RESTful Contract Job Trends in London

RESTful
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring RESTful skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 153 177
Rank change year-on-year +3 +24 -29
Contract jobs citing RESTful 305 221 233
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.69% 1.79% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.33% 6.87% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 157 166
10th Percentile £350 £363 £394
25th Percentile £413 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £564
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.87% -13.27%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £693
90th Percentile £700 £755 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -13.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £57.60 - -
25th Percentile £67.88 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -34.38% +6.67%

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 4,162 3,216 4,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.06% 26.03% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,769 2,249 3,358
10th Percentile £372 £385 £375
25th Percentile £437 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 25
10th Percentile £23.65 - £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £48.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +14.12% -36.80%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £91.00 £81.25 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RESTful relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

RESTful job vacancy trend in London

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RESTful.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RESTful

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in London

RESTful
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RESTful.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing RESTful

RESTful
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing RESTful in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 21 May 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 33 £525 -12.50% 39
South London -9 8 £542 -
West London -29 1 £300 -41.41% 2
East London - 1 £500 - 3
RESTful
England

RESTful
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 10 (3.28%) Confluence
2 8 (2.62%) Appian
3 6 (1.97%) Ethereum
3 6 (1.97%) Hyperledger
4 5 (1.64%) Camunda
4 5 (1.64%) CICS
5 3 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.66%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.66%) CMS
6 2 (0.66%) Mule
6 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.33%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.33%) JBoss
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.66%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.33%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) SDL Web 8
3 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 139 (45.57%) AWS
2 106 (34.75%) Azure
3 53 (17.38%) GitHub
3 53 (17.38%) Serverless
4 43 (14.10%) AWS Lambda
5 37 (12.13%) Amazon S3
5 37 (12.13%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (9.51%) GCP
7 26 (8.52%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (6.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (6.89%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (6.56%) Amazon SQS
11 20 (6.56%) Power Automate
12 12 (3.93%) Azure Functions
12 12 (3.93%) Power Platform
13 11 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.95%) HTTP
2 4 (1.31%) DNS
3 3 (0.98%) SSL
4 1 (0.33%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.33%) 4G
4 1 (0.33%) 5G
4 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.33%) LTE
4 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (16.07%) NoSQL
3 37 (12.13%) SQL Server
4 32 (10.49%) MongoDB
5 31 (10.16%) Relational Database
6 20 (6.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 20 (6.56%) DynamoDB
7 19 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (5.57%) MySQL
9 13 (4.26%) Redis
10 9 (2.95%) DB2
10 9 (2.95%) Pinecone
11 7 (2.30%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.31%) Big Data
12 4 (1.31%) Power BI
13 3 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.98%) Apache Hudi
13 3 (0.98%) Presto
14 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 66 (21.64%) Git
2 59 (19.34%) Jenkins
3 34 (11.15%) JUnit
4 33 (10.82%) GitLab
5 19 (6.23%) Mockito
6 18 (5.90%) JIRA
7 14 (4.59%) Cucumber
8 13 (4.26%) Maven
9 11 (3.61%) Gradle
10 8 (2.62%) MLflow
10 8 (2.62%) Postman
11 7 (2.30%) Selenium
11 7 (2.30%) Visual Studio
12 6 (1.97%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.97%) REST Assured
12 6 (1.97%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.97%) TeamCity
13 5 (1.64%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.64%) Mocha
13 5 (1.64%) MSTest
General
1 88 (28.85%) Finance
2 71 (23.28%) Social Skills
3 47 (15.41%) Public Sector
4 38 (12.46%) Banking
5 32 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.93%) Front Office
7 9 (2.95%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.64%) Retail
9 4 (1.31%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.31%) Legal
10 3 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.98%) Law
10 3 (0.98%) Local Government
10 3 (0.98%) Police
11 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.33%) Back Office
12 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Electronics
12 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 187 (61.31%) Developer
2 59 (19.34%) Senior
3 55 (18.03%) Java Developer
4 36 (11.80%) Senior Developer
5 30 (9.84%) Python Developer
6 29 (9.51%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (7.54%) Software Engineer
8 21 (6.89%) C# Developer
9 20 (6.56%) Senior Java Developer
10 18 (5.90%) Java Engineer
11 16 (5.25%) Architect
12 15 (4.92%) React Developer
13 14 (4.59%) Backend Developer
14 13 (4.26%) .NET Developer
14 13 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 12 (3.93%) AWS Developer
16 9 (2.95%) Automation Engineer
17 8 (2.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 8 (2.62%) C# .NET Developer
17 8 (2.62%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (33.77%) Spring
2 99 (32.46%) Spring Boot
3 86 (28.20%) REST
4 76 (24.92%) React
5 73 (23.93%) Kafka
6 52 (17.05%) .NET
7 45 (14.75%) AngularJS
8 40 (13.11%) HTML
9 39 (12.79%) Node.js
10 36 (11.80%) CSS
11 35 (11.48%) OAuth
12 32 (10.49%) Web Services
13 27 (8.85%) FastAPI
14 25 (8.20%) Flask
15 24 (7.87%) Django
16 22 (7.21%) HTML5
17 20 (6.56%) JWT
17 20 (6.56%) OAuth2
17 20 (6.56%) Redux
18 19 (6.23%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.39%) Cloud Native
2 40 (13.11%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (10.49%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.57%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.93%) Low-Code
6 9 (2.95%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.95%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.62%) Derivative
8 7 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.30%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.97%) Equities
9 6 (1.97%) NHS
10 5 (1.64%) DataPower
10 5 (1.64%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.64%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.31%) Equity Derivative
11 4 (1.31%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.31%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.52%) Linux
2 18 (5.90%) Unix
3 5 (1.64%) Windows
3 5 (1.64%) zOS
4 4 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.98%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (63.28%) CI/CD
2 160 (52.46%) Microservices
3 146 (47.87%) Agile
4 116 (38.03%) DevOps
5 97 (31.80%) Containerisation
6 77 (25.25%) Test Automation
7 68 (22.30%) Event-Driven
8 66 (21.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 61 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (18.36%) Scrum
11 54 (17.70%) Clean Code
12 52 (17.05%) Software Engineering
13 48 (15.74%) Infrastructure as Code
14 42 (13.77%) Performance Tuning
15 41 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (13.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 40 (13.11%) Code Quality
17 38 (12.46%) API Development
17 38 (12.46%) Integration Patterns
17 38 (12.46%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 131 (42.95%) Java
2 99 (32.46%) SQL
3 80 (26.23%) Python
4 74 (24.26%) JavaScript
5 71 (23.28%) C#
6 60 (19.67%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.57%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.30%) Bicep
9 6 (1.97%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.97%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.97%) X++
10 4 (1.31%) JCL
10 4 (1.31%) Swift
11 3 (0.98%) Go
11 3 (0.98%) Ruby
11 3 (0.98%) Rust
11 3 (0.98%) Scala
12 2 (0.66%) Bash
12 2 (0.66%) Groovy
12 2 (0.66%) XPath
Qualifications
1 70 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 52 (17.05%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.54%) Degree
4 18 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.62%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.30%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.64%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.98%) MBA
11 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.33%) CCSP
12 1 (0.33%) CEH
12 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.33%) CISM
12 1 (0.33%) CISSP
12 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.33%) OCP
12 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (16.07%) QA
2 26 (8.52%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.59%) WCAG
4 8 (2.62%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.97%) NIST
6 5 (1.64%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.66%) GDPR
7 2 (0.66%) HL7
7 2 (0.66%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) COBIT
8 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.33%) EMIR
8 1 (0.33%) MiFID
8 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 128 (41.97%) Docker
2 3 (0.98%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.98%) Postfix
3 1 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 93 (30.49%) Kubernetes
2 38 (12.46%) Terraform
3 16 (5.25%) Grafana
4 10 (3.28%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.97%) Kibana
6 5 (1.64%) Ansible
7 2 (0.66%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (7.54%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.57%) Oracle
3 10 (3.28%) OpenAI
4 9 (2.95%) Adobe
5 8 (2.62%) Automation Anywhere
5 8 (2.62%) UiPath
6 6 (1.97%) Sybase
7 5 (1.64%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.64%) Google
7 5 (1.64%) Splunk
8 4 (1.31%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.31%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.98%) Apple
9 3 (0.98%) IBM
10 2 (0.66%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.66%) New Relic
10 2 (0.66%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.66%) SAP
10 2 (0.66%) Veracode