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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 115 93
Rank change year-on-year +45 -22 +5
Contract jobs citing REST 643 303 449
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.82% 2.40% 2.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.43% 9.20% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 188 309
10th Percentile £362 £380 £400
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.90%
75th Percentile £688 £651 £700
90th Percentile £800 £750 £850
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £52.00 - £49.25
25th Percentile £61.00 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £62.25
75th Percentile £95.00 - £73.69
90th Percentile - - £85.73
England median hourly rate £70.00 £82.96 £62.00
% change year-on-year -15.62% +33.81% +1.22%

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 4,166 3,293 4,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.73% 26.07% 24.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,827 2,304 3,343
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £427 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £574 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% -0.26% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £692
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £537 £545
% change year-on-year -2.23% -1.47% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 26
10th Percentile £26.55 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £25.88
Median hourly rate £44.50 £54.00 £44.85
Median % change year-on-year -17.59% +20.41% -31.84%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.00 £65.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.25 £76.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -2 61 £525 -1.87% 58
South London -8 12 £516 +35.66% 3
West London -19 6 £375 -43.61% 2
East London +3 5 £432 -31.43% 10
North London - 4 - -
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 (3.58%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.95%) Confluence
3 11 (1.71%) Camunda
4 10 (1.56%) Apache
4 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.40%) Appian
6 8 (1.24%) Jupyter
7 7 (1.09%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.93%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.93%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.62%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.62%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.62%) CICS
10 3 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.31%) Drupal
11 2 (0.31%) Mule
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.31%) SAS
11 2 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) 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 16 (2.49%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.62%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.62%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Shopify
6 1 (0.16%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP CS
6 1 (0.16%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.16%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 225 (34.99%) Azure
2 198 (30.79%) AWS
3 92 (14.31%) GCP
4 68 (10.58%) GitHub
5 52 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (7.15%) Serverless
7 42 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (6.38%) Power Platform
9 38 (5.91%) IaaS
10 35 (5.44%) OCI
11 34 (5.29%) PaaS
12 31 (4.82%) Entra ID
13 24 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
14 22 (3.42%) Amazon S3
14 22 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
14 22 (3.42%) Power Automate
15 21 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
16 20 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (2.95%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.49%) HTTP
2 8 (1.24%) SMS
3 5 (0.78%) DNS
3 5 (0.78%) Firewall
4 4 (0.62%) BGP
4 4 (0.62%) SSL
5 3 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.47%) MPLS
5 3 (0.47%) OSPF
5 3 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.31%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.31%) Modbus
6 2 (0.31%) NaaS
6 2 (0.31%) SAN
6 2 (0.31%) SNMP
6 2 (0.31%) VPN
6 2 (0.31%) WAN
7 1 (0.16%) IPFIX
7 1 (0.16%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.16%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (8.40%) Relational Database
2 49 (7.62%) SQL Server
3 46 (7.15%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (5.75%) NoSQL
5 27 (4.20%) MongoDB
6 18 (2.80%) MySQL
6 18 (2.80%) Power BI
7 12 (1.87%) RDBMS
8 10 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 10 (1.56%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.56%) DynamoDB
8 10 (1.56%) Metadata
8 10 (1.56%) Redis
9 9 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.40%) Pinecone
10 8 (1.24%) DocumentDB
10 8 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 88 (13.69%) Git
2 50 (7.78%) JIRA
3 41 (6.38%) Jenkins
4 35 (5.44%) Postman
5 31 (4.82%) JUnit
6 28 (4.35%) GitLab
7 25 (3.89%) Cucumber
8 23 (3.58%) Selenium
9 19 (2.95%) REST Assured
10 17 (2.64%) Cypress.io
11 16 (2.49%) Mockito
12 12 (1.87%) JMeter
12 12 (1.87%) Maven
13 11 (1.71%) SoapUI
14 8 (1.24%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.24%) MLflow
15 7 (1.09%) Gatling
15 7 (1.09%) SonarQube
16 5 (0.78%) SpecFlow
16 5 (0.78%) Zephyr
General
1 185 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 143 (22.24%) Finance
3 99 (15.40%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.40%) Banking
6 27 (4.20%) Front Office
7 16 (2.49%) Marketing
8 14 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.18%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.71%) Financial Institution
9 11 (1.71%) Retail
10 10 (1.56%) Publishing
11 8 (1.24%) Billing
12 7 (1.09%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.93%) Military
14 5 (0.78%) Legal
15 4 (0.62%) Back Office
15 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 231 (35.93%) Developer
2 136 (21.15%) Architect
3 62 (9.64%) Senior
4 40 (6.22%) Java Developer
5 35 (5.44%) Python Developer
6 34 (5.29%) CyberArk Architect
7 30 (4.67%) Lead
7 30 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
8 28 (4.35%) Senior Developer
9 25 (3.89%) Software Engineer
10 24 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (3.27%) Analyst
12 19 (2.95%) Consultant
13 18 (2.80%) Business Analyst
13 18 (2.80%) C# Developer
14 16 (2.49%) Integration Specialist
15 15 (2.33%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (2.33%) Cloud Specialist
16 13 (2.02%) Data Engineer
16 13 (2.02%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (28.15%) SOAP
2 111 (17.26%) JSON
3 96 (14.93%) Web Services
4 82 (12.75%) RESTful
5 80 (12.44%) Spring
6 79 (12.29%) Kafka
7 78 (12.13%) React
8 75 (11.66%) Spring Boot
9 72 (11.20%) AngularJS
10 69 (10.73%) .NET
11 60 (9.33%) CSS
11 60 (9.33%) HTML
12 53 (8.24%) XML
13 51 (7.93%) OAuth
14 46 (7.15%) Middleware
15 37 (5.75%) GraphQL
15 37 (5.75%) LDAP
16 36 (5.60%) Node.js
17 34 (5.29%) Pandas
18 32 (4.98%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.93%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.84%) Enterprise Software
3 40 (6.22%) Security Posture
4 39 (6.07%) Product Ownership
5 34 (5.29%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (4.98%) CMDB
7 28 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
8 27 (4.20%) PKI
9 25 (3.89%) Equities
10 21 (3.27%) Public Cloud
11 20 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
12 19 (2.95%) Management Information System
13 18 (2.80%) Mobile App
14 16 (2.49%) Onboarding
15 15 (2.33%) Data Structures
15 15 (2.33%) Hedge funds
16 13 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 11 (1.71%) Algorithms
17 11 (1.71%) Fixed Income
18 10 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.84%) Linux
2 22 (3.42%) Windows
3 12 (1.87%) Unix
4 6 (0.93%) zOS
5 5 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.47%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (32.66%) Agile
2 202 (31.42%) CI/CD
3 192 (29.86%) DevOps
4 157 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
5 136 (21.15%) Microservices
6 105 (16.33%) Integration Patterns
7 91 (14.15%) Test Automation
8 80 (12.44%) ITSM
8 80 (12.44%) Technical Leadership
9 78 (12.13%) Observability
10 77 (11.98%) Analytics
11 75 (11.66%) Data Modelling
12 72 (11.20%) Event-Driven
13 70 (10.89%) Containerisation
14 69 (10.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 62 (9.64%) AI
16 58 (9.02%) Scrum
16 58 (9.02%) Software Engineering
17 57 (8.86%) API Integration
18 55 (8.55%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 179 (27.84%) Python
2 154 (23.95%) SQL
3 151 (23.48%) Java
4 109 (16.95%) JavaScript
5 91 (14.15%) PowerShell
6 82 (12.75%) C#
7 80 (12.44%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.64%) Apex Code
9 12 (1.87%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (1.56%) VBA
11 8 (1.24%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.09%) Bicep
13 6 (0.93%) Go
14 5 (0.78%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.62%) Groovy
15 4 (0.62%) PHP
15 4 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.62%) XPath
16 3 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 175 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 161 (25.04%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.82%) Degree
4 21 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.93%) CISSP
7 6 (0.93%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.62%) CISM
9 4 (0.62%) MBA
10 3 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.31%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.31%) OSCP
11 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (10.11%) QA
2 26 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.58%) GDPR
4 17 (2.64%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.71%) WCAG
6 10 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.40%) NIST
8 7 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.09%) SLA
9 5 (0.78%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.47%) GRC
11 3 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.31%) NCSC
12 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.31%) PMO
12 2 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 94 (14.62%) Docker
2 51 (7.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 2 (0.31%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) IAG
4 1 (0.16%) Postfix
4 1 (0.16%) UAG
Systems Management
1 96 (14.93%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.62%) Terraform
3 23 (3.58%) Grafana
4 15 (2.33%) Ansible
5 11 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.62%) Pingdom
6 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.47%) logstash
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%) Puppet
8 2 (0.31%) QRadar
8 2 (0.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 70 (10.89%) ServiceNow
2 69 (10.73%) Oracle
3 68 (10.58%) Microsoft
4 39 (6.07%) CyberArk
5 34 (5.29%) BeyondTrust
5 34 (5.29%) Centrify
6 31 (4.82%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.80%) Google
7 18 (2.80%) Splunk
8 17 (2.64%) SAP
9 16 (2.49%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.87%) MuleSoft
11 11 (1.71%) Adobe
11 11 (1.71%) Guidewire
12 10 (1.56%) Atlassian
12 10 (1.56%) IBM
13 9 (1.40%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.40%) Workday
14 8 (1.24%) Automation Anywhere
14 8 (1.24%) UiPath