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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 124 89
Rank change year-on-year +59 -35 -4
Contract jobs citing REST 618 290 452
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.16% 2.14% 2.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.99% 8.15% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 144 317
10th Percentile £358 £386 £391
25th Percentile £425 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £697 £625 £750
90th Percentile £838 £700 £850
England median daily rate £513 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.21% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £48.50 - £48.25
25th Percentile £53.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £57.50
75th Percentile £88.75 - £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 3,864 3,557 4,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.00% 26.25% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 2,330 3,475
10th Percentile £363 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 21 29
10th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £28.18
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +10.53% -26.92%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.00 £66.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £73.92
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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +7 59 £525 -1.87% 51
East London +4 6 £540 -11.11% 5
West London -11 6 £375 - 2
North London - 4 - - 1
South London -6 3 £510 +34.21% 5
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 18 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.27%) Confluence
3 9 (1.46%) Apache
3 9 (1.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (1.29%) Appian
4 8 (1.29%) Camunda
4 8 (1.29%) Jupyter
5 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.13%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.97%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.97%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.65%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.49%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.49%) Drupal
8 3 (0.49%) LiveLink
8 3 (0.49%) SAS
8 3 (0.49%) WordPress
9 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.65%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.32%) 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 (3.88%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.65%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.49%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.32%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.32%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.32%) Maximo
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.32%) Shopify
6 1 (0.16%) Endur
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 216 (34.95%) Azure
2 163 (26.38%) AWS
3 74 (11.97%) GCP
4 68 (11.00%) GitHub
5 56 (9.06%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (6.80%) OCI
6 42 (6.80%) Power Platform
6 42 (6.80%) Serverless
7 37 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (5.99%) IaaS
8 34 (5.50%) PaaS
9 30 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
10 29 (4.69%) Entra ID
11 28 (4.53%) Azure Monitor
12 25 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
13 22 (3.56%) Power Automate
14 21 (3.40%) Amazon S3
15 20 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (3.07%) Azure Functions
17 18 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.94%) HTTP
2 8 (1.29%) SMS
2 8 (1.29%) SSL
3 6 (0.97%) DNS
3 6 (0.97%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.49%) Firewall
5 2 (0.32%) SAN
5 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.32%) VPN
6 1 (0.16%) BGP
6 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.16%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.16%) Modbus
6 1 (0.16%) SMTP
6 1 (0.16%) SNMP
6 1 (0.16%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (7.12%) SQL Server
2 36 (5.83%) NoSQL
3 34 (5.50%) Relational Database
4 32 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.72%) MongoDB
6 18 (2.91%) Power BI
7 16 (2.59%) MySQL
8 12 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (1.78%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.78%) Redis
10 10 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (1.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 10 (1.62%) Oracle Database
10 10 (1.62%) Pinecone
11 9 (1.46%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.29%) DocumentDB
12 8 (1.29%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 88 (14.24%) Git
2 58 (9.39%) JIRA
3 40 (6.47%) Postman
4 37 (5.99%) Jenkins
5 36 (5.83%) JUnit
6 23 (3.72%) Cucumber
6 23 (3.72%) GitLab
7 20 (3.24%) Selenium
8 16 (2.59%) Mockito
8 16 (2.59%) REST Assured
9 11 (1.78%) JMeter
9 11 (1.78%) SoapUI
10 10 (1.62%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.62%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.62%) Maven
11 9 (1.46%) MLflow
12 7 (1.13%) Gatling
12 7 (1.13%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.97%) Gradle
13 6 (0.97%) SpecFlow
General
1 206 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 139 (22.49%) Finance
3 91 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (9.87%) Public Sector
5 51 (8.25%) Banking
6 25 (4.05%) Front Office
7 18 (2.91%) Marketing
8 15 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.43%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.10%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.78%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.46%) Military
12 7 (1.13%) Billing
12 7 (1.13%) Retail
13 6 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.81%) Back Office
14 5 (0.81%) Law
15 4 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 252 (40.78%) Developer
2 115 (18.61%) Architect
3 61 (9.87%) Senior
4 35 (5.66%) Senior Developer
5 34 (5.50%) CyberArk Architect
5 34 (5.50%) Java Developer
6 28 (4.53%) Consultant
7 27 (4.37%) Lead
7 27 (4.37%) Python Developer
8 26 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
9 25 (4.05%) ServiceNow Developer
10 22 (3.56%) Business Analyst
11 21 (3.40%) Analyst
11 21 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (3.07%) C# Developer
12 19 (3.07%) Integration Specialist
13 18 (2.91%) Angular Developer
13 18 (2.91%) Cloud Specialist
14 16 (2.59%) Oracle Specialist
15 15 (2.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (32.04%) SOAP
2 125 (20.23%) JSON
3 85 (13.75%) Web Services
4 68 (11.00%) React
4 68 (11.00%) Spring Boot
5 67 (10.84%) Spring
6 66 (10.68%) Kafka
7 65 (10.52%) HTML
8 63 (10.19%) AngularJS
8 63 (10.19%) OAuth
9 62 (10.03%) RESTful
9 62 (10.03%) XML
10 61 (9.87%) CSS
11 49 (7.93%) .NET
12 40 (6.47%) Middleware
13 38 (6.15%) Oracle Fusion
14 36 (5.83%) LDAP
15 35 (5.66%) GraphQL
16 31 (5.02%) Pandas
17 28 (4.53%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.61%) Enterprise Software
2 39 (6.31%) Cloud Native
3 37 (5.99%) Security Posture
4 36 (5.83%) CMDB
5 35 (5.66%) Product Ownership
6 30 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (4.37%) PKI
8 24 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (3.56%) Equities
10 20 (3.24%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 14 (2.27%) Fixed Income
13 14 (2.27%) Hedge funds
14 13 (2.10%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.94%) Mobile App
15 12 (1.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 11 (1.78%) Algorithms
16 11 (1.78%) Low-Code
17 10 (1.62%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.93%) Linux
2 16 (2.59%) Windows
3 11 (1.78%) Unix
4 7 (1.13%) Android
5 5 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.65%) zOS
7 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (36.08%) Agile
2 175 (28.32%) CI/CD
3 172 (27.83%) DevOps
4 160 (25.89%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (19.74%) Microservices
6 81 (13.11%) ITSM
6 81 (13.11%) Test Automation
7 78 (12.62%) Integration Patterns
8 77 (12.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 72 (11.65%) Analytics
10 69 (11.17%) API Integration
11 68 (11.00%) Scrum
12 64 (10.36%) Technical Leadership
13 62 (10.03%) Full-Stack Development
14 61 (9.87%) Data Modelling
15 59 (9.55%) ERP
15 59 (9.55%) Event-Driven
16 57 (9.22%) AI
17 56 (9.06%) Workflow
18 55 (8.90%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 155 (25.08%) Python
2 148 (23.95%) SQL
3 135 (21.84%) Java
4 121 (19.58%) JavaScript
5 95 (15.37%) PowerShell
6 75 (12.14%) TypeScript
7 72 (11.65%) C#
8 18 (2.91%) Apex Code
9 13 (2.10%) PL/SQL
10 11 (1.78%) Groovy
11 10 (1.62%) VBA
12 9 (1.46%) Bicep
13 8 (1.29%) PHP
14 7 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.97%) Bash
15 6 (0.97%) Go
15 6 (0.97%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.81%) Korn
16 5 (0.81%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.65%) XPath
Qualifications
1 172 (27.83%) Security Cleared
2 158 (25.57%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.34%) Degree
4 24 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.62%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.46%) ISTQB
6 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.49%) CISSP
9 2 (0.32%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.32%) PMP
10 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (10.36%) QA
2 30 (4.85%) GDPR
3 22 (3.56%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.78%) WCAG
7 8 (1.29%) NIST
8 7 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.65%) SLA
10 3 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.32%) GRC
11 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.32%) NCSC
11 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.16%) FISMA
12 1 (0.16%) HL7
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.16%) MiFID
12 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 87 (14.08%) Docker
2 51 (8.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.32%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (0.32%) NFS
3 2 (0.32%) Veritas File System
3 2 (0.32%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 77 (12.46%) Kubernetes
2 42 (6.80%) Terraform
3 13 (2.10%) Grafana
4 12 (1.94%) Ansible
5 8 (1.29%) logstash
6 7 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.97%) Kibana
8 5 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.65%) Pingdom
9 4 (0.65%) QRadar
10 2 (0.32%) Control-M
10 2 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.32%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.32%) Puppet
10 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.16%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 77 (12.46%) Oracle
2 64 (10.36%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.36%) ServiceNow
3 43 (6.96%) CyberArk
4 35 (5.66%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.50%) Centrify
6 31 (5.02%) Salesforce
7 24 (3.88%) OpenAI
8 19 (3.07%) Splunk
9 17 (2.75%) SAP
10 12 (1.94%) Guidewire
11 11 (1.78%) Google
12 10 (1.62%) Adobe
12 10 (1.62%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.62%) MuleSoft
13 9 (1.46%) IBM
14 7 (1.13%) Automation Anywhere
14 7 (1.13%) Okta
14 7 (1.13%) Solace
14 7 (1.13%) UiPath