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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 90 108
Rank change year-on-year +33 +18 +8
Contract jobs citing REST 841 419 398
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.19% 3.12% 2.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.95% 10.70% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 293 265
10th Percentile £400 £359 £413
25th Percentile £439 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £554 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +5.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £716 £736 £775
England median daily rate £520 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +5.59% -6.29% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £45.50 - -
25th Percentile £52.06 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.42% - -
75th Percentile £72.19 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £81.88 - -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £50.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +22.00% -32.43% +35.94%

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 5,272 3,917 4,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 29.16% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 2,731 3,508
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £690 £716
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 23
10th Percentile £26.40 £30.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.44 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +37.17% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £62.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £75.10 £64.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -6.13%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +11 93 £535 -2.73% 45
South London +3 15 £700 +12.54% 3
East London +5 6 £432 -28.30% 9
West London -28 3 £539 +2.62% 10
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 (3.69%) Confluence
2 25 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.78%) Apache
4 13 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.19%) Anypoint
5 10 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.07%) Camunda
7 8 (0.95%) IIS
8 7 (0.83%) Mule
9 6 (0.71%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.48%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.48%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.48%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.36%) CMS
13 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) 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 17 (2.02%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.59%) Shopify
6 4 (0.48%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.48%) Quorum
6 4 (0.48%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.48%) Ripple
7 3 (0.36%) 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
1 316 (37.57%) Azure
2 256 (30.44%) AWS
3 137 (16.29%) GitHub
4 99 (11.77%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (11.06%) GCP
6 79 (9.39%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (8.56%) Serverless
8 63 (7.49%) Entra ID
9 50 (5.95%) Power Platform
10 47 (5.59%) SaaS
11 37 (4.40%) Amazon S3
12 34 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (3.21%) Boomi
15 27 (3.21%) PowerApps
16 26 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
16 26 (3.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 24 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
17 24 (2.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.26%) HTTP
2 10 (1.19%) BGP
3 8 (0.95%) Firewall
3 8 (0.95%) HTTPS
4 7 (0.83%) Network Security
5 6 (0.71%) DNS
5 6 (0.71%) FTP
5 6 (0.71%) SSL
5 6 (0.71%) VXLAN
6 5 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (0.59%) NX-OS
6 5 (0.59%) TACACS
7 4 (0.48%) MPLS
7 4 (0.48%) OSPF
7 4 (0.48%) SSH
7 4 (0.48%) WAN
8 3 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (11.77%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (10.94%) Relational Database
3 76 (9.04%) SQL Server
4 45 (5.35%) NoSQL
5 35 (4.16%) MongoDB
6 32 (3.80%) Power BI
7 28 (3.33%) Redis
8 19 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (2.26%) MySQL
9 17 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (2.02%) Metadata
10 15 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (1.66%) Big Data
11 14 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.43%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (1.19%) DynamoDB
14 9 (1.07%) Data Lake
15 8 (0.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 7 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 138 (16.41%) Git
2 74 (8.80%) Jenkins
3 59 (7.02%) JIRA
4 55 (6.54%) GitLab
5 37 (4.40%) JUnit
6 24 (2.85%) Cypress.io
7 21 (2.50%) Gradle
8 18 (2.14%) Maven
8 18 (2.14%) Selenium
9 16 (1.90%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.78%) Postman
11 13 (1.55%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.55%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.55%) REST Assured
11 13 (1.55%) Visual Studio
12 12 (1.43%) Mockito
13 11 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
14 10 (1.19%) Eclipse
14 10 (1.19%) JMeter
15 9 (1.07%) Storybook
General
1 238 (28.30%) Finance
2 213 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 117 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (9.27%) Banking
5 73 (8.68%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.52%) Retail
7 31 (3.69%) Telecoms
8 22 (2.62%) Marketing
9 18 (2.14%) Publishing
10 16 (1.90%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.43%) Billing
12 10 (1.19%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.19%) Legal
12 10 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.95%) Front Office
15 7 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.83%) Law
15 7 (0.83%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 341 (40.55%) Developer
2 155 (18.43%) Architect
3 136 (16.17%) Senior
4 68 (8.09%) Senior Developer
5 57 (6.78%) Java Developer
6 53 (6.30%) Full-Stack Developer
7 47 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
8 46 (5.47%) Lead
9 41 (4.88%) Python Developer
9 41 (4.88%) Software Engineer
10 27 (3.21%) .NET Developer
10 27 (3.21%) React Developer
11 26 (3.09%) Consultant
12 25 (2.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 25 (2.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (2.73%) ServiceNow Developer
14 21 (2.50%) Java Engineer
14 21 (2.50%) ServiceNow Architect
15 20 (2.38%) C# Developer
16 18 (2.14%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (25.33%) SOAP
2 122 (14.51%) .NET
2 122 (14.51%) JSON
3 121 (14.39%) React
4 113 (13.44%) RESTful
5 101 (12.01%) Spring
6 100 (11.89%) Kafka
7 91 (10.82%) Spring Boot
8 83 (9.87%) Terraform
9 81 (9.63%) XML
10 80 (9.51%) OAuth
11 74 (8.80%) CSS
12 72 (8.56%) HTML
13 71 (8.44%) Web Services
14 63 (7.49%) Middleware
15 62 (7.37%) GraphQL
16 61 (7.25%) AngularJS
17 57 (6.78%) Node.js
18 50 (5.95%) OAuth2
19 34 (4.04%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 127 (15.10%) Cloud Native
2 79 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (7.25%) Product Ownership
4 52 (6.18%) CMDB
5 49 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (4.04%) Mobile App
7 30 (3.57%) Onboarding
8 29 (3.45%) Management Information System
9 28 (3.33%) AI Agents
10 26 (3.09%) Data Structures
11 23 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (2.02%) Virtual Team
14 15 (1.78%) Low-Code
15 14 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.43%) Security Posture
17 11 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
18 10 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
19 9 (1.07%) Derivative
19 9 (1.07%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 53 (6.30%) Linux
2 29 (3.45%) Windows
3 23 (2.73%) Unix
4 19 (2.26%) Android
5 10 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (45.30%) CI/CD
2 295 (35.08%) Agile
3 281 (33.41%) DevOps
4 210 (24.97%) Microservices
5 182 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
6 165 (19.62%) AI
7 143 (17.00%) Event-Driven
8 133 (15.81%) Test Automation
9 129 (15.34%) Integration Patterns
10 123 (14.63%) Data Modelling
11 116 (13.79%) Software Engineering
12 114 (13.56%) Containerisation
13 110 (13.08%) Scrum
14 107 (12.72%) Observability
15 106 (12.60%) Full-Stack Development
16 104 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
17 97 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
18 96 (11.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 92 (10.94%) Migration
20 91 (10.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 240 (28.54%) Python
2 225 (26.75%) SQL
3 214 (25.45%) Java
4 186 (22.12%) JavaScript
5 138 (16.41%) TypeScript
6 118 (14.03%) C#
7 52 (6.18%) PowerShell
8 27 (3.21%) Kotlin
9 26 (3.09%) Apex Code
10 20 (2.38%) Groovy
11 19 (2.26%) Bash
12 17 (2.02%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.90%) Bicep
13 16 (1.90%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.55%) Go
15 11 (1.31%) SOQL
15 11 (1.31%) T-SQL
16 10 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (1.19%) SOSL
17 8 (0.95%) Swift
Qualifications
1 168 (19.98%) Security Cleared
2 140 (16.65%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.90%) Degree
4 27 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.85%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.78%) AWS Certification
6 15 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.31%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.31%) CISSP
8 9 (1.07%) CISM
8 9 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.71%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.71%) PMP
11 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.59%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.59%) MBA
12 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (9.16%) QA
2 38 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.33%) GDPR
4 26 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.26%) GRC
6 18 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.43%) HIPAA
9 10 (1.19%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.07%) SLA
11 8 (0.95%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.95%) NIST
12 6 (0.71%) WCAG
13 5 (0.59%) HL7
14 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.48%) PMO
14 4 (0.48%) SEPA
15 2 (0.24%) IEC 62304
15 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 2 (0.24%) ITGC
System Software
1 144 (17.12%) Docker
2 28 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.36%) Postfix
6 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.24%) Varnish
8 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.12%) Ceph
8 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.12%) IAG
8 1 (0.12%) RACF
8 1 (0.12%) UAG
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 147 (17.48%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.04%) Ansible
3 23 (2.73%) Grafana
4 17 (2.02%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.83%) Control-M
7 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.36%) Bosun
9 2 (0.24%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (0.24%) Avamar
9 2 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.24%) Istio
9 2 (0.24%) Kibana
9 2 (0.24%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.24%) SCCM
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Ranger
10 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.12%) linkerd
10 1 (0.12%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 131 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 116 (13.79%) Oracle
3 104 (12.37%) ServiceNow
4 80 (9.51%) Salesforce
5 38 (4.52%) Google
6 36 (4.28%) SAP
7 26 (3.09%) MuleSoft
8 22 (2.62%) Databricks
8 22 (2.62%) Splunk
9 21 (2.50%) Workday
10 17 (2.02%) IBM
11 15 (1.78%) CyberArk
11 15 (1.78%) OpenAI
12 14 (1.66%) Cisco
13 11 (1.31%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.31%) VMware
14 10 (1.19%) New Relic
14 10 (1.19%) OutSystems
15 8 (0.95%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.95%) Okta