REST Assured Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

REST Assured
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring REST Assured skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 336 388
Rank change year-on-year -11 +52 +47
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 44 10 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.073% 0.077%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.73% 0.55% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 9 11
10th Percentile £365 - £364
25th Percentile £406 £305 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £363 £575
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% -36.96% +21.05%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £588
90th Percentile £552 £515 -
UK median daily rate £467 £400 £454
% change year-on-year +16.63% -11.85% -0.82%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,548 1,811 2,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.19% 13.15% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,749 1,085 1,631
10th Percentile £320 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -6.93% -2.38%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £538
% change year-on-year -0.50% -6.51% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 62 176
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £46.18
25th Percentile £53.44 £51.94 £54.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.85 £75.23 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

REST Assured
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

REST Assured job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

REST Assured
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing REST Assured.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing REST Assured

REST Assured
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST Assured in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST Assured in the UK excluding London

REST Assured
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
North of England -31 24 £445 +31.37% 6
North East +1 12 £425 +37.10% 1
South West -6 12 £520 -5.45% 1
Yorkshire -29 11 £525 +14.13% 5
South East - 5 £375 - 2
Midlands - 3 £430 -
West Midlands - 2 £490 -
North West -31 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £263 -
REST Assured
UK

REST Assured
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.36%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.09%) AWS
2 13 (29.55%) Azure
3 11 (25.00%) GCP
4 5 (11.36%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) MySQL
1 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 32 (72.73%) Cucumber
1 32 (72.73%) Selenium
2 22 (50.00%) Postman
3 18 (40.91%) Jenkins
4 17 (38.64%) JIRA
5 12 (27.27%) GitLab
6 11 (25.00%) Cypress.io
7 6 (13.64%) TestRail
8 5 (11.36%) Git
9 4 (9.09%) Bitbucket
10 2 (4.55%) JMeter
10 2 (4.55%) JUnit
10 2 (4.55%) SoapUI
10 2 (4.55%) TestNG
11 1 (2.27%) Gatling
11 1 (2.27%) Gradle
11 1 (2.27%) Maven
General
1 14 (31.82%) Public Sector
2 9 (20.45%) Finance
3 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Automotive
5 2 (4.55%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (47.73%) Test Engineer
2 14 (31.82%) Lead
3 12 (27.27%) Test Automation Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) QA Leader
5 5 (11.36%) Automation Test Lead
5 5 (11.36%) Automation Tester
5 5 (11.36%) Senior
5 5 (11.36%) Tester
6 4 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Selenium Automation Tester
6 4 (9.09%) Selenium Tester
7 3 (6.82%) Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Test Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Test Leader
8 2 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) AWS DevOps
9 1 (2.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) QA Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (59.09%) REST
2 10 (22.73%) .NET
3 9 (20.45%) LDAP
3 9 (20.45%) OpenID
3 9 (20.45%) SailPoint
3 9 (20.45%) WireMock
4 5 (11.36%) RESTful
4 5 (11.36%) SOAP
4 5 (11.36%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.55%) Gherkin
5 2 (4.55%) Playwright
5 2 (4.55%) Spring
5 2 (4.55%) Swagger
6 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.27%) Java EE
6 1 (2.27%) jQuery
6 1 (2.27%) Kafka
6 1 (2.27%) pytest
6 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.27%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (97.73%) Test Automation
2 28 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 24 (54.55%) API Testing
4 20 (45.45%) Agile
5 19 (43.18%) TDD
6 18 (40.91%) Test Scripting
6 18 (40.91%) Test Strategy
7 17 (38.64%) BDD
8 13 (29.55%) Scenario Testing
8 13 (29.55%) Software Testing
9 12 (27.27%) DevOps
10 10 (22.73%) Manual Testing
10 10 (22.73%) Performance Testing
11 8 (18.18%) Containerisation
11 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 7 (15.91%) AI
12 7 (15.91%) Functional Testing
12 7 (15.91%) Identity Access Management
12 7 (15.91%) Non-Functional Testing
12 7 (15.91%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (61.36%) Java
2 16 (36.36%) SQL
3 11 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (25.00%) Python
4 6 (13.64%) PHP
5 5 (11.36%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) Groovy
6 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.27%) Scala
6 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (43.18%) QA
2 4 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (20.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) ServiceNow
2 3 (6.82%) Oracle
3 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.27%) Google
3 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.27%) Splunk