REST Contract Job Trends in South London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 36 24
Rank change year-on-year -9 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing REST 1 3 21
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.47% 1.30% 7.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.61% 5.45% 35.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 13
10th Percentile - - £380
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £380 £513
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -25.85% +2.50%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - £599
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 62 55 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 29.11% 23.81% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 36 47
10th Percentile £461 £346 £388
25th Percentile £500 £453 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +3.18%
75th Percentile £566 £675 £638
90th Percentile £641 £720 £675
London median daily rate £526 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.48% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.08
Median hourly rate - - £38.16
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.16%
75th Percentile - - £39.23
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

REST job vacancy trend in South London

REST
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing REST

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing REST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing REST

REST
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £500 -
REST
London

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA