RESTful Contract Job Trends in South London

RESTful
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring RESTful skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing RESTful 3 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.51% - 3.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.92% - 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £515 - £381
25th Percentile £538 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.13%
75th Percentile £638 - £628
90th Percentile £645 - £664
London median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 61 55 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 30.65% 23.91% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 38 47
10th Percentile £461 £360 £366
25th Percentile £500 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £565 £650 £638
90th Percentile £639 £705 £675
London median daily rate £530 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -7.83% -2.54% -3.67%
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 £54.50 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -14.53%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in South London

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in South London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in South London

RESTful
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 RESTful within the South London region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Croydon - 2 £625 - 1
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £500 -
RESTful
London

RESTful
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 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Vue
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) API Design
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes