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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 108 99
Rank change year-on-year +39 -9 +13
Contract jobs citing REST 670 319 422
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.64% 2.64% 2.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.84% 9.99% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 215 302
10th Percentile £368 £382 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +4.76% -9.91%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £801
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £69.00 - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +27.27%

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 4,231 3,193 4,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.01% 26.44% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,818 2,233 3,376
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £447 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £720 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 18 28
10th Percentile £22.26 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -35.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.69 £63.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £74.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +6 75 £550 +4.76% 62
South London -7 14 £516 +35.66% 2
East London -2 6 £432 -35.04% 11
West London -23 6 £375 -32.31% 4
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 16 (2.39%) Confluence
1 16 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.79%) Camunda
3 10 (1.49%) Apache
3 10 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.49%) Ethereum
3 10 (1.49%) Hyperledger
4 9 (1.34%) Appian
5 6 (0.90%) IIS
6 5 (0.75%) CICS
6 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.45%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.45%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.45%) WordPress
9 2 (0.30%) Drupal
9 2 (0.30%) Mule
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (2.24%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.75%) R3 Corda
3 5 (0.75%) Shopify
4 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.60%) Quorum
4 4 (0.60%) Ripple
5 3 (0.45%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.45%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.30%) Magento
6 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.15%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.15%) SAP CS
7 1 (0.15%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 248 (37.01%) Azure
2 220 (32.84%) AWS
3 91 (13.58%) GCP
4 77 (11.49%) GitHub
5 58 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
7 56 (8.36%) Serverless
8 46 (6.87%) Power Platform
9 34 (5.07%) OCI
10 32 (4.78%) Entra ID
11 30 (4.48%) Amazon S3
12 27 (4.03%) PaaS
13 26 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (3.43%) SaaS
15 21 (3.13%) Power Automate
16 20 (2.99%) Azure Functions
16 20 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
17 19 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.54%) HTTP
2 9 (1.34%) SMS
3 7 (1.04%) DNS
4 5 (0.75%) BGP
4 5 (0.75%) FTP
4 5 (0.75%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.60%) MPLS
5 4 (0.60%) Network Security
5 4 (0.60%) OSPF
5 4 (0.60%) WAN
6 3 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.45%) Firewall
6 3 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.30%) NaaS
7 2 (0.30%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.30%) SNMP
7 2 (0.30%) SSL
7 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.30%) VLAN
8 1 (0.15%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (11.94%) Relational Database
2 68 (10.15%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (9.55%) SQL Server
4 35 (5.22%) NoSQL
5 24 (3.58%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.58%) Power BI
6 17 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (2.24%) MySQL
8 14 (2.09%) DynamoDB
8 14 (2.09%) Redis
9 13 (1.94%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.79%) Pinecone
10 12 (1.79%) RDBMS
11 11 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (1.34%) Metadata
13 9 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (1.19%) Big Data
15 7 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 86 (12.84%) Git
2 48 (7.16%) Jenkins
3 39 (5.82%) JIRA
4 34 (5.07%) GitLab
5 31 (4.63%) JUnit
6 28 (4.18%) Postman
7 17 (2.54%) Cypress.io
7 17 (2.54%) Selenium
8 16 (2.39%) Cucumber
8 16 (2.39%) REST Assured
9 13 (1.94%) Mockito
10 12 (1.79%) Gradle
11 11 (1.64%) Maven
12 9 (1.34%) SoapUI
12 9 (1.34%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.19%) JMeter
13 8 (1.19%) MLflow
14 7 (1.04%) Ant
14 7 (1.04%) CircleCI
15 6 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 188 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 159 (23.73%) Finance
3 70 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (7.16%) Banking
5 47 (7.01%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.43%) Marketing
7 22 (3.28%) Telecoms
8 18 (2.69%) Retail
9 15 (2.24%) Publishing
10 14 (2.09%) Front Office
11 11 (1.64%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.49%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.34%) Billing
14 8 (1.19%) Legal
15 5 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.60%) Automotive
16 4 (0.60%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 254 (37.91%) Developer
2 126 (18.81%) Architect
3 85 (12.69%) Senior
4 38 (5.67%) Java Developer
4 38 (5.67%) Senior Developer
5 36 (5.37%) CyberArk Architect
6 32 (4.78%) Lead
7 31 (4.63%) Software Engineer
7 31 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
8 30 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
9 29 (4.33%) Python Developer
10 24 (3.58%) Consultant
11 22 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 19 (2.84%) ServiceNow Architect
13 18 (2.69%) React Developer
14 17 (2.54%) C# Developer
14 17 (2.54%) Java Engineer
15 16 (2.39%) Automation Engineer
16 14 (2.09%) Data Engineer
17 13 (1.94%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (28.96%) SOAP
2 93 (13.88%) RESTful
3 90 (13.43%) Spring
4 85 (12.69%) Web Services
5 84 (12.54%) Kafka
6 83 (12.39%) JSON
6 83 (12.39%) React
6 83 (12.39%) Spring Boot
7 75 (11.19%) .NET
8 68 (10.15%) AngularJS
9 66 (9.85%) OAuth
10 61 (9.10%) CSS
11 60 (8.96%) HTML
12 49 (7.31%) Node.js
13 48 (7.16%) Middleware
14 47 (7.01%) GraphQL
15 46 (6.87%) XML
16 42 (6.27%) LDAP
17 29 (4.33%) Pandas
18 28 (4.18%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.76%) Product Ownership
3 50 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
4 42 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (6.27%) Security Posture
5 32 (4.78%) CMDB
6 26 (3.88%) Mobile App
7 25 (3.73%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.99%) Low-Code
9 19 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (2.39%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.39%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.24%) Equities
12 13 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.64%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.34%) Hedge funds
14 9 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.03%) Linux
2 17 (2.54%) Windows
3 12 (1.79%) Unix
4 10 (1.49%) Android
5 5 (0.75%) zOS
6 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (37.01%) CI/CD
2 203 (30.30%) Agile
2 203 (30.30%) DevOps
3 149 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
4 142 (21.19%) Microservices
5 119 (17.76%) Integration Patterns
6 97 (14.48%) Data Modelling
7 94 (14.03%) Test Automation
8 90 (13.43%) AI
8 90 (13.43%) Event-Driven
9 88 (13.13%) Observability
10 85 (12.69%) ITSM
11 82 (12.24%) Containerisation
12 79 (11.79%) Technical Leadership
13 76 (11.34%) Software Engineering
14 75 (11.19%) Scrum
15 69 (10.30%) Analytics
16 64 (9.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 64 (9.55%) Validation
16 64 (9.55%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 202 (30.15%) Python
2 179 (26.72%) Java
3 177 (26.42%) SQL
4 134 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 99 (14.78%) TypeScript
6 86 (12.84%) C#
7 68 (10.15%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.69%) Kotlin
9 15 (2.24%) Apex Code
10 12 (1.79%) Bicep
11 11 (1.64%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.34%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.19%) Bash
13 8 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.04%) Groovy
14 7 (1.04%) SOQL
15 5 (0.75%) Go
15 5 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.75%) Solidity
15 5 (0.75%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 134 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 117 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 45 (6.72%) Degree
4 18 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.19%) CISSP
9 7 (1.04%) CISM
9 7 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.90%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.90%) PMP
11 5 (0.75%) MBA
12 4 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.30%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.81%) QA
2 33 (4.93%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.18%) GDPR
4 15 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.64%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.49%) HIPAA
9 9 (1.34%) WCAG
10 7 (1.04%) GRC
10 7 (1.04%) NIST
10 7 (1.04%) SLA
11 3 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.30%) Basel III
12 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.30%) PMO
12 2 (0.30%) SEPA
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 102 (15.22%) Docker
2 47 (7.01%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.45%) Postfix
6 2 (0.30%) 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
1 110 (16.42%) Kubernetes
2 54 (8.06%) Terraform
3 25 (3.73%) Grafana
4 19 (2.84%) Ansible
5 11 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.30%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.30%) Avamar
7 2 (0.30%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (0.30%) Istio
7 2 (0.30%) Kibana
7 2 (0.30%) Pingdom
7 2 (0.30%) PowerCLI
7 2 (0.30%) Puppet
8 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.15%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.15%) TrustSec
8 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 92 (13.73%) Oracle
2 77 (11.49%) ServiceNow
3 74 (11.04%) Microsoft
4 40 (5.97%) CyberArk
5 34 (5.07%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.07%) Centrify
5 34 (5.07%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.43%) SAP
7 18 (2.69%) OpenAI
8 17 (2.54%) Google
8 17 (2.54%) Workday
9 15 (2.24%) Databricks
10 14 (2.09%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.94%) Guidewire
11 13 (1.94%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.94%) Splunk
12 11 (1.64%) Adobe
12 11 (1.64%) IBM
13 9 (1.34%) Atlassian
13 9 (1.34%) UiPath