%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.23%) CISSP
7 8 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.08%) CISM
8 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.77%) MBA
9 5 (0.77%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.77%) PMP
10 4 (0.61%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.31%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.45%) QA
2 33 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 27 (4.15%) GDPR
4 14 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (1.54%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.38%) HIPAA
9 8 (1.23%) WCAG
10 7 (1.08%) NIST
10 7 (1.08%) SLA
11 6 (0.92%) GRC
12 3 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.31%) Basel III
13 2 (0.31%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.31%) PMO
13 2 (0.31%) SEPA
14 1 (0.15%) HL7
14 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 100 (15.36%) Docker
2 47 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.46%) Postfix
4 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.15%) Firmware
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) IAG
6 1 (0.15%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.15%) RACF
6 1 (0.15%) UAG
6 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 105 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 54 (8.29%) Terraform
3 25 (3.84%) Grafana
4 17 (2.61%) Ansible
5 11 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.61%) Pingdom
8 2 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.31%) Avamar
8 2 (0.31%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.31%) Istio
8 2 (0.31%) Kibana
8 2 (0.31%) 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
9 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 91 (13.98%) Oracle
2 80 (12.29%) ServiceNow
3 68 (10.45%) Microsoft
4 39 (5.99%) CyberArk
5 34 (5.22%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.22%) Centrify
5 34 (5.22%) Salesforce
6 22 (3.38%) SAP
7 17 (2.61%) OpenAI
7 17 (2.61%) Workday
8 16 (2.46%) Google
9 13 (2.00%) Databricks
9 13 (2.00%) Dynatrace
9 13 (2.00%) Guidewire
9 13 (2.00%) Splunk
10 12 (1.84%) MuleSoft
11 11 (1.69%) Adobe
11 11 (1.69%) IBM
12 9 (1.38%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.38%) UiPath