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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 93 98
Rank change year-on-year +20 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing REST 683 373 441
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.57% 2.94% 2.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.64% 11.13% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 263 315
10th Percentile £392 £380 £400
25th Percentile £430 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £725 £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 £68.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -27.01% +24.55%

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 4,368 3,351 4,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.85% 26.39% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 2,346 3,460
10th Percentile £381 £379 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £713 £703
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 28
10th Percentile £24.30 £32.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +5.29% -36.57%
75th Percentile £73.00 £58.13 £61.70
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £56.25
% change year-on-year +10.40% +4.67% -13.46%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 83 £558 +6.09% 31
South London -1 14 £516 +2.89%
East London +2 5 £416 -37.48% 5
West London -24 5 £375 -32.31% 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 (3.22%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.64%) Confluence
3 12 (1.76%) Apache
3 12 (1.76%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.76%) Camunda
4 10 (1.46%) Ethereum
4 10 (1.46%) Hyperledger
5 8 (1.17%) Appian
5 8 (1.17%) IIS
6 6 (0.88%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.73%) CICS
7 5 (0.73%) Mule
8 4 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.59%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.44%) WordPress
10 2 (0.29%) Drupal
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Maya
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.88%) Shopify
4 5 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.73%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.59%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.59%) Quorum
5 4 (0.59%) Ripple
6 3 (0.44%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.44%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.29%) Magento
7 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.15%) Remedy AR System
8 1 (0.15%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 248 (36.31%) Azure
2 220 (32.21%) AWS
3 84 (12.30%) GitHub
4 79 (11.57%) GCP
5 71 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (9.22%) GitHub Actions
7 61 (8.93%) Serverless
8 41 (6.00%) Entra ID
8 41 (6.00%) Power Platform
9 36 (5.27%) Amazon S3
10 30 (4.39%) SaaS
11 29 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
13 25 (3.66%) OCI
14 22 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
14 22 (3.22%) PaaS
14 22 (3.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 21 (3.07%) Azure Functions
15 21 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.93%) HTTP
2 8 (1.17%) DNS
3 7 (1.02%) HTTPS
4 6 (0.88%) FTP
5 5 (0.73%) BGP
5 5 (0.73%) Network Security
6 4 (0.59%) Firewall
6 4 (0.59%) MPLS
6 4 (0.59%) OSPF
6 4 (0.59%) SMS
6 4 (0.59%) WAN
7 3 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.29%) Internet
8 2 (0.29%) Intranet
8 2 (0.29%) NaaS
8 2 (0.29%) SSH
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
8 2 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (12.59%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (12.30%) Relational Database
3 70 (10.25%) SQL Server
4 36 (5.27%) NoSQL
5 28 (4.10%) MongoDB
6 25 (3.66%) Power BI
7 22 (3.22%) Redis
8 21 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (2.34%) MySQL
10 13 (1.90%) Big Data
10 13 (1.90%) DynamoDB
11 10 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (1.46%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.46%) Metadata
11 10 (1.46%) Pinecone
12 9 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.32%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 102 (14.93%) Git
2 59 (8.64%) Jenkins
3 45 (6.59%) JIRA
4 40 (5.86%) GitLab
5 36 (5.27%) JUnit
6 21 (3.07%) Postman
7 18 (2.64%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.49%) Selenium
9 16 (2.34%) Cucumber
9 16 (2.34%) REST Assured
10 15 (2.20%) Gradle
10 15 (2.20%) Maven
10 15 (2.20%) Mockito
11 9 (1.32%) Ant
11 9 (1.32%) Eclipse
11 9 (1.32%) JMeter
12 8 (1.17%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.17%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (1.02%) CircleCI
14 6 (0.88%) MLflow
General
1 183 (26.79%) Finance
2 166 (24.30%) Social Skills
3 81 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.64%) Banking
5 51 (7.47%) Public Sector
6 29 (4.25%) Retail
7 21 (3.07%) Telecoms
8 20 (2.93%) Marketing
9 15 (2.20%) Publishing
10 14 (2.05%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.76%) Front Office
12 10 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.32%) Billing
13 9 (1.32%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.17%) Legal
15 6 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 4 (0.59%) Automotive
17 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (0.44%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 273 (39.97%) Developer
2 119 (17.42%) Architect
3 98 (14.35%) Senior
4 47 (6.88%) Java Developer
5 46 (6.73%) Senior Developer
6 37 (5.42%) Full-Stack Developer
7 35 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
8 33 (4.83%) Software Engineer
9 32 (4.69%) Python Developer
10 29 (4.25%) Lead
11 28 (4.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 23 (3.37%) Consultant
13 22 (3.22%) React Developer
14 19 (2.78%) ServiceNow Architect
15 16 (2.34%) Cloud Engineer
15 16 (2.34%) Data Engineer
15 16 (2.34%) Java Engineer
16 15 (2.20%) Backend Developer
16 15 (2.20%) C# Developer
17 14 (2.05%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (27.67%) SOAP
2 99 (14.49%) React
3 97 (14.20%) Spring
4 94 (13.76%) RESTful
5 90 (13.18%) Spring Boot
6 89 (13.03%) JSON
7 86 (12.59%) .NET
8 85 (12.45%) Kafka
9 83 (12.15%) Web Services
10 73 (10.69%) OAuth
11 64 (9.37%) AngularJS
12 58 (8.49%) CSS
12 58 (8.49%) HTML
12 58 (8.49%) XML
13 56 (8.20%) Node.js
14 54 (7.91%) GraphQL
15 53 (7.76%) Middleware
16 35 (5.12%) OAuth2
17 29 (4.25%) JWT
18 27 (3.95%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 84 (12.30%) Cloud Native
2 57 (8.35%) Product Ownership
3 53 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (5.12%) CMDB
5 31 (4.54%) Mobile App
6 29 (4.25%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (4.10%) Management Information System
8 22 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (3.22%) Security Posture
9 19 (2.78%) Low-Code
9 19 (2.78%) Virtual Team
10 15 (2.20%) Data Structures
10 15 (2.20%) Onboarding
11 14 (2.05%) AI Agents
11 14 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.90%) Equities
12 13 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.46%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.32%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.25%) Linux
2 19 (2.78%) Windows
3 14 (2.05%) Unix
4 10 (1.46%) Android
5 5 (0.73%) zOS
6 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.15%) CentOS
8 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (42.61%) CI/CD
2 229 (33.53%) Agile
3 221 (32.36%) DevOps
4 171 (25.04%) Microservices
5 142 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
6 108 (15.81%) Integration Patterns
7 106 (15.52%) AI
8 102 (14.93%) Event-Driven
8 102 (14.93%) Test Automation
9 100 (14.64%) Data Modelling
10 97 (14.20%) Containerisation
11 93 (13.62%) Observability
12 92 (13.47%) Scrum
13 86 (12.59%) Software Engineering
14 76 (11.13%) Analytics
15 72 (10.54%) Workflow
16 69 (10.10%) Full-Stack Development
17 68 (9.96%) Roadmaps
18 65 (9.52%) ITSM
18 65 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 205 (30.01%) Python
2 194 (28.40%) Java
3 176 (25.77%) SQL
4 142 (20.79%) JavaScript
5 115 (16.84%) TypeScript
6 90 (13.18%) C#
7 49 (7.17%) PowerShell
8 20 (2.93%) Apex Code
9 19 (2.78%) Kotlin
10 14 (2.05%) Bicep
11 13 (1.90%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.76%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.46%) Bash
13 10 (1.46%) Groovy
13 10 (1.46%) SOQL
14 8 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.17%) SOSL
15 7 (1.02%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.73%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 117 (17.13%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.17%) Degree
4 19 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.32%) CISSP
8 8 (1.17%) CISM
8 8 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.02%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.02%) PMP
10 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.73%) MBA
11 4 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.29%) CCIE
13 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (9.08%) QA
2 35 (5.12%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.10%) GDPR
4 24 (3.51%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.05%) PCI DSS
6 13 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.76%) GRC
8 11 (1.61%) HIPAA
9 9 (1.32%) WCAG
10 7 (1.02%) NIST
11 6 (0.88%) SLA
12 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.44%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.44%) SEPA
13 2 (0.29%) Basel III
13 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.29%) PMO
14 1 (0.15%) ITGC
14 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 113 (16.54%) Docker
2 28 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.44%) Postfix
6 2 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.15%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.15%) IAG
7 1 (0.15%) RACF
7 1 (0.15%) UAG
7 1 (0.15%) Varnish
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (17.72%) Kubernetes
2 64 (9.37%) Terraform
3 26 (3.81%) Grafana
4 24 (3.51%) Ansible
5 11 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.46%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.29%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.29%) Avamar
7 2 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.29%) Kibana
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.29%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.15%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.15%) Puppet
8 1 (0.15%) TrustSec
8 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 95 (13.91%) Oracle
2 91 (13.32%) Microsoft
3 80 (11.71%) ServiceNow
4 53 (7.76%) Salesforce
5 26 (3.81%) Google
6 25 (3.66%) SAP
7 20 (2.93%) MuleSoft
8 19 (2.78%) CyberArk
8 19 (2.78%) Workday
9 17 (2.49%) OpenAI
10 16 (2.34%) Splunk
11 14 (2.05%) IBM
12 13 (1.90%) Databricks
13 12 (1.76%) Dynatrace
14 11 (1.61%) BeyondTrust
14 11 (1.61%) Centrify
14 11 (1.61%) Guidewire
15 9 (1.32%) Atlassian
16 8 (1.17%) Cisco
16 8 (1.17%) OutSystems