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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 111 88
Rank change year-on-year +41 -23 +10
Contract jobs citing REST 628 318 454
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.82% 2.48% 2.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.24% 9.58% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 184 316
10th Percentile £356 £380 £398
25th Percentile £425 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.95%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £748
90th Percentile £805 £768 £850
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £48.50 - £49.25
25th Percentile £53.50 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £62.25
75th Percentile £88.75 - £73.69
90th Percentile £95.00 - £85.73
England median hourly rate £70.00 £82.96 £74.72
% change year-on-year -15.62% +11.03% +21.99%

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 4,121 3,321 4,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.08% 25.91% 24.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,798 2,296 3,340
10th Percentile £363 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £664 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.42% -0.37% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 28
10th Percentile £27.80 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.44 £26.41
Median hourly rate £46.50 £50.25 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% +18.67% -34.85%
75th Percentile £62.18 £65.00 £63.56
90th Percentile £69.88 £82.38 £76.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +4 60 £531 +0.24% 68
South London -10 9 £516 +35.66% 3
West London -17 6 £375 -43.61% 1
North London - 4 - -
East London 0 3 £630 +3.70% 10
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 22 (3.50%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.39%) Confluence
3 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.59%) Apache
5 9 (1.43%) Appian
5 9 (1.43%) Camunda
6 8 (1.27%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.96%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.96%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.96%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.64%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.64%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.64%) CICS
10 3 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.32%) Drupal
11 2 (0.32%) Mule
11 2 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.32%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.32%) 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
Business Applications
1 18 (2.87%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.64%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.64%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.32%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.32%) Shopify
5 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
5 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 223 (35.51%) Azure
2 189 (30.10%) AWS
3 91 (14.49%) GCP
4 72 (11.46%) GitHub
5 54 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
7 43 (6.85%) Serverless
8 38 (6.05%) IaaS
8 38 (6.05%) Power Platform
9 35 (5.57%) PaaS
10 34 (5.41%) OCI
11 27 (4.30%) Entra ID
12 23 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
13 22 (3.50%) Amazon S3
14 21 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (3.03%) Power Automate
17 18 (2.87%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.07%) HTTP
2 8 (1.27%) SMS
3 5 (0.80%) DNS
3 5 (0.80%) SSL
4 3 (0.48%) Firewall
4 3 (0.48%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.32%) BGP
5 2 (0.32%) Modbus
5 2 (0.32%) NaaS
5 2 (0.32%) SAN
5 2 (0.32%) SNMP
5 2 (0.32%) VPN
5 2 (0.32%) WAN
6 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.16%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.16%) MPLS
6 1 (0.16%) OSPF
6 1 (0.16%) PCoIP
6 1 (0.16%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.16%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.64%) SQL Server
2 45 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (6.53%) Relational Database
4 39 (6.21%) NoSQL
5 27 (4.30%) MongoDB
6 21 (3.34%) MySQL
7 17 (2.71%) Power BI
8 12 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
8 12 (1.91%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.75%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.75%) Pinecone
9 11 (1.75%) Redis
10 10 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.59%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.43%) Metadata
12 8 (1.27%) DocumentDB
13 6 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 94 (14.97%) Git
2 49 (7.80%) JIRA
3 43 (6.85%) Jenkins
4 35 (5.57%) Postman
5 34 (5.41%) JUnit
6 30 (4.78%) GitLab
7 26 (4.14%) Cucumber
8 22 (3.50%) Selenium
9 19 (3.03%) REST Assured
10 18 (2.87%) Mockito
11 16 (2.55%) Cypress.io
12 14 (2.23%) Maven
13 12 (1.91%) SoapUI
14 11 (1.75%) JMeter
15 10 (1.59%) MLflow
16 9 (1.43%) Bitbucket
17 8 (1.27%) SonarQube
18 7 (1.11%) Gatling
19 6 (0.96%) SpecFlow
20 5 (0.80%) Jasmine
General
1 191 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 139 (22.13%) Finance
3 97 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 56 (8.92%) Banking
6 27 (4.30%) Front Office
7 17 (2.71%) Marketing
8 14 (2.23%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.91%) Retail
11 9 (1.43%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.27%) Billing
13 7 (1.11%) Military
14 6 (0.96%) Publishing
15 5 (0.80%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.64%) Back Office
16 4 (0.64%) Law
16 4 (0.64%) Legal
16 4 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 244 (38.85%) Developer
2 127 (20.22%) Architect
3 65 (10.35%) Senior
4 38 (6.05%) Java Developer
5 34 (5.41%) CyberArk Architect
6 33 (5.25%) Senior Developer
7 31 (4.94%) Python Developer
8 30 (4.78%) Lead
9 25 (3.98%) Full-Stack Developer
10 24 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
11 22 (3.50%) Analyst
12 21 (3.34%) Business Analyst
13 20 (3.18%) C# Developer
13 20 (3.18%) Software Engineer
14 19 (3.03%) Consultant
15 15 (2.39%) Cloud Specialist
15 15 (2.39%) Integration Specialist
15 15 (2.39%) ServiceNow Developer
16 13 (2.07%) Automation Engineer
16 13 (2.07%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (29.30%) SOAP
2 115 (18.31%) JSON
3 95 (15.13%) Web Services
4 78 (12.42%) React
4 78 (12.42%) RESTful
5 75 (11.94%) Kafka
6 74 (11.78%) Spring
7 70 (11.15%) Spring Boot
8 69 (10.99%) AngularJS
9 64 (10.19%) CSS
9 64 (10.19%) HTML
10 60 (9.55%) .NET
11 58 (9.24%) XML
12 51 (8.12%) OAuth
13 40 (6.37%) Middleware
14 39 (6.21%) GraphQL
15 36 (5.73%) LDAP
16 34 (5.41%) Node.js
17 33 (5.25%) Oracle Fusion
17 33 (5.25%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.80%) Cloud Native
2 44 (7.01%) Enterprise Software
3 38 (6.05%) Product Ownership
3 38 (6.05%) Security Posture
4 35 (5.57%) CMDB
5 31 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (4.30%) PKI
7 24 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (3.66%) Equities
9 21 (3.34%) Public Cloud
10 20 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (3.03%) Mobile App
12 14 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (2.23%) Hedge funds
13 13 (2.07%) Management Information System
14 12 (1.91%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.91%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.75%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.75%) Low-Code
16 10 (1.59%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.32%) Linux
2 20 (3.18%) Windows
3 15 (2.39%) Unix
4 6 (0.96%) zOS
5 5 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.64%) Android
7 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (33.92%) Agile
2 195 (31.05%) CI/CD
3 180 (28.66%) DevOps
4 157 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 133 (21.18%) Microservices
6 97 (15.45%) Integration Patterns
7 85 (13.54%) Test Automation
8 79 (12.58%) ITSM
9 78 (12.42%) Technical Leadership
10 73 (11.62%) Analytics
11 71 (11.31%) Data Modelling
11 71 (11.31%) Observability
11 71 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 67 (10.67%) Event-Driven
13 64 (10.19%) Containerisation
14 63 (10.03%) AI
14 63 (10.03%) API Integration
15 61 (9.71%) Scrum
16 58 (9.24%) Full-Stack Development
17 57 (9.08%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 169 (26.91%) Python
2 153 (24.36%) SQL
3 147 (23.41%) Java
4 114 (18.15%) JavaScript
5 92 (14.65%) PowerShell
6 81 (12.90%) TypeScript
7 77 (12.26%) C#
8 16 (2.55%) Apex Code
9 12 (1.91%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (1.59%) VBA
11 7 (1.11%) Bicep
12 6 (0.96%) Go
12 6 (0.96%) PHP
13 5 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.64%) Korn
14 4 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.64%) XPath
15 3 (0.48%) C++
Qualifications
1 168 (26.75%) Security Cleared
2 154 (24.52%) SC Cleared
3 27 (4.30%) Degree
4 18 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.59%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.27%) ISTQB
6 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.80%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.48%) CISSP
10 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.32%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.32%) PMP
11 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (11.15%) QA
2 25 (3.98%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.50%) Accessibility
4 21 (3.34%) GDPR
5 12 (1.91%) WCAG
6 11 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.43%) NIST
8 7 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.11%) SLA
9 3 (0.48%) GRC
9 3 (0.48%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.32%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.32%) NCSC
10 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.32%) PMO
10 2 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 96 (15.29%) Docker
2 51 (8.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.32%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) IAG
4 1 (0.16%) Postfix
4 1 (0.16%) UAG
Systems Management
1 92 (14.65%) Kubernetes
2 47 (7.48%) Terraform
3 24 (3.82%) Grafana
4 12 (1.91%) Ansible
5 10 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.64%) logstash
7 4 (0.64%) Pingdom
8 2 (0.32%) Amdocs OSS
8 2 (0.32%) Control-M
8 2 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.32%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.32%) Istio
8 2 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.32%) Kibana
8 2 (0.32%) Puppet
8 2 (0.32%) QRadar
8 2 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.16%) linkerd
9 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 70 (11.15%) Oracle
2 66 (10.51%) Microsoft
3 64 (10.19%) ServiceNow
4 41 (6.53%) CyberArk
5 35 (5.57%) BeyondTrust
6 34 (5.41%) Centrify
7 27 (4.30%) Salesforce
8 20 (3.18%) Splunk
9 19 (3.03%) OpenAI
10 17 (2.71%) Google
11 15 (2.39%) SAP
12 12 (1.91%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.75%) Adobe
13 11 (1.75%) Guidewire
14 9 (1.43%) Dynatrace
15 8 (1.27%) Automation Anywhere
15 8 (1.27%) UiPath
16 7 (1.11%) Atlassian
16 7 (1.11%) Bloomberg
16 7 (1.11%) IBM