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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 77 107
Rank change year-on-year +24 +30 -4
Contract jobs citing REST 894 477 386
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.42% 3.58% 2.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.77% 12.08% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 313 231
10th Percentile £400 £358 £413
25th Percentile £450 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -4.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £638
90th Percentile £738 £710 £750
England median daily rate £525 £490 £532
% change year-on-year +7.14% -7.81% -7.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.40 £44.48 -
25th Percentile £50.63 £45.56 -
Median hourly rate £59.50 £50.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% - -
75th Percentile £69.38 £55.56 -
90th Percentile £80.50 £56.43 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +15.00% -32.43% -3.31%

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 5,332 3,950 4,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.34% 29.67% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,602 2,697 3,286
10th Percentile £400 £364 £385
25th Percentile £456 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £763 £791 £850
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 23
10th Percentile £28.00 £31.77 £23.88
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +22.28% -32.54%
75th Percentile £66.06 £61.56 £61.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.20
England median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.82% -15.38% +8.33%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +22 108 £550 -4.35% 102
South London 0 15 £656 +5.51% 7
East London -1 3 £525 -2.78% 6
West London -24 3 £539 +47.60% 11
North London - 1 - - 6
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 30 (3.36%) Confluence
2 21 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.57%) Apache
3 14 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.23%) IIS
5 10 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.01%) Anypoint
6 9 (1.01%) Camunda
7 7 (0.78%) Mule
8 6 (0.67%) CMS
8 6 (0.67%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.67%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.45%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.45%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.22%) Mendix
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.45%) Windchill
2 3 (0.34%) Trello
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (2.13%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
2 14 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.56%) Shopify
6 4 (0.45%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.45%) Quorum
6 4 (0.45%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.45%) Ripple
7 3 (0.34%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.34%) Workfront
8 2 (0.22%) Infor LN
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 378 (42.28%) Azure
2 299 (33.45%) AWS
3 169 (18.90%) GitHub
4 130 (14.54%) Azure DevOps
5 112 (12.53%) GCP
6 99 (11.07%) Serverless
7 93 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
8 74 (8.28%) Entra ID
9 58 (6.49%) Power Platform
10 53 (5.93%) SaaS
11 52 (5.82%) Amazon S3
12 46 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
13 39 (4.36%) Amazon SQS
14 36 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
15 35 (3.91%) Boomi
16 32 (3.58%) Azure Functions
17 31 (3.47%) Azure API Management
18 30 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
19 28 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
19 28 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.57%) HTTP
2 14 (1.57%) DNS
3 9 (1.01%) Firewall
3 9 (1.01%) HTTPS
3 9 (1.01%) Network Security
4 8 (0.89%) BGP
4 8 (0.89%) SSH
5 6 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
5 6 (0.67%) SSL
5 6 (0.67%) VXLAN
6 5 (0.56%) Internet
6 5 (0.56%) NX-OS
6 5 (0.56%) SAN
6 5 (0.56%) TACACS
6 5 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.45%) FTP
7 4 (0.45%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.45%) VPN
7 4 (0.45%) X.509
8 3 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (13.65%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (9.73%) SQL Server
3 82 (9.17%) Relational Database
4 55 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 43 (4.81%) MongoDB
6 36 (4.03%) Power BI
7 32 (3.58%) Redis
8 26 (2.91%) MySQL
9 23 (2.57%) Metadata
10 22 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (1.68%) DynamoDB
12 15 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.57%) Oracle Database
14 13 (1.45%) BigQuery
15 12 (1.34%) Big Data
16 11 (1.23%) Data Lake
16 11 (1.23%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 177 (19.80%) Git
2 96 (10.74%) Jenkins
3 67 (7.49%) GitLab
4 66 (7.38%) JIRA
5 47 (5.26%) JUnit
6 33 (3.69%) Gradle
7 30 (3.36%) Maven
8 23 (2.57%) Cypress.io
8 23 (2.57%) Postman
8 23 (2.57%) Selenium
9 18 (2.01%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.79%) Mockito
10 16 (1.79%) REST Assured
11 15 (1.68%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.68%) Visual Studio
12 13 (1.45%) CircleCI
12 13 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
13 10 (1.12%) Eclipse
13 10 (1.12%) Storybook
14 9 (1.01%) JMeter
General
1 267 (29.87%) Finance
2 251 (28.08%) Social Skills
3 121 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (11.97%) Banking
5 79 (8.84%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.14%) Retail
7 27 (3.02%) Investment Banking
8 25 (2.80%) Marketing
8 25 (2.80%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.90%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.57%) Front Office
10 14 (1.57%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.23%) Publishing
13 10 (1.12%) Billing
13 10 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (0.89%) Law
15 8 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 364 (40.72%) Developer
2 165 (18.46%) Senior
3 154 (17.23%) Architect
4 80 (8.95%) Senior Developer
5 59 (6.60%) Full-Stack Developer
6 55 (6.15%) Lead
7 54 (6.04%) Java Developer
8 46 (5.15%) Python Developer
9 44 (4.92%) Software Engineer
10 40 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
11 34 (3.80%) .NET Developer
12 29 (3.24%) React Developer
13 28 (3.13%) Java Engineer
14 26 (2.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 26 (2.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 23 (2.57%) Consultant
16 21 (2.35%) Technical Architect
17 20 (2.24%) C# Developer
18 19 (2.13%) Integration Architect
18 19 (2.13%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (23.27%) SOAP
2 137 (15.32%) .NET
3 130 (14.54%) React
4 128 (14.32%) JSON
5 118 (13.20%) Kafka
6 113 (12.64%) RESTful
7 107 (11.97%) Spring
8 106 (11.86%) Terraform
9 102 (11.41%) OAuth
10 99 (11.07%) Spring Boot
11 88 (9.84%) XML
12 83 (9.28%) HTML
13 81 (9.06%) CSS
14 75 (8.39%) GraphQL
15 68 (7.61%) OAuth2
16 66 (7.38%) Middleware
17 61 (6.82%) Node.js
18 60 (6.71%) Web Services
19 57 (6.38%) AngularJS
20 40 (4.47%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 159 (17.79%) Cloud Native
2 85 (9.51%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (8.05%) Product Ownership
4 69 (7.72%) Enterprise Software
5 41 (4.59%) AI Agents
6 40 (4.47%) Onboarding
7 38 (4.25%) CMDB
8 32 (3.58%) Mobile App
9 26 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (2.68%) Management Information System
11 22 (2.46%) Data Structures
12 19 (2.13%) Low-Code
12 19 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.68%) Virtual Team
14 14 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (1.23%) Derivative
16 10 (1.12%) Data Centre
17 9 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
17 9 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
17 9 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 75 (8.39%) Linux
2 40 (4.47%) Windows
3 31 (3.47%) Unix
4 22 (2.46%) Android
5 13 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.78%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) CentOS
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (49.89%) CI/CD
2 321 (35.91%) Agile
3 314 (35.12%) DevOps
4 231 (25.84%) Microservices
5 189 (21.14%) AI
5 189 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
6 179 (20.02%) Event-Driven
7 159 (17.79%) Test Automation
8 133 (14.88%) Software Engineering
9 132 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 130 (14.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 124 (13.87%) Integration Patterns
11 124 (13.87%) Scrum
12 119 (13.31%) Data Modelling
13 118 (13.20%) Full-Stack Development
14 113 (12.64%) Containerisation
14 113 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 102 (11.41%) Infrastructure as Code
15 102 (11.41%) Observability
16 100 (11.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 292 (32.66%) Python
2 258 (28.86%) SQL
3 226 (25.28%) Java
4 207 (23.15%) JavaScript
5 163 (18.23%) TypeScript
6 131 (14.65%) C#
7 62 (6.94%) PowerShell
8 31 (3.47%) Bash
9 29 (3.24%) Kotlin
10 27 (3.02%) Apex Code
11 25 (2.80%) Shell Script
12 22 (2.46%) Bicep
13 21 (2.35%) Groovy
14 17 (1.90%) Go
15 12 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (1.34%) PL/SQL
16 10 (1.12%) SOQL
16 10 (1.12%) SOSL
16 10 (1.12%) Swift
17 9 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 202 (22.60%) Security Cleared
2 167 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.49%) Degree
4 28 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (2.24%) AWS Certification
7 20 (2.24%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.01%) CISSP
8 9 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (0.67%) CISM
11 6 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 6 (0.67%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.67%) PMP
12 4 (0.45%) CESG Certified Professional
12 4 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.34%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (11.52%) QA
2 41 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 30 (3.36%) GDPR
5 21 (2.35%) GRC
6 17 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.23%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.23%) NIST
9 10 (1.12%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.12%) SLA
10 9 (1.01%) WCAG
11 8 (0.89%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.56%) SEPA
13 4 (0.45%) HL7
13 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.34%) Basel III
14 3 (0.34%) NCSC
15 2 (0.22%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 2 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 164 (18.34%) Docker
2 39 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.22%) Postfix
7 1 (0.11%) Ceph
7 1 (0.11%) RACF
7 1 (0.11%) Varnish
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 170 (19.02%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.91%) Ansible
3 34 (3.80%) Grafana
4 21 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.89%) Kibana
7 7 (0.78%) Control-M
8 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.34%) Bosun
9 3 (0.34%) Istio
10 2 (0.22%) Netcool
10 2 (0.22%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 2 (0.22%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.22%) SCCM
10 2 (0.22%) systemd
10 2 (0.22%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.22%) Tivoli Monitoring
11 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.11%) SCOM
11 1 (0.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 159 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 115 (12.86%) Oracle
3 84 (9.40%) ServiceNow
4 81 (9.06%) Salesforce
5 45 (5.03%) Databricks
6 44 (4.92%) Google
6 44 (4.92%) SAP
7 29 (3.24%) OpenAI
8 28 (3.13%) Splunk
9 27 (3.02%) MuleSoft
10 26 (2.91%) CyberArk
11 22 (2.46%) IBM
12 16 (1.79%) Dynatrace
13 15 (1.68%) Workday
14 14 (1.57%) Cisco
15 13 (1.45%) VMware
16 11 (1.23%) Foundry
17 10 (1.12%) Okta
17 10 (1.12%) OutSystems
18 9 (1.01%) UiPath