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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 122 96
Rank change year-on-year +51 -26 +1
Contract jobs citing REST 639 290 429
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.68% 2.28% 2.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.14% 8.78% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 192 297
10th Percentile £363 £380 £406
25th Percentile £424 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +1.43% -8.70%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £850
England median daily rate £506 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -0.78% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £53.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.00 - -
Median hourly rate £69.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £90.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -15.62% +11.45% +48.88%

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 4,222 3,302 4,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.31% 26.00% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,849 2,312 3,350
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 21
10th Percentile £23.33 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £38.19 £24.18
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +46.58% -46.22%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 64 £525 -1.87% 49
South London -6 14 £510 +34.21% 6
West London -27 6 £375 -32.31% 3
East London -2 5 £432 -31.43% 9
North London - 4 - - 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 23 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.66%) Confluence
3 11 (1.72%) Apache
4 10 (1.56%) Camunda
4 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.41%) Appian
6 7 (1.10%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.94%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.94%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.63%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.63%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.63%) CICS
8 4 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.31%) Drupal
9 2 (0.31%) Mule
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.31%) WordPress
10 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.16%) InVision
4 1 (0.16%) Maya
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.16%) Sketch
4 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (2.35%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.63%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.63%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.31%) Magento
5 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.31%) Shopify
5 2 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.16%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 214 (33.49%) Azure
2 191 (29.89%) AWS
3 88 (13.77%) GCP
4 67 (10.49%) GitHub
5 47 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (6.73%) Serverless
7 41 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (6.10%) Power Platform
9 36 (5.63%) IaaS
10 34 (5.32%) OCI
10 34 (5.32%) PaaS
11 31 (4.85%) Entra ID
12 25 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
13 24 (3.76%) SaaS
14 23 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
14 23 (3.60%) Power Automate
15 22 (3.44%) Amazon S3
16 21 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
17 20 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
18 18 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.66%) HTTP
2 9 (1.41%) SMS
3 6 (0.94%) DNS
4 5 (0.78%) Firewall
5 4 (0.63%) BGP
5 4 (0.63%) FTP
6 3 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.47%) MPLS
6 3 (0.47%) OSPF
6 3 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.47%) SSL
7 2 (0.31%) Modbus
7 2 (0.31%) NaaS
7 2 (0.31%) SAN
7 2 (0.31%) SNMP
7 2 (0.31%) VPN
7 2 (0.31%) WAN
8 1 (0.16%) DHCP
8 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.16%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (9.08%) Relational Database
2 54 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (7.82%) SQL Server
4 39 (6.10%) NoSQL
5 27 (4.23%) MongoDB
6 18 (2.82%) MySQL
7 17 (2.66%) Power BI
8 13 (2.03%) RDBMS
9 12 (1.88%) Pinecone
9 12 (1.88%) Redis
10 11 (1.72%) DynamoDB
11 10 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.56%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.41%) Metadata
13 8 (1.25%) DocumentDB
14 7 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 81 (12.68%) Git
2 44 (6.89%) JIRA
3 36 (5.63%) Jenkins
4 32 (5.01%) Postman
5 29 (4.54%) JUnit
6 23 (3.60%) GitLab
7 21 (3.29%) Cucumber
7 21 (3.29%) Selenium
8 18 (2.82%) REST Assured
9 16 (2.50%) Mockito
10 15 (2.35%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.56%) Maven
11 10 (1.56%) SoapUI
12 8 (1.25%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.25%) JMeter
12 8 (1.25%) MLflow
12 8 (1.25%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.78%) SpecFlow
13 5 (0.78%) TestRail
13 5 (0.78%) Zephyr
General
1 176 (27.54%) Social Skills
2 142 (22.22%) Finance
3 88 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 46 (7.20%) Banking
6 25 (3.91%) Front Office
7 17 (2.66%) Marketing
8 15 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.88%) Retail
11 11 (1.72%) Publishing
12 9 (1.41%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.25%) Billing
14 7 (1.10%) Legal
15 6 (0.94%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 4 (0.63%) Military
18 3 (0.47%) Law
18 3 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 232 (36.31%) Developer
2 137 (21.44%) Architect
3 61 (9.55%) Senior
4 39 (6.10%) Java Developer
5 34 (5.32%) CyberArk Architect
6 33 (5.16%) Python Developer
7 29 (4.54%) Lead
7 29 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
8 27 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (4.07%) Senior Developer
9 26 (4.07%) Software Engineer
10 20 (3.13%) Consultant
11 17 (2.66%) C# Developer
12 16 (2.50%) Analyst
12 16 (2.50%) Business Analyst
13 15 (2.35%) Integration Specialist
14 14 (2.19%) Automation Engineer
14 14 (2.19%) Cloud Specialist
14 14 (2.19%) Data Engineer
15 13 (2.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (28.48%) SOAP
2 108 (16.90%) JSON
3 89 (13.93%) Web Services
4 80 (12.52%) RESTful
5 78 (12.21%) React
5 78 (12.21%) Spring
6 77 (12.05%) Kafka
7 74 (11.58%) Spring Boot
8 71 (11.11%) AngularJS
9 69 (10.80%) .NET
10 60 (9.39%) CSS
10 60 (9.39%) HTML
11 49 (7.67%) OAuth
12 48 (7.51%) XML
13 43 (6.73%) GraphQL
14 42 (6.57%) Middleware
15 38 (5.95%) Node.js
16 37 (5.79%) LDAP
17 34 (5.32%) Pandas
18 30 (4.69%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.89%) Cloud Native
1 44 (6.89%) Enterprise Software
2 42 (6.57%) Security Posture
3 41 (6.42%) Product Ownership
4 35 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (4.38%) CMDB
5 28 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (4.07%) Equities
6 26 (4.07%) PKI
7 21 (3.29%) Management Information System
8 20 (3.13%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (2.82%) Mobile App
10 16 (2.50%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.50%) Hedge funds
11 14 (2.19%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.56%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 33 (5.16%) Linux
2 21 (3.29%) Windows
3 9 (1.41%) Unix
4 6 (0.94%) zOS
5 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.63%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (32.71%) Agile
2 204 (31.92%) CI/CD
3 181 (28.33%) DevOps
4 146 (22.85%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (19.72%) Microservices
6 111 (17.37%) Integration Patterns
7 89 (13.93%) Test Automation
8 80 (12.52%) Observability
8 80 (12.52%) Technical Leadership
9 79 (12.36%) Data Modelling
10 76 (11.89%) Containerisation
11 75 (11.74%) ITSM
12 73 (11.42%) Analytics
13 67 (10.49%) Event-Driven
14 66 (10.33%) AI
15 65 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 62 (9.70%) Scrum
17 60 (9.39%) API Integration
18 59 (9.23%) Full-Stack Development
19 58 (9.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 178 (27.86%) Python
2 149 (23.32%) SQL
3 147 (23.00%) Java
4 107 (16.74%) JavaScript
5 86 (13.46%) PowerShell
6 83 (12.99%) TypeScript
7 81 (12.68%) C#
8 13 (2.03%) Apex Code
9 12 (1.88%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (1.56%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.56%) VBA
11 7 (1.10%) Bicep
12 6 (0.94%) Go
12 6 (0.94%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.78%) Bash
13 5 (0.78%) PHP
14 4 (0.63%) Groovy
14 4 (0.63%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.63%) XPath
Qualifications
1 160 (25.04%) Security Cleared
2 149 (23.32%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.16%) Degree
4 22 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.41%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.78%) CISSP
9 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.63%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.63%) MBA
10 3 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.47%) CISM
11 2 (0.31%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.31%) OSCP
11 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (9.08%) QA
2 26 (4.07%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.44%) GDPR
4 15 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.56%) WCAG
6 9 (1.41%) NIST
7 7 (1.10%) SLA
8 6 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.63%) GRC
9 4 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.47%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.47%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.31%) HL7
11 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.31%) NCSC
11 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.31%) PMO
11 2 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 91 (14.24%) Docker
2 49 (7.67%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 2 (0.31%) Postfix
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) IAG
5 1 (0.16%) UAG
5 1 (0.16%) Varnish
5 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 93 (14.55%) Kubernetes
2 50 (7.82%) Terraform
3 24 (3.76%) Grafana
4 14 (2.19%) Ansible
5 11 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.63%) Pingdom
8 2 (0.31%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.31%) Avamar
8 2 (0.31%) Control-M
8 2 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.31%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.31%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.31%) Istio
8 2 (0.31%) logstash
8 2 (0.31%) Puppet
8 2 (0.31%) QRadar
8 2 (0.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 74 (11.58%) Oracle
2 70 (10.95%) ServiceNow
3 66 (10.33%) Microsoft
4 39 (6.10%) CyberArk
5 34 (5.32%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.32%) Centrify
6 28 (4.38%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.82%) Google
7 18 (2.82%) SAP
7 18 (2.82%) Splunk
8 17 (2.66%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.88%) Adobe
9 12 (1.88%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.72%) Guidewire
10 11 (1.72%) Workday
11 10 (1.56%) IBM
12 9 (1.41%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.41%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.41%) UiPath
13 8 (1.25%) Automation Anywhere