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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 78 109
Rank change year-on-year +25 +31 -1
Contract jobs citing REST 885 472 375
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.35% 3.50% 2.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.54% 11.80% 7.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 311 226
10th Percentile £400 £358 £413
25th Percentile £450 £420 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £636
90th Percentile £738 £713 £763
England median daily rate £525 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.40 £44.48 -
25th Percentile £50.63 £45.56 -
Median hourly rate £59.50 £50.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% - -
75th Percentile £69.38 £55.56 -
90th Percentile £80.50 £56.43 -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £50.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -32.43% -2.33%

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 5,350 3,999 4,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 29.69% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,607 2,736 3,325
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £450 £431 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £710
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 22
10th Percentile £26.55 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +22.28% -32.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.56 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +10 108 £550 -4.35% 104
South London +1 13 £700 +12.54% 6
East London +1 3 £525 -2.78% 6
West London -26 3 £539 +47.60% 21
North London - 1 - - 5
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 32 (3.62%) Confluence
2 22 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.69%) Apache
4 14 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.13%) IIS
6 9 (1.02%) Anypoint
6 9 (1.02%) Camunda
7 7 (0.79%) Mule
8 6 (0.68%) CMS
8 6 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.68%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.45%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.45%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) nginx
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.45%) Windchill
2 3 (0.34%) Trello
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (2.03%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.56%) Shopify
7 4 (0.45%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.45%) Quorum
7 4 (0.45%) R3 Corda
7 4 (0.45%) Ripple
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.34%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.34%) Workfront
9 2 (0.23%) Infor LN
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle Retail
9 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 370 (41.81%) Azure
2 294 (33.22%) AWS
3 163 (18.42%) GitHub
4 124 (14.01%) Azure DevOps
5 110 (12.43%) GCP
6 96 (10.85%) Serverless
7 92 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
8 70 (7.91%) Entra ID
9 57 (6.44%) Power Platform
10 52 (5.88%) SaaS
11 51 (5.76%) Amazon S3
12 44 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (3.84%) Amazon EKS
15 33 (3.73%) Boomi
16 29 (3.28%) Azure Functions
17 28 (3.16%) GitHub Copilot
17 28 (3.16%) PowerApps
18 27 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
18 27 (3.05%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.71%) HTTP
2 15 (1.69%) DNS
3 9 (1.02%) Firewall
3 9 (1.02%) HTTPS
3 9 (1.02%) Network Security
4 8 (0.90%) BGP
4 8 (0.90%) SSH
5 6 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
5 6 (0.68%) FTP
5 6 (0.68%) SSL
5 6 (0.68%) VXLAN
6 5 (0.56%) Internet
6 5 (0.56%) NX-OS
6 5 (0.56%) TACACS
6 5 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.45%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.45%) SAN
7 4 (0.45%) VPN
8 3 (0.34%) SMS
8 3 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (9.27%) SQL Server
3 79 (8.93%) Relational Database
4 56 (6.33%) NoSQL
5 42 (4.75%) MongoDB
6 37 (4.18%) Power BI
7 31 (3.50%) Redis
8 27 (3.05%) MySQL
9 22 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
10 21 (2.37%) Metadata
11 17 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.58%) DynamoDB
14 13 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.47%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (1.36%) Big Data
16 11 (1.24%) Data Lake
16 11 (1.24%) Oracle Database
16 11 (1.24%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 173 (19.55%) Git
2 95 (10.73%) Jenkins
3 65 (7.34%) JIRA
4 64 (7.23%) GitLab
5 45 (5.08%) JUnit
6 30 (3.39%) Gradle
7 28 (3.16%) Maven
8 23 (2.60%) Cypress.io
9 21 (2.37%) Postman
9 21 (2.37%) Selenium
10 18 (2.03%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.81%) Mockito
12 15 (1.69%) Bitbucket
13 14 (1.58%) REST Assured
13 14 (1.58%) Visual Studio
14 13 (1.47%) CircleCI
14 13 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
15 10 (1.13%) Eclipse
15 10 (1.13%) Storybook
16 9 (1.02%) JMeter
General
1 261 (29.49%) Finance
2 244 (27.57%) Social Skills
3 114 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (11.07%) Banking
5 72 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.18%) Retail
7 26 (2.94%) Marketing
8 25 (2.82%) Telecoms
9 24 (2.71%) Investment Banking
10 15 (1.69%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.47%) Front Office
13 12 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.24%) Publishing
15 10 (1.13%) Billing
15 10 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.02%) Legal
17 8 (0.90%) Law
17 8 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 364 (41.13%) Developer
2 162 (18.31%) Senior
3 153 (17.29%) Architect
4 81 (9.15%) Senior Developer
5 60 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
6 53 (5.99%) Lead
7 52 (5.88%) Java Developer
8 46 (5.20%) Python Developer
9 40 (4.52%) Software Engineer
9 40 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (3.84%) .NET Developer
11 29 (3.28%) React Developer
12 27 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 26 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 26 (2.94%) Java Engineer
14 24 (2.71%) Consultant
15 21 (2.37%) Technical Architect
16 20 (2.26%) C# Developer
16 20 (2.26%) ServiceNow Developer
17 19 (2.15%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (24.07%) SOAP
2 135 (15.25%) .NET
3 129 (14.58%) React
4 128 (14.46%) JSON
5 117 (13.22%) Kafka
6 111 (12.54%) RESTful
7 103 (11.64%) Spring
8 97 (10.96%) OAuth
8 97 (10.96%) Terraform
9 95 (10.73%) Spring Boot
10 87 (9.83%) XML
11 82 (9.27%) HTML
12 80 (9.04%) CSS
13 76 (8.59%) GraphQL
14 67 (7.57%) OAuth2
15 63 (7.12%) Middleware
16 61 (6.89%) Node.js
17 58 (6.55%) AngularJS
18 57 (6.44%) Web Services
19 38 (4.29%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 154 (17.40%) Cloud Native
2 81 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (8.25%) Product Ownership
4 60 (6.78%) Enterprise Software
5 41 (4.63%) AI Agents
6 40 (4.52%) Onboarding
7 39 (4.41%) CMDB
8 32 (3.62%) Mobile App
9 24 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (2.37%) Data Structures
10 21 (2.37%) Management Information System
11 19 (2.15%) Low-Code
11 19 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.69%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.13%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.13%) Derivative
14 10 (1.13%) NHS
14 10 (1.13%) Security Posture
15 9 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 69 (7.80%) Linux
2 36 (4.07%) Windows
3 30 (3.39%) Unix
4 22 (2.49%) Android
5 13 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) CentOS
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (49.72%) CI/CD
2 321 (36.27%) Agile
3 303 (34.24%) DevOps
4 227 (25.65%) Microservices
5 188 (21.24%) AI
6 186 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
7 174 (19.66%) Event-Driven
8 157 (17.74%) Test Automation
9 127 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
10 126 (14.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 126 (14.24%) Software Engineering
11 124 (14.01%) Integration Patterns
11 124 (14.01%) Scrum
12 119 (13.45%) Data Modelling
12 119 (13.45%) Full-Stack Development
13 113 (12.77%) Containerisation
14 105 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 102 (11.53%) Observability
16 100 (11.30%) Technical Leadership
17 94 (10.62%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 287 (32.43%) Python
2 249 (28.14%) SQL
3 220 (24.86%) Java
4 204 (23.05%) JavaScript
5 162 (18.31%) TypeScript
6 130 (14.69%) C#
7 60 (6.78%) PowerShell
8 30 (3.39%) Bash
9 29 (3.28%) Kotlin
10 26 (2.94%) Apex Code
11 23 (2.60%) Shell Script
12 20 (2.26%) Groovy
13 19 (2.15%) Bicep
14 17 (1.92%) Go
15 13 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (1.36%) PL/SQL
17 10 (1.13%) SOQL
17 10 (1.13%) SOSL
17 10 (1.13%) Swift
18 9 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 192 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 158 (17.85%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.78%) Degree
4 28 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 21 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.02%) CISSP
8 9 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.68%) CISM
10 6 (0.68%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.68%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.68%) PMP
11 5 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.45%) CESG Certified Professional
12 4 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.34%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (11.53%) QA
2 40 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.62%) GDPR
4 30 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.37%) GRC
6 17 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.24%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.24%) NIST
9 10 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.13%) SLA
10 9 (1.02%) WCAG
11 8 (0.90%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.56%) HL7
12 5 (0.56%) SEPA
13 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.34%) Basel III
14 3 (0.34%) NCSC
15 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 163 (18.42%) Docker
2 37 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Postfix
7 2 (0.23%) Varnish
8 1 (0.11%) Ceph
8 1 (0.11%) RACF
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 160 (18.08%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.62%) Ansible
3 30 (3.39%) Grafana
4 20 (2.26%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.90%) Kibana
7 7 (0.79%) Control-M
8 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.34%) Bosun
9 3 (0.34%) Istio
10 2 (0.23%) Netcool
10 2 (0.23%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 2 (0.23%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.23%) SCCM
10 2 (0.23%) systemd
10 2 (0.23%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.23%) Tivoli Monitoring
11 1 (0.11%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.11%) TrustSec
11 1 (0.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 152 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 110 (12.43%) Oracle
3 87 (9.83%) ServiceNow
4 79 (8.93%) Salesforce
5 44 (4.97%) Databricks
5 44 (4.97%) Google
5 44 (4.97%) SAP
6 30 (3.39%) OpenAI
7 28 (3.16%) Splunk
8 26 (2.94%) MuleSoft
9 25 (2.82%) CyberArk
10 22 (2.49%) IBM
11 15 (1.69%) Workday
12 13 (1.47%) Cisco
12 13 (1.47%) VMware
13 12 (1.36%) Dynatrace
14 11 (1.24%) Foundry
15 10 (1.13%) Okta
15 10 (1.13%) OutSystems
16 9 (1.02%) New Relic