REST Assured Contract Job Trends in Scotland

REST Assured
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring REST Assured skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 118 125
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.21% 0.062% 0.047%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.69% 0.31% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £322 - -
25th Percentile £335 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £357 - £375
75th Percentile £379 - £388
90th Percentile £392 - -
UK median daily rate £455 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +13.75% -11.11% -18.18%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

REST Assured falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 236 327 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.13% 20.37% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 201 246
10th Percentile £313 £308 £363
25th Percentile £400 £406 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £468 £485
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% -3.51% +2.00%
75th Percentile £581 £530 £575
90th Percentile £699 £575 £634
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 10
10th Percentile £58.89 £16.31 £34.10
25th Percentile - £16.84 -
Median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +249.15% -57.39% -34.46%
75th Percentile £61.14 £29.94 -
90th Percentile £61.84 £61.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +5.69%

REST Assured
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

REST Assured job vacancy trend in Scotland

REST Assured
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing REST Assured.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing REST Assured

REST Assured
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST Assured within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Edinburgh -1 2 £401 - 1
Glasgow - 1 £313 -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 1
REST Assured
UK

REST Assured
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) Appium
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) pytest
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Pega