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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 93 101
Rank change year-on-year +28 +8 +12
Contract jobs citing REST 806 411 415
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.00% 3.03% 2.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.63% 11.66% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 288 283
10th Percentile £395 £362 £413
25th Percentile £437 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £552 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% +5.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £705 £750 £775
England median daily rate £515 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +5.10% -6.67% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £45.50 - -
25th Percentile £52.06 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £47.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.42% -29.10% +1.13%
75th Percentile £72.19 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £81.88 - -
England median hourly rate £59.50 £50.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +19.00% -30.56% +32.27%

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 4,572 3,526 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.68% 25.98% 27.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,025 2,461 3,185
10th Percentile £386 £368 £377
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 24
10th Percentile £26.48 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.41 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +31.25% -39.39%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.13 £53.42
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -7.35%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 94 £538 -2.27% 62
South London 0 17 £563 -9.57% 7
East London +5 4 £400 -39.92% 14
West London -24 3 £539 +2.62% 6
North London - 1 - - 3
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 30 (3.72%) Confluence
2 25 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.99%) Apache
4 13 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.24%) Anypoint
5 10 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.12%) Camunda
7 8 (0.99%) IIS
8 7 (0.87%) Mule
9 6 (0.74%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.50%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.50%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.37%) CICS
12 3 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.37%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.25%) CMS
13 2 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
1 3 (0.37%) Trello
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.12%) Maya
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.86%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.62%) Shopify
5 4 (0.50%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.50%) Quorum
5 4 (0.50%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.50%) Ripple
6 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.25%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.25%) Magento
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.25%) Workfront
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 292 (36.23%) Azure
2 243 (30.15%) AWS
3 131 (16.25%) GitHub
4 90 (11.17%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (10.92%) GCP
6 78 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
7 65 (8.06%) Serverless
8 60 (7.44%) Entra ID
9 48 (5.96%) Power Platform
10 42 (5.21%) SaaS
11 36 (4.47%) Amazon S3
12 34 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (3.23%) PowerApps
16 25 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (3.10%) Boomi
16 25 (3.10%) PaaS
16 25 (3.10%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 24 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.48%) HTTP
2 7 (0.87%) BGP
2 7 (0.87%) DNS
2 7 (0.87%) HTTPS
3 6 (0.74%) Firewall
3 6 (0.74%) FTP
4 5 (0.62%) Network Security
4 5 (0.62%) SSL
5 4 (0.50%) MPLS
5 4 (0.50%) OSPF
5 4 (0.50%) WAN
6 3 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.37%) TACACS
6 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.37%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.25%) NaaS
7 2 (0.25%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.25%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (12.53%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (10.92%) Relational Database
3 73 (9.06%) SQL Server
4 39 (4.84%) NoSQL
5 32 (3.97%) MongoDB
6 30 (3.72%) Power BI
7 25 (3.10%) Redis
8 20 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (2.36%) MySQL
10 18 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (1.86%) Metadata
13 14 (1.74%) Big Data
14 12 (1.49%) BigQuery
15 10 (1.24%) DynamoDB
16 9 (1.12%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 7 (0.87%) InterSystems Cache
17 7 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 124 (15.38%) Git
2 68 (8.44%) Jenkins
3 56 (6.95%) JIRA
4 48 (5.96%) GitLab
5 35 (4.34%) JUnit
6 25 (3.10%) Cypress.io
7 20 (2.48%) Gradle
8 19 (2.36%) Maven
9 16 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.99%) Selenium
10 14 (1.74%) Mockito
10 14 (1.74%) Postman
11 12 (1.49%) Visual Studio
12 11 (1.36%) CircleCI
12 11 (1.36%) REST Assured
13 10 (1.24%) Eclipse
13 10 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
14 9 (1.12%) Storybook
15 8 (0.99%) Ant
15 8 (0.99%) Bitbucket
General
1 223 (27.67%) Finance
2 193 (23.95%) Social Skills
3 108 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (9.06%) Banking
5 69 (8.56%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.84%) Retail
7 28 (3.47%) Telecoms
8 21 (2.61%) Marketing
9 17 (2.11%) Publishing
10 15 (1.86%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.24%) Billing
11 10 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.24%) Legal
11 10 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.12%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.12%) Front Office
13 7 (0.87%) Law
13 7 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 328 (40.69%) Developer
2 142 (17.62%) Architect
3 132 (16.38%) Senior
4 67 (8.31%) Senior Developer
5 54 (6.70%) Java Developer
6 49 (6.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 44 (5.46%) Solutions Architect
8 41 (5.09%) Software Engineer
9 39 (4.84%) Lead
10 37 (4.59%) Python Developer
11 27 (3.35%) React Developer
12 25 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 25 (3.10%) Consultant
13 24 (2.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 23 (2.85%) .NET Developer
15 22 (2.73%) ServiceNow Architect
15 22 (2.73%) ServiceNow Developer
16 20 (2.48%) C# Developer
17 19 (2.36%) Java Engineer
18 17 (2.11%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (26.30%) SOAP
2 120 (14.89%) React
3 118 (14.64%) .NET
3 118 (14.64%) JSON
4 106 (13.15%) RESTful
5 100 (12.41%) Spring
6 97 (12.03%) Kafka
7 88 (10.92%) Spring Boot
8 81 (10.05%) XML
9 79 (9.80%) OAuth
10 73 (9.06%) CSS
10 73 (9.06%) Web Services
11 71 (8.81%) HTML
12 63 (7.82%) GraphQL
13 60 (7.44%) AngularJS
13 60 (7.44%) Middleware
14 59 (7.32%) Node.js
15 50 (6.20%) OAuth2
16 30 (3.72%) .NET Core
16 30 (3.72%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 121 (15.01%) Cloud Native
2 75 (9.31%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (7.20%) Product Ownership
4 51 (6.33%) CMDB
5 41 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
6 33 (4.09%) Mobile App
7 29 (3.60%) Management Information System
8 27 (3.35%) AI Agents
9 25 (3.10%) Data Structures
10 24 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (2.98%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (2.11%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.86%) Low-Code
13 15 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.49%) Security Posture
15 11 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (1.24%) Equities
16 10 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
17 9 (1.12%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.46%) Linux
2 26 (3.23%) Windows
3 19 (2.36%) Android
4 18 (2.23%) Unix
5 8 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.37%) zOS
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (44.54%) CI/CD
2 279 (34.62%) Agile
3 269 (33.37%) DevOps
4 202 (25.06%) Microservices
5 172 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (18.98%) AI
7 134 (16.63%) Event-Driven
8 125 (15.51%) Test Automation
9 122 (15.14%) Integration Patterns
10 114 (14.14%) Containerisation
11 113 (14.02%) Data Modelling
12 110 (13.65%) Software Engineering
13 108 (13.40%) Scrum
14 107 (13.28%) Observability
15 101 (12.53%) Full-Stack Development
16 90 (11.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 90 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
17 88 (10.92%) Roadmaps
18 87 (10.79%) ITSM
19 85 (10.55%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 215 (26.67%) Python
2 212 (26.30%) Java
3 209 (25.93%) SQL
4 185 (22.95%) JavaScript
5 136 (16.87%) TypeScript
6 113 (14.02%) C#
7 45 (5.58%) PowerShell
8 29 (3.60%) Kotlin
9 25 (3.10%) Apex Code
10 20 (2.48%) Groovy
11 17 (2.11%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.99%) Bicep
13 14 (1.74%) Bash
14 13 (1.61%) Go
14 13 (1.61%) Shell Script
15 12 (1.49%) SOQL
16 10 (1.24%) SOSL
16 10 (1.24%) T-SQL
17 9 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 164 (20.35%) Security Cleared
2 139 (17.25%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.70%) Degree
4 25 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.12%) CISSP
9 8 (0.99%) CISM
10 7 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.74%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.74%) PMP
12 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.62%) MBA
13 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.25%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (8.93%) QA
2 33 (4.09%) Data Quality
3 27 (3.35%) GDPR
4 26 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.23%) GRC
6 16 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.49%) HIPAA
7 12 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.87%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.87%) SLA
9 7 (0.87%) WCAG
10 6 (0.74%) NIST
11 5 (0.62%) HL7
12 4 (0.50%) PMO
12 4 (0.50%) SEPA
13 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.25%) IEC 62304
14 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 2 (0.25%) ITGC
System Software
1 139 (17.25%) Docker
2 24 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.37%) Postfix
6 2 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.25%) Varnish
6 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.12%) Ceph
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) IAG
7 1 (0.12%) RACF
7 1 (0.12%) UAG
7 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 143 (17.74%) Kubernetes
2 79 (9.80%) Terraform
3 26 (3.23%) Ansible
3 26 (3.23%) Grafana
4 18 (2.23%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.87%) Control-M
7 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.37%) Bosun
9 2 (0.25%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (0.25%) Avamar
9 2 (0.25%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.25%) Istio
9 2 (0.25%) Kibana
9 2 (0.25%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.25%) SCCM
10 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.12%) linkerd
10 1 (0.12%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 125 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 111 (13.77%) Oracle
3 100 (12.41%) ServiceNow
4 75 (9.31%) Salesforce
5 39 (4.84%) Google
6 32 (3.97%) SAP
7 26 (3.23%) MuleSoft
8 23 (2.85%) Splunk
9 20 (2.48%) Workday
10 17 (2.11%) IBM
11 16 (1.99%) Databricks
12 14 (1.74%) OpenAI
13 12 (1.49%) Dynatrace
14 10 (1.24%) Cisco
14 10 (1.24%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.24%) New Relic
14 10 (1.24%) OutSystems
15 9 (1.12%) Atlassian
16 7 (0.87%) Adobe
16 7 (0.87%) OpenText