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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 158 157
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -25
Contract jobs citing RESTful 224 285 415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.75% 1.63% 1.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.65% 6.08% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 202 301
10th Percentile £331 £400 £386
25th Percentile £410 £475 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £561 £620
Median % change year-on-year -10.24% -9.48% +3.33%
75th Percentile £658 £710 £750
90th Percentile £744 £782 £863
England median daily rate £475 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £62.70
25th Percentile - - £66.00
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £79.62
England median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -31.25% +6.67% +18.24%

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 3,366 4,690 6,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.24% 26.83% 26.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,348 3,452 5,052
10th Percentile £377 £375 £413
25th Percentile £429 £461 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £711 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 28 42
10th Percentile - £16.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -36.80% +41.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.70 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £86.20
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.18% -10.54% +23.81%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -10 29 £600 -14.29% 133
South London -1 3 - - 3
West London -1 3 £512 +46.29% 23
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 11 (4.91%) Apache
2 7 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.68%) Confluence
4 4 (1.79%) JBoss
5 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.89%) Appian
6 2 (0.89%) CICS
6 2 (0.89%) nginx
6 2 (0.89%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.89%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.45%) CMS
7 1 (0.45%) Drupal
7 1 (0.45%) govService
Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Adobe XD
1 3 (1.34%) Sketch
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.34%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.89%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 75 (33.48%) AWS
2 50 (22.32%) Azure
3 22 (9.82%) GitHub
3 22 (9.82%) Serverless
4 16 (7.14%) GCP
5 14 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 11 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (3.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 8 (3.57%) Route 53
10 7 (3.13%) CloudFront
11 6 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.68%) Azure Functions
11 6 (2.68%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.23%) Apigee
12 5 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (2.23%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.02%) HTTP
2 2 (0.89%) Firewall
2 2 (0.89%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.89%) SSL
3 1 (0.45%) DNS
3 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.45%) Network Security
3 1 (0.45%) RTSP
3 1 (0.45%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.73%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (12.05%) MongoDB
2 27 (12.05%) NoSQL
3 26 (11.61%) SQL Server
4 16 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 15 (6.70%) MySQL
6 14 (6.25%) Redis
7 12 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (4.46%) DynamoDB
9 7 (3.13%) DB2
9 7 (3.13%) DocumentDB
10 6 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.68%) Big Data
10 6 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.79%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.34%) Flink
13 2 (0.89%) IMS/DB
13 2 (0.89%) Power BI
13 2 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 65 (29.02%) Git
2 24 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.25%) Maven
4 13 (5.80%) JIRA
5 11 (4.91%) GitLab
6 10 (4.46%) JUnit
7 9 (4.02%) IntelliJ
8 8 (3.57%) Cypress.io
9 7 (3.13%) Jasmine
9 7 (3.13%) Mocha
9 7 (3.13%) Postman
9 7 (3.13%) TeamCity
10 6 (2.68%) Karma Test Runner
10 6 (2.68%) Mockito
10 6 (2.68%) Protractor
10 6 (2.68%) SonarQube
10 6 (2.68%) SpecFlow
10 6 (2.68%) webpack
11 5 (2.23%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.23%) Eclipse
General
1 78 (34.82%) Social Skills
2 65 (29.02%) Finance
3 30 (13.39%) Banking
4 22 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (4.02%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.13%) Retail Banking
7 3 (1.34%) Advertising
7 3 (1.34%) Front Office
7 3 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.34%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.34%) Police
8 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.89%) Marketing
8 2 (0.89%) Retail
8 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.45%) Automotive
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Local Government
9 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (65.18%) Developer
2 52 (23.21%) Senior
3 38 (16.96%) Senior Developer
4 32 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 23 (10.27%) Angular Developer
6 21 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
7 16 (7.14%) Software Engineer
8 15 (6.70%) Architect
9 11 (4.91%) Backend Developer
9 11 (4.91%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (4.46%) .NET Developer
11 9 (4.02%) C# Developer
11 9 (4.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 9 (4.02%) Lead
11 9 (4.02%) React Developer
12 8 (3.57%) Python Developer
12 8 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (3.13%) Node.js Developer
13 7 (3.13%) UI Developer
14 5 (2.23%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (21.88%) React
2 48 (21.43%) CSS
2 48 (21.43%) Spring
3 45 (20.09%) Web Services
4 44 (19.64%) HTML
5 38 (16.96%) AngularJS
6 36 (16.07%) Spring Boot
7 35 (15.63%) .NET
8 27 (12.05%) Node.js
9 23 (10.27%) GraphQL
10 21 (9.38%) Kafka
10 21 (9.38%) Redux
10 21 (9.38%) REST
11 20 (8.93%) OAuth
12 18 (8.04%) .NET Framework
12 18 (8.04%) CSS3
12 18 (8.04%) HTML5
12 18 (8.04%) JWT
13 17 (7.59%) SOAP
14 16 (7.14%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.70%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.57%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.13%) Derivative
6 6 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.68%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.34%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.34%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.34%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.89%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.89%) Equities
10 2 (0.89%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.89%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.59%) Linux
2 11 (4.91%) Android
3 10 (4.46%) Unix
4 4 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.89%) Windows
6 2 (0.89%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (45.98%) Agile
2 94 (41.96%) CI/CD
3 65 (29.02%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (27.68%) Microservices
5 50 (22.32%) DevOps
6 43 (19.20%) Full-Stack Development
7 35 (15.63%) Front End Development
8 34 (15.18%) Clean Code
9 33 (14.73%) Software Engineering
10 31 (13.84%) API Development
10 31 (13.84%) Containerisation
11 29 (12.95%) Test Automation
12 28 (12.50%) TDD
13 25 (11.16%) Event-Driven
14 24 (10.71%) User Experience
15 22 (9.82%) Mentoring
15 22 (9.82%) Scrum
16 21 (9.38%) API Design
16 21 (9.38%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (9.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 82 (36.61%) JavaScript
2 72 (32.14%) Java
3 53 (23.66%) TypeScript
4 52 (23.21%) SQL
5 41 (18.30%) Python
6 35 (15.63%) C#
7 10 (4.46%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.57%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.13%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.23%) Go
11 4 (1.79%) Bash
11 4 (1.79%) Perl
11 4 (1.79%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.79%) Ruby
11 4 (1.79%) Scala
12 3 (1.34%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.89%) Groovy
13 2 (0.89%) Korn
13 2 (0.89%) PHP
13 2 (0.89%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (11.61%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.48%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.91%) Degree
4 6 (2.68%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.89%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.89%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.45%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.45%) OCP
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.80%) QA
2 7 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.79%) GDPR
4 3 (1.34%) COBIT
5 2 (0.89%) DICOM
5 2 (0.89%) HL7
6 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 46 (20.54%) Docker
2 4 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) Postfix
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (19.20%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.59%) Terraform
3 9 (4.02%) Grafana
3 9 (4.02%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.57%) Ansible
5 5 (2.23%) Kibana
6 4 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.89%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.45%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.45%) Control-M
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.45%) vRealize
8 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (8.04%) Oracle
2 13 (5.80%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.36%) Google
3 12 (5.36%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.68%) IBM
4 6 (2.68%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.23%) TIBCO
6 4 (1.79%) Splunk
6 4 (1.79%) Sybase
6 4 (1.79%) VMware
6 4 (1.79%) Workday
7 3 (1.34%) Adobe
7 3 (1.34%) EMC
8 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.89%) Databricks
8 2 (0.89%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.89%) SAP
9 1 (0.45%) Okta
9 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.45%) ScienceLogic