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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 113 68
Rank change year-on-year +14 -45 -4
Contract jobs citing REST 424 597 1,400
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.42% 2.33% 3.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.28% 8.78% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 450 1,021
10th Percentile £400 £450 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -2.88% +11.63%
75th Percentile £653 £700 £690
90th Percentile £801 £791 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +11.11%
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% +188.61%
75th Percentile - £90.00 £75.39
90th Percentile - - £75.66
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +85.43%

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 4,567 6,801 11,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.06% 26.58% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,398 5,116 9,299
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £713
90th Percentile £838 £813 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 40 60
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £30.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £43.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £66.00 £44.88
Median % change year-on-year -35.61% +47.08% -12.49%
75th Percentile £63.13 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.70 £75.44
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.22% +11.94%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 56 £500 -18.37% 14
West London +33 20 £450 - 4
South London +4 11 £481 +5.77% 3
East London -12 3 £850 +30.77% 2
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 24 (5.66%) Confluence
2 13 (3.07%) Apache
3 11 (2.59%) Anypoint
3 11 (2.59%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.12%) CMS
5 8 (1.89%) 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 3 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.71%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.71%) JBoss
9 2 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.47%) IIS
9 2 (0.47%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.47%) SAS
9 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.47%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.42%) 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 (28.07%) Azure
2 113 (26.65%) AWS
3 44 (10.38%) GitHub
4 38 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (8.02%) GCP
6 30 (7.08%) Serverless
7 24 (5.66%) Amazon S3
8 22 (5.19%) IaaS
9 21 (4.95%) Entra ID
10 19 (4.48%) SaaS
11 18 (4.25%) PaaS
12 17 (4.01%) npm
13 16 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (3.54%) OpenShift
15 13 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (3.07%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (2.83%) Azure API Management
16 12 (2.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.83%) HTTP
2 9 (2.12%) SSH
3 5 (1.18%) Internet
4 4 (0.94%) VoIP
5 3 (0.71%) DNS
6 2 (0.47%) BGP
6 2 (0.47%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.47%) MPLS
6 2 (0.47%) SMS
6 2 (0.47%) VPN
7 1 (0.24%) AMQP
7 1 (0.24%) DHCP
7 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.24%) FTP
7 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.24%) MQTT
7 1 (0.24%) NAS
7 1 (0.24%) SAN
7 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (11.56%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (9.91%) NoSQL
3 37 (8.73%) SQL Server
4 32 (7.55%) Relational Database
5 14 (3.30%) MySQL
6 12 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.59%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.36%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.12%) GIS
10 8 (1.89%) Power BI
11 5 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.18%) Big Data
11 5 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.18%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.47%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 110 (25.94%) Git
2 64 (15.09%) JIRA
3 52 (12.26%) Jenkins
4 37 (8.73%) JUnit
5 26 (6.13%) Maven
6 24 (5.66%) Selenium
7 22 (5.19%) Cucumber
8 18 (4.25%) Gradle
9 17 (4.01%) Postman
9 17 (4.01%) TeamCity
9 17 (4.01%) webpack
10 14 (3.30%) Visual Studio
11 13 (3.07%) GitLab
11 13 (3.07%) JMeter
12 10 (2.36%) CircleCI
12 10 (2.36%) SpecFlow
13 9 (2.12%) Cypress.io
14 7 (1.65%) Bitbucket
14 7 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (1.42%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 88 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 86 (20.28%) Finance
3 46 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 36 (8.49%) Front Office
6 35 (8.25%) Banking
7 12 (2.83%) Retail
8 11 (2.59%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.36%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.42%) Marketing
12 5 (1.18%) Back Office
12 5 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.71%) Aviation
13 3 (0.71%) Law
14 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 242 (57.08%) Developer
2 67 (15.80%) Senior
3 64 (15.09%) Java Developer
4 50 (11.79%) Architect
5 35 (8.25%) Full Stack Developer
6 28 (6.60%) Software Engineer
7 24 (5.66%) Angular Developer
7 24 (5.66%) Senior Developer
8 20 (4.72%) C# Developer
8 20 (4.72%) Java Engineer
9 19 (4.48%) Python Developer
10 17 (4.01%) .NET Developer
10 17 (4.01%) UI Developer
11 16 (3.77%) Applications Developer
11 16 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (3.54%) Lead
12 15 (3.54%) React Developer
13 14 (3.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 13 (3.07%) Senior Java Engineer
15 12 (2.83%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (20.99%) Spring
2 78 (18.40%) React
3 72 (16.98%) CSS
4 69 (16.27%) Web Services
5 68 (16.04%) .NET
6 67 (15.80%) AngularJS
6 67 (15.80%) Spring Boot
7 66 (15.57%) JSON
8 63 (14.86%) HTML
9 57 (13.44%) SOAP
10 55 (12.97%) XML
11 42 (9.91%) Node.js
12 41 (9.67%) GraphQL
13 31 (7.31%) JPA
14 30 (7.08%) Swagger
15 29 (6.84%) Hibernate
16 22 (5.19%) .NET Core
16 22 (5.19%) WebSockets
17 21 (4.95%) Kafka
18 20 (4.72%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (5.42%) Data Structures
3 18 (4.25%) Algorithms
4 17 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 15 (3.54%) Mobile App
7 13 (3.07%) Fixed Income
8 12 (2.83%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.12%) Legacy Code
9 9 (2.12%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.65%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.42%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.42%) Wiki
12 5 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.18%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.96%) Linux
2 19 (4.48%) Unix
3 17 (4.01%) Apple iOS
4 16 (3.77%) Android
4 16 (3.77%) Windows
5 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.24%) AIX
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (39.39%) Agile
2 106 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 88 (20.75%) Microservices
4 85 (20.05%) DevOps
5 81 (19.10%) Software Engineering
6 77 (18.16%) TDD
7 65 (15.33%) Scrum
7 65 (15.33%) Test Automation
8 52 (12.26%) Design Patterns
9 51 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (12.03%) Unit Testing
10 48 (11.32%) Full Stack Development
11 43 (10.14%) Front End Development
11 43 (10.14%) OO
12 42 (9.91%) Continuous Integration
13 38 (8.96%) BDD
14 32 (7.55%) Web Development
15 31 (7.31%) Computer Science
15 31 (7.31%) Mentoring
16 29 (6.84%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 154 (36.32%) Java
2 130 (30.66%) JavaScript
3 95 (22.41%) SQL
4 87 (20.52%) Python
5 76 (17.92%) C#
6 70 (16.51%) TypeScript
7 32 (7.55%) PowerShell
8 26 (6.13%) Kotlin
9 18 (4.25%) C++
10 15 (3.54%) Go
11 9 (2.12%) Perl
12 8 (1.89%) C
12 8 (1.89%) Groovy
12 8 (1.89%) Korn
13 7 (1.65%) Apex Code
13 7 (1.65%) Rust
13 7 (1.65%) Swift
13 7 (1.65%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.42%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.18%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 62 (14.62%) Degree
2 61 (14.39%) Security Cleared
3 52 (12.26%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.36%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.94%) CISSP
7 4 (0.94%) ISTQB
7 4 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.47%) PMP
9 1 (0.24%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.25%) QA
2 14 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.83%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.12%) WCAG
5 6 (1.42%) GDPR
5 6 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.18%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.18%) SLA
7 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.71%) GRC
8 2 (0.47%) HL7
8 2 (0.47%) MiFID
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.24%) NIST
9 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 72 (16.98%) Docker
2 19 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.65%) 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 66 (15.57%) Kubernetes
2 34 (8.02%) Terraform
3 19 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (3.30%) Grafana
5 13 (3.07%) Ansible
6 7 (1.65%) Kibana
7 5 (1.18%) CloudHub
7 5 (1.18%) Podman
8 4 (0.94%) Argo
8 4 (0.94%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.71%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.71%) Progress Chef
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%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.24%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 49 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.02%) Oracle
3 29 (6.84%) Google
4 27 (6.37%) Salesforce
5 25 (5.90%) MuleSoft
6 17 (4.01%) SAP
7 15 (3.54%) Splunk
8 9 (2.12%) ESRI
9 7 (1.65%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.65%) WSO2
10 6 (1.42%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.18%) ForgeRock
11 5 (1.18%) IBM
11 5 (1.18%) New Relic
12 4 (0.94%) Dell
12 4 (0.94%) Okta
12 4 (0.94%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.71%) Intel
13 3 (0.71%) Optimizely