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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 174 152
Rank change year-on-year +27 -22 -14
Contract jobs citing RESTful 225 250 442
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.84% 1.43% 1.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.96% 5.48% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 177 334
10th Percentile £357 £375 £413
25th Percentile £414 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £666 £695 £738
90th Percentile £738 £775 £863
England median daily rate £488 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -2.50% -16.67% +10.09%
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% +18.58%

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 3,234 4,561 6,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.38% 26.13% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,263 3,396 5,096
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £440 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £723 £700 £725
90th Percentile £830 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 27 39
10th Percentile £32.00 £16.25 £30.60
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.99 £41.63
Median hourly rate £38.91 £42.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% -36.57% +49.30%
75th Percentile £54.69 £63.77 £75.00
90th Percentile £74.38 £75.00 £84.40
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +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 31 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 31 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 +8 33 £600 -11.76% 23
West London +1 3 £512 +50.59% 8
South London 0 3 - - 8
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 (4.89%) Apache
2 8 (3.56%) Confluence
3 7 (3.11%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.78%) JBoss
5 2 (0.89%) Appian
5 2 (0.89%) CICS
5 2 (0.89%) CMS
5 2 (0.89%) nginx
5 2 (0.89%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.89%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.44%) Drupal
6 1 (0.44%) govService
6 1 (0.44%) Magnolia
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Adobe XD
1 3 (1.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.89%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (35.11%) AWS
2 55 (24.44%) Azure
3 24 (10.67%) Serverless
4 23 (10.22%) GitHub
5 18 (8.00%) Amazon S3
6 15 (6.67%) GCP
7 14 (6.22%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (5.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 12 (5.33%) Route 53
10 11 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (4.89%) CloudFront
10 11 (4.89%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (3.56%) Azure Functions
14 7 (3.11%) Azure AKS
14 7 (3.11%) Entra ID
15 6 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (2.22%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.44%) HTTP
2 5 (2.22%) Firewall
3 3 (1.33%) DNS
3 3 (1.33%) Network Security
3 3 (1.33%) SSL
4 2 (0.89%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.89%) LAN
4 2 (0.89%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.89%) VPN
4 2 (0.89%) WAN
5 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.44%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.56%) NoSQL
2 33 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (12.44%) SQL Server
4 27 (12.00%) MongoDB
5 19 (8.44%) Redis
6 15 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (6.67%) MySQL
7 14 (6.22%) Relational Database
8 11 (4.89%) DocumentDB
9 10 (4.44%) DynamoDB
10 8 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (3.11%) DB2
12 6 (2.67%) Big Data
13 5 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.78%) Hadoop
15 3 (1.33%) Flink
15 3 (1.33%) GIS
16 2 (0.89%) IMS/DB
16 2 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 72 (32.00%) Git
2 24 (10.67%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.78%) Maven
4 12 (5.33%) GitLab
4 12 (5.33%) JIRA
5 10 (4.44%) Postman
6 9 (4.00%) IntelliJ
7 8 (3.56%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.56%) JUnit
8 7 (3.11%) TeamCity
9 6 (2.67%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.67%) Mockito
10 5 (2.22%) Eclipse
10 5 (2.22%) Selenium
10 5 (2.22%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.22%) webpack
11 4 (1.78%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.78%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.33%) git-flow
General
1 74 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 65 (28.89%) Finance
3 32 (14.22%) Banking
4 26 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.89%) Retail Banking
7 6 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.78%) Front Office
9 3 (1.33%) Advertising
9 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.89%) Marketing
10 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.89%) Retail
10 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.44%) Automotive
11 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.44%) Local Government
11 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 140 (62.22%) Developer
2 54 (24.00%) Senior
3 37 (16.44%) Senior Developer
4 29 (12.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 26 (11.56%) Java Developer
6 22 (9.78%) Software Engineer
7 15 (6.67%) Angular Developer
8 13 (5.78%) Architect
9 12 (5.33%) C# Developer
10 11 (4.89%) Backend Developer
11 10 (4.44%) .NET Developer
11 10 (4.44%) Python Developer
12 9 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 9 (4.00%) React Developer
12 9 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
13 8 (3.56%) Lead
13 8 (3.56%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 7 (3.11%) UI Developer
15 6 (2.67%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (27.11%) React
2 47 (20.89%) Web Services
3 45 (20.00%) CSS
4 43 (19.11%) HTML
5 37 (16.44%) Spring
6 34 (15.11%) .NET
6 34 (15.11%) Node.js
7 32 (14.22%) AngularJS
8 30 (13.33%) GraphQL
8 30 (13.33%) Spring Boot
9 25 (11.11%) Kafka
10 22 (9.78%) OAuth
11 21 (9.33%) Redux
12 17 (7.56%) .NET Framework
13 16 (7.11%) JSON
13 16 (7.11%) SOAP
14 15 (6.67%) JWT
15 13 (5.78%) REST
15 13 (5.78%) Swagger
16 12 (5.33%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (5.33%) Derivative
3 11 (4.89%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.56%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.22%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.78%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.33%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.33%) Equities
10 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.33%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.89%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.89%) CMDB
11 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.89%) PACS
11 2 (0.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.00%) Linux
2 13 (5.78%) Unix
3 8 (3.56%) Android
4 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.89%) Windows
5 2 (0.89%) zOS
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (47.56%) Agile
2 89 (39.56%) CI/CD
3 75 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (25.33%) Microservices
5 56 (24.89%) DevOps
6 50 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 34 (15.11%) API Development
9 32 (14.22%) Clean Code
9 32 (14.22%) Front End Development
9 32 (14.22%) Test Automation
10 31 (13.78%) Containerisation
11 27 (12.00%) User Experience
12 26 (11.56%) TDD
13 25 (11.11%) SOLID
14 24 (10.67%) Event-Driven
14 24 (10.67%) Unit Testing
15 22 (9.78%) API Design
16 21 (9.33%) Mentoring
16 21 (9.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 80 (35.56%) JavaScript
2 66 (29.33%) Java
3 54 (24.00%) SQL
4 50 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 47 (20.89%) Python
6 41 (18.22%) C#
7 12 (5.33%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.67%) Go
8 6 (2.67%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.22%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.78%) Bash
10 4 (1.78%) Perl
10 4 (1.78%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.78%) Scala
11 3 (1.33%) PHP
11 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.33%) Ruby
12 2 (0.89%) Groovy
12 2 (0.89%) Korn
12 2 (0.89%) REXX
Qualifications
1 27 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.44%) Degree
4 4 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.89%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.89%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.44%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.78%) QA
2 8 (3.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.89%) DICOM
3 2 (0.89%) GDPR
3 2 (0.89%) HL7
System Software
1 45 (20.00%) Docker
2 5 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Postfix
3 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (20.89%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.00%) Terraform
3 10 (4.44%) Ansible
4 9 (4.00%) Grafana
4 9 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.22%) Kibana
6 3 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.44%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.44%) Rancher
7 1 (0.44%) vRealize
7 1 (0.44%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (7.56%) Oracle
2 11 (4.89%) ServiceNow
3 10 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.11%) Google
5 6 (2.67%) IBM
6 5 (2.22%) TIBCO
7 4 (1.78%) Splunk
7 4 (1.78%) Sybase
8 3 (1.33%) Adobe
8 3 (1.33%) Cisco
8 3 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.89%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.89%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.89%) Remedy
9 2 (0.89%) SAP
10 1 (0.44%) EMC
10 1 (0.44%) F5
10 1 (0.44%) IBM Sterling
10 1 (0.44%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (0.44%) VMware