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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 122 86
Rank change year-on-year +60 -36 -5
Contract jobs citing REST 610 288 445
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.16% 2.11% 2.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.90% 8.04% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 139 314
10th Percentile £359 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £453 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £634 £750
90th Percentile £838 £755 £850
England median daily rate £513 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -2.73% -
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 £70.00 £74.44 £76.53
% change year-on-year -5.96% -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 3,836 3,581 4,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.16% 26.19% 24.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,587 2,324 3,496
10th Percentile £363 £381 £386
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 £690
90th Percentile £769 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 30
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £29.60
25th Percentile £39.75 £38.50 £35.79
Median hourly rate £50.75 £52.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.69% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £69.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.00 £76.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +16 58 £525 -1.87% 67
East London +3 6 £540 -11.11% 17
West London -19 6 £375 -28.57% 13
North London - 4 - - 1
South London -4 3 £510 +34.21% 16
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 17 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.13%) Confluence
3 9 (1.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (1.31%) Apache
4 8 (1.31%) Camunda
4 8 (1.31%) Jupyter
5 7 (1.15%) Appian
5 7 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.98%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.98%) Hyperledger
6 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.49%) Drupal
8 3 (0.49%) LiveLink
8 3 (0.49%) SAS
8 3 (0.49%) WordPress
9 2 (0.33%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.66%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.33%) 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 (3.93%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.49%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.49%) Shopify
5 2 (0.33%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.33%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.33%) Maximo
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.16%) Endur
6 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.16%) Summit
6 1 (0.16%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 211 (34.59%) Azure
2 158 (25.90%) AWS
3 73 (11.97%) GCP
4 69 (11.31%) GitHub
5 55 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (6.89%) OCI
7 41 (6.72%) Power Platform
7 41 (6.72%) Serverless
8 38 (6.23%) GitHub Actions
9 37 (6.07%) IaaS
10 33 (5.41%) PaaS
11 30 (4.92%) Azure Logic Apps
12 28 (4.59%) Entra ID
13 27 (4.43%) Azure Monitor
14 24 (3.93%) Azure Service Bus
15 21 (3.44%) Power Automate
16 20 (3.28%) Amazon S3
16 20 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
17 19 (3.11%) Azure Functions
18 17 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.97%) HTTP
2 8 (1.31%) SMS
2 8 (1.31%) SSL
3 7 (1.15%) DNS
4 6 (0.98%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.49%) Firewall
5 3 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.33%) SAN
6 2 (0.33%) 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 40 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 36 (5.90%) NoSQL
3 34 (5.57%) Relational Database
4 31 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (3.61%) MongoDB
6 17 (2.79%) Power BI
7 16 (2.62%) MySQL
8 12 (1.97%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (1.80%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.80%) Redis
10 10 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 10 (1.64%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.48%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.48%) Pinecone
12 8 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.31%) DocumentDB
12 8 (1.31%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 93 (15.25%) Git
2 58 (9.51%) JIRA
3 40 (6.56%) Postman
4 38 (6.23%) Jenkins
5 35 (5.74%) JUnit
6 23 (3.77%) Cucumber
7 22 (3.61%) GitLab
8 20 (3.28%) Selenium
9 16 (2.62%) Mockito
10 15 (2.46%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.80%) JMeter
12 10 (1.64%) Bitbucket
12 10 (1.64%) Cypress.io
12 10 (1.64%) SoapUI
13 9 (1.48%) Maven
14 8 (1.31%) MLflow
15 7 (1.15%) Gatling
15 7 (1.15%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.98%) Gradle
16 6 (0.98%) SpecFlow
General
1 201 (32.95%) Social Skills
2 132 (21.64%) Finance
3 90 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 48 (7.87%) Banking
6 24 (3.93%) Front Office
7 19 (3.11%) Marketing
8 14 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.30%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.48%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.48%) Military
10 7 (1.15%) Billing
10 7 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.98%) Retail
12 5 (0.82%) Back Office
12 5 (0.82%) Law
13 4 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 250 (40.98%) Developer
2 114 (18.69%) Architect
3 59 (9.67%) Senior
4 36 (5.90%) Java Developer
5 35 (5.74%) Senior Developer
6 34 (5.57%) CyberArk Architect
7 28 (4.59%) Consultant
8 27 (4.43%) Lead
8 27 (4.43%) Python Developer
9 26 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (4.26%) ServiceNow Developer
10 22 (3.61%) Business Analyst
11 21 (3.44%) Analyst
11 21 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (3.11%) Angular Developer
12 19 (3.11%) C# Developer
13 18 (2.95%) Integration Specialist
14 17 (2.79%) Cloud Specialist
15 16 (2.62%) Oracle Specialist
16 15 (2.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (31.48%) SOAP
2 125 (20.49%) JSON
3 81 (13.28%) Web Services
4 68 (11.15%) React
5 66 (10.82%) Spring
5 66 (10.82%) Spring Boot
6 65 (10.66%) Kafka
7 64 (10.49%) HTML
8 63 (10.33%) XML
9 62 (10.16%) OAuth
10 61 (10.00%) AngularJS
11 59 (9.67%) CSS
11 59 (9.67%) RESTful
12 46 (7.54%) .NET
13 38 (6.23%) Oracle Fusion
14 37 (6.07%) GraphQL
14 37 (6.07%) LDAP
15 36 (5.90%) Middleware
16 30 (4.92%) Pandas
17 27 (4.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.70%) Enterprise Software
2 40 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 37 (6.07%) Security Posture
4 35 (5.74%) CMDB
5 34 (5.57%) Product Ownership
6 29 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (4.43%) PKI
8 24 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (3.28%) Equities
9 20 (3.28%) Public Cloud
10 15 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (2.30%) Hedge funds
11 14 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (2.30%) Onboarding
12 13 (2.13%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.97%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 10 (1.64%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.64%) Low-Code
14 10 (1.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 49 (8.03%) Linux
2 16 (2.62%) Windows
3 10 (1.64%) Unix
4 7 (1.15%) Android
5 5 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.49%) Solaris
7 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (35.90%) Agile
2 173 (28.36%) CI/CD
3 168 (27.54%) DevOps
4 158 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
5 118 (19.34%) Microservices
6 81 (13.28%) ITSM
6 81 (13.28%) Test Automation
7 78 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 76 (12.46%) Integration Patterns
9 69 (11.31%) Analytics
9 69 (11.31%) API Integration
9 69 (11.31%) Scrum
10 64 (10.49%) Full-Stack Development
10 64 (10.49%) Technical Leadership
11 59 (9.67%) ERP
11 59 (9.67%) Event-Driven
12 58 (9.51%) Data Modelling
13 56 (9.18%) AI
14 54 (8.85%) Workflow
15 53 (8.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 154 (25.25%) Python
2 146 (23.93%) SQL
3 132 (21.64%) Java
4 117 (19.18%) JavaScript
5 95 (15.57%) PowerShell
6 74 (12.13%) TypeScript
7 70 (11.48%) C#
8 17 (2.79%) Apex Code
9 12 (1.97%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.64%) Groovy
10 10 (1.64%) VBA
11 9 (1.48%) Bicep
12 8 (1.31%) PHP
13 7 (1.15%) Bash
13 7 (1.15%) Go
14 6 (0.98%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.82%) Korn
15 5 (0.82%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.66%) C++
Qualifications
1 171 (28.03%) Security Cleared
2 157 (25.74%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.41%) Degree
4 25 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.48%) ISTQB
6 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.66%) CISSP
9 3 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.33%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.33%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.33%) PMP
11 1 (0.16%) CCSP
11 1 (0.16%) CISM
11 1 (0.16%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (10.16%) QA
2 31 (5.08%) GDPR
3 21 (3.44%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.80%) WCAG
7 8 (1.31%) NIST
8 7 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.66%) SLA
11 3 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.33%) GRC
12 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.33%) NCSC
12 2 (0.33%) 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 88 (14.43%) Docker
2 53 (8.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.49%) NFS
3 3 (0.49%) Veritas File System
3 3 (0.49%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 77 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 42 (6.89%) Terraform
3 15 (2.46%) Ansible
4 12 (1.97%) Grafana
5 8 (1.31%) logstash
5 8 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.98%) Kibana
8 5 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.82%) QRadar
9 4 (0.66%) Pingdom
10 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.33%) Control-M
11 2 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.33%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.33%) Puppet
11 2 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 1 (0.16%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.16%) vRealize
Vendors
1 77 (12.62%) Oracle
2 62 (10.16%) ServiceNow
3 61 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 45 (7.38%) CyberArk
5 36 (5.90%) BeyondTrust
6 34 (5.57%) Centrify
7 30 (4.92%) Salesforce
8 22 (3.61%) OpenAI
9 19 (3.11%) SAP
9 19 (3.11%) Splunk
10 12 (1.97%) Guidewire
11 10 (1.64%) Adobe
11 10 (1.64%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.64%) Google
12 8 (1.31%) MuleSoft
13 7 (1.15%) IBM
13 7 (1.15%) Okta
13 7 (1.15%) Solace
14 6 (0.98%) Automation Anywhere
14 6 (0.98%) UiPath