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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 117 92
Rank change year-on-year +44 -25 +6
Contract jobs citing REST 641 296 449
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.79% 2.34% 2.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.37% 8.99% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 184 309
10th Percentile £361 £380 £400
25th Percentile £416 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.64% +1.85% -6.90%
75th Percentile £688 £655 £700
90th Percentile £800 £750 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £52.00 - £49.25
25th Percentile £61.00 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £62.25
75th Percentile £95.00 - £73.69
90th Percentile - - £85.73
England median hourly rate £70.00 £82.96 £62.00
% change year-on-year -15.62% +33.81% +3.33%

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 4,171 3,291 4,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.69% 26.07% 24.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,828 2,299 3,344
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £713 £691
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £534 £545
% change year-on-year -1.59% -2.11% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 26
10th Percentile £26.63 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £25.88
Median hourly rate £44.75 £54.00 £44.85
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +20.41% -31.42%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.00 £65.69
90th Percentile £82.50 £76.25 £76.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +2 63 £525 -0.94% 58
South London -7 12 £516 +35.66% 3
West London -20 6 £375 -43.61% 2
East London +4 5 £432 -31.43% 10
North London - 4 - -
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 23 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.96%) Confluence
3 11 (1.72%) Apache
4 10 (1.56%) Camunda
4 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.40%) Appian
6 8 (1.25%) Jupyter
7 7 (1.09%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.94%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.94%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.62%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.62%) CICS
10 3 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.31%) Drupal
11 2 (0.31%) Mule
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.31%) SAS
11 2 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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%) Sketch
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.62%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.62%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.31%) Magento
5 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.31%) Shopify
6 1 (0.16%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 223 (34.79%) Azure
2 198 (30.89%) AWS
3 90 (14.04%) GCP
4 68 (10.61%) GitHub
5 51 (7.96%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (7.18%) Serverless
7 42 (6.55%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (6.40%) Power Platform
9 38 (5.93%) IaaS
10 34 (5.30%) OCI
10 34 (5.30%) PaaS
11 31 (4.84%) Entra ID
12 24 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
13 22 (3.43%) Amazon S3
13 22 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
13 22 (3.43%) Power Automate
14 21 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (3.12%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (2.96%) Azure Functions
16 19 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.50%) HTTP
2 8 (1.25%) SMS
3 6 (0.94%) DNS
4 5 (0.78%) Firewall
5 4 (0.62%) BGP
5 4 (0.62%) SSL
6 3 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.47%) MPLS
6 3 (0.47%) OSPF
6 3 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.31%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.31%) Modbus
7 2 (0.31%) NaaS
7 2 (0.31%) SAN
7 2 (0.31%) SNMP
7 2 (0.31%) VPN
7 2 (0.31%) WAN
8 1 (0.16%) DHCP
8 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.16%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (8.58%) Relational Database
2 49 (7.64%) SQL Server
3 46 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (5.77%) NoSQL
5 27 (4.21%) MongoDB
6 19 (2.96%) MySQL
7 18 (2.81%) Power BI
8 12 (1.87%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.72%) Redis
10 10 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.56%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.56%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.56%) Metadata
11 9 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.40%) Pinecone
12 8 (1.25%) DocumentDB
13 7 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 89 (13.88%) Git
2 49 (7.64%) JIRA
3 40 (6.24%) Jenkins
4 35 (5.46%) Postman
5 31 (4.84%) JUnit
6 27 (4.21%) GitLab
7 25 (3.90%) Cucumber
8 23 (3.59%) Selenium
9 19 (2.96%) REST Assured
10 17 (2.65%) Cypress.io
11 16 (2.50%) Mockito
12 12 (1.87%) Maven
13 11 (1.72%) JMeter
13 11 (1.72%) SoapUI
14 8 (1.25%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.25%) MLflow
15 7 (1.09%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.94%) Gatling
17 5 (0.78%) TestRail
17 5 (0.78%) Zephyr
General
1 183 (28.55%) Social Skills
2 140 (21.84%) Finance
3 97 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 52 (8.11%) Banking
6 27 (4.21%) Front Office
7 17 (2.65%) Marketing
8 14 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.18%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.72%) Retail
10 10 (1.56%) Publishing
11 9 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.25%) Billing
13 7 (1.09%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.78%) Legal
14 5 (0.78%) Military
15 4 (0.62%) Back Office
15 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 230 (35.88%) Developer
2 136 (21.22%) Architect
3 62 (9.67%) Senior
4 40 (6.24%) Java Developer
5 36 (5.62%) Python Developer
6 34 (5.30%) CyberArk Architect
7 30 (4.68%) Lead
7 30 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
8 28 (4.37%) Senior Developer
9 25 (3.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 25 (3.90%) Software Engineer
10 21 (3.28%) Analyst
11 18 (2.81%) Business Analyst
11 18 (2.81%) C# Developer
11 18 (2.81%) Consultant
12 16 (2.50%) Integration Specialist
13 15 (2.34%) Automation Engineer
13 15 (2.34%) Cloud Specialist
14 13 (2.03%) Data Engineer
14 13 (2.03%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (28.08%) SOAP
2 111 (17.32%) JSON
3 95 (14.82%) Web Services
4 81 (12.64%) RESTful
5 79 (12.32%) Spring
6 78 (12.17%) React
7 77 (12.01%) Kafka
8 74 (11.54%) Spring Boot
9 71 (11.08%) AngularJS
10 69 (10.76%) .NET
11 61 (9.52%) CSS
11 61 (9.52%) HTML
12 52 (8.11%) XML
13 51 (7.96%) OAuth
14 46 (7.18%) Middleware
15 38 (5.93%) GraphQL
16 37 (5.77%) LDAP
17 36 (5.62%) Node.js
18 34 (5.30%) Pandas
19 31 (4.84%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.64%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.86%) Enterprise Software
3 41 (6.40%) Security Posture
4 39 (6.08%) Product Ownership
5 35 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (4.84%) CMDB
7 27 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (4.21%) PKI
8 25 (3.90%) Equities
9 21 (3.28%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (2.96%) Management Information System
11 18 (2.81%) Mobile App
12 16 (2.50%) Onboarding
13 15 (2.34%) Data Structures
13 15 (2.34%) Hedge funds
14 12 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 10 (1.56%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.56%) Fixed Income
15 10 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 43 (6.71%) Linux
2 22 (3.43%) Windows
3 12 (1.87%) Unix
4 6 (0.94%) zOS
5 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.47%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (32.45%) Agile
2 201 (31.36%) CI/CD
3 190 (29.64%) DevOps
4 155 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
5 136 (21.22%) Microservices
6 107 (16.69%) Integration Patterns
7 91 (14.20%) Test Automation
8 80 (12.48%) Technical Leadership
9 79 (12.32%) ITSM
10 77 (12.01%) Observability
11 75 (11.70%) Analytics
11 75 (11.70%) Data Modelling
12 71 (11.08%) Containerisation
13 70 (10.92%) Event-Driven
14 67 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 63 (9.83%) AI
16 57 (8.89%) Software Engineering
17 56 (8.74%) API Integration
17 56 (8.74%) Scrum
18 55 (8.58%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 180 (28.08%) Python
2 153 (23.87%) SQL
3 150 (23.40%) Java
4 109 (17.00%) JavaScript
5 90 (14.04%) PowerShell
6 81 (12.64%) C#
7 80 (12.48%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.34%) Apex Code
9 12 (1.87%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (1.56%) VBA
11 8 (1.25%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.09%) Bicep
13 6 (0.94%) Go
14 5 (0.78%) PHP
14 5 (0.78%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.62%) Groovy
15 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.62%) XPath
16 3 (0.47%) Bash
Qualifications
1 174 (27.15%) Security Cleared
2 160 (24.96%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.84%) Degree
4 21 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.94%) CISSP
7 6 (0.94%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.62%) CISM
9 4 (0.62%) MBA
10 3 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.31%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.31%) OSCP
11 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (10.30%) QA
2 26 (4.06%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.59%) GDPR
4 17 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.72%) WCAG
6 10 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.40%) NIST
8 7 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.09%) SLA
9 5 (0.78%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.47%) GRC
11 3 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.31%) NCSC
12 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.31%) PMO
12 2 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 94 (14.66%) Docker
2 51 (7.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 2 (0.31%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) IAG
4 1 (0.16%) Postfix
4 1 (0.16%) UAG
4 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 94 (14.66%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.64%) Terraform
3 23 (3.59%) Grafana
4 16 (2.50%) Ansible
5 11 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.62%) Pingdom
6 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.31%) Avamar
7 2 (0.31%) Control-M
7 2 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.31%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.31%) Fluentd
7 2 (0.31%) Istio
7 2 (0.31%) logstash
7 2 (0.31%) Puppet
7 2 (0.31%) QRadar
7 2 (0.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 70 (10.92%) ServiceNow
2 68 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 68 (10.61%) Oracle
3 39 (6.08%) CyberArk
4 34 (5.30%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (5.30%) Centrify
5 29 (4.52%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.81%) Google
6 18 (2.81%) Splunk
7 17 (2.65%) SAP
8 16 (2.50%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.87%) Adobe
9 12 (1.87%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.72%) Guidewire
11 10 (1.56%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.56%) IBM
12 9 (1.40%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.40%) Workday
13 8 (1.25%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (1.25%) UiPath