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 3 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 110 97
Rank change year-on-year +35 -13 +1
Contract jobs citing REST 307 123 202
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.57% 2.23% 2.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.49% 8.29% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 77 147
10th Percentile £344 £380 £400
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £733 £625 £700
90th Percentile £750 £738 £850
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 - £74.44
% change year-on-year - - +13.65%

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 2,119 1,483 2,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.64% 26.86% 23.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,447 1,040 1,632
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.25%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £838 £801
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 14
10th Percentile £23.00 £30.32 £15.01
25th Percentile £31.00 £32.21 £16.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.50 £29.62
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +33.38% -57.69%
75th Percentile £64.24 £60.75 £65.69
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.55 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year +1.96% +34.21% -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 3 months to 3 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
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 3 months to 3 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -3 32 £538 - 44
South London -8 7 £521 +37.11% 4
West London -11 6 £375 -44.44% 2
East London -2 2 £653 +11.54% 8
North London - 1 - - 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 19 (3.07%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.43%) Confluence
3 9 (1.46%) Apache
3 9 (1.46%) Appian
3 9 (1.46%) Camunda
3 9 (1.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (1.29%) Jupyter
4 8 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.13%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.97%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.97%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.65%) CICS
8 3 (0.49%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.49%) LiveLink
9 2 (0.32%) Drupal
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.65%) 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
Business Applications
1 24 (3.88%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.65%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.65%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.32%) Cloudability
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%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 209 (33.82%) Azure
2 179 (28.96%) AWS
3 86 (13.92%) GCP
4 73 (11.81%) GitHub
5 49 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (7.28%) GitHub Actions
7 41 (6.63%) OCI
7 41 (6.63%) Serverless
8 39 (6.31%) Power Platform
9 37 (5.99%) IaaS
10 31 (5.02%) PaaS
11 26 (4.21%) Entra ID
12 22 (3.56%) Amazon S3
13 21 (3.40%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (3.40%) Azure Service Bus
14 20 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
14 20 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (3.24%) Power Automate
15 17 (2.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.10%) HTTP
2 8 (1.29%) SMS
3 6 (0.97%) DNS
3 6 (0.97%) SSL
4 4 (0.65%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.49%) Firewall
6 2 (0.32%) SAN
6 2 (0.32%) SNMP
6 2 (0.32%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) BGP
7 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.16%) Modbus
7 1 (0.16%) NaaS
7 1 (0.16%) SMTP
7 1 (0.16%) SSH
7 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.16%) VLAN
7 1 (0.16%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.77%) SQL Server
2 39 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (5.83%) NoSQL
4 35 (5.66%) Relational Database
5 26 (4.21%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.24%) MySQL
7 19 (3.07%) Power BI
8 13 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
9 11 (1.78%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (1.78%) Pinecone
9 11 (1.78%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.78%) Redis
10 10 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.62%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.62%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 9 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.29%) DocumentDB
12 8 (1.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 91 (14.72%) Git
2 50 (8.09%) JIRA
3 42 (6.80%) Jenkins
4 37 (5.99%) JUnit
5 35 (5.66%) Postman
6 27 (4.37%) GitLab
7 25 (4.05%) Cucumber
8 22 (3.56%) Selenium
9 19 (3.07%) Mockito
10 17 (2.75%) REST Assured
11 14 (2.27%) Maven
12 13 (2.10%) Cypress.io
13 12 (1.94%) JMeter
14 11 (1.78%) SoapUI
15 10 (1.62%) MLflow
16 9 (1.46%) Bitbucket
17 8 (1.29%) Gatling
17 8 (1.29%) SonarQube
18 7 (1.13%) Gradle
18 7 (1.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 203 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 143 (23.14%) Finance
3 96 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (9.22%) Public Sector
5 56 (9.06%) Banking
6 25 (4.05%) Front Office
7 16 (2.59%) Marketing
8 15 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 14 (2.27%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.94%) Retail
11 10 (1.62%) Billing
11 10 (1.62%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.29%) Military
13 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.81%) Law
15 4 (0.65%) Back Office
15 4 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 236 (38.19%) Developer
2 122 (19.74%) Architect
3 66 (10.68%) Senior
4 37 (5.99%) Java Developer
5 35 (5.66%) Senior Developer
6 34 (5.50%) CyberArk Architect
7 28 (4.53%) Lead
7 28 (4.53%) Python Developer
8 25 (4.05%) Analyst
8 25 (4.05%) Business Analyst
9 23 (3.72%) Consultant
9 23 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
9 23 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
10 20 (3.24%) C# Developer
11 18 (2.91%) Cloud Specialist
11 18 (2.91%) Integration Specialist
11 18 (2.91%) Software Engineer
12 16 (2.59%) Angular Developer
12 16 (2.59%) Oracle Specialist
13 15 (2.43%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (30.10%) SOAP
2 119 (19.26%) JSON
3 87 (14.08%) Web Services
4 75 (12.14%) Spring
5 73 (11.81%) React
6 72 (11.65%) Spring Boot
7 71 (11.49%) Kafka
8 70 (11.33%) RESTful
9 69 (11.17%) AngularJS
10 63 (10.19%) HTML
11 61 (9.87%) CSS
12 58 (9.39%) XML
13 53 (8.58%) .NET
14 52 (8.41%) OAuth
15 43 (6.96%) Middleware
16 37 (5.99%) GraphQL
16 37 (5.99%) Oracle Fusion
17 36 (5.83%) LDAP
18 32 (5.18%) Pandas
18 32 (5.18%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.44%) Enterprise Software
2 41 (6.63%) Cloud Native
3 35 (5.66%) Security Posture
4 34 (5.50%) Product Ownership
5 31 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (4.37%) CMDB
6 27 (4.37%) PKI
7 23 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (3.72%) Equities
8 20 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (3.24%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.91%) Mobile App
10 14 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (2.27%) Onboarding
11 13 (2.10%) Fixed Income
11 13 (2.10%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.94%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.94%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.78%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.44%) Linux
2 19 (3.07%) Windows
3 13 (2.10%) Unix
4 6 (0.97%) Android
4 6 (0.97%) zOS
5 5 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (34.63%) Agile
2 185 (29.94%) CI/CD
3 168 (27.18%) DevOps
4 157 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
5 135 (21.84%) Microservices
6 88 (14.24%) Integration Patterns
7 83 (13.43%) Test Automation
8 74 (11.97%) ITSM
9 72 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 71 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
11 65 (10.52%) Observability
12 64 (10.36%) Analytics
12 64 (10.36%) Event-Driven
13 63 (10.19%) Data Modelling
14 62 (10.03%) API Integration
14 62 (10.03%) Scrum
15 59 (9.55%) Full-Stack Development
16 58 (9.39%) AI
16 58 (9.39%) ERP
17 56 (9.06%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 163 (26.38%) Python
2 148 (23.95%) SQL
3 146 (23.62%) Java
4 110 (17.80%) JavaScript
5 88 (14.24%) PowerShell
6 78 (12.62%) TypeScript
7 72 (11.65%) C#
8 16 (2.59%) Apex Code
9 14 (2.27%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.62%) VBA
11 9 (1.46%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.29%) Groovy
12 8 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.13%) PHP
14 6 (0.97%) Bicep
14 6 (0.97%) Go
15 5 (0.81%) Korn
16 4 (0.65%) Bash
16 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.65%) XPath
Qualifications
1 162 (26.21%) Security Cleared
2 148 (23.95%) SC Cleared
3 31 (5.02%) Degree
4 19 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.62%) Azure Certification
5 10 (1.62%) ISTQB
6 8 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.49%) 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%) OSCP
10 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (12.14%) QA
2 26 (4.21%) GDPR
3 23 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.78%) WCAG
6 8 (1.29%) NIST
7 7 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.13%) SLA
8 3 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.49%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.32%) GRC
9 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.32%) NCSC
9 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.32%) SEPA
10 1 (0.16%) HL7
10 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 89 (14.40%) Docker
2 51 (8.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.32%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) HDFS
4 1 (0.16%) IAG
4 1 (0.16%) NFS
4 1 (0.16%) Postfix
4 1 (0.16%) Veritas File System
4 1 (0.16%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 84 (13.59%) Kubernetes
2 41 (6.63%) Terraform
3 23 (3.72%) Grafana
4 12 (1.94%) Ansible
5 10 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.81%) logstash
8 4 (0.65%) Pingdom
9 3 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.49%) Kibana
9 3 (0.49%) QRadar
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%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.16%) Istio
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 76 (12.30%) Oracle
2 59 (9.55%) ServiceNow
3 58 (9.39%) Microsoft
4 42 (6.80%) CyberArk
5 35 (5.66%) BeyondTrust
6 34 (5.50%) Centrify
7 27 (4.37%) Salesforce
8 22 (3.56%) OpenAI
8 22 (3.56%) Splunk
9 16 (2.59%) Google
10 13 (2.10%) SAP
11 12 (1.94%) Guidewire
12 11 (1.78%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.62%) Adobe
13 10 (1.62%) Dynatrace
14 8 (1.29%) Automation Anywhere
14 8 (1.29%) IBM
14 8 (1.29%) UiPath
15 7 (1.13%) AppDynamics
15 7 (1.13%) Bloomberg