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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 74 102
Rank change year-on-year +22 +28 +2
Contract jobs citing REST 914 485 394
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.46% 3.63% 2.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.82% 12.28% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 321 227
10th Percentile £400 £358 £413
25th Percentile £450 £420 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
England median daily rate £525 £498 £533
% change year-on-year +5.53% -6.66% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £45.50 £44.48 -
25th Percentile £50.31 £45.56 -
Median hourly rate £56.00 £50.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% - -
75th Percentile £63.00 £55.56 -
90th Percentile £76.25 £56.43 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +15.00% -32.43% -1.33%

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 5,434 3,949 4,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.50% 29.52% 29.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,668 2,700 3,255
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £456 £430 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £788 £850
England median daily rate £535 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 32 23
10th Percentile £30.40 £31.77 £23.88
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +22.28% -32.00%
75th Percentile £59.81 £61.56 £61.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +10 103 £572 -0.52% 30
South London -3 14 £700 +12.54% 1
East London +1 3 £525 -2.78% 5
West London -22 3 £539 +47.60% 12
North London - 3 £650 - 3
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 32 (3.50%) Confluence
2 23 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.53%) Apache
3 14 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.20%) IIS
5 10 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.98%) Anypoint
7 8 (0.88%) Camunda
8 7 (0.77%) Mule
9 6 (0.66%) CMS
9 6 (0.66%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.66%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.44%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.44%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.33%) nginx
11 3 (0.33%) SAS
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.44%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.44%) Windchill
3 3 (0.33%) Trello
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 (2.08%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.53%) Oracle EBS
2 14 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.55%) Shopify
5 4 (0.44%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.44%) Quorum
5 4 (0.44%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.44%) Ripple
6 3 (0.33%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.33%) Workfront
7 2 (0.22%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 389 (42.56%) Azure
2 300 (32.82%) AWS
3 176 (19.26%) GitHub
4 138 (15.10%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (12.14%) GCP
6 103 (11.27%) Serverless
7 100 (10.94%) GitHub Actions
8 75 (8.21%) Entra ID
9 63 (6.89%) Power Platform
10 53 (5.80%) Amazon S3
11 50 (5.47%) SaaS
12 47 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
13 41 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
15 35 (3.83%) Azure Functions
16 33 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
16 33 (3.61%) Boomi
17 32 (3.50%) Azure API Management
18 30 (3.28%) PowerApps
19 29 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.63%) HTTP
2 16 (1.75%) DNS
3 9 (0.98%) Firewall
3 9 (0.98%) HTTPS
3 9 (0.98%) Network Security
4 8 (0.88%) BGP
4 8 (0.88%) SSH
5 7 (0.77%) SAN
6 6 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (0.66%) SSL
6 6 (0.66%) VPN
6 6 (0.66%) VXLAN
7 5 (0.55%) Internet
7 5 (0.55%) NX-OS
7 5 (0.55%) TACACS
7 5 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.44%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.44%) NAS
8 4 (0.44%) X.509
9 3 (0.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (10.61%) SQL Server
3 79 (8.64%) Relational Database
4 54 (5.91%) NoSQL
5 42 (4.60%) MongoDB
6 36 (3.94%) Power BI
7 32 (3.50%) Redis
8 27 (2.95%) MySQL
9 26 (2.84%) Metadata
10 24 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (1.75%) DynamoDB
14 16 (1.75%) Oracle Database
15 13 (1.42%) BigQuery
15 13 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (1.31%) Big Data
17 11 (1.20%) Data Lake
18 10 (1.09%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 183 (20.02%) Git
2 101 (11.05%) Jenkins
3 71 (7.77%) JIRA
4 70 (7.66%) GitLab
5 51 (5.58%) JUnit
6 37 (4.05%) Gradle
7 32 (3.50%) Maven
8 28 (3.06%) Selenium
9 27 (2.95%) Postman
10 26 (2.84%) Cypress.io
11 19 (2.08%) Cucumber
12 18 (1.97%) REST Assured
13 17 (1.86%) CircleCI
13 17 (1.86%) Mockito
14 16 (1.75%) Bitbucket
14 16 (1.75%) Visual Studio
15 14 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
16 10 (1.09%) Storybook
16 10 (1.09%) XCTest
16 10 (1.09%) XCUITest
General
1 277 (30.31%) Finance
2 262 (28.67%) Social Skills
3 129 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (12.69%) Banking
5 84 (9.19%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.05%) Retail
7 30 (3.28%) Investment Banking
8 25 (2.74%) Marketing
8 25 (2.74%) Telecoms
9 20 (2.19%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.53%) Front Office
10 14 (1.53%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.31%) Publishing
12 11 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.09%) Billing
13 10 (1.09%) Law
13 10 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 375 (41.03%) Developer
2 167 (18.27%) Senior
3 155 (16.96%) Architect
4 83 (9.08%) Senior Developer
5 59 (6.46%) Lead
6 58 (6.35%) Full-Stack Developer
7 54 (5.91%) Java Developer
8 49 (5.36%) Python Developer
9 44 (4.81%) Software Engineer
10 40 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (3.83%) .NET Developer
12 29 (3.17%) Java Engineer
12 29 (3.17%) React Developer
13 24 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 23 (2.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 22 (2.41%) Consultant
16 21 (2.30%) C# Developer
16 21 (2.30%) Technical Architect
17 20 (2.19%) Integration Developer
18 18 (1.97%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (22.54%) SOAP
2 145 (15.86%) .NET
3 131 (14.33%) React
4 129 (14.11%) JSON
5 116 (12.69%) Kafka
5 116 (12.69%) Terraform
6 113 (12.36%) RESTful
7 109 (11.93%) Spring
8 103 (11.27%) OAuth
9 101 (11.05%) Spring Boot
10 87 (9.52%) XML
11 82 (8.97%) HTML
12 80 (8.75%) CSS
13 70 (7.66%) GraphQL
14 68 (7.44%) OAuth2
15 67 (7.33%) Middleware
16 63 (6.89%) Web Services
17 60 (6.56%) Node.js
18 56 (6.13%) AngularJS
19 42 (4.60%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 162 (17.72%) Cloud Native
2 86 (9.41%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (8.21%) Product Ownership
4 73 (7.99%) Enterprise Software
5 41 (4.49%) AI Agents
6 40 (4.38%) Onboarding
7 38 (4.16%) CMDB
8 36 (3.94%) Mobile App
9 26 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (2.52%) Data Structures
10 23 (2.52%) Management Information System
11 20 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (2.08%) Low-Code
13 16 (1.75%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (1.20%) Derivative
15 11 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 10 (1.09%) Data Centre
16 10 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
17 9 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 80 (8.75%) Linux
2 43 (4.70%) Windows
3 32 (3.50%) Unix
4 24 (2.63%) Android
5 15 (1.64%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.77%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) CentOS
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (51.53%) CI/CD
2 337 (36.87%) Agile
3 335 (36.65%) DevOps
4 236 (25.82%) Microservices
5 193 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
6 192 (21.01%) AI
7 182 (19.91%) Event-Driven
8 178 (19.47%) Test Automation
9 139 (15.21%) Software Engineering
9 139 (15.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 132 (14.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 126 (13.79%) Scrum
12 124 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 122 (13.35%) Integration Patterns
14 115 (12.58%) Data Modelling
15 112 (12.25%) Containerisation
15 112 (12.25%) Full-Stack Development
16 108 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
17 102 (11.16%) Observability
18 101 (11.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 300 (32.82%) Python
2 267 (29.21%) SQL
3 227 (24.84%) Java
4 213 (23.30%) JavaScript
5 162 (17.72%) TypeScript
6 141 (15.43%) C#
7 66 (7.22%) PowerShell
8 32 (3.50%) Bash
9 31 (3.39%) Kotlin
10 28 (3.06%) Apex Code
11 26 (2.84%) Shell Script
12 24 (2.63%) Bicep
13 23 (2.52%) Groovy
14 18 (1.97%) Go
15 13 (1.42%) PL/SQL
16 12 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (1.31%) Swift
17 10 (1.09%) SOQL
17 10 (1.09%) SOSL
17 10 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 215 (23.52%) Security Cleared
2 180 (19.69%) SC Cleared
3 63 (6.89%) Degree
4 28 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (3.06%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (2.19%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.19%) Azure Certification
7 9 (0.98%) CISSP
7 9 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.88%) ISTQB
8 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.66%) CISM
10 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.66%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.66%) PMP
11 4 (0.44%) CESG Certified Professional
11 4 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (12.58%) QA
2 43 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.50%) Accessibility
4 30 (3.28%) GDPR
5 20 (2.19%) GRC
6 17 (1.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.20%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.20%) NIST
8 11 (1.20%) SLA
9 10 (1.09%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.98%) WCAG
11 8 (0.88%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.55%) SEPA
13 4 (0.44%) HL7
13 4 (0.44%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.33%) Basel III
14 3 (0.33%) NCSC
15 2 (0.22%) PMO
15 2 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 167 (18.27%) Docker
2 40 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.33%) 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%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.11%) RACF
7 1 (0.11%) Varnish
7 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 169 (18.49%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.83%) Ansible
2 35 (3.83%) Grafana
3 22 (2.41%) Prometheus
4 15 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.09%) Kibana
6 7 (0.77%) Control-M
7 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.33%) Bosun
8 3 (0.33%) Istio
9 2 (0.22%) Netcool
9 2 (0.22%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 2 (0.22%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.22%) SCCM
9 2 (0.22%) systemd
9 2 (0.22%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.22%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.11%) SCOM
10 1 (0.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 166 (18.16%) Microsoft
2 122 (13.35%) Oracle
3 85 (9.30%) ServiceNow
4 82 (8.97%) Salesforce
5 47 (5.14%) Databricks
6 44 (4.81%) Google
7 42 (4.60%) SAP
8 31 (3.39%) OpenAI
9 28 (3.06%) Splunk
10 27 (2.95%) MuleSoft
11 26 (2.84%) CyberArk
12 22 (2.41%) IBM
13 16 (1.75%) Dynatrace
14 15 (1.64%) Cisco
15 14 (1.53%) VMware
16 13 (1.42%) Foundry
16 13 (1.42%) Workday
17 11 (1.20%) UiPath
18 10 (1.09%) Okta
18 10 (1.09%) OutSystems