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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 99 98
Rank change year-on-year +24 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing REST 697 382 448
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.60% 2.89% 2.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.83% 10.95% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 274 318
10th Percentile £400 £366 £400
25th Percentile £437 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £658 £638
90th Percentile £750 £734 £788
England median daily rate £525 £500 £522
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.20% -5.10%
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 4,404 3,488 4,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.76% 26.39% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,916 2,428 3,483
10th Percentile £381 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £713
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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +2 88 £558 +1.36% 58
South London +1 14 £516 +2.89%
East London +2 5 £416 -37.48% 5
West London -23 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 23 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.01%) Confluence
3 13 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.72%) Apache
4 12 (1.72%) Camunda
5 10 (1.43%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.43%) Hyperledger
6 8 (1.15%) IIS
7 7 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (1.00%) Appian
8 6 (0.86%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.72%) CICS
9 5 (0.72%) Mule
9 5 (0.72%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.43%) WordPress
12 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.29%) CMS
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 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.15%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.72%) R3 Corda
5 5 (0.72%) Shopify
6 4 (0.57%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.57%) Quorum
6 4 (0.57%) Ripple
7 3 (0.43%) Bloomberg AIM
7 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.43%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.29%) Magento
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
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 (35.44%) Azure
2 209 (29.99%) AWS
3 96 (13.77%) GitHub
4 80 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (10.04%) GCP
6 65 (9.33%) GitHub Actions
7 57 (8.18%) Serverless
8 46 (6.60%) Entra ID
9 40 (5.74%) Power Platform
10 33 (4.73%) Amazon S3
10 33 (4.73%) SaaS
11 26 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (3.73%) OCI
12 24 (3.44%) PaaS
13 23 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
13 23 (3.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 22 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
15 21 (3.01%) Azure Functions
15 21 (3.01%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.73%) HTTP
2 7 (1.00%) HTTPS
3 6 (0.86%) FTP
4 5 (0.72%) BGP
4 5 (0.72%) DNS
4 5 (0.72%) Network Security
5 4 (0.57%) Firewall
5 4 (0.57%) MPLS
5 4 (0.57%) OSPF
5 4 (0.57%) WAN
6 3 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.43%) SMS
6 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.43%) SSL
6 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.29%) NaaS
7 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.29%) SSH
7 2 (0.29%) VLAN
7 2 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (12.34%) PostgreSQL
1 86 (12.34%) Relational Database
2 71 (10.19%) SQL Server
3 37 (5.31%) NoSQL
4 30 (4.30%) MongoDB
5 25 (3.59%) Power BI
6 18 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (2.58%) Redis
7 17 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.15%) MySQL
9 14 (2.01%) Big Data
10 13 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (1.43%) DynamoDB
12 10 (1.43%) Metadata
13 9 (1.29%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.29%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.29%) Pinecone
13 9 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 107 (15.35%) Git
2 61 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 49 (7.03%) JIRA
4 39 (5.60%) JUnit
5 36 (5.16%) GitLab
6 22 (3.16%) Postman
7 20 (2.87%) Cypress.io
8 19 (2.73%) Selenium
9 18 (2.58%) Cucumber
10 17 (2.44%) REST Assured
11 16 (2.30%) Maven
12 15 (2.15%) Gradle
12 15 (2.15%) Mockito
13 10 (1.43%) Eclipse
14 9 (1.29%) Ant
14 9 (1.29%) JMeter
15 8 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
16 7 (1.00%) CircleCI
17 6 (0.86%) SoapUI
17 6 (0.86%) SonarQube
General
1 189 (27.12%) Finance
2 163 (23.39%) Social Skills
3 94 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (9.04%) Banking
5 58 (8.32%) Public Sector
6 34 (4.88%) Retail
7 22 (3.16%) Telecoms
8 19 (2.73%) Marketing
9 16 (2.30%) Publishing
10 14 (2.01%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.72%) Front Office
12 11 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.43%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.43%) Legal
14 8 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.00%) Billing
16 6 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.72%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.57%) Automotive
18 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 277 (39.74%) Developer
2 114 (16.36%) Architect
3 102 (14.63%) Senior
4 49 (7.03%) Java Developer
5 48 (6.89%) Senior Developer
6 41 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 38 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
8 34 (4.88%) Software Engineer
9 32 (4.59%) Lead
9 32 (4.59%) Python Developer
10 28 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 26 (3.73%) Consultant
12 23 (3.30%) React Developer
13 20 (2.87%) ServiceNow Architect
14 17 (2.44%) Data Engineer
15 16 (2.30%) Cloud Engineer
15 16 (2.30%) ServiceNow Developer
16 15 (2.15%) Backend Developer
16 15 (2.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 15 (2.15%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (27.40%) SOAP
2 102 (14.63%) React
3 98 (14.06%) Spring
4 97 (13.92%) RESTful
5 96 (13.77%) JSON
6 91 (13.06%) Spring Boot
7 88 (12.63%) .NET
8 83 (11.91%) Web Services
9 80 (11.48%) Kafka
10 72 (10.33%) OAuth
11 67 (9.61%) AngularJS
12 61 (8.75%) XML
13 60 (8.61%) CSS
13 60 (8.61%) HTML
14 58 (8.32%) Node.js
15 57 (8.18%) GraphQL
16 56 (8.03%) Middleware
17 35 (5.02%) OAuth2
18 28 (4.02%) JWT
19 27 (3.87%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 87 (12.48%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.61%) Product Ownership
3 52 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (5.60%) CMDB
5 36 (5.16%) Mobile App
6 26 (3.73%) Management Information System
7 24 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (2.73%) Virtual Team
10 18 (2.58%) Data Structures
10 18 (2.58%) Low-Code
11 17 (2.44%) Onboarding
12 16 (2.30%) AI Agents
12 16 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (1.87%) Equities
14 13 (1.87%) Security Posture
15 10 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (1.43%) Public Cloud
16 9 (1.29%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.16%) Linux
2 20 (2.87%) Windows
3 15 (2.15%) Android
4 14 (2.01%) Unix
5 5 (0.72%) zOS
6 4 (0.57%) 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
1 301 (43.19%) CI/CD
2 242 (34.72%) Agile
3 230 (33.00%) DevOps
4 172 (24.68%) Microservices
5 147 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (16.07%) AI
7 103 (14.78%) Test Automation
8 101 (14.49%) Containerisation
8 101 (14.49%) Data Modelling
9 100 (14.35%) Event-Driven
9 100 (14.35%) Integration Patterns
9 100 (14.35%) Scrum
10 91 (13.06%) Observability
11 87 (12.48%) Software Engineering
12 78 (11.19%) Analytics
13 76 (10.90%) Full-Stack Development
14 75 (10.76%) Workflow
15 70 (10.04%) Roadmaps
16 67 (9.61%) Migration
17 66 (9.47%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 197 (28.26%) Java
2 196 (28.12%) Python
3 177 (25.39%) SQL
4 147 (21.09%) JavaScript
5 122 (17.50%) TypeScript
6 92 (13.20%) C#
7 42 (6.03%) PowerShell
8 25 (3.59%) Kotlin
9 22 (3.16%) Apex Code
10 14 (2.01%) Bicep
11 13 (1.87%) Groovy
11 13 (1.87%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.72%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.58%) Bash
14 10 (1.43%) SOQL
15 8 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (1.15%) SOSL
16 7 (1.00%) Go
16 7 (1.00%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 124 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 108 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.03%) Degree
4 19 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.01%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.01%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.29%) CISSP
9 8 (1.15%) CISM
9 8 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.86%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.86%) PMP
11 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.72%) MBA
12 4 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.29%) CCIE
14 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (9.04%) QA
2 34 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 27 (3.87%) GDPR
4 25 (3.59%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.87%) GRC
5 13 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (1.58%) HIPAA
6 11 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.58%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.29%) WCAG
8 6 (0.86%) SLA
9 4 (0.57%) 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%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 114 (16.36%) Docker
2 19 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.57%) 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
1 121 (17.36%) Kubernetes
2 64 (9.18%) Terraform
3 25 (3.59%) Ansible
3 25 (3.59%) Grafana
4 11 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.29%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.29%) Avamar
6 2 (0.29%) Control-M
6 2 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
6 2 (0.29%) Kibana
6 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.29%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.14%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.14%) Puppet
7 1 (0.14%) TrustSec
7 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 102 (14.63%) Oracle
2 96 (13.77%) Microsoft
3 81 (11.62%) ServiceNow
4 58 (8.32%) Salesforce
5 28 (4.02%) Google
5 28 (4.02%) SAP
6 21 (3.01%) MuleSoft
6 21 (3.01%) Splunk
7 19 (2.73%) Workday
8 17 (2.44%) OpenAI
9 15 (2.15%) IBM
10 12 (1.72%) Databricks
10 12 (1.72%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.43%) CyberArk
12 9 (1.29%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.15%) Cisco
13 8 (1.15%) OutSystems
14 7 (1.00%) Guidewire
14 7 (1.00%) OpenText
15 6 (0.86%) New Relic