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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 126 97
Rank change year-on-year +55 -29 0
Contract jobs citing REST 644 289 422
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.72% 2.28% 2.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.26% 8.74% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 194 291
10th Percentile £363 £380 £406
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +2.81% -9.48%
75th Percentile £688 £647 £688
90th Percentile £786 £750 £850
England median daily rate £506 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.75% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £53.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.00 - -
Median hourly rate £69.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £82.96 £70.72
% change year-on-year -15.62% +17.31% +25.72%

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 4,221 3,308 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.37% 26.12% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,855 2,317 3,332
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £654 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 21
10th Percentile £23.00 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £29.52 £39.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +46.58% -45.01%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +3 66 £525 -3.23% 56
South London -6 13 £510 +34.21% 7
West London -25 6 £375 -32.31% 4
East London -1 5 £432 -31.43% 8
North London - 4 - - 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 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.95%) Confluence
3 11 (1.71%) Apache
4 10 (1.55%) Camunda
4 10 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.40%) Appian
6 7 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.93%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.93%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.62%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.62%) CICS
8 4 (0.62%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.31%) Drupal
9 2 (0.31%) Mule
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.16%) InVision
4 1 (0.16%) Maya
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) Sketch
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.48%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.62%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.62%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.31%) Magento
5 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.31%) Shopify
5 2 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.16%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 215 (33.39%) Azure
2 194 (30.12%) AWS
3 88 (13.66%) GCP
4 67 (10.40%) GitHub
5 47 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (6.68%) Serverless
7 41 (6.37%) GitHub Actions
7 41 (6.37%) Power Platform
8 38 (5.90%) IaaS
9 36 (5.59%) OCI
9 36 (5.59%) PaaS
10 32 (4.97%) Entra ID
11 25 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (3.88%) SaaS
12 23 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
12 23 (3.57%) Power Automate
13 21 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (3.26%) Amazon S3
14 20 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.64%) HTTP
2 9 (1.40%) SMS
3 6 (0.93%) DNS
4 5 (0.78%) Firewall
5 4 (0.62%) BGP
5 4 (0.62%) FTP
6 3 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.47%) MPLS
6 3 (0.47%) OSPF
6 3 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.47%) SSL
7 2 (0.31%) Modbus
7 2 (0.31%) NaaS
7 2 (0.31%) SAN
7 2 (0.31%) SNMP
7 2 (0.31%) VPN
7 2 (0.31%) WAN
8 1 (0.16%) DHCP
8 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.16%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (9.47%) Relational Database
2 53 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (7.61%) SQL Server
4 39 (6.06%) NoSQL
5 27 (4.19%) MongoDB
6 19 (2.95%) Power BI
7 18 (2.80%) MySQL
8 13 (2.02%) RDBMS
9 12 (1.86%) Pinecone
9 12 (1.86%) Redis
10 10 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.55%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.40%) Metadata
12 8 (1.24%) DocumentDB
13 7 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 83 (12.89%) Git
2 46 (7.14%) JIRA
3 37 (5.75%) Jenkins
4 35 (5.43%) Postman
5 28 (4.35%) JUnit
6 24 (3.73%) Cucumber
7 23 (3.57%) GitLab
8 22 (3.42%) Selenium
9 19 (2.95%) REST Assured
10 15 (2.33%) Cypress.io
10 15 (2.33%) Mockito
11 11 (1.71%) SoapUI
12 9 (1.40%) Maven
13 8 (1.24%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.24%) MLflow
14 7 (1.09%) JMeter
14 7 (1.09%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.78%) Jasmine
15 5 (0.78%) SpecFlow
15 5 (0.78%) TestRail
General
1 177 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 145 (22.52%) Finance
3 91 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.76%) Banking
6 25 (3.88%) Front Office
7 15 (2.33%) Marketing
8 13 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.02%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.71%) Publishing
9 11 (1.71%) Retail
10 9 (1.40%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.24%) Billing
12 7 (1.09%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.09%) Legal
13 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.62%) Military
13 4 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.47%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 233 (36.18%) Developer
2 137 (21.27%) Architect
3 62 (9.63%) Senior
4 39 (6.06%) Java Developer
5 36 (5.59%) Python Developer
6 34 (5.28%) CyberArk Architect
7 30 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
8 28 (4.35%) Lead
8 28 (4.35%) Senior Developer
9 27 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
10 26 (4.04%) Software Engineer
11 20 (3.11%) Consultant
12 17 (2.64%) C# Developer
13 16 (2.48%) Analyst
13 16 (2.48%) Business Analyst
13 16 (2.48%) Integration Specialist
14 15 (2.33%) Automation Engineer
14 15 (2.33%) Cloud Specialist
15 14 (2.17%) Data Engineer
16 13 (2.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (28.42%) SOAP
2 111 (17.24%) JSON
3 95 (14.75%) Web Services
4 80 (12.42%) React
5 79 (12.27%) RESTful
5 79 (12.27%) Spring
6 76 (11.80%) Kafka
7 74 (11.49%) Spring Boot
8 71 (11.02%) AngularJS
9 69 (10.71%) .NET
10 61 (9.47%) HTML
11 60 (9.32%) CSS
12 51 (7.92%) XML
13 50 (7.76%) OAuth
14 43 (6.68%) GraphQL
15 42 (6.52%) Middleware
16 37 (5.75%) LDAP
16 37 (5.75%) Pandas
17 36 (5.59%) Node.js
18 32 (4.97%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.99%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.83%) Enterprise Software
3 42 (6.52%) Security Posture
4 41 (6.37%) Product Ownership
5 37 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (4.50%) CMDB
7 28 (4.35%) PKI
8 27 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (4.04%) Equities
10 21 (3.26%) Management Information System
10 21 (3.26%) Public Cloud
11 18 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (2.80%) Mobile App
12 17 (2.64%) Hedge funds
13 16 (2.48%) Data Structures
14 14 (2.17%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
16 11 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
17 10 (1.55%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.28%) Linux
2 21 (3.26%) Windows
3 10 (1.55%) Unix
4 6 (0.93%) zOS
5 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.47%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (33.23%) Agile
2 204 (31.68%) CI/CD
3 181 (28.11%) DevOps
4 152 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
5 128 (19.88%) Microservices
6 111 (17.24%) Integration Patterns
7 88 (13.66%) Test Automation
8 81 (12.58%) Technical Leadership
9 80 (12.42%) Observability
10 79 (12.27%) Data Modelling
11 76 (11.80%) Analytics
11 76 (11.80%) ITSM
12 75 (11.65%) Containerisation
13 69 (10.71%) Event-Driven
14 65 (10.09%) AI
15 64 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 61 (9.47%) Scrum
17 60 (9.32%) API Integration
17 60 (9.32%) Full-Stack Development
18 59 (9.16%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 180 (27.95%) Python
2 151 (23.45%) SQL
3 149 (23.14%) Java
4 107 (16.61%) JavaScript
5 88 (13.66%) PowerShell
6 84 (13.04%) TypeScript
7 80 (12.42%) C#
8 14 (2.17%) Apex Code
9 11 (1.71%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (1.55%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.55%) VBA
11 7 (1.09%) Bicep
12 6 (0.93%) Go
12 6 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.78%) Bash
13 5 (0.78%) PHP
14 4 (0.62%) Groovy
14 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 163 (25.31%) Security Cleared
2 151 (23.45%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.12%) Degree
4 22 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.78%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.78%) CISSP
8 5 (0.78%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.62%) MBA
10 3 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.47%) CISM
11 2 (0.31%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.31%) OSCP
11 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (9.16%) QA
2 26 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.42%) GDPR
4 14 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.55%) WCAG
6 9 (1.40%) NIST
7 7 (1.09%) SLA
8 6 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.62%) GRC
9 4 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.47%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.47%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.31%) HL7
11 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.31%) NCSC
11 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.31%) PMO
11 2 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 92 (14.29%) Docker
2 50 (7.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) IAG
5 1 (0.16%) Postfix
5 1 (0.16%) UAG
5 1 (0.16%) Varnish
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 95 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 50 (7.76%) Terraform
3 23 (3.57%) Grafana
4 14 (2.17%) Ansible
5 11 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.62%) Pingdom
8 2 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.31%) Avamar
8 2 (0.31%) Control-M
8 2 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.31%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.31%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.31%) Istio
8 2 (0.31%) logstash
8 2 (0.31%) Puppet
8 2 (0.31%) QRadar
8 2 (0.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 74 (11.49%) Oracle
2 71 (11.02%) ServiceNow
3 66 (10.25%) Microsoft
4 39 (6.06%) CyberArk
5 34 (5.28%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.28%) Centrify
6 29 (4.50%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.80%) Google
7 18 (2.80%) SAP
7 18 (2.80%) Splunk
8 17 (2.64%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.86%) Adobe
9 12 (1.86%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.71%) Guidewire
10 11 (1.71%) Workday
11 10 (1.55%) IBM
12 9 (1.40%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.24%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.24%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (1.24%) UiPath