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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 97 98
Rank change year-on-year +27 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing REST 695 344 444
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.70% 2.81% 2.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.07% 10.59% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 241 317
10th Percentile £375 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% - -11.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £725 £793
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £49.10 - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -27.08% +30.91%

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 4,326 3,248 4,668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.02% 26.53% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,867 2,280 3,455
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £448 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -3.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 18 29
10th Percentile £23.33 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.02 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.75 £43.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% +2.72% -35.61%
75th Percentile £62.88 £64.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £93.63 £87.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +1 80 £555 +5.71% 33
South London -5 14 £516 +2.89%
East London -1 6 £432 -35.04% 5
West London -24 6 £375 -32.31% 2
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 18 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.45%) Confluence
3 12 (1.73%) Camunda
4 10 (1.44%) Apache
4 10 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.44%) Ethereum
4 10 (1.44%) Hyperledger
5 9 (1.29%) Appian
6 6 (0.86%) IIS
7 5 (0.72%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.72%) CICS
7 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.58%) Mule
8 4 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.43%) WordPress
10 2 (0.29%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (2.16%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.86%) Shopify
4 5 (0.72%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.58%) Quorum
5 4 (0.58%) Ripple
6 3 (0.43%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.43%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.29%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.29%) Magento
7 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.14%) SAP GTS
8 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 259 (37.27%) Azure
2 234 (33.67%) AWS
3 93 (13.38%) GCP
4 83 (11.94%) GitHub
5 63 (9.06%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (9.06%) GitHub Actions
6 59 (8.49%) Serverless
7 46 (6.62%) Power Platform
8 36 (5.18%) Amazon S3
9 35 (5.04%) Entra ID
10 32 (4.60%) OCI
11 29 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (3.88%) PaaS
13 26 (3.74%) SaaS
14 24 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (2.88%) Azure Functions
16 20 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (2.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.73%) HTTP
2 9 (1.29%) SMS
3 7 (1.01%) DNS
4 6 (0.86%) FTP
4 6 (0.86%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.72%) BGP
5 5 (0.72%) Network Security
6 4 (0.58%) MPLS
6 4 (0.58%) OSPF
6 4 (0.58%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.43%) Firewall
7 3 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.29%) NaaS
8 2 (0.29%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.29%) SNMP
8 2 (0.29%) SSL
8 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
9 1 (0.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.80%) Relational Database
2 76 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (9.50%) SQL Server
4 36 (5.18%) NoSQL
5 27 (3.88%) MongoDB
6 25 (3.60%) Power BI
7 20 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.16%) DynamoDB
8 15 (2.16%) MySQL
8 15 (2.16%) Redis
9 13 (1.87%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.73%) Pinecone
10 12 (1.73%) RDBMS
11 11 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.58%) Big Data
11 11 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.29%) Metadata
12 9 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 95 (13.67%) Git
2 55 (7.91%) Jenkins
3 41 (5.90%) JIRA
4 37 (5.32%) GitLab
5 32 (4.60%) JUnit
6 28 (4.03%) Postman
7 18 (2.59%) Cypress.io
8 17 (2.45%) Cucumber
8 17 (2.45%) Selenium
9 16 (2.30%) REST Assured
10 14 (2.01%) Gradle
11 13 (1.87%) Maven
11 13 (1.87%) Mockito
12 9 (1.29%) SoapUI
12 9 (1.29%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.15%) Ant
13 8 (1.15%) Eclipse
13 8 (1.15%) JMeter
13 8 (1.15%) MLflow
14 7 (1.01%) CircleCI
General
1 189 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 168 (24.17%) Finance
3 76 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (7.48%) Banking
5 45 (6.47%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.45%) Marketing
7 22 (3.17%) Retail
7 22 (3.17%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.16%) Publishing
9 13 (1.87%) Front Office
10 12 (1.73%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.58%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.29%) Billing
14 8 (1.15%) Legal
15 5 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.72%) Military
15 5 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.58%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 269 (38.71%) Developer
2 129 (18.56%) Architect
3 93 (13.38%) Senior
4 43 (6.19%) Java Developer
4 43 (6.19%) Senior Developer
5 35 (5.04%) CyberArk Architect
5 35 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 32 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
7 31 (4.46%) Lead
7 31 (4.46%) Software Engineer
8 30 (4.32%) Python Developer
9 27 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 25 (3.60%) Consultant
11 22 (3.17%) React Developer
12 19 (2.73%) ServiceNow Architect
13 17 (2.45%) C# Developer
13 17 (2.45%) Data Engineer
13 17 (2.45%) Java Engineer
14 16 (2.30%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (2.16%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (29.21%) SOAP
2 96 (13.81%) Spring
3 95 (13.67%) RESTful
4 93 (13.38%) JSON
5 92 (13.24%) React
6 89 (12.81%) Spring Boot
7 88 (12.66%) Web Services
8 87 (12.52%) Kafka
9 78 (11.22%) .NET
10 70 (10.07%) OAuth
11 67 (9.64%) AngularJS
12 64 (9.21%) HTML
13 63 (9.06%) CSS
14 56 (8.06%) XML
15 55 (7.91%) Node.js
16 50 (7.19%) GraphQL
16 50 (7.19%) Middleware
17 41 (5.90%) LDAP
18 32 (4.60%) JWT
19 30 (4.32%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.63%) Product Ownership
3 49 (7.05%) Enterprise Software
4 48 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
5 41 (5.90%) Security Posture
6 34 (4.89%) CMDB
7 30 (4.32%) Mobile App
8 25 (3.60%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.88%) Low-Code
10 19 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (2.30%) Data Structures
12 15 (2.16%) Public Cloud
12 15 (2.16%) Virtual Team
13 14 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (2.01%) Equities
14 13 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.73%) Onboarding
16 11 (1.58%) AI Agents
17 9 (1.29%) Hedge funds
17 9 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.74%) Linux
2 15 (2.16%) Windows
3 12 (1.73%) Unix
4 10 (1.44%) Android
5 5 (0.72%) zOS
6 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (38.42%) CI/CD
2 213 (30.65%) Agile
3 210 (30.22%) DevOps
4 156 (22.45%) Microservices
5 154 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
6 128 (18.42%) Integration Patterns
7 102 (14.68%) Data Modelling
8 101 (14.53%) Test Automation
9 99 (14.24%) AI
10 97 (13.96%) Event-Driven
11 93 (13.38%) Observability
12 90 (12.95%) Containerisation
13 86 (12.37%) ITSM
14 84 (12.09%) Scrum
15 83 (11.94%) Technical Leadership
16 80 (11.51%) Software Engineering
17 73 (10.50%) Analytics
18 69 (9.93%) Validation
19 68 (9.78%) Workflow
20 67 (9.64%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 212 (30.50%) Python
2 187 (26.91%) Java
3 177 (25.47%) SQL
4 141 (20.29%) JavaScript
5 107 (15.40%) TypeScript
6 87 (12.52%) C#
7 66 (9.50%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.59%) Kotlin
9 17 (2.45%) Apex Code
10 12 (1.73%) Bicep
10 12 (1.73%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.44%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.29%) SOQL
13 8 (1.15%) Bash
13 8 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.01%) Groovy
14 7 (1.01%) SOSL
15 5 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.72%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.72%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 135 (19.42%) Security Cleared
2 118 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 44 (6.33%) Degree
4 18 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.87%) AWS Certification
5 13 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.73%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.15%) CISSP
9 7 (1.01%) CISM
9 7 (1.01%) 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 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.29%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.78%) QA
2 36 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.03%) GDPR
4 18 (2.59%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.73%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (1.44%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.29%) GRC
7 9 (1.29%) WCAG
8 6 (0.86%) NIST
8 6 (0.86%) SLA
9 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.29%) Basel III
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.29%) PMO
10 2 (0.29%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) ITGC
11 1 (0.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 106 (15.25%) Docker
2 47 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.58%) 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
1 112 (16.12%) Kubernetes
2 55 (7.91%) Terraform
3 26 (3.74%) Grafana
4 21 (3.02%) Ansible
5 11 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.29%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.29%) Avamar
7 2 (0.29%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.29%) Istio
7 2 (0.29%) Kibana
7 2 (0.29%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.14%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.14%) Pingdom
8 1 (0.14%) Puppet
8 1 (0.14%) TrustSec
8 1 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 96 (13.81%) Oracle
2 79 (11.37%) Microsoft
2 79 (11.37%) ServiceNow
3 42 (6.04%) Salesforce
4 38 (5.47%) CyberArk
5 33 (4.75%) BeyondTrust
5 33 (4.75%) Centrify
6 25 (3.60%) SAP
7 20 (2.88%) Google
8 19 (2.73%) Workday
9 18 (2.59%) OpenAI
10 15 (2.16%) Databricks
10 15 (2.16%) Dynatrace
10 15 (2.16%) MuleSoft
11 14 (2.01%) Splunk
12 13 (1.87%) Guidewire
13 12 (1.73%) IBM
14 11 (1.58%) Adobe
15 9 (1.29%) Atlassian
15 9 (1.29%) UiPath