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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 79 108
Rank change year-on-year +26 +29 +1
Contract jobs citing REST 878 464 368
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.31% 3.47% 2.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.40% 11.75% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 311 234
10th Percentile £400 £359 £413
25th Percentile £450 £420 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £636
90th Percentile £738 £713 £750
England median daily rate £525 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +6.71% -6.29% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £46.40 - -
25th Percentile £50.63 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £59.50 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.26% - -
75th Percentile £69.38 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £80.50 - -
England median hourly rate £58.50 £50.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +17.00% -32.43% +11.70%

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 5,354 3,948 4,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 29.52% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,594 2,720 3,359
10th Percentile £400 £366 £384
25th Percentile £455 £433 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £688 £703
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 32 22
10th Percentile £26.43 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.06 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +22.28% -32.54%
75th Percentile £63.00 £62.81 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.00
England median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +21.82% -12.60% +0.68%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 +19 106 £550 -4.35% 113
South London +2 16 £700 +12.54% 5
East London -1 3 £525 -2.78% 8
West London -28 2 £539 +47.60% 27
North London - 1 - - 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 35 (3.99%) Confluence
2 22 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.71%) Apache
4 13 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.25%) Apache Spark
6 10 (1.14%) Camunda
6 10 (1.14%) IIS
7 9 (1.03%) Anypoint
8 7 (0.80%) Mule
9 6 (0.68%) CMS
9 6 (0.68%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.68%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.46%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.46%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.23%) nginx
12 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.46%) Windchill
2 3 (0.34%) Trello
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (2.05%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.57%) Shopify
6 4 (0.46%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.46%) Quorum
6 4 (0.46%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.46%) Ripple
6 4 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.34%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.34%) Workfront
8 2 (0.23%) Infor LN
8 2 (0.23%) Magento
8 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 351 (39.98%) Azure
2 286 (32.57%) AWS
3 156 (17.77%) GitHub
4 116 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
5 105 (11.96%) GCP
6 93 (10.59%) Serverless
7 86 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
8 67 (7.63%) Entra ID
9 54 (6.15%) Power Platform
10 50 (5.69%) SaaS
11 46 (5.24%) Amazon S3
12 42 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
13 37 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (3.64%) Boomi
16 28 (3.19%) Azure Functions
16 28 (3.19%) PowerApps
17 27 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (3.08%) GitHub Copilot
18 26 (2.96%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.85%) HTTP
2 14 (1.59%) DNS
3 11 (1.25%) Firewall
4 9 (1.03%) BGP
4 9 (1.03%) HTTPS
4 9 (1.03%) Network Security
5 7 (0.80%) SSH
6 6 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (0.68%) FTP
6 6 (0.68%) SSL
6 6 (0.68%) VXLAN
7 5 (0.57%) Internet
7 5 (0.57%) NX-OS
7 5 (0.57%) TACACS
7 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.46%) VPN
9 3 (0.34%) MPLS
9 3 (0.34%) OSPF
9 3 (0.34%) SAN
9 3 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (10.14%) Relational Database
3 77 (8.77%) SQL Server
4 54 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 38 (4.33%) MongoDB
6 34 (3.87%) Power BI
7 29 (3.30%) Redis
8 26 (2.96%) MySQL
9 20 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (2.05%) Metadata
11 16 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.59%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.59%) DynamoDB
13 13 (1.48%) Big Data
13 13 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (1.25%) Data Lake
14 11 (1.25%) Oracle Database
14 11 (1.25%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 167 (19.02%) Git
2 86 (9.79%) Jenkins
3 68 (7.74%) JIRA
4 59 (6.72%) GitLab
5 45 (5.13%) JUnit
6 28 (3.19%) Maven
7 27 (3.08%) Gradle
8 23 (2.62%) Cypress.io
9 21 (2.39%) Selenium
10 20 (2.28%) Postman
11 17 (1.94%) Cucumber
12 16 (1.82%) Mockito
13 14 (1.59%) REST Assured
13 14 (1.59%) Visual Studio
14 13 (1.48%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.48%) CircleCI
14 13 (1.48%) Visual Studio Code
15 10 (1.14%) Eclipse
15 10 (1.14%) Storybook
16 9 (1.03%) JMeter
General
1 253 (28.82%) Finance
2 243 (27.68%) Social Skills
3 116 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (10.14%) Banking
5 70 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.21%) Retail
7 28 (3.19%) Telecoms
8 25 (2.85%) Marketing
9 19 (2.16%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.59%) Publishing
11 13 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.37%) Front Office
13 11 (1.25%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.14%) Billing
14 10 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (1.03%) Legal
15 9 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.91%) Law
Job Titles
1 360 (41.00%) Developer
2 155 (17.65%) Senior
3 154 (17.54%) Architect
4 79 (9.00%) Senior Developer
5 58 (6.61%) Full-Stack Developer
6 56 (6.38%) Java Developer
7 52 (5.92%) Lead
8 45 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
9 44 (5.01%) Python Developer
10 43 (4.90%) Software Engineer
11 31 (3.53%) .NET Developer
12 28 (3.19%) React Developer
13 26 (2.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 26 (2.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 25 (2.85%) Java Engineer
15 24 (2.73%) Consultant
16 21 (2.39%) ServiceNow Developer
17 19 (2.16%) Salesforce Developer
17 19 (2.16%) Technical Architect
18 18 (2.05%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (24.49%) SOAP
2 137 (15.60%) .NET
3 128 (14.58%) React
4 127 (14.46%) JSON
5 114 (12.98%) Kafka
6 110 (12.53%) RESTful
7 108 (12.30%) Spring
8 100 (11.39%) Spring Boot
9 94 (10.71%) OAuth
10 92 (10.48%) Terraform
11 86 (9.79%) XML
12 80 (9.11%) HTML
13 78 (8.88%) CSS
14 74 (8.43%) GraphQL
15 65 (7.40%) Middleware
16 64 (7.29%) Node.js
16 64 (7.29%) OAuth2
17 63 (7.18%) Web Services
18 61 (6.95%) AngularJS
19 37 (4.21%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 152 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 81 (9.23%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (8.31%) Product Ownership
4 57 (6.49%) Enterprise Software
5 42 (4.78%) CMDB
6 41 (4.67%) AI Agents
7 39 (4.44%) Onboarding
8 31 (3.53%) Mobile App
9 23 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (2.62%) Management Information System
10 22 (2.51%) Data Structures
11 20 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (2.16%) Low-Code
13 16 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (1.71%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.25%) Security Posture
16 10 (1.14%) Data Centre
17 9 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
17 9 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
17 9 (1.03%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 65 (7.40%) Linux
2 36 (4.10%) Windows
3 26 (2.96%) Unix
4 20 (2.28%) Android
5 11 (1.25%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.57%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) CentOS
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (48.06%) CI/CD
2 322 (36.67%) Agile
3 296 (33.71%) DevOps
4 226 (25.74%) Microservices
5 190 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
6 184 (20.96%) AI
7 168 (19.13%) Event-Driven
8 155 (17.65%) Test Automation
9 130 (14.81%) Software Engineering
10 127 (14.46%) Integration Patterns
10 127 (14.46%) Scrum
11 123 (14.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 121 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 117 (13.33%) Data Modelling
14 115 (13.10%) Full-Stack Development
15 113 (12.87%) Containerisation
16 105 (11.96%) Observability
17 98 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 98 (11.16%) Technical Leadership
18 91 (10.36%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 279 (31.78%) Python
2 243 (27.68%) SQL
3 228 (25.97%) Java
4 202 (23.01%) JavaScript
5 162 (18.45%) TypeScript
6 129 (14.69%) C#
7 53 (6.04%) PowerShell
8 27 (3.08%) Kotlin
9 26 (2.96%) Apex Code
9 26 (2.96%) Bash
10 23 (2.62%) Groovy
11 20 (2.28%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.94%) Bicep
13 16 (1.82%) Go
14 13 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (1.48%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.14%) SOQL
15 10 (1.14%) SOSL
16 9 (1.03%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 191 (21.75%) Security Cleared
2 158 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.18%) Degree
4 31 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.28%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.03%) CISSP
10 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.68%) CISM
11 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 6 (0.68%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.68%) PMP
12 5 (0.57%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.57%) MBA
12 5 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (10.82%) QA
2 40 (4.56%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.53%) GDPR
4 26 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.39%) GRC
6 17 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.25%) HIPAA
9 10 (1.14%) NIST
9 10 (1.14%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.03%) SLA
11 8 (0.91%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.80%) WCAG
13 5 (0.57%) HL7
13 5 (0.57%) SEPA
14 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.34%) Basel III
15 3 (0.34%) NCSC
16 2 (0.23%) ISO 13485
16 2 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 157 (17.88%) Docker
2 35 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Postfix
7 2 (0.23%) Varnish
8 1 (0.11%) Ceph
8 1 (0.11%) RACF
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 157 (17.88%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.76%) Ansible
3 28 (3.19%) Grafana
4 21 (2.39%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.80%) Control-M
7 5 (0.57%) Kibana
8 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.34%) Bosun
10 2 (0.23%) Avamar
10 2 (0.23%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.23%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.23%) Istio
10 2 (0.23%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.23%) SCCM
10 2 (0.23%) systemd
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.11%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.11%) SCOM
11 1 (0.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 146 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 113 (12.87%) Oracle
3 95 (10.82%) ServiceNow
4 81 (9.23%) Salesforce
5 44 (5.01%) Google
6 41 (4.67%) Databricks
6 41 (4.67%) SAP
7 29 (3.30%) OpenAI
8 27 (3.08%) MuleSoft
9 26 (2.96%) Splunk
10 24 (2.73%) IBM
11 23 (2.62%) CyberArk
12 16 (1.82%) Workday
13 15 (1.71%) Cisco
14 12 (1.37%) VMware
15 11 (1.25%) Dynatrace
16 10 (1.14%) Foundry
16 10 (1.14%) Okta
16 10 (1.14%) OutSystems
17 9 (1.03%) New Relic