RESTful Contracts in London

RESTful
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RESTful over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 186 151
Rank change year-on-year +29 -35 -7
Contract jobs citing RESTful 220 220 477
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.75% 1.23% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.73% 4.93% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 159 354
10th Percentile £363 £398 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £750
90th Percentile £753 £750 £860
England median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £62.25
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -31.25% +6.67% +25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

RESTful 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 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in London

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RESTful in London.

Daily rate trend for RESTful in London

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in London

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RESTful in London.

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in London

RESTful
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 RESTful within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 38 £600 -9.77% 48
West London +2 3 £409 +20.29% 14
South London +2 2 - - 4
RESTful
England

RESTful
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (6.36%) Confluence
2 8 (3.64%) Apache
3 4 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.36%) JBoss
4 3 (1.36%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.91%) CICS
5 2 (0.91%) CMS
5 2 (0.91%) nginx
5 2 (0.91%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.45%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.45%) Drupal
6 1 (0.45%) govService
6 1 (0.45%) Magnolia
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Adobe XD
1 3 (1.36%) Sketch
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.91%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (31.82%) AWS
2 57 (25.91%) Azure
3 18 (8.18%) Serverless
4 17 (7.73%) Amazon S3
4 17 (7.73%) GitHub
5 15 (6.82%) GCP
6 14 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (5.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 12 (5.45%) CloudFront
8 12 (5.45%) Route 53
9 11 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (4.09%) Azure AKS
11 9 (4.09%) Slack
12 8 (3.64%) Entra ID
13 7 (3.18%) Azure Functions
13 7 (3.18%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.91%) HTTP
2 6 (2.73%) Firewall
3 4 (1.82%) SSL
4 3 (1.36%) DNS
4 3 (1.36%) Network Security
5 2 (0.91%) LAN
5 2 (0.91%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.91%) VPN
5 2 (0.91%) WAN
6 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.45%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (16.36%) NoSQL
3 35 (15.91%) MongoDB
4 29 (13.18%) SQL Server
5 25 (11.36%) Redis
6 22 (10.00%) MySQL
7 15 (6.82%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (5.45%) DocumentDB
9 11 (5.00%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.09%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (3.18%) DB2
11 7 (3.18%) DynamoDB
12 6 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (2.27%) Big Data
14 4 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.82%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.91%) GIS
15 2 (0.91%) IMS/DB
15 2 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 71 (32.27%) Git
2 20 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.27%) JIRA
4 15 (6.82%) JUnit
5 12 (5.45%) Cucumber
5 12 (5.45%) GitLab
6 11 (5.00%) Postman
7 10 (4.55%) Jasmine
8 7 (3.18%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.18%) Maven
9 5 (2.27%) Mockito
9 5 (2.27%) Selenium
10 4 (1.82%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.82%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.82%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.82%) webpack
11 3 (1.36%) Ant
11 3 (1.36%) Babel
11 3 (1.36%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.36%) git-flow
General
1 59 (26.82%) Finance
2 56 (25.45%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.09%) Banking
4 22 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.45%) Retail Banking
7 5 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Advertising
8 3 (1.36%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.36%) Front Office
8 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.36%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.91%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.91%) Marketing
9 2 (0.91%) Retail
9 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.45%) Aviation
10 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 138 (62.73%) Developer
2 42 (19.09%) Senior
3 30 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
3 30 (13.64%) Senior Developer
4 29 (13.18%) Java Developer
5 19 (8.64%) Software Engineer
6 15 (6.82%) Architect
6 15 (6.82%) Lead
7 12 (5.45%) .NET Developer
7 12 (5.45%) Angular Developer
7 12 (5.45%) C# Developer
8 11 (5.00%) Lead Developer
9 9 (4.09%) Python Developer
9 9 (4.09%) React Developer
10 8 (3.64%) Backend Developer
10 8 (3.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (3.64%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (3.18%) Lead Java Developer
11 7 (3.18%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (24.55%) React
2 43 (19.55%) CSS
3 42 (19.09%) HTML
3 42 (19.09%) Spring
4 40 (18.18%) Web Services
5 34 (15.45%) Spring Boot
6 33 (15.00%) .NET
7 29 (13.18%) AngularJS
7 29 (13.18%) GraphQL
8 27 (12.27%) Node.js
9 26 (11.82%) Kafka
10 21 (9.55%) Swagger
11 20 (9.09%) OAuth
12 17 (7.73%) OpenAPI
12 17 (7.73%) Redux
13 16 (7.27%) JSON
14 15 (6.82%) SOAP
15 14 (6.36%) .NET Framework
16 12 (5.45%) Spring Security
16 12 (5.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.36%) Derivative
2 12 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 8 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.27%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.36%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.36%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.36%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.91%) Linux
2 11 (5.00%) Unix
3 9 (4.09%) Android
3 9 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.64%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.91%) Windows
5 2 (0.91%) zOS
6 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.45%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (42.27%) Agile
2 89 (40.45%) CI/CD
3 70 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (26.36%) Microservices
5 48 (21.82%) DevOps
6 45 (20.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 38 (17.27%) Test Automation
8 33 (15.00%) Software Engineering
9 32 (14.55%) API Development
9 32 (14.55%) Containerisation
10 31 (14.09%) API Design
11 30 (13.64%) Front End Development
12 29 (13.18%) Code Quality
12 29 (13.18%) User Experience
13 28 (12.73%) SOLID
14 27 (12.27%) TDD
15 26 (11.82%) Clean Code
16 23 (10.45%) Continuous Integration
17 21 (9.55%) Event-Driven
18 20 (9.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (34.09%) JavaScript
2 68 (30.91%) Java
3 56 (25.45%) SQL
4 49 (22.27%) TypeScript
5 43 (19.55%) Python
6 38 (17.27%) C#
7 11 (5.00%) Bash
8 10 (4.55%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.73%) Swift
10 5 (2.27%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.27%) Objective-C
10 5 (2.27%) Scala
11 4 (1.82%) Perl
11 4 (1.82%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.82%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.82%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.36%) PHP
12 3 (1.36%) Ruby
13 2 (0.91%) Groovy
13 2 (0.91%) REXX
Qualifications
1 35 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 33 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.09%) Degree
4 5 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.45%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.45%) OCP
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 11 (5.00%) QA
2 2 (0.91%) DICOM
2 2 (0.91%) HL7
3 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (20.45%) Docker
2 5 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (23.64%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.82%) Terraform
3 8 (3.64%) Ansible
4 5 (2.27%) Grafana
4 5 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.45%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.45%) Kibana
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.45%) Rancher
6 1 (0.45%) vRealize
6 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (7.73%) Oracle
2 11 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.18%) Google
4 6 (2.73%) IBM
5 5 (2.27%) TIBCO
6 4 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.82%) Splunk
6 4 (1.82%) Sybase
7 3 (1.36%) Adobe
7 3 (1.36%) Cisco
7 3 (1.36%) Okta
8 2 (0.91%) Foundry
8 2 (0.91%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.91%) Remedy
8 2 (0.91%) SAP
9 1 (0.45%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.45%) F5
9 1 (0.45%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.45%) Pardot