REST Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Representational State Transfer (REST)
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing REST 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 6.06% 2.94% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 20.00% 13.33% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £391 £549 -
25th Percentile £407 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £603 £540
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +11.57% -8.78%
75th Percentile £531 £658 -
90th Percentile £590 £682 -
East London median daily rate £416 £665 £850
% change year-on-year -37.48% -21.76% +30.77%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20 15 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 30.30% 22.06% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 9
10th Percentile £425 £250 £421
25th Percentile £436 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +14.21% -6.86% -5.90%
75th Percentile £749 £558 £540
90th Percentile £833 £588 £635
East London median daily rate £575 £450 £524
% change year-on-year +27.78% -14.08% -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
East London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

REST job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Tower Hamlets over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Tower Hamlets

REST
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Canary Wharf 0 4 £432 -28.30%
REST
East London

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 1 (25.00%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) NumPy
1 1 (25.00%) Pandas
1 1 (25.00%) Plotly
1 1 (25.00%) Polars
1 1 (25.00%) pytest
1 1 (25.00%) Smart Contracts
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (25.00%) API Design
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Backends for Frontends
2 1 (25.00%) Contract Management
2 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Enablement
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Fund Accounting
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft