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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 76 109
Rank change year-on-year +21 +33 +2
Contract jobs citing REST 881 469 372
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.33% 3.51% 2.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.47% 11.82% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 309 224
10th Percentile £400 £359 £413
25th Percentile £450 £420 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £638
90th Percentile £738 £713 £768
England median daily rate £525 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £46.40 £44.48 -
25th Percentile £50.63 £45.56 -
Median hourly rate £59.50 £50.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% - -
75th Percentile £69.38 £55.56 -
90th Percentile £80.50 £56.43 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -32.43% -2.33%

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 5,348 3,969 4,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 29.68% 30.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,601 2,721 3,301
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £450 £431 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £708
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 22
10th Percentile £26.55 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +22.28% -32.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.56 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.83 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.69% -15.38% +8.33%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +12 107 £553 -3.91% 106
South London 0 13 £700 +12.54% 6
East London 0 3 £525 -2.78% 6
West London -28 3 £539 +47.60% 21
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 33 (3.75%) Confluence
2 22 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.70%) Apache
4 14 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.14%) IIS
6 9 (1.02%) Anypoint
6 9 (1.02%) Camunda
7 7 (0.79%) Mule
8 6 (0.68%) CMS
8 6 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.68%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.45%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.45%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) nginx
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.45%) Windchill
2 3 (0.34%) Trello
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.11%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (2.04%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.57%) Shopify
6 4 (0.45%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.45%) Quorum
6 4 (0.45%) R3 Corda
6 4 (0.45%) Ripple
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.34%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.34%) Workfront
8 2 (0.23%) Magento
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 362 (41.09%) Azure
2 291 (33.03%) AWS
3 161 (18.27%) GitHub
4 120 (13.62%) Azure DevOps
5 108 (12.26%) GCP
6 95 (10.78%) Serverless
7 91 (10.33%) GitHub Actions
8 68 (7.72%) Entra ID
9 55 (6.24%) Power Platform
10 52 (5.90%) SaaS
11 49 (5.56%) Amazon S3
12 44 (4.99%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
15 33 (3.75%) Boomi
16 28 (3.18%) Azure Functions
16 28 (3.18%) PowerApps
17 27 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (3.06%) GitHub Copilot
18 26 (2.95%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.84%) HTTP
2 14 (1.59%) DNS
3 9 (1.02%) Firewall
3 9 (1.02%) HTTPS
3 9 (1.02%) Network Security
4 8 (0.91%) BGP
4 8 (0.91%) SSH
5 6 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
5 6 (0.68%) FTP
5 6 (0.68%) SSL
5 6 (0.68%) VXLAN
6 5 (0.57%) Internet
6 5 (0.57%) NX-OS
6 5 (0.57%) TACACS
6 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.45%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.45%) SAN
7 4 (0.45%) VPN
8 3 (0.34%) SMS
8 3 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (13.39%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (9.08%) Relational Database
3 79 (8.97%) SQL Server
4 55 (6.24%) NoSQL
5 40 (4.54%) MongoDB
6 35 (3.97%) Power BI
7 30 (3.41%) Redis
8 27 (3.06%) MySQL
9 20 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (2.16%) Metadata
11 18 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.59%) DynamoDB
14 13 (1.48%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (1.36%) Big Data
16 11 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
16 11 (1.25%) Data Lake
16 11 (1.25%) Oracle Database
16 11 (1.25%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 168 (19.07%) Git
2 94 (10.67%) Jenkins
3 65 (7.38%) JIRA
4 64 (7.26%) GitLab
5 45 (5.11%) JUnit
6 30 (3.41%) Gradle
7 28 (3.18%) Maven
8 23 (2.61%) Cypress.io
9 21 (2.38%) Postman
9 21 (2.38%) Selenium
10 18 (2.04%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.82%) Mockito
12 14 (1.59%) Bitbucket
12 14 (1.59%) REST Assured
12 14 (1.59%) Visual Studio
13 13 (1.48%) CircleCI
13 13 (1.48%) Visual Studio Code
14 10 (1.14%) Eclipse
14 10 (1.14%) Storybook
15 9 (1.02%) JMeter
General
1 258 (29.28%) Finance
2 243 (27.58%) Social Skills
3 115 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (10.90%) Banking
5 73 (8.29%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.20%) Retail
7 26 (2.95%) Marketing
8 25 (2.84%) Telecoms
9 23 (2.61%) Investment Banking
10 15 (1.70%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.59%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.48%) Front Office
13 12 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.25%) Publishing
15 10 (1.14%) Billing
15 10 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.02%) Legal
17 8 (0.91%) Law
17 8 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 362 (41.09%) Developer
2 160 (18.16%) Senior
3 153 (17.37%) Architect
4 80 (9.08%) Senior Developer
5 60 (6.81%) Full-Stack Developer
6 53 (6.02%) Lead
7 52 (5.90%) Java Developer
8 45 (5.11%) Python Developer
9 41 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
10 40 (4.54%) Software Engineer
11 34 (3.86%) .NET Developer
12 29 (3.29%) React Developer
13 26 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 26 (2.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 26 (2.95%) Java Engineer
14 24 (2.72%) Consultant
15 21 (2.38%) ServiceNow Developer
16 20 (2.27%) C# Developer
16 20 (2.27%) Technical Architect
17 19 (2.16%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (24.29%) SOAP
2 137 (15.55%) .NET
3 128 (14.53%) JSON
3 128 (14.53%) React
4 116 (13.17%) Kafka
5 108 (12.26%) RESTful
6 103 (11.69%) Spring
7 96 (10.90%) OAuth
8 95 (10.78%) Spring Boot
9 94 (10.67%) Terraform
10 87 (9.88%) XML
11 81 (9.19%) HTML
12 79 (8.97%) CSS
13 76 (8.63%) GraphQL
14 66 (7.49%) OAuth2
15 65 (7.38%) Middleware
16 61 (6.92%) Node.js
17 59 (6.70%) AngularJS
18 58 (6.58%) Web Services
19 37 (4.20%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 152 (17.25%) Cloud Native
2 81 (9.19%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (8.17%) Product Ownership
4 59 (6.70%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (4.54%) AI Agents
5 40 (4.54%) Onboarding
6 39 (4.43%) CMDB
7 32 (3.63%) Mobile App
8 24 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (2.50%) Data Structures
10 20 (2.27%) Management Information System
10 20 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (2.16%) Low-Code
12 14 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.59%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.14%) Data Centre
13 10 (1.14%) Derivative
13 10 (1.14%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (7.72%) Linux
2 36 (4.09%) Windows
3 29 (3.29%) Unix
4 22 (2.50%) Android
5 13 (1.48%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.68%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) CentOS
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (49.15%) CI/CD
2 318 (36.10%) Agile
3 296 (33.60%) DevOps
4 226 (25.65%) Microservices
5 187 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
6 185 (21.00%) AI
7 172 (19.52%) Event-Driven
8 155 (17.59%) Test Automation
9 127 (14.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 125 (14.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 125 (14.19%) Scrum
10 125 (14.19%) Software Engineering
11 122 (13.85%) Integration Patterns
12 120 (13.62%) Data Modelling
13 117 (13.28%) Full-Stack Development
14 112 (12.71%) Containerisation
15 101 (11.46%) Observability
16 100 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 99 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
18 92 (10.44%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 282 (32.01%) Python
2 248 (28.15%) SQL
3 221 (25.09%) Java
4 203 (23.04%) JavaScript
5 162 (18.39%) TypeScript
6 131 (14.87%) C#
7 58 (6.58%) PowerShell
8 29 (3.29%) Bash
8 29 (3.29%) Kotlin
9 25 (2.84%) Apex Code
10 22 (2.50%) Shell Script
11 20 (2.27%) Groovy
12 17 (1.93%) Bicep
12 17 (1.93%) Go
13 13 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 13 (1.48%) PL/SQL
14 10 (1.14%) SOQL
14 10 (1.14%) SOSL
14 10 (1.14%) Swift
15 9 (1.02%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 190 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 157 (17.82%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.70%) Degree
4 27 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.04%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.02%) CISSP
9 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.68%) CISM
10 6 (0.68%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 6 (0.68%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.68%) PMP
11 5 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.45%) CESG Certified Professional
12 4 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.34%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (11.35%) QA
2 40 (4.54%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.63%) GDPR
4 28 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.38%) GRC
6 17 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.25%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.25%) NIST
9 10 (1.14%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.14%) SLA
10 8 (0.91%) ISO 20022
10 8 (0.91%) WCAG
11 5 (0.57%) HL7
11 5 (0.57%) SEPA
12 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.34%) Basel III
13 3 (0.34%) NCSC
14 2 (0.23%) ISO 13485
14 2 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 161 (18.27%) Docker
2 37 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Postfix
7 2 (0.23%) Varnish
8 1 (0.11%) Ceph
8 1 (0.11%) RACF
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 159 (18.05%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.63%) Ansible
3 29 (3.29%) Grafana
4 20 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.91%) Kibana
7 7 (0.79%) Control-M
8 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.34%) Bosun
9 3 (0.34%) Istio
10 2 (0.23%) Netcool
10 2 (0.23%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 2 (0.23%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.23%) SCCM
10 2 (0.23%) systemd
10 2 (0.23%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.23%) Tivoli Monitoring
11 1 (0.11%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.11%) SCOM
11 1 (0.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 147 (16.69%) Microsoft
2 111 (12.60%) Oracle
3 89 (10.10%) ServiceNow
4 79 (8.97%) Salesforce
5 44 (4.99%) Google
6 43 (4.88%) SAP
7 41 (4.65%) Databricks
8 29 (3.29%) OpenAI
9 27 (3.06%) Splunk
10 26 (2.95%) MuleSoft
11 25 (2.84%) CyberArk
12 22 (2.50%) IBM
13 15 (1.70%) Workday
14 13 (1.48%) Cisco
14 13 (1.48%) VMware
15 12 (1.36%) Dynatrace
16 10 (1.14%) Foundry
16 10 (1.14%) Okta
16 10 (1.14%) OutSystems
17 9 (1.02%) New Relic