REST Contract Job Trends in Westminster

Representational State Transfer (REST)
City of Westminster > Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Westminster requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing REST 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Westminster 3.33% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £600 £550 -
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 12 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Westminster 40.00% 26.67% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 0
10th Percentile £533 £515 -
25th Percentile £600 £521 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile - £641 -
90th Percentile £738 £759 -
City of Westminster median daily rate £650 £520 £638
% change year-on-year +25.00% -18.43% -20.31%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Westminster

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

REST job vacancy trend in Westminster

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Westminster citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Westminster citing REST

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Westminster 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 AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes