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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 82 109
Rank change year-on-year +23 +27 +6
Contract jobs citing REST 851 443 389
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.24% 3.31% 2.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.14% 11.33% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 305 256
10th Percentile £400 £359 £413
25th Percentile £450 £420 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £536
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.56% -10.63%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £632
90th Percentile £725 £725 £775
England median daily rate £523 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +6.63% -6.67% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £46.40 - -
25th Percentile £50.63 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £59.50 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.26% - -
75th Percentile £69.38 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £80.50 - -
England median hourly rate £59.50 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +19.00% -28.57% +28.59%

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 5,271 3,910 4,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.25% 29.21% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,519 2,722 3,484
10th Percentile £400 £370 £383
25th Percentile £451 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £814 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -32.84%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +10 96 £533 -3.18% 69
South London -7 15 £700 +12.54% 8
East London +4 6 £432 -28.30% 12
West London -25 2 £539 +22.44% 25
North London - 1 - -
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 31 (3.64%) Confluence
2 22 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.76%) Apache
4 12 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.18%) Anypoint
5 10 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.06%) Camunda
6 9 (1.06%) IIS
7 7 (0.82%) Mule
8 6 (0.71%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.59%) CMS
9 5 (0.59%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.47%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.24%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Trello
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.12%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.59%) Shopify
6 4 (0.47%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.47%) Quorum
6 4 (0.47%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.47%) Ripple
7 3 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.24%) Infor LN
8 2 (0.24%) Magento
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 330 (38.78%) Azure
2 256 (30.08%) AWS
3 136 (15.98%) GitHub
4 105 (12.34%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (10.69%) GCP
6 83 (9.75%) Serverless
7 76 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
8 63 (7.40%) Entra ID
9 53 (6.23%) Power Platform
10 48 (5.64%) SaaS
11 38 (4.47%) Amazon S3
12 34 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
12 34 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (3.29%) Boomi
13 28 (3.29%) PowerApps
14 27 (3.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 26 (3.06%) Azure Functions
16 25 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.59%) HTTP
2 10 (1.18%) BGP
3 9 (1.06%) HTTPS
4 8 (0.94%) Firewall
5 7 (0.82%) DNS
5 7 (0.82%) Network Security
6 6 (0.71%) FTP
6 6 (0.71%) SSL
6 6 (0.71%) VXLAN
7 5 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (0.59%) NX-OS
7 5 (0.59%) TACACS
8 4 (0.47%) MPLS
8 4 (0.47%) OSPF
8 4 (0.47%) SSH
8 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.35%) SMS
9 3 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.35%) WAN
9 3 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (12.10%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (10.58%) Relational Database
3 77 (9.05%) SQL Server
4 48 (5.64%) NoSQL
5 36 (4.23%) MongoDB
6 33 (3.88%) Power BI
7 29 (3.41%) Redis
8 23 (2.70%) MySQL
9 19 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (1.88%) Metadata
11 14 (1.65%) Big Data
12 13 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (1.41%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.41%) DynamoDB
14 10 (1.18%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.94%) Delta Lake
15 8 (0.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 141 (16.57%) Git
2 79 (9.28%) Jenkins
3 60 (7.05%) JIRA
4 55 (6.46%) GitLab
5 36 (4.23%) JUnit
6 24 (2.82%) Cypress.io
7 20 (2.35%) Selenium
8 19 (2.23%) Gradle
9 17 (2.00%) Maven
9 17 (2.00%) Postman
10 15 (1.76%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.53%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.53%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.53%) Visual Studio
12 12 (1.41%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
13 11 (1.29%) JMeter
14 10 (1.18%) Eclipse
14 10 (1.18%) Mockito
15 9 (1.06%) Storybook
General
1 238 (27.97%) Finance
2 219 (25.73%) Social Skills
3 116 (13.63%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (9.17%) Banking
5 73 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.11%) Retail
7 31 (3.64%) Telecoms
8 24 (2.82%) Marketing
9 18 (2.12%) Publishing
10 16 (1.88%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.29%) Billing
12 10 (1.18%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.18%) Front Office
12 10 (1.18%) Legal
13 9 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.82%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 351 (41.25%) Developer
2 154 (18.10%) Architect
3 138 (16.22%) Senior
4 69 (8.11%) Senior Developer
5 56 (6.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 54 (6.35%) Java Developer
7 49 (5.76%) Lead
8 45 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
9 42 (4.94%) Python Developer
10 41 (4.82%) Software Engineer
11 29 (3.41%) .NET Developer
12 27 (3.17%) React Developer
13 26 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 26 (3.06%) Consultant
14 24 (2.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 23 (2.70%) ServiceNow Developer
16 20 (2.35%) C# Developer
16 20 (2.35%) ServiceNow Architect
17 19 (2.23%) Java Engineer
17 19 (2.23%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (24.91%) SOAP
2 132 (15.51%) .NET
3 124 (14.57%) React
4 122 (14.34%) JSON
5 112 (13.16%) RESTful
6 102 (11.99%) Kafka
7 98 (11.52%) Spring
8 90 (10.58%) OAuth
8 90 (10.58%) Spring Boot
9 83 (9.75%) Terraform
10 80 (9.40%) XML
11 79 (9.28%) CSS
11 79 (9.28%) HTML
12 65 (7.64%) Web Services
13 63 (7.40%) GraphQL
14 62 (7.29%) Node.js
15 61 (7.17%) Middleware
16 60 (7.05%) AngularJS
17 58 (6.82%) OAuth2
18 37 (4.35%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 136 (15.98%) Cloud Native
2 78 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (7.87%) Product Ownership
4 55 (6.46%) Enterprise Software
5 50 (5.88%) CMDB
6 33 (3.88%) Onboarding
7 32 (3.76%) Mobile App
8 31 (3.64%) AI Agents
9 28 (3.29%) Management Information System
10 24 (2.82%) Data Structures
10 24 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (2.00%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.76%) Low-Code
12 15 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.29%) Security Posture
14 10 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (1.06%) Data Centre
15 9 (1.06%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.35%) Linux
2 30 (3.53%) Windows
3 21 (2.47%) Unix
4 20 (2.35%) Android
5 11 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (46.30%) CI/CD
2 304 (35.72%) Agile
3 281 (33.02%) DevOps
4 214 (25.15%) Microservices
5 187 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
6 168 (19.74%) AI
7 149 (17.51%) Event-Driven
8 135 (15.86%) Test Automation
9 125 (14.69%) Integration Patterns
10 121 (14.22%) Data Modelling
11 116 (13.63%) Scrum
12 115 (13.51%) Software Engineering
13 111 (13.04%) Containerisation
14 109 (12.81%) Full-Stack Development
15 108 (12.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 105 (12.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 98 (11.52%) Observability
18 94 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
19 92 (10.81%) Migration
20 90 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 257 (30.20%) Python
2 236 (27.73%) SQL
3 215 (25.26%) Java
4 191 (22.44%) JavaScript
5 143 (16.80%) TypeScript
6 124 (14.57%) C#
7 53 (6.23%) PowerShell
8 27 (3.17%) Apex Code
9 24 (2.82%) Kotlin
10 21 (2.47%) Bash
11 20 (2.35%) Groovy
12 17 (2.00%) Bicep
12 17 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 17 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.53%) Go
14 12 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (1.29%) SOQL
16 10 (1.18%) SOSL
16 10 (1.18%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.94%) Swift
Qualifications
1 170 (19.98%) Security Cleared
2 144 (16.92%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.58%) Degree
4 26 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.76%) AWS Certification
6 15 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.29%) CISSP
9 9 (1.06%) CISM
9 9 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.71%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.71%) PMP
12 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.59%) MBA
13 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (9.17%) QA
2 39 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.53%) GDPR
4 27 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.35%) GRC
6 19 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.41%) HIPAA
9 10 (1.18%) NIST
9 10 (1.18%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.06%) SLA
11 7 (0.82%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.82%) WCAG
12 5 (0.59%) HL7
13 4 (0.47%) PMO
13 4 (0.47%) SEPA
14 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.35%) Basel III
15 2 (0.24%) ISO 13485
15 2 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 147 (17.27%) Docker
2 34 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.24%) Postfix
7 2 (0.24%) Varnish
8 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.12%) Ceph
8 1 (0.12%) RACF
8 1 (0.12%) UAG
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 151 (17.74%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.88%) Ansible
3 22 (2.59%) Grafana
4 15 (1.76%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.82%) Control-M
7 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.35%) Bosun
8 3 (0.35%) Istio
8 3 (0.35%) Kibana
8 3 (0.35%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.24%) Avamar
9 2 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.24%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.24%) SCCM
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.12%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.12%) SCOM
10 1 (0.12%) TrustSec
10 1 (0.12%) WMI
Vendors
1 137 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 113 (13.28%) Oracle
3 101 (11.87%) ServiceNow
4 84 (9.87%) Salesforce
5 37 (4.35%) Google
5 37 (4.35%) SAP
6 31 (3.64%) Databricks
7 26 (3.06%) MuleSoft
8 22 (2.59%) Splunk
9 21 (2.47%) Workday
10 18 (2.12%) CyberArk
10 18 (2.12%) OpenAI
11 17 (2.00%) IBM
12 13 (1.53%) Cisco
13 12 (1.41%) VMware
14 10 (1.18%) Dynatrace
14 10 (1.18%) Okta
14 10 (1.18%) OutSystems
15 9 (1.06%) New Relic
16 8 (0.94%) Foundry