REST Contracts in London

Representational State Transfer (REST)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 108 70
Rank change year-on-year +8 -38 -4
Contract jobs citing REST 412 631 1,382
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.36% 2.44% 3.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.23% 9.00% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 480 1,019
10th Percentile £404 £449 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +12.15%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £825 £788 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £41.38 £36.50
25th Percentile - £50.94 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.00 £73.75 £73.60
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% +0.21% -
75th Percentile - £90.00 £75.39
90th Percentile - - £75.66
England median hourly rate £74.44 £57.50 £63.60
% change year-on-year +29.46% -9.59% +27.20%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,463 7,009 11,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.57% 27.09% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,336 5,249 9,292
10th Percentile £377 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £704
90th Percentile £825 £810 £794
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 39 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.60 £32.13
25th Percentile £23.80 £41.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £67.50 £49.28
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +36.97% -1.09%
75th Percentile £63.13 £75.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £72.60 £82.40 £78.98
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for REST in London

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in London.

Daily rate trend for REST in London

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in London

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in London.

Hourly rate trend for REST in London

REST
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 REST within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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 +1 57 £491 -18.13% 19
West London +23 16 £450 - 10
South London -4 8 £525 +15.38%
East London -9 3 £850 +43.58% 3
REST
England

REST
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 25 (6.07%) Confluence
2 13 (3.16%) Apache
3 11 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.43%) Anypoint
5 9 (2.18%) CMS
6 8 (1.94%) Site Server
7 6 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (1.21%) Mule
8 5 (1.21%) Mule ESB
8 5 (1.21%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.97%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.73%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.73%) nginx
11 2 (0.49%) IIS
11 2 (0.49%) JBoss
11 2 (0.49%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.49%) SAS
11 2 (0.49%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (1.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.73%) Shopify
3 2 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.24%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 117 (28.40%) Azure
2 111 (26.94%) AWS
3 41 (9.95%) GitHub
4 37 (8.98%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (8.01%) GCP
6 28 (6.80%) Serverless
7 26 (6.31%) Amazon S3
8 20 (4.85%) IaaS
9 19 (4.61%) Entra ID
9 19 (4.61%) npm
10 18 (4.37%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (4.37%) SaaS
11 16 (3.88%) PaaS
12 15 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (3.40%) OpenShift
13 14 (3.40%) Power Platform
14 13 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (2.91%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.16%) HTTP
2 7 (1.70%) SSH
3 3 (0.73%) DNS
3 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.73%) VoIP
4 2 (0.49%) BGP
4 2 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.49%) Internet
4 2 (0.49%) MPLS
4 2 (0.49%) SMS
4 2 (0.49%) VPN
5 1 (0.24%) AMQP
5 1 (0.24%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.24%) MQTT
5 1 (0.24%) NAS
5 1 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.24%) SAN
5 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.65%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (9.22%) SQL Server
3 37 (8.98%) NoSQL
4 29 (7.04%) Relational Database
5 14 (3.40%) MySQL
6 13 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.43%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.18%) GIS
9 9 (2.18%) Power BI
10 8 (1.94%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.21%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.97%) Big Data
13 4 (0.97%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.73%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 109 (26.46%) Git
2 61 (14.81%) JIRA
3 55 (13.35%) Jenkins
4 39 (9.47%) JUnit
5 28 (6.80%) Maven
6 27 (6.55%) Selenium
7 24 (5.83%) Cucumber
8 19 (4.61%) webpack
9 18 (4.37%) Gradle
9 18 (4.37%) Postman
10 17 (4.13%) TeamCity
11 15 (3.64%) GitLab
11 15 (3.64%) JMeter
12 14 (3.40%) Visual Studio
13 11 (2.67%) SpecFlow
14 10 (2.43%) CircleCI
14 10 (2.43%) Cypress.io
15 9 (2.18%) Bitbucket
15 9 (2.18%) TestNG
16 8 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 89 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 80 (19.42%) Finance
3 45 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 37 (8.98%) Front Office
6 27 (6.55%) Banking
7 11 (2.67%) Retail
8 10 (2.43%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.46%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.21%) Back Office
11 5 (1.21%) Marketing
11 5 (1.21%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.97%) Law
13 3 (0.73%) Aviation
13 3 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.49%) Local Government
14 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 231 (56.07%) Developer
2 61 (14.81%) Senior
3 60 (14.56%) Java Developer
4 46 (11.17%) Architect
5 35 (8.50%) Full Stack Developer
6 26 (6.31%) Software Engineer
7 25 (6.07%) Angular Developer
8 22 (5.34%) Senior Developer
9 20 (4.85%) C# Developer
10 18 (4.37%) Applications Developer
10 18 (4.37%) Java Engineer
10 18 (4.37%) Python Developer
10 18 (4.37%) UI Developer
11 17 (4.13%) .NET Developer
12 16 (3.88%) Lead
12 16 (3.88%) React Developer
13 15 (3.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 15 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (3.40%) Real Time Developer
14 14 (3.40%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (20.15%) Spring
2 78 (18.93%) React
3 73 (17.72%) Web Services
4 69 (16.75%) CSS
5 68 (16.50%) .NET
6 65 (15.78%) AngularJS
7 63 (15.29%) JSON
8 61 (14.81%) Spring Boot
9 59 (14.32%) HTML
10 55 (13.35%) SOAP
11 49 (11.89%) XML
12 39 (9.47%) Node.js
13 37 (8.98%) GraphQL
14 28 (6.80%) Swagger
15 27 (6.55%) Hibernate
15 27 (6.55%) JPA
16 25 (6.07%) Kafka
17 24 (5.83%) WebSockets
18 23 (5.58%) .NET Core
19 20 (4.85%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (4.13%) Data Structures
3 15 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (3.64%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.16%) Algorithms
4 13 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (2.91%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.18%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.94%) Legacy Code
9 7 (1.70%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.46%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.46%) IoT
10 6 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.46%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.46%) Wiki
11 5 (1.21%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.52%) Linux
2 18 (4.37%) Apple iOS
3 17 (4.13%) Windows
4 16 (3.88%) Unix
5 15 (3.64%) Android
6 1 (0.24%) AIX
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (39.56%) Agile
2 106 (25.73%) CI/CD
3 85 (20.63%) Microservices
4 84 (20.39%) DevOps
5 79 (19.17%) Software Engineering
6 70 (16.99%) TDD
7 69 (16.75%) Test Automation
8 63 (15.29%) Scrum
9 55 (13.35%) Design Patterns
10 48 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (11.41%) Unit Testing
12 45 (10.92%) Front End Development
12 45 (10.92%) Full Stack Development
13 41 (9.95%) OO
14 39 (9.47%) Continuous Integration
15 37 (8.98%) BDD
16 31 (7.52%) Computer Science
17 29 (7.04%) Mentoring
17 29 (7.04%) Web Development
18 28 (6.80%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 151 (36.65%) Java
2 127 (30.83%) JavaScript
3 92 (22.33%) SQL
4 88 (21.36%) Python
5 77 (18.69%) C#
6 66 (16.02%) TypeScript
7 27 (6.55%) PowerShell
8 20 (4.85%) Kotlin
9 15 (3.64%) Go
10 12 (2.91%) C++
11 9 (2.18%) Swift
12 8 (1.94%) Korn
12 8 (1.94%) Perl
12 8 (1.94%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.70%) Groovy
13 7 (1.70%) Rust
14 6 (1.46%) Apex Code
14 6 (1.46%) C
14 6 (1.46%) PHP
15 5 (1.21%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 63 (15.29%) Degree
1 63 (15.29%) Security Cleared
2 57 (13.83%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.43%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.97%) CISSP
6 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.49%) PMP
9 1 (0.24%) ISEB
9 1 (0.24%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.22%) QA
2 13 (3.16%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.18%) WCAG
4 6 (1.46%) GDPR
4 6 (1.46%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.21%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.21%) SLA
6 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.73%) GRC
7 2 (0.49%) HL7
7 2 (0.49%) MiFID
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 75 (18.20%) Docker
2 19 (4.61%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.24%) IAG
4 1 (0.24%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.24%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (16.26%) Kubernetes
2 38 (9.22%) Terraform
3 16 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (3.64%) Ansible
5 13 (3.16%) Grafana
6 7 (1.70%) Kibana
7 5 (1.21%) CloudHub
7 5 (1.21%) Podman
8 4 (0.97%) Argo
8 4 (0.97%) Packer
9 3 (0.73%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.73%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.73%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.49%) Istio
10 2 (0.49%) logstash
10 2 (0.49%) Puppet
11 1 (0.24%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.24%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.24%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 50 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.01%) Oracle
3 28 (6.80%) Google
4 24 (5.83%) Salesforce
5 22 (5.34%) MuleSoft
6 18 (4.37%) SAP
7 15 (3.64%) Splunk
8 9 (2.18%) ESRI
8 9 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.46%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.46%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.46%) WSO2
10 5 (1.21%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.97%) Dell
11 4 (0.97%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.97%) IBM
11 4 (0.97%) New Relic
11 4 (0.97%) Okta
12 3 (0.73%) Intel
12 3 (0.73%) Optimizely