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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 122 94
Rank change year-on-year +58 -28 -10
Contract jobs citing REST 620 292 438
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.16% 2.13% 2.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.93% 8.12% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 144 311
10th Percentile £359 £386 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £697 £632 £750
90th Percentile £838 £768 £850
England median daily rate £513 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -2.73% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £45.10 - £48.25
25th Percentile £48.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 - £57.50
75th Percentile £82.50 - £76.25
90th Percentile £95.00 - £86.75
England median hourly rate £69.00 £74.44 £76.53
% change year-on-year -7.31% -2.73% +27.55%

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 3,892 3,595 4,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.10% 26.23% 24.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,623 2,340 3,438
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £664 £700 £688
90th Percentile £771 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 21 28
10th Percentile £32.97 £35.00 £29.36
25th Percentile £35.25 £38.50 £36.10
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +7.69% -25.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £67.56
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.00 £74.06
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +14 59 £525 -1.87% 53
East London +6 6 £540 -11.11% 7
West London -17 6 £375 -28.57% 1
North London - 4 - - 1
South London -11 3 £510 +34.21% 5
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 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.26%) Confluence
3 9 (1.45%) Apache
3 9 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (1.29%) Appian
4 8 (1.29%) Camunda
4 8 (1.29%) Jupyter
5 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.13%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.97%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.97%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.48%) Drupal
8 3 (0.48%) LiveLink
8 3 (0.48%) SAS
8 3 (0.48%) WordPress
9 2 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.32%) CICS
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.65%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.16%) InVision
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.16%) Sketch
4 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (3.87%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.48%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.48%) Shopify
5 2 (0.32%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.32%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.32%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.32%) Maximo
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.16%) Endur
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 215 (34.68%) Azure
2 162 (26.13%) AWS
3 74 (11.94%) GCP
4 70 (11.29%) GitHub
5 56 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (6.94%) Serverless
7 42 (6.77%) OCI
8 41 (6.61%) Power Platform
9 39 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
10 37 (5.97%) IaaS
11 34 (5.48%) PaaS
12 30 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
13 29 (4.68%) Entra ID
14 28 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
15 25 (4.03%) Azure Service Bus
16 22 (3.55%) Power Automate
17 21 (3.39%) Amazon S3
18 20 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
19 19 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
19 19 (3.06%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.94%) HTTP
2 8 (1.29%) SMS
2 8 (1.29%) SSL
3 7 (1.13%) DNS
4 6 (0.97%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.48%) Firewall
5 3 (0.48%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.32%) SAN
6 2 (0.32%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) BGP
7 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.16%) IPFIX
7 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.16%) Modbus
7 1 (0.16%) SMTP
7 1 (0.16%) SNMP
7 1 (0.16%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 36 (5.81%) NoSQL
3 35 (5.65%) Relational Database
4 32 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.71%) MongoDB
6 17 (2.74%) Power BI
7 16 (2.58%) MySQL
8 12 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (1.77%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.77%) Redis
10 10 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 10 (1.61%) Oracle Database
10 10 (1.61%) Pinecone
11 9 (1.45%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.29%) DocumentDB
12 8 (1.29%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 92 (14.84%) Git
2 59 (9.52%) JIRA
3 40 (6.45%) Postman
4 38 (6.13%) Jenkins
5 36 (5.81%) JUnit
6 24 (3.87%) Cucumber
7 23 (3.71%) GitLab
8 20 (3.23%) Selenium
9 16 (2.58%) Mockito
9 16 (2.58%) REST Assured
10 11 (1.77%) JMeter
10 11 (1.77%) SoapUI
11 10 (1.61%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.61%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.61%) Maven
12 9 (1.45%) MLflow
13 7 (1.13%) Gatling
13 7 (1.13%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.97%) Gradle
14 6 (0.97%) SpecFlow
General
1 205 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 138 (22.26%) Finance
3 92 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 50 (8.06%) Banking
6 24 (3.87%) Front Office
7 19 (3.06%) Marketing
8 15 (2.42%) Financial Institution
9 14 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.26%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.77%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.45%) Military
12 7 (1.13%) Billing
12 7 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.13%) Retail
13 6 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.81%) Back Office
14 5 (0.81%) Law
15 4 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 252 (40.65%) Developer
2 115 (18.55%) Architect
3 60 (9.68%) Senior
4 35 (5.65%) Java Developer
4 35 (5.65%) Senior Developer
5 34 (5.48%) CyberArk Architect
6 28 (4.52%) Consultant
7 27 (4.35%) Lead
7 27 (4.35%) Python Developer
8 26 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 26 (4.19%) ServiceNow Developer
9 22 (3.55%) Business Analyst
10 21 (3.39%) Analyst
10 21 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
11 19 (3.06%) C# Developer
12 18 (2.90%) Angular Developer
12 18 (2.90%) Cloud Specialist
12 18 (2.90%) Integration Specialist
13 16 (2.58%) Oracle Specialist
14 15 (2.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (31.77%) SOAP
2 126 (20.32%) JSON
3 87 (14.03%) Web Services
4 69 (11.13%) React
5 68 (10.97%) Spring Boot
6 67 (10.81%) Spring
7 66 (10.65%) HTML
8 65 (10.48%) Kafka
9 64 (10.32%) OAuth
10 63 (10.16%) AngularJS
10 63 (10.16%) XML
11 62 (10.00%) RESTful
12 61 (9.84%) CSS
13 49 (7.90%) .NET
14 38 (6.13%) Oracle Fusion
15 37 (5.97%) GraphQL
15 37 (5.97%) LDAP
15 37 (5.97%) Middleware
16 31 (5.00%) Pandas
17 28 (4.52%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.58%) Enterprise Software
2 40 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 37 (5.97%) Security Posture
4 36 (5.81%) CMDB
5 35 (5.65%) Product Ownership
6 30 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (4.35%) PKI
8 24 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (3.39%) Equities
9 21 (3.39%) Public Cloud
10 16 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (2.26%) Fixed Income
12 14 (2.26%) Hedge funds
12 14 (2.26%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.94%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 11 (1.77%) Low-Code
15 10 (1.61%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.61%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 50 (8.06%) Linux
2 16 (2.58%) Windows
3 11 (1.77%) Unix
4 7 (1.13%) Android
5 5 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.65%) zOS
7 3 (0.48%) Solaris
8 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (35.97%) Agile
2 176 (28.39%) CI/CD
3 173 (27.90%) DevOps
4 159 (25.65%) Problem-Solving
5 121 (19.52%) Microservices
6 82 (13.23%) Test Automation
7 81 (13.06%) ITSM
8 79 (12.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 77 (12.42%) Integration Patterns
10 72 (11.61%) Analytics
11 71 (11.45%) API Integration
12 69 (11.13%) Scrum
13 64 (10.32%) Technical Leadership
14 63 (10.16%) Full-Stack Development
15 59 (9.52%) Data Modelling
15 59 (9.52%) ERP
15 59 (9.52%) Event-Driven
16 58 (9.35%) AI
17 56 (9.03%) Workflow
18 55 (8.87%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 158 (25.48%) Python
2 146 (23.55%) SQL
3 136 (21.94%) Java
4 121 (19.52%) JavaScript
5 96 (15.48%) PowerShell
6 75 (12.10%) TypeScript
7 72 (11.61%) C#
8 17 (2.74%) Apex Code
9 12 (1.94%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.61%) Groovy
10 10 (1.61%) VBA
11 9 (1.45%) Bicep
12 8 (1.29%) PHP
13 7 (1.13%) Bash
13 7 (1.13%) Go
13 7 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.97%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.81%) Korn
15 5 (0.81%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.65%) XPath
Qualifications
1 172 (27.74%) Security Cleared
2 158 (25.48%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.32%) Degree
4 25 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.45%) ISTQB
6 9 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.65%) CISSP
9 3 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.32%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.32%) PMP
11 1 (0.16%) CCNP
11 1 (0.16%) CCSP
11 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (10.16%) QA
2 32 (5.16%) GDPR
3 22 (3.55%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.77%) WCAG
7 8 (1.29%) NIST
8 7 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.65%) SLA
11 3 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.32%) GRC
12 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.32%) NCSC
12 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.16%) FISMA
13 1 (0.16%) HL7
13 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.16%) MiFID
13 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 89 (14.35%) Docker
2 53 (8.55%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.48%) NFS
3 3 (0.48%) Veritas File System
3 3 (0.48%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 3 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.32%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 78 (12.58%) Kubernetes
2 42 (6.77%) Terraform
3 14 (2.26%) Ansible
4 12 (1.94%) Grafana
5 8 (1.29%) logstash
5 8 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.13%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.97%) Kibana
8 5 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.81%) QRadar
9 4 (0.65%) Pingdom
10 3 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.32%) Control-M
11 2 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.32%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.32%) Puppet
11 2 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.16%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.16%) vRealize
Vendors
1 77 (12.42%) Oracle
2 64 (10.32%) ServiceNow
3 63 (10.16%) Microsoft
4 45 (7.26%) CyberArk
5 36 (5.81%) BeyondTrust
6 34 (5.48%) Centrify
7 30 (4.84%) Salesforce
8 24 (3.87%) OpenAI
9 19 (3.06%) SAP
9 19 (3.06%) Splunk
10 12 (1.94%) Guidewire
11 11 (1.77%) Google
12 10 (1.61%) Adobe
12 10 (1.61%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.45%) IBM
14 8 (1.29%) MuleSoft
15 7 (1.13%) Automation Anywhere
15 7 (1.13%) Okta
15 7 (1.13%) Solace
15 7 (1.13%) UiPath