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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 106 71
Rank change year-on-year +7 -35 -5
Contract jobs citing REST 422 627 1,394
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.41% 2.41% 3.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.39% 8.95% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 474 1,024
10th Percentile £406 £441 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £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 £65.48
% change year-on-year +29.46% -12.19% +30.96%

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 4,493 7,006 12,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.71% 26.93% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,357 5,248 9,379
10th Percentile £375 £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 £712
90th Percentile £838 £810 £800
England median daily rate £550 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -1.70% -1.84% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 36 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.38 £31.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £36.89 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £67.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.80% +41.58% -4.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.80 £82.63 £76.54
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +6.10%

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 20 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 20 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 +6 59 £500 -18.37% 20
West London +23 17 £450 - 10
South London -3 8 £525 +15.38%
East London -7 3 £850 +43.58% 27
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 (5.92%) Confluence
2 13 (3.08%) Apache
3 12 (2.84%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.37%) Anypoint
5 9 (2.13%) CMS
5 9 (2.13%) Site Server
6 6 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.18%) Mule
7 5 (1.18%) Mule ESB
7 5 (1.18%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.95%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.71%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.71%) JBoss
9 3 (0.71%) nginx
10 2 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.47%) IIS
10 2 (0.47%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.47%) SAS
10 2 (0.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.71%) Shopify
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.24%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 119 (28.20%) Azure
2 112 (26.54%) AWS
3 43 (10.19%) GitHub
4 39 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (7.82%) GCP
6 28 (6.64%) Serverless
7 27 (6.40%) Amazon S3
8 21 (4.98%) IaaS
9 19 (4.50%) Entra ID
9 19 (4.50%) npm
10 18 (4.27%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (4.27%) SaaS
11 16 (3.79%) PaaS
12 15 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (3.32%) OpenShift
13 14 (3.32%) Power Platform
14 13 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (2.84%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.08%) HTTP
2 7 (1.66%) SSH
3 4 (0.95%) VoIP
4 3 (0.71%) DNS
4 3 (0.71%) Internet
4 3 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.47%) BGP
5 2 (0.47%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.47%) MPLS
5 2 (0.47%) SMS
5 2 (0.47%) VPN
6 1 (0.24%) AMQP
6 1 (0.24%) DHCP
6 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.24%) FTP
6 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.24%) MQTT
6 1 (0.24%) NAS
6 1 (0.24%) SAN
6 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (9.00%) NoSQL
2 38 (9.00%) SQL Server
3 29 (6.87%) Relational Database
4 14 (3.32%) MySQL
5 13 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.37%) DynamoDB
7 10 (2.37%) GIS
8 9 (2.13%) Power BI
9 8 (1.90%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.18%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.95%) Big Data
12 4 (0.95%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.47%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 108 (25.59%) Git
2 61 (14.45%) JIRA
3 55 (13.03%) Jenkins
4 40 (9.48%) JUnit
5 28 (6.64%) Maven
6 27 (6.40%) Selenium
7 24 (5.69%) Cucumber
8 19 (4.50%) Gradle
8 19 (4.50%) webpack
9 18 (4.27%) Postman
10 17 (4.03%) TeamCity
11 15 (3.55%) GitLab
11 15 (3.55%) JMeter
12 14 (3.32%) Visual Studio
13 11 (2.61%) SpecFlow
14 10 (2.37%) CircleCI
14 10 (2.37%) Cypress.io
15 9 (2.13%) Bitbucket
15 9 (2.13%) TestNG
16 8 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 90 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 85 (20.14%) Finance
3 45 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 37 (8.77%) Front Office
6 28 (6.64%) Banking
7 11 (2.61%) Retail
8 10 (2.37%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.42%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.18%) Back Office
11 5 (1.18%) Marketing
11 5 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.95%) Law
13 3 (0.71%) Aviation
13 3 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 239 (56.64%) Developer
2 63 (14.93%) Java Developer
3 62 (14.69%) Senior
4 47 (11.14%) Architect
5 35 (8.29%) Full Stack Developer
6 27 (6.40%) Software Engineer
7 25 (5.92%) Angular Developer
8 22 (5.21%) Senior Developer
9 20 (4.74%) C# Developer
10 19 (4.50%) Applications Developer
10 19 (4.50%) Java Engineer
11 18 (4.27%) Python Developer
11 18 (4.27%) UI Developer
12 17 (4.03%) .NET Developer
13 16 (3.79%) Lead
14 15 (3.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 15 (3.55%) React Developer
14 15 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (3.32%) Real Time Developer
15 14 (3.32%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (20.38%) Spring
2 78 (18.48%) React
3 73 (17.30%) Web Services
4 70 (16.59%) CSS
5 68 (16.11%) .NET
6 65 (15.40%) AngularJS
7 64 (15.17%) JSON
7 64 (15.17%) Spring Boot
8 60 (14.22%) HTML
9 55 (13.03%) SOAP
10 50 (11.85%) XML
11 38 (9.00%) Node.js
12 36 (8.53%) GraphQL
13 29 (6.87%) Swagger
14 27 (6.40%) Hibernate
14 27 (6.40%) JPA
15 25 (5.92%) Kafka
16 24 (5.69%) WebSockets
17 23 (5.45%) .NET Core
18 20 (4.74%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (4.74%) Data Structures
3 16 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.55%) Algorithms
4 15 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.32%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
7 12 (2.84%) Fixed Income
7 12 (2.84%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.13%) Legacy Code
9 9 (2.13%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.66%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.42%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.42%) IoT
11 6 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.42%) Wiki
12 5 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.35%) Linux
2 18 (4.27%) Apple iOS
3 17 (4.03%) Unix
3 17 (4.03%) Windows
4 15 (3.55%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) AIX
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (38.63%) Agile
2 106 (25.12%) CI/CD
3 86 (20.38%) DevOps
3 86 (20.38%) Microservices
4 81 (19.19%) Software Engineering
5 70 (16.59%) TDD
6 69 (16.35%) Test Automation
7 63 (14.93%) Scrum
8 55 (13.03%) Design Patterns
9 50 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (11.85%) Unit Testing
10 45 (10.66%) Front End Development
10 45 (10.66%) Full Stack Development
11 42 (9.95%) OO
12 40 (9.48%) Continuous Integration
13 37 (8.77%) BDD
14 32 (7.58%) Computer Science
15 29 (6.87%) Mentoring
15 29 (6.87%) Web Development
16 28 (6.64%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 157 (37.20%) Java
2 128 (30.33%) JavaScript
3 93 (22.04%) SQL
4 90 (21.33%) Python
5 77 (18.25%) C#
6 66 (15.64%) TypeScript
7 28 (6.64%) PowerShell
8 24 (5.69%) Kotlin
9 16 (3.79%) Go
10 13 (3.08%) C++
11 9 (2.13%) Korn
11 9 (2.13%) Swift
12 8 (1.90%) Perl
12 8 (1.90%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.66%) Groovy
13 7 (1.66%) Rust
14 6 (1.42%) Apex Code
14 6 (1.42%) C
14 6 (1.42%) Objective-C
14 6 (1.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 66 (15.64%) Security Cleared
2 64 (15.17%) Degree
3 58 (13.74%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.37%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.66%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.95%) CISSP
7 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.47%) PMP
10 1 (0.24%) ISEB
10 1 (0.24%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.00%) QA
2 13 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.13%) WCAG
4 6 (1.42%) GDPR
4 6 (1.42%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.18%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.18%) SLA
6 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.71%) GRC
7 2 (0.47%) HL7
7 2 (0.47%) MiFID
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.24%) NIST
8 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 77 (18.25%) Docker
2 19 (4.50%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.66%) 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 68 (16.11%) Kubernetes
2 38 (9.00%) Terraform
3 17 (4.03%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (3.55%) Ansible
5 13 (3.08%) Grafana
6 7 (1.66%) Kibana
7 5 (1.18%) CloudHub
7 5 (1.18%) Podman
8 4 (0.95%) Argo
8 4 (0.95%) Packer
9 3 (0.71%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.71%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.71%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.47%) Istio
10 2 (0.47%) logstash
10 2 (0.47%) Puppet
11 1 (0.24%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.24%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.24%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 50 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.06%) Oracle
3 28 (6.64%) Google
4 24 (5.69%) Salesforce
5 22 (5.21%) MuleSoft
6 18 (4.27%) SAP
7 15 (3.55%) Splunk
8 10 (2.37%) ESRI
9 9 (2.13%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.42%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.42%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.42%) WSO2
11 5 (1.18%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.18%) ForgeRock
11 5 (1.18%) IBM
12 4 (0.95%) Dell
12 4 (0.95%) New Relic
12 4 (0.95%) Okta
13 3 (0.71%) Genesys
13 3 (0.71%) Intel