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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 97 98
Rank change year-on-year +22 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing REST 692 378 448
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.58% 2.88% 2.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.75% 10.94% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 270 319
10th Percentile £400 £374 £400
25th Percentile £436 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £726 £788
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £51.13 - -
25th Percentile £62.19 - -
Median hourly rate £78.75 - £67.00
75th Percentile £93.44 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -28.57% +27.27%

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 4,395 3,456 4,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.75% 26.38% 26.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,913 2,407 3,491
10th Percentile £381 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £711
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 27
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.01 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +5.88% -36.80%
75th Percentile £73.50 £60.75 £61.97
90th Percentile £93.13 £83.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £58.15
% change year-on-year +12.80% -0.90% -10.54%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +8 88 £558 +1.36% 58
South London 0 14 £516 +2.89%
East London +1 5 £416 -37.48% 5
West London -25 5 £375 -31.82% 5
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 22 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.03%) Confluence
3 13 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.73%) Apache
4 12 (1.73%) Camunda
5 10 (1.45%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.45%) Hyperledger
6 8 (1.16%) IIS
7 7 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (1.01%) Appian
8 6 (0.87%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.72%) CICS
9 5 (0.72%) Mule
9 5 (0.72%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.43%) WordPress
12 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Maya
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.16%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.72%) R3 Corda
5 5 (0.72%) Shopify
6 4 (0.58%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.58%) Quorum
6 4 (0.58%) Ripple
7 3 (0.43%) Bloomberg AIM
7 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.43%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.29%) Magento
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 247 (35.69%) Azure
2 210 (30.35%) AWS
3 93 (13.44%) GitHub
4 77 (11.13%) Azure DevOps
5 72 (10.40%) GCP
6 64 (9.25%) GitHub Actions
7 57 (8.24%) Serverless
8 44 (6.36%) Entra ID
9 40 (5.78%) Power Platform
10 33 (4.77%) Amazon S3
11 32 (4.62%) SaaS
12 26 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (3.76%) OCI
13 23 (3.32%) PaaS
14 22 (3.18%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
14 22 (3.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 21 (3.03%) Azure Functions
16 20 (2.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.75%) HTTP
2 7 (1.01%) HTTPS
3 6 (0.87%) FTP
4 5 (0.72%) BGP
4 5 (0.72%) DNS
4 5 (0.72%) Network Security
5 4 (0.58%) Firewall
5 4 (0.58%) MPLS
5 4 (0.58%) OSPF
5 4 (0.58%) WAN
6 3 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.43%) SMS
6 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.29%) Internet
7 2 (0.29%) Intranet
7 2 (0.29%) SNMP
7 2 (0.29%) SSH
7 2 (0.29%) VLAN
7 2 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (12.43%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (12.28%) Relational Database
3 69 (9.97%) SQL Server
4 37 (5.35%) NoSQL
5 30 (4.34%) MongoDB
6 25 (3.61%) Power BI
7 19 (2.75%) Redis
8 18 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (2.17%) MySQL
11 14 (2.02%) Big Data
12 11 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.45%) DynamoDB
13 10 (1.45%) Metadata
14 9 (1.30%) BigQuery
14 9 (1.30%) Data Lake
14 9 (1.30%) Pinecone
14 9 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (1.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 106 (15.32%) Git
2 59 (8.53%) Jenkins
3 49 (7.08%) JIRA
4 38 (5.49%) JUnit
5 36 (5.20%) GitLab
6 22 (3.18%) Postman
7 20 (2.89%) Cypress.io
8 19 (2.75%) Selenium
9 18 (2.60%) Cucumber
10 17 (2.46%) REST Assured
11 16 (2.31%) Maven
12 15 (2.17%) Mockito
13 14 (2.02%) Gradle
14 10 (1.45%) Eclipse
15 9 (1.30%) Ant
15 9 (1.30%) JMeter
16 8 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
17 7 (1.01%) CircleCI
18 6 (0.87%) SonarQube
18 6 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 187 (27.02%) Finance
2 162 (23.41%) Social Skills
3 92 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (8.96%) Banking
5 57 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 34 (4.91%) Retail
7 22 (3.18%) Telecoms
8 19 (2.75%) Marketing
9 15 (2.17%) Publishing
10 14 (2.02%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.73%) Front Office
12 11 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.45%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.45%) Legal
14 8 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.01%) Billing
16 6 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 4 (0.58%) Automotive
17 4 (0.58%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 273 (39.45%) Developer
2 115 (16.62%) Architect
3 101 (14.60%) Senior
4 48 (6.94%) Java Developer
4 48 (6.94%) Senior Developer
5 40 (5.78%) Full-Stack Developer
6 38 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
7 34 (4.91%) Software Engineer
8 32 (4.62%) Lead
8 32 (4.62%) Python Developer
9 28 (4.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 25 (3.61%) Consultant
11 23 (3.32%) React Developer
12 20 (2.89%) ServiceNow Architect
13 16 (2.31%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (2.31%) Data Engineer
13 16 (2.31%) ServiceNow Developer
14 15 (2.17%) Backend Developer
14 15 (2.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 15 (2.17%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (27.46%) SOAP
2 102 (14.74%) React
3 97 (14.02%) Spring
4 96 (13.87%) RESTful
5 94 (13.58%) JSON
6 90 (13.01%) Spring Boot
7 87 (12.57%) .NET
8 82 (11.85%) Web Services
9 81 (11.71%) Kafka
10 70 (10.12%) OAuth
11 67 (9.68%) AngularJS
12 60 (8.67%) CSS
12 60 (8.67%) HTML
13 59 (8.53%) XML
14 58 (8.38%) Node.js
15 57 (8.24%) GraphQL
16 53 (7.66%) Middleware
17 33 (4.77%) OAuth2
18 28 (4.05%) JWT
19 27 (3.90%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 85 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.53%) Product Ownership
3 52 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (5.64%) CMDB
5 34 (4.91%) Mobile App
6 26 (3.76%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (2.60%) Low-Code
9 18 (2.60%) Virtual Team
10 17 (2.46%) Data Structures
10 17 (2.46%) Onboarding
11 16 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (2.17%) AI Agents
12 15 (2.17%) Security Posture
13 14 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (1.88%) Equities
15 10 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (1.45%) Public Cloud
16 9 (1.30%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.19%) Linux
2 20 (2.89%) Windows
3 14 (2.02%) Unix
4 13 (1.88%) Android
5 5 (0.72%) zOS
6 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) CentOS
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) VMS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (42.63%) CI/CD
2 239 (34.54%) Agile
3 226 (32.66%) DevOps
4 172 (24.86%) Microservices
5 147 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
6 110 (15.90%) AI
7 101 (14.60%) Test Automation
8 100 (14.45%) Containerisation
8 100 (14.45%) Integration Patterns
9 99 (14.31%) Data Modelling
9 99 (14.31%) Event-Driven
9 99 (14.31%) Scrum
10 92 (13.29%) Observability
11 87 (12.57%) Software Engineering
12 77 (11.13%) Analytics
13 75 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
13 75 (10.84%) Workflow
14 70 (10.12%) Roadmaps
15 66 (9.54%) ITSM
15 66 (9.54%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 199 (28.76%) Python
2 194 (28.03%) Java
3 173 (25.00%) SQL
4 147 (21.24%) JavaScript
5 122 (17.63%) TypeScript
6 91 (13.15%) C#
7 44 (6.36%) PowerShell
8 23 (3.32%) Kotlin
9 21 (3.03%) Apex Code
10 14 (2.02%) Bicep
11 13 (1.88%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.73%) Groovy
12 12 (1.73%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.59%) Bash
14 10 (1.45%) SOQL
15 8 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (1.16%) SOSL
16 7 (1.01%) Go
16 7 (1.01%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 123 (17.77%) Security Cleared
2 107 (15.46%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.08%) Degree
4 19 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.30%) CISSP
8 8 (1.16%) CISM
8 8 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.87%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.87%) PMP
10 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.72%) MBA
11 4 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.29%) CCIE
13 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (9.10%) QA
2 34 (4.91%) Data Quality
3 27 (3.90%) GDPR
4 25 (3.61%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.88%) GRC
5 13 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (1.59%) HIPAA
6 11 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.30%) WCAG
8 6 (0.87%) SLA
9 4 (0.58%) NIST
10 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.43%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.43%) PMO
10 3 (0.43%) SEPA
11 2 (0.29%) Basel III
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.14%) HL7
12 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 113 (16.33%) Docker
2 20 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.43%) Postfix
6 2 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) IAG
7 1 (0.14%) RACF
7 1 (0.14%) UAG
7 1 (0.14%) Varnish
7 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 120 (17.34%) Kubernetes
2 64 (9.25%) Terraform
3 26 (3.76%) Grafana
4 25 (3.61%) Ansible
5 11 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.45%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.29%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.29%) Avamar
7 2 (0.29%) Control-M
7 2 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.29%) Kibana
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.29%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.14%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.14%) Puppet
8 1 (0.14%) TrustSec
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 100 (14.45%) Oracle
2 94 (13.58%) Microsoft
3 81 (11.71%) ServiceNow
4 57 (8.24%) Salesforce
5 28 (4.05%) SAP
6 27 (3.90%) Google
7 21 (3.03%) MuleSoft
7 21 (3.03%) Splunk
8 19 (2.75%) Workday
9 17 (2.46%) OpenAI
10 15 (2.17%) IBM
11 12 (1.73%) CyberArk
11 12 (1.73%) Databricks
11 12 (1.73%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.30%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.16%) Cisco
13 8 (1.16%) OutSystems
14 7 (1.01%) Guidewire
14 7 (1.01%) OpenText
15 6 (0.87%) New Relic