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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 110 87
Rank change year-on-year +39 -23 +8
Contract jobs citing REST 630 316 447
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.82% 2.48% 2.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.36% 9.50% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 182 310
10th Percentile £355 £380 £394
25th Percentile £415 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £541
Median % change year-on-year - +1.62% -9.03%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £734
90th Percentile £805 £773 £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 £74.72
% change year-on-year -15.62% +11.03% +21.99%

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 4,102 3,327 4,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.87% 26.08% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 2,302 3,334
10th Percentile £363 £385 £382
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £543
% change year-on-year -2.42% -0.83% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 27
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.44 £26.76
Median hourly rate £46.00 £50.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +18.24% -34.62%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.38 £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -6 62 £525 -0.94% 55
South London -9 9 £516 +35.66% 4
West London -17 6 £375 -43.61% 1
North London - 4 - -
East London -2 3 £630 +3.70% 9
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 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.22%) Confluence
3 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.59%) Apache
4 10 (1.59%) Camunda
5 9 (1.43%) Appian
6 8 (1.27%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.95%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.95%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.95%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.63%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.63%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.63%) CICS
10 3 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.32%) Drupal
11 2 (0.32%) Mule
11 2 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.32%) SAS
11 2 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.32%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
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
Business Applications
1 17 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.63%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.63%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.32%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.32%) Shopify
6 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
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
1 227 (36.03%) Azure
2 189 (30.00%) AWS
3 91 (14.44%) GCP
4 71 (11.27%) GitHub
5 55 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (7.14%) Serverless
7 44 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (6.35%) Power Platform
9 38 (6.03%) IaaS
10 33 (5.24%) OCI
10 33 (5.24%) PaaS
11 29 (4.60%) Entra ID
12 23 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
13 22 (3.49%) Amazon S3
13 22 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
14 21 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (3.33%) Power Automate
15 20 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.22%) HTTP
2 8 (1.27%) SMS
3 5 (0.79%) DNS
3 5 (0.79%) SSL
4 3 (0.48%) BGP
4 3 (0.48%) Firewall
4 3 (0.48%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.32%) Modbus
5 2 (0.32%) MPLS
5 2 (0.32%) NaaS
5 2 (0.32%) OSPF
5 2 (0.32%) SAN
5 2 (0.32%) SNMP
5 2 (0.32%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.32%) VPN
5 2 (0.32%) WAN
6 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.16%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.16%) PCoIP
6 1 (0.16%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.10%) SQL Server
2 47 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 39 (6.19%) NoSQL
5 28 (4.44%) MongoDB
6 21 (3.33%) MySQL
7 17 (2.70%) Power BI
8 12 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
8 12 (1.90%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.75%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.75%) Redis
10 10 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.59%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.43%) Metadata
11 9 (1.43%) Pinecone
12 8 (1.27%) DocumentDB
13 7 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 94 (14.92%) Git
2 49 (7.78%) JIRA
3 43 (6.83%) Jenkins
4 35 (5.56%) Postman
5 34 (5.40%) JUnit
6 31 (4.92%) GitLab
7 26 (4.13%) Cucumber
8 22 (3.49%) Selenium
9 19 (3.02%) REST Assured
10 18 (2.86%) Mockito
11 16 (2.54%) Cypress.io
12 14 (2.22%) Maven
13 12 (1.90%) SoapUI
14 11 (1.75%) JMeter
15 9 (1.43%) Bitbucket
16 8 (1.27%) MLflow
16 8 (1.27%) SonarQube
17 7 (1.11%) Gatling
18 6 (0.95%) SpecFlow
19 5 (0.79%) Gradle
General
1 189 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 140 (22.22%) Finance
3 95 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (9.37%) Public Sector
5 56 (8.89%) Banking
6 27 (4.29%) Front Office
7 16 (2.54%) Marketing
8 14 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.06%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.75%) Retail
11 8 (1.27%) Billing
11 8 (1.27%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.11%) Military
12 7 (1.11%) Publishing
13 5 (0.79%) Legal
13 5 (0.79%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.63%) Back Office
14 4 (0.63%) Law
14 4 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 243 (38.57%) Developer
2 126 (20.00%) Architect
3 67 (10.63%) Senior
4 39 (6.19%) Java Developer
5 34 (5.40%) CyberArk Architect
6 33 (5.24%) Python Developer
6 33 (5.24%) Senior Developer
7 29 (4.60%) Lead
8 25 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
9 24 (3.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (3.49%) Analyst
11 20 (3.17%) Business Analyst
11 20 (3.17%) C# Developer
11 20 (3.17%) Software Engineer
12 19 (3.02%) Consultant
13 15 (2.38%) Cloud Specialist
13 15 (2.38%) Integration Specialist
13 15 (2.38%) ServiceNow Developer
14 14 (2.22%) Automation Engineer
15 13 (2.06%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (28.89%) SOAP
2 114 (18.10%) JSON
3 95 (15.08%) Web Services
4 79 (12.54%) React
5 78 (12.38%) Kafka
5 78 (12.38%) RESTful
6 75 (11.90%) Spring
7 71 (11.27%) AngularJS
7 71 (11.27%) Spring Boot
8 64 (10.16%) CSS
8 64 (10.16%) HTML
9 62 (9.84%) .NET
10 57 (9.05%) XML
11 52 (8.25%) OAuth
12 41 (6.51%) Middleware
13 39 (6.19%) GraphQL
14 36 (5.71%) LDAP
15 34 (5.40%) Node.js
16 32 (5.08%) Oracle Fusion
16 32 (5.08%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.94%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 40 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 38 (6.03%) Security Posture
5 35 (5.56%) CMDB
6 32 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (4.29%) PKI
8 24 (3.81%) Equities
9 21 (3.33%) Public Cloud
10 20 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (3.02%) Mobile App
12 15 (2.38%) Hedge funds
13 14 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 14 (2.22%) Management Information System
14 13 (2.06%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.90%) Fixed Income
15 12 (1.90%) Onboarding
16 11 (1.75%) Algorithms
17 10 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.30%) Linux
2 20 (3.17%) Windows
3 14 (2.22%) Unix
4 6 (0.95%) zOS
5 5 (0.79%) Android
5 5 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (33.49%) Agile
2 200 (31.75%) CI/CD
3 188 (29.84%) DevOps
4 155 (24.60%) Problem-Solving
5 132 (20.95%) Microservices
6 97 (15.40%) Integration Patterns
7 87 (13.81%) Test Automation
8 79 (12.54%) ITSM
9 77 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
10 75 (11.90%) Analytics
11 73 (11.59%) Data Modelling
12 72 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 71 (11.27%) Event-Driven
14 70 (11.11%) Observability
15 65 (10.32%) Containerisation
16 62 (9.84%) API Integration
17 61 (9.68%) AI
18 60 (9.52%) Scrum
19 57 (9.05%) Full-Stack Development
20 56 (8.89%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 172 (27.30%) Python
2 151 (23.97%) SQL
3 146 (23.17%) Java
4 114 (18.10%) JavaScript
5 92 (14.60%) PowerShell
6 82 (13.02%) TypeScript
7 79 (12.54%) C#
8 16 (2.54%) Apex Code
9 14 (2.22%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (1.59%) VBA
11 7 (1.11%) Bicep
12 6 (0.95%) Go
12 6 (0.95%) PHP
12 6 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.79%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.63%) Korn
14 4 (0.63%) XPath
15 3 (0.48%) C++
Qualifications
1 168 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 154 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.60%) Degree
4 19 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.59%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.11%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.63%) CISSP
9 4 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.32%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.32%) OSCP
11 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.32%) PMP
12 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (10.95%) QA
2 25 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.33%) GDPR
4 20 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.90%) WCAG
6 11 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.43%) NIST
8 7 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.11%) SLA
9 3 (0.48%) GRC
9 3 (0.48%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.32%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.32%) NCSC
10 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.32%) PMO
10 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 97 (15.40%) Docker
2 52 (8.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.32%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) IAG
4 1 (0.16%) Postfix
4 1 (0.16%) UAG
Systems Management
1 95 (15.08%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.78%) Terraform
3 24 (3.81%) Grafana
4 13 (2.06%) Ansible
5 10 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.63%) logstash
7 4 (0.63%) Pingdom
8 2 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.32%) Control-M
8 2 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.32%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.32%) Istio
8 2 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.32%) Kibana
8 2 (0.32%) Puppet
8 2 (0.32%) QRadar
8 2 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 67 (10.63%) Microsoft
1 67 (10.63%) Oracle
2 65 (10.32%) ServiceNow
3 41 (6.51%) CyberArk
4 35 (5.56%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.40%) Centrify
6 28 (4.44%) Salesforce
7 19 (3.02%) Splunk
8 17 (2.70%) Google
8 17 (2.70%) OpenAI
9 16 (2.54%) SAP
10 11 (1.75%) Adobe
10 11 (1.75%) Guidewire
10 11 (1.75%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.43%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.27%) Automation Anywhere
12 8 (1.27%) UiPath
13 7 (1.11%) Bloomberg
13 7 (1.11%) IBM
13 7 (1.11%) Workday