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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 119 91
Rank change year-on-year +49 -28 +6
Contract jobs citing REST 648 289 429
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.75% 2.29% 2.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.33% 8.78% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 186 294
10th Percentile £363 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £654 £685
90th Percentile £800 £758 £850
England median daily rate £508 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -2.87% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £53.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.00 - -
Median hourly rate £69.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £82.96 £64.50
% change year-on-year -15.62% +28.62% +3.20%

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 4,227 3,291 4,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.45% 26.03% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,855 2,301 3,331
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £657 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 21
10th Percentile £22.79 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.02 £39.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +46.58% -43.32%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £81.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +3 66 £525 -1.87% 58
South London -5 13 £510 +34.21% 3
West London -21 6 £375 -32.31% 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 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 20 (3.09%) Confluence
3 11 (1.70%) Apache
4 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.39%) Appian
5 9 (1.39%) Camunda
6 7 (1.08%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.93%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.93%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.62%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.62%) CICS
9 3 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.31%) Drupal
10 2 (0.31%) Mule
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.31%) SAS
10 2 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.15%) InVision
4 1 (0.15%) Maya
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Sketch
4 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.47%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.62%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.62%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.46%) 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
5 2 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.15%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.15%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 218 (33.64%) Azure
2 194 (29.94%) AWS
3 88 (13.58%) GCP
4 68 (10.49%) GitHub
5 50 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (6.79%) Serverless
7 42 (6.48%) GitHub Actions
7 42 (6.48%) Power Platform
8 38 (5.86%) IaaS
9 36 (5.56%) OCI
9 36 (5.56%) PaaS
10 33 (5.09%) Entra ID
11 25 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
12 24 (3.70%) Power Automate
13 21 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (3.24%) Amazon S3
13 21 (3.24%) SaaS
14 20 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
15 18 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.62%) HTTP
2 9 (1.39%) SMS
3 6 (0.93%) DNS
4 5 (0.77%) Firewall
5 4 (0.62%) BGP
6 3 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.46%) MPLS
6 3 (0.46%) OSPF
6 3 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.46%) SSL
7 2 (0.31%) FTP
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 (0.15%) DHCP
8 1 (0.15%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.15%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.10%) Relational Database
2 53 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (7.56%) SQL Server
4 39 (6.02%) NoSQL
5 28 (4.32%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.09%) Power BI
7 19 (2.93%) MySQL
8 13 (2.01%) RDBMS
9 12 (1.85%) Redis
10 11 (1.70%) Pinecone
11 10 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (1.54%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.54%) DynamoDB
11 10 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.39%) Metadata
13 8 (1.23%) DocumentDB
14 7 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 88 (13.58%) Git
2 47 (7.25%) JIRA
3 36 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 35 (5.40%) Postman
5 30 (4.63%) JUnit
6 24 (3.70%) Cucumber
7 23 (3.55%) GitLab
8 22 (3.40%) Selenium
9 19 (2.93%) REST Assured
10 16 (2.47%) Cypress.io
10 16 (2.47%) Mockito
11 11 (1.70%) Maven
11 11 (1.70%) SoapUI
12 8 (1.23%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.23%) JMeter
12 8 (1.23%) MLflow
13 7 (1.08%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.77%) Jasmine
14 5 (0.77%) SpecFlow
14 5 (0.77%) Zephyr
General
1 180 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 145 (22.38%) Finance
3 93 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 51 (7.87%) Banking
6 28 (4.32%) Front Office
7 16 (2.47%) Marketing
8 13 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.01%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.70%) Retail
10 10 (1.54%) Publishing
11 9 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.23%) Billing
13 7 (1.08%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.08%) Legal
14 5 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.62%) Military
16 3 (0.46%) Games
16 3 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 231 (35.65%) Developer
2 139 (21.45%) Architect
3 62 (9.57%) Senior
4 40 (6.17%) Java Developer
5 37 (5.71%) Python Developer
6 34 (5.25%) CyberArk Architect
7 32 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
8 29 (4.48%) Lead
9 28 (4.32%) Senior Developer
10 27 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 26 (4.01%) Software Engineer
12 21 (3.24%) Consultant
13 18 (2.78%) C# Developer
14 16 (2.47%) Analyst
14 16 (2.47%) Business Analyst
14 16 (2.47%) Integration Specialist
15 15 (2.31%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (2.31%) Cloud Specialist
16 14 (2.16%) Data Engineer
17 13 (2.01%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (28.40%) SOAP
2 110 (16.98%) JSON
3 95 (14.66%) Web Services
4 80 (12.35%) Spring
5 79 (12.19%) React
5 79 (12.19%) RESTful
6 76 (11.73%) Kafka
7 75 (11.57%) Spring Boot
8 72 (11.11%) AngularJS
9 70 (10.80%) .NET
10 61 (9.41%) HTML
11 60 (9.26%) CSS
12 52 (8.02%) XML
13 49 (7.56%) OAuth
14 45 (6.94%) Middleware
15 41 (6.33%) GraphQL
16 38 (5.86%) Node.js
17 37 (5.71%) LDAP
17 37 (5.71%) Pandas
18 32 (4.94%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.79%) Enterprise Software
3 41 (6.33%) Product Ownership
3 41 (6.33%) Security Posture
4 36 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (4.48%) CMDB
6 27 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (4.17%) PKI
7 26 (4.01%) Equities
8 21 (3.24%) Management Information System
8 21 (3.24%) Public Cloud
9 19 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.78%) Mobile App
11 17 (2.62%) Hedge funds
12 16 (2.47%) Data Structures
13 15 (2.31%) Onboarding
14 13 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (1.54%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.86%) Linux
2 22 (3.40%) Windows
3 11 (1.70%) Unix
4 6 (0.93%) zOS
5 5 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.46%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (32.87%) Agile
2 201 (31.02%) CI/CD
3 183 (28.24%) DevOps
4 156 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
5 132 (20.37%) Microservices
6 111 (17.13%) Integration Patterns
7 90 (13.89%) Test Automation
8 81 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
9 79 (12.19%) Analytics
9 79 (12.19%) Data Modelling
9 79 (12.19%) Observability
10 76 (11.73%) ITSM
11 74 (11.42%) Containerisation
12 69 (10.65%) Event-Driven
13 66 (10.19%) AI
14 65 (10.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 60 (9.26%) Scrum
16 59 (9.10%) API Integration
16 59 (9.10%) ERP
16 59 (9.10%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 183 (28.24%) Python
2 153 (23.61%) SQL
3 150 (23.15%) Java
4 109 (16.82%) JavaScript
5 90 (13.89%) PowerShell
6 84 (12.96%) TypeScript
7 83 (12.81%) C#
8 15 (2.31%) Apex Code
9 11 (1.70%) Kotlin
9 11 (1.70%) VBA
10 10 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.08%) Bicep
13 6 (0.93%) Bash
13 6 (0.93%) Go
14 5 (0.77%) PHP
14 5 (0.77%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.62%) Groovy
15 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 167 (25.77%) Security Cleared
2 155 (23.92%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.09%) Degree
4 22 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.77%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.77%) CISSP
8 5 (0.77%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.62%) MBA
10 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.46%) CISM
11 2 (0.31%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.31%) OSCP
11 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (9.26%) QA
2 26 (4.01%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.55%) GDPR
4 15 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.70%) WCAG
6 10 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.39%) NIST
8 7 (1.08%) SLA
9 6 (0.93%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.62%) GRC
10 4 (0.62%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.31%) HL7
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 (14.51%) Docker
2 51 (7.87%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) IAG
5 1 (0.15%) Postfix
5 1 (0.15%) UAG
5 1 (0.15%) Varnish
5 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 94 (14.51%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.56%) Terraform
3 23 (3.55%) Grafana
4 17 (2.62%) Ansible
5 11 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
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%) logstash
8 2 (0.31%) Puppet
8 2 (0.31%) QRadar
8 2 (0.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 71 (10.96%) Oracle
1 71 (10.96%) ServiceNow
2 68 (10.49%) Microsoft
3 39 (6.02%) CyberArk
4 34 (5.25%) BeyondTrust
4 34 (5.25%) Centrify
5 28 (4.32%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.78%) Google
6 18 (2.78%) SAP
6 18 (2.78%) Splunk
7 17 (2.62%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.01%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.85%) Adobe
10 11 (1.70%) Guidewire
10 11 (1.70%) Workday
11 10 (1.54%) IBM
12 9 (1.39%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.23%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.23%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (1.23%) UiPath