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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 115 102
Rank change year-on-year +38 -13 +5
Contract jobs citing REST 619 302 419
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.46% 2.44% 2.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.99% 9.35% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 203 300
10th Percentile £363 £388 £406
25th Percentile £414 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £659 £663
90th Percentile £750 £725 £828
England median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 £50.00 £74.44
% change year-on-year +40.00% -32.83% +29.46%

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 4,129 3,230 4,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.10% 26.06% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,737 2,265 3,341
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £436 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 15 24
10th Percentile £22.79 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £34.13 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +31.25% -40.52%
75th Percentile £60.12 £66.25 £63.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £83.75 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +6 66 £538 - 51
South London -3 13 £516 +35.66% 1
East London -2 6 £432 -35.04% 12
West London -22 6 £375 -32.31% 6
North London - 3 - -
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 17 (2.75%) Confluence
2 16 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.94%) Camunda
4 10 (1.62%) Apache
5 9 (1.45%) Appian
6 8 (1.29%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.97%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.97%) Hyperledger
9 5 (0.81%) CICS
10 4 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.48%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.48%) IIS
11 3 (0.48%) WordPress
12 2 (0.32%) Drupal
12 2 (0.32%) Mule
12 2 (0.32%) SAS
12 2 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.16%) Maya
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (2.42%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.65%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.65%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.32%) Magento
5 2 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.32%) Shopify
5 2 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.16%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.16%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 217 (35.06%) Azure
2 197 (31.83%) AWS
3 88 (14.22%) GCP
4 66 (10.66%) GitHub
5 48 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (7.75%) Serverless
6 47 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
7 43 (6.95%) Power Platform
8 36 (5.82%) OCI
9 32 (5.17%) PaaS
10 28 (4.52%) Entra ID
11 26 (4.20%) Amazon S3
12 24 (3.88%) SaaS
13 21 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
14 20 (3.23%) Power Automate
15 19 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (3.07%) Azure Functions
15 19 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.91%) HTTP
2 9 (1.45%) SMS
3 7 (1.13%) DNS
4 5 (0.81%) FTP
5 4 (0.65%) BGP
6 3 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.48%) Firewall
6 3 (0.48%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.48%) MPLS
6 3 (0.48%) OSPF
6 3 (0.48%) SNMP
6 3 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.48%) SSL
7 2 (0.32%) IPFIX
7 2 (0.32%) NaaS
7 2 (0.32%) WAN
8 1 (0.16%) DHCP
8 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.16%) SMTP
8 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (11.47%) Relational Database
2 58 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (8.72%) SQL Server
4 35 (5.65%) NoSQL
5 25 (4.04%) MongoDB
6 22 (3.55%) Power BI
7 14 (2.26%) MySQL
8 12 (1.94%) Pinecone
8 12 (1.94%) RDBMS
8 12 (1.94%) Redis
9 11 (1.78%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (1.78%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.45%) Metadata
12 7 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.13%) DocumentDB
13 6 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 76 (12.28%) Git
2 39 (6.30%) Jenkins
2 39 (6.30%) JIRA
3 32 (5.17%) Postman
4 29 (4.68%) GitLab
5 27 (4.36%) JUnit
6 19 (3.07%) Selenium
7 17 (2.75%) Cucumber
7 17 (2.75%) REST Assured
8 15 (2.42%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.78%) Mockito
10 9 (1.45%) JMeter
10 9 (1.45%) Maven
10 9 (1.45%) SoapUI
11 8 (1.29%) MLflow
11 8 (1.29%) SonarQube
12 7 (1.13%) Gradle
13 5 (0.81%) Ant
13 5 (0.81%) MSTest
13 5 (0.81%) WebDriver
General
1 176 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 145 (23.42%) Finance
3 63 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (8.08%) Public Sector
5 40 (6.46%) Banking
6 18 (2.91%) Front Office
7 17 (2.75%) Marketing
8 16 (2.58%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.26%) Publishing
10 13 (2.10%) Retail
11 11 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.62%) Billing
13 9 (1.45%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.45%) Legal
14 8 (1.29%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.65%) Automotive
16 4 (0.65%) Military
17 3 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 231 (37.32%) Developer
2 117 (18.90%) Architect
3 68 (10.99%) Senior
4 36 (5.82%) Java Developer
5 35 (5.65%) CyberArk Architect
6 28 (4.52%) Lead
6 28 (4.52%) Python Developer
6 28 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
7 27 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 27 (4.36%) Software Engineer
8 26 (4.20%) Senior Developer
9 20 (3.23%) Consultant
10 18 (2.91%) C# Developer
11 16 (2.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 15 (2.42%) React Developer
13 14 (2.26%) Cloud Specialist
13 14 (2.26%) Integration Specialist
14 13 (2.10%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (2.10%) Data Engineer
14 13 (2.10%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (30.37%) SOAP
2 84 (13.57%) Web Services
3 83 (13.41%) Kafka
4 80 (12.92%) RESTful
4 80 (12.92%) Spring
5 77 (12.44%) JSON
6 74 (11.95%) React
7 73 (11.79%) Spring Boot
8 63 (10.18%) .NET
8 63 (10.18%) AngularJS
9 62 (10.02%) HTML
10 59 (9.53%) CSS
11 56 (9.05%) OAuth
12 47 (7.59%) GraphQL
13 46 (7.43%) XML
14 44 (7.11%) Middleware
15 41 (6.62%) LDAP
16 40 (6.46%) Node.js
17 31 (5.01%) Pandas
18 29 (4.68%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.27%) Enterprise Software
3 43 (6.95%) Product Ownership
3 43 (6.95%) Security Posture
4 34 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (4.52%) CMDB
6 25 (4.04%) Management Information System
7 20 (3.23%) Equities
7 20 (3.23%) Mobile App
7 20 (3.23%) Public Cloud
8 17 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.42%) Data Structures
9 15 (2.42%) Low-Code
10 13 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.78%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.68%) Linux
2 18 (2.91%) Windows
3 10 (1.62%) Unix
4 8 (1.29%) Android
5 7 (1.13%) zOS
6 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (34.41%) CI/CD
2 184 (29.73%) DevOps
3 183 (29.56%) Agile
4 143 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (20.03%) Microservices
6 112 (18.09%) Integration Patterns
7 95 (15.35%) Test Automation
8 90 (14.54%) Data Modelling
9 85 (13.73%) Observability
10 79 (12.76%) Containerisation
11 78 (12.60%) Technical Leadership
12 76 (12.28%) ITSM
13 75 (12.12%) Event-Driven
14 72 (11.63%) AI
15 62 (10.02%) Analytics
15 62 (10.02%) Scrum
16 60 (9.69%) Software Engineering
16 60 (9.69%) Validation
17 59 (9.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 58 (9.37%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 181 (29.24%) Python
2 155 (25.04%) SQL
3 152 (24.56%) Java
4 118 (19.06%) JavaScript
5 84 (13.57%) TypeScript
6 80 (12.92%) C#
7 60 (9.69%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.42%) Kotlin
9 14 (2.26%) Apex Code
10 10 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.45%) Bicep
12 8 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.13%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.97%) Bash
14 6 (0.97%) SOQL
15 5 (0.81%) Go
15 5 (0.81%) Groovy
15 5 (0.81%) PHP
15 5 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 135 (21.81%) Security Cleared
2 122 (19.71%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.65%) Degree
4 19 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.29%) AWS Certification
5 8 (1.29%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.29%) CISSP
5 8 (1.29%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.97%) CISM
7 5 (0.81%) MBA
8 4 (0.65%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.65%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.65%) PMP
9 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.32%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.89%) QA
2 31 (5.01%) Data Quality
3 27 (4.36%) GDPR
4 14 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (1.45%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.45%) WCAG
7 8 (1.29%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.13%) NIST
8 7 (1.13%) SLA
9 6 (0.97%) GRC
10 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.32%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.32%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.32%) NCSC
11 2 (0.32%) PMO
11 2 (0.32%) SEPA
12 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.16%) ITGC
System Software
1 93 (15.02%) Docker
2 45 (7.27%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (0.32%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 2 (0.32%) Postfix
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) IAG
5 1 (0.16%) RACF
5 1 (0.16%) UAG
5 1 (0.16%) Varnish
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 96 (15.51%) Kubernetes
2 50 (8.08%) Terraform
3 24 (3.88%) Grafana
4 15 (2.42%) Ansible
5 10 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.65%) Pingdom
8 2 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.32%) Avamar
8 2 (0.32%) Control-M
8 2 (0.32%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.32%) Istio
8 2 (0.32%) Puppet
9 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.16%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.16%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.16%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.16%) QRadar
9 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 81 (13.09%) Oracle
2 75 (12.12%) ServiceNow
3 64 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 38 (6.14%) CyberArk
5 34 (5.49%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.49%) Centrify
6 30 (4.85%) Salesforce
7 20 (3.23%) SAP
8 17 (2.75%) Workday
9 16 (2.58%) Splunk
10 15 (2.42%) Google
11 14 (2.26%) OpenAI
12 13 (2.10%) Guidewire
13 12 (1.94%) Databricks
14 11 (1.78%) Adobe
14 11 (1.78%) Dynatrace
14 11 (1.78%) MuleSoft
15 9 (1.45%) IBM
15 9 (1.45%) UiPath
16 8 (1.29%) Automation Anywhere