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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 121 92
Rank change year-on-year +53 -29 -1
Contract jobs citing REST 628 290 453
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.95% 2.16% 2.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.45% 8.16% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 154 314
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £627 £749
90th Percentile £829 £721 £850
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
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 £74.44 £76.53
% change year-on-year -5.96% -2.73% +24.95%

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 4,064 3,555 4,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.59% 26.47% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,750 2,378 3,379
10th Percentile £363 £382 £388
25th Percentile £425 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 35
10th Percentile £27.80 £35.00 £20.12
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.50 £29.12
Median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.56 £65.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £80.00 £74.46
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -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 27 February 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 February 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 February 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 +12 63 £544 +1.64% 48
South London -11 8 £516 +35.66% 1
West London -12 8 £375 -44.44% 2
East London +5 5 £540 -11.11% 5
North London - 4 - - 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 18 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.39%) Confluence
3 9 (1.43%) Apache
3 9 (1.43%) Appian
3 9 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (1.27%) Camunda
4 8 (1.27%) Jupyter
5 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.11%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.96%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.96%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.64%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.64%) CICS
8 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.48%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.48%) LiveLink
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.64%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.16%) InVision
4 1 (0.16%) Maya
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.16%) Sketch
4 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.82%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.64%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.64%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.32%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.32%) Maximo
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.32%) Shopify
6 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.16%) Endur
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.16%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 212 (33.76%) Azure
2 178 (28.34%) AWS
3 85 (13.54%) GCP
4 74 (11.78%) GitHub
5 48 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (7.01%) Serverless
7 43 (6.85%) Power Platform
8 42 (6.69%) GitHub Actions
9 41 (6.53%) OCI
10 37 (5.89%) IaaS
11 31 (4.94%) PaaS
12 28 (4.46%) Entra ID
13 25 (3.98%) Azure Logic Apps
13 25 (3.98%) Azure Monitor
14 24 (3.82%) Power Automate
15 23 (3.66%) Amazon S3
15 23 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
17 19 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.07%) HTTP
2 8 (1.27%) SMS
3 7 (1.11%) DNS
4 6 (0.96%) SSL
5 4 (0.64%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.48%) Firewall
7 2 (0.32%) SAN
7 2 (0.32%) SNMP
7 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.32%) VPN
8 1 (0.16%) BGP
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.16%) IPFIX
8 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.16%) NaaS
8 1 (0.16%) SMTP
8 1 (0.16%) SSH
8 1 (0.16%) VLAN
8 1 (0.16%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 36 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 34 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 25 (3.98%) MongoDB
5 19 (3.03%) MySQL
5 19 (3.03%) Power BI
6 11 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
6 11 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (1.75%) Pinecone
6 11 (1.75%) RDBMS
6 11 (1.75%) Redis
7 10 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.59%) Data Lake
7 10 (1.59%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 9 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.43%) Oracle Database
9 8 (1.27%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 92 (14.65%) Git
2 50 (7.96%) JIRA
3 40 (6.37%) Jenkins
4 37 (5.89%) Postman
5 36 (5.73%) JUnit
6 26 (4.14%) Cucumber
7 25 (3.98%) GitLab
8 23 (3.66%) Selenium
9 18 (2.87%) Mockito
9 18 (2.87%) REST Assured
10 13 (2.07%) Cypress.io
10 13 (2.07%) Maven
11 12 (1.91%) JMeter
12 11 (1.75%) SoapUI
13 10 (1.59%) Bitbucket
13 10 (1.59%) MLflow
14 8 (1.27%) Gatling
14 8 (1.27%) SonarQube
15 7 (1.11%) Gradle
15 7 (1.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 203 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 144 (22.93%) Finance
3 94 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.76%) Banking
6 25 (3.98%) Front Office
7 17 (2.71%) Marketing
8 14 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.23%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.91%) Retail
10 10 (1.59%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.43%) Billing
12 8 (1.27%) Military
13 6 (0.96%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.80%) Law
15 4 (0.64%) Back Office
15 4 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 244 (38.85%) Developer
2 120 (19.11%) Architect
3 67 (10.67%) Senior
4 37 (5.89%) Java Developer
5 36 (5.73%) Senior Developer
6 34 (5.41%) CyberArk Architect
7 28 (4.46%) Lead
7 28 (4.46%) Python Developer
8 25 (3.98%) Analyst
8 25 (3.98%) Business Analyst
8 25 (3.98%) Consultant
8 25 (3.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
10 20 (3.18%) C# Developer
11 18 (2.87%) Angular Developer
11 18 (2.87%) Cloud Specialist
11 18 (2.87%) Integration Specialist
12 16 (2.55%) Oracle Specialist
12 16 (2.55%) ServiceNow Developer
12 16 (2.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (29.78%) SOAP
2 122 (19.43%) JSON
3 87 (13.85%) Web Services
4 74 (11.78%) React
5 73 (11.62%) Spring
5 73 (11.62%) Spring Boot
6 71 (11.31%) Kafka
6 71 (11.31%) RESTful
7 67 (10.67%) AngularJS
8 65 (10.35%) HTML
9 62 (9.87%) CSS
10 61 (9.71%) XML
11 58 (9.24%) OAuth
12 50 (7.96%) .NET
13 44 (7.01%) Middleware
14 38 (6.05%) GraphQL
15 37 (5.89%) Oracle Fusion
16 36 (5.73%) LDAP
17 32 (5.10%) Pandas
17 32 (5.10%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.48%) Enterprise Software
2 39 (6.21%) Cloud Native
3 36 (5.73%) Security Posture
4 34 (5.41%) Product Ownership
5 31 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (4.30%) CMDB
6 27 (4.30%) PKI
7 24 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (3.66%) Equities
9 21 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (3.18%) Public Cloud
11 17 (2.71%) Mobile App
12 14 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (2.07%) Fixed Income
13 13 (2.07%) Hedge funds
14 12 (1.91%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.91%) Low-Code
14 12 (1.91%) Management Information System
14 12 (1.91%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.32%) Linux
2 18 (2.87%) Windows
3 12 (1.91%) Unix
4 6 (0.96%) Android
4 6 (0.96%) zOS
5 5 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.32%) Solaris
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (34.71%) Agile
2 191 (30.41%) CI/CD
3 168 (26.75%) DevOps
4 158 (25.16%) Problem-Solving
5 134 (21.34%) Microservices
6 87 (13.85%) Integration Patterns
6 87 (13.85%) Test Automation
7 73 (11.62%) ITSM
7 73 (11.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 72 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
9 66 (10.51%) Analytics
9 66 (10.51%) Event-Driven
10 64 (10.19%) Observability
10 64 (10.19%) Scrum
11 63 (10.03%) Data Modelling
11 63 (10.03%) Full-Stack Development
12 62 (9.87%) API Integration
13 60 (9.55%) ERP
14 58 (9.24%) AI
15 55 (8.76%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 163 (25.96%) Python
2 146 (23.25%) SQL
3 144 (22.93%) Java
4 115 (18.31%) JavaScript
5 92 (14.65%) PowerShell
6 80 (12.74%) TypeScript
7 75 (11.94%) C#
8 17 (2.71%) Apex Code
9 13 (2.07%) Kotlin
10 11 (1.75%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.59%) VBA
12 8 (1.27%) Groovy
13 7 (1.11%) Bicep
13 7 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.11%) PHP
14 6 (0.96%) Bash
14 6 (0.96%) Go
15 5 (0.80%) Korn
15 5 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.64%) XPath
Qualifications
1 165 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 152 (24.20%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.10%) Degree
4 20 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.59%) Azure Certification
5 10 (1.59%) ISTQB
6 9 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (0.96%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.48%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.48%) CISSP
9 2 (0.32%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.32%) PMP
10 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (11.62%) QA
2 29 (4.62%) GDPR
3 23 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 20 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.91%) WCAG
6 8 (1.27%) NIST
7 7 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.96%) SLA
9 3 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.48%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.32%) GRC
10 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.32%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.32%) NCSC
10 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.32%) SEPA
11 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 91 (14.49%) Docker
2 51 (8.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.32%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (0.32%) NFS
3 2 (0.32%) Veritas File System
3 2 (0.32%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) HDFS
4 1 (0.16%) IAG
4 1 (0.16%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 81 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 42 (6.69%) Terraform
3 24 (3.82%) Grafana
4 13 (2.07%) Ansible
5 11 (1.75%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.80%) logstash
8 4 (0.64%) Pingdom
8 4 (0.64%) QRadar
9 3 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.48%) Kibana
10 2 (0.32%) Control-M
10 2 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.32%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.32%) Puppet
10 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.16%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.16%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 77 (12.26%) Oracle
2 61 (9.71%) Microsoft
3 57 (9.08%) ServiceNow
4 43 (6.85%) CyberArk
5 35 (5.57%) BeyondTrust
6 34 (5.41%) Centrify
7 29 (4.62%) Salesforce
8 25 (3.98%) Splunk
9 23 (3.66%) OpenAI
10 17 (2.71%) Google
11 15 (2.39%) SAP
12 12 (1.91%) Guidewire
13 11 (1.75%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.75%) MuleSoft
14 10 (1.59%) Adobe
15 9 (1.43%) IBM
16 8 (1.27%) Automation Anywhere
16 8 (1.27%) UiPath
17 7 (1.11%) Bloomberg
17 7 (1.11%) Okta