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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 110 94
Rank change year-on-year +41 -16 +2
Contract jobs citing REST 645 309 446
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.86% 2.45% 2.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.57% 9.35% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 187 306
10th Percentile £358 £380 £400
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year - +2.09% -7.91%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £719
90th Percentile £800 £750 £850
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
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 £82.96 £70.72
% change year-on-year -15.62% +17.31% +15.46%

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 4,142 3,305 4,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.77% 26.16% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,800 2,310 3,336
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £543
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.92% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 25
10th Percentile £26.55 £34.65 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.88 £25.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £55.50 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +31.55% -35.09%
75th Percentile £57.00 £66.25 £66.75
90th Percentile £69.50 £75.55 £77.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -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 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in London over the 6 months to 27 March 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 March 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 62 £525 -0.94% 58
South London -6 12 £516 +35.66% 3
West London -15 6 £375 -43.61% 2
East London -1 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 24 (3.72%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.79%) Confluence
3 11 (1.71%) Camunda
4 10 (1.55%) Apache
4 10 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.40%) Appian
6 8 (1.24%) Jupyter
7 7 (1.09%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.93%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.93%) 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%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
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 (2.48%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.93%) 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%) Cloudability
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 Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 225 (34.88%) Azure
2 197 (30.54%) AWS
3 91 (14.11%) GCP
4 69 (10.70%) GitHub
5 52 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (7.13%) Serverless
7 42 (6.51%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (6.36%) Power Platform
9 38 (5.89%) IaaS
10 34 (5.27%) OCI
11 33 (5.12%) PaaS
12 32 (4.96%) Entra ID
13 24 (3.72%) Azure Service Bus
14 23 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
15 22 (3.41%) Amazon S3
15 22 (3.41%) Power Automate
16 21 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
17 20 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
17 20 (3.10%) Azure Monitor
18 19 (2.95%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.33%) HTTP
2 8 (1.24%) SMS
3 5 (0.78%) DNS
3 5 (0.78%) Firewall
4 4 (0.62%) BGP
4 4 (0.62%) SSL
5 3 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.47%) MPLS
5 3 (0.47%) OSPF
5 3 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.31%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.31%) Modbus
6 2 (0.31%) NaaS
6 2 (0.31%) SAN
6 2 (0.31%) SNMP
6 2 (0.31%) VPN
6 2 (0.31%) WAN
7 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.16%) SMTP
7 1 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.22%) Relational Database
2 50 (7.75%) SQL Server
3 45 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (5.74%) NoSQL
5 27 (4.19%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.10%) MySQL
7 18 (2.79%) Power BI
8 12 (1.86%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.71%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.55%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.55%) Metadata
10 10 (1.55%) Redis
11 9 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.40%) Pinecone
12 8 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.24%) DocumentDB
13 7 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 89 (13.80%) Git
2 49 (7.60%) JIRA
3 41 (6.36%) Jenkins
4 34 (5.27%) Postman
5 31 (4.81%) JUnit
6 28 (4.34%) GitLab
7 25 (3.88%) Cucumber
8 22 (3.41%) Selenium
9 18 (2.79%) REST Assured
10 16 (2.48%) Cypress.io
10 16 (2.48%) Mockito
11 12 (1.86%) Maven
12 11 (1.71%) JMeter
12 11 (1.71%) SoapUI
13 8 (1.24%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.24%) MLflow
14 7 (1.09%) Gatling
14 7 (1.09%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.93%) SpecFlow
16 5 (0.78%) Jasmine
General
1 188 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 148 (22.95%) Finance
3 98 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (9.77%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.53%) Banking
6 27 (4.19%) Front Office
7 17 (2.64%) Marketing
8 16 (2.48%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.02%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.86%) Retail
12 10 (1.55%) Publishing
13 8 (1.24%) Billing
13 8 (1.24%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.93%) Military
15 5 (0.78%) Legal
15 5 (0.78%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.62%) Back Office
16 4 (0.62%) Law
16 4 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 235 (36.43%) Developer
2 136 (21.09%) Architect
3 64 (9.92%) Senior
4 40 (6.20%) Java Developer
5 35 (5.43%) Python Developer
6 34 (5.27%) CyberArk Architect
7 30 (4.65%) Senior Developer
8 29 (4.50%) Lead
8 29 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
9 26 (4.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (3.57%) Software Engineer
11 22 (3.41%) Analyst
12 19 (2.95%) Business Analyst
12 19 (2.95%) C# Developer
12 19 (2.95%) Consultant
13 15 (2.33%) Automation Engineer
13 15 (2.33%) Cloud Specialist
13 15 (2.33%) Integration Specialist
14 13 (2.02%) Data Engineer
14 13 (2.02%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (28.22%) SOAP
2 112 (17.36%) JSON
3 98 (15.19%) Web Services
4 83 (12.87%) RESTful
5 79 (12.25%) Spring
6 78 (12.09%) Kafka
7 77 (11.94%) React
8 74 (11.47%) Spring Boot
9 71 (11.01%) AngularJS
10 66 (10.23%) .NET
11 60 (9.30%) CSS
11 60 (9.30%) HTML
12 54 (8.37%) XML
13 52 (8.06%) OAuth
14 44 (6.82%) Middleware
15 38 (5.89%) LDAP
16 37 (5.74%) GraphQL
17 35 (5.43%) Node.js
18 34 (5.27%) Pandas
19 32 (4.96%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.91%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.13%) Enterprise Software
3 41 (6.36%) Product Ownership
4 40 (6.20%) Security Posture
5 33 (5.12%) CMDB
5 33 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (4.19%) PKI
8 25 (3.88%) Equities
9 21 (3.26%) Public Cloud
10 20 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (3.10%) Management Information System
11 18 (2.79%) Mobile App
12 16 (2.48%) Hedge funds
12 16 (2.48%) Onboarding
13 14 (2.17%) Data Structures
13 14 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (1.86%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.71%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.98%) Linux
2 22 (3.41%) Windows
3 12 (1.86%) Unix
4 6 (0.93%) 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
1 213 (33.02%) Agile
2 202 (31.32%) CI/CD
3 189 (29.30%) DevOps
4 158 (24.50%) Problem-Solving
5 136 (21.09%) Microservices
6 106 (16.43%) Integration Patterns
7 90 (13.95%) Test Automation
8 81 (12.56%) ITSM
9 79 (12.25%) Technical Leadership
10 77 (11.94%) Observability
11 76 (11.78%) Analytics
12 74 (11.47%) Data Modelling
13 73 (11.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 72 (11.16%) Event-Driven
15 70 (10.85%) Containerisation
16 64 (9.92%) AI
17 58 (8.99%) API Integration
18 57 (8.84%) ERP
18 57 (8.84%) Scrum
18 57 (8.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 181 (28.06%) Python
2 153 (23.72%) SQL
3 150 (23.26%) Java
4 108 (16.74%) JavaScript
5 93 (14.42%) PowerShell
6 80 (12.40%) C#
7 79 (12.25%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.64%) Apex Code
9 12 (1.86%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (1.55%) VBA
11 7 (1.09%) Bicep
11 7 (1.09%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.93%) Go
12 6 (0.93%) PHP
13 5 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.62%) Groovy
14 4 (0.62%) Korn
14 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 173 (26.82%) Security Cleared
2 159 (24.65%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.96%) Degree
4 22 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.55%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.09%) CISSP
7 7 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.93%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.78%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.62%) CISM
10 4 (0.62%) MBA
11 2 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
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 (10.23%) QA
2 26 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.72%) GDPR
4 17 (2.64%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.71%) WCAG
6 9 (1.40%) NIST
7 7 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.09%) SLA
8 5 (0.78%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.47%) GRC
9 3 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.31%) NCSC
10 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.31%) PMO
10 2 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 95 (14.73%) Docker
2 53 (8.22%) 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
Systems Management
1 95 (14.73%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.60%) Terraform
3 22 (3.41%) Grafana
4 15 (2.33%) Ansible
5 10 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.62%) logstash
7 4 (0.62%) Pingdom
8 2 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.31%) Avamar
8 2 (0.31%) Control-M
8 2 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.31%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.31%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.31%) Istio
8 2 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.31%) Kibana
8 2 (0.31%) Puppet
8 2 (0.31%) QRadar
8 2 (0.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 69 (10.70%) Microsoft
1 69 (10.70%) Oracle
1 69 (10.70%) ServiceNow
2 40 (6.20%) CyberArk
3 35 (5.43%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (5.27%) Centrify
5 30 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.79%) Google
6 18 (2.79%) SAP
6 18 (2.79%) Splunk
7 17 (2.64%) OpenAI
8 12 (1.86%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.71%) Guidewire
10 10 (1.55%) Adobe
10 10 (1.55%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.55%) IBM
11 9 (1.40%) Workday
12 8 (1.24%) Automation Anywhere
12 8 (1.24%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.24%) UiPath