REST Assured Contract Job Trends

REST Assured
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring REST Assured skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 495 542
Rank change year-on-year +1 +47 +79
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 101 39 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.83% 0.91% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 31 38
10th Percentile £359 £305 £325
25th Percentile £400 £356 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £425 £452
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -5.97% -1.74%
75th Percentile £538 £481 £575
90th Percentile £637 £575 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £339 £575
% change year-on-year +40.22% -41.09% +22.34%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,534 4,271 5,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.38% 13.57% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,793 2,677 3,735
10th Percentile £345 £331 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.63%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 70 209
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.48 £41.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.38 £89.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

REST Assured
Job Vacancy Trend

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

REST Assured job vacancy trend in the UK

REST Assured
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

REST Assured
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST Assured over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST Assured in the UK

REST Assured
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing REST Assured.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing REST Assured

REST Assured
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 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
England -17 88 £472 +10.94% 13
UK excluding London -22 50 £475 +40.22% 9
London -14 34 £435 +2.35% 9
Work from Home +12 32 £458 +20.62% 9
North of England -37 30 £445 +41.27% 2
North East -3 15 £419 +35.08% 1
Yorkshire -39 14 £525 +5.00%
South West -4 12 £520 -5.45%
South East - 5 £375 - 5
West Midlands - 4 £490 - 2
Midlands - 4 £490 - 2
North West -22 3 - - 1

REST Assured
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (9.90%) Confluence
2 2 (1.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 43 (42.57%) Azure
2 37 (36.63%) AWS
3 17 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (16.83%) GCP
4 15 (14.85%) GitHub
5 11 (10.89%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (5.94%) BrowserStack
6 6 (5.94%) SaaS
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.98%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.98%) Figma
7 2 (1.98%) PaaS
7 2 (1.98%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) Vercel
8 1 (0.99%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.94%) MySQL
1 6 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.95%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.98%) Redis
5 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.99%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.99%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.99%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 74 (73.27%) Selenium
2 54 (53.47%) Postman
3 53 (52.48%) Cucumber
4 49 (48.51%) Jenkins
5 37 (36.63%) JIRA
6 32 (31.68%) GitLab
7 23 (22.77%) Cypress.io
8 17 (16.83%) Git
9 12 (11.88%) Gatling
9 12 (11.88%) JMeter
10 11 (10.89%) JUnit
11 10 (9.90%) SoapUI
11 10 (9.90%) WebDriver
12 7 (6.93%) TestNG
12 7 (6.93%) TestRail
13 6 (5.94%) Bitbucket
14 5 (4.95%) Serenity BDD
15 4 (3.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (3.96%) Gradle
15 4 (3.96%) Maven
General
1 29 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.79%) Finance
2 21 (20.79%) Public Sector
3 16 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (15.84%) Banking
4 4 (3.96%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.97%) Automotive
5 3 (2.97%) Military
5 3 (2.97%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.98%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.98%) Front Office
7 1 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (33.66%) Test Engineer
2 23 (22.77%) Lead
3 20 (19.80%) Tester
4 18 (17.82%) Automation Tester
5 15 (14.85%) Test Automation Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) Lead Test Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) QA Leader
6 9 (8.91%) Senior
7 8 (7.92%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) QA Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Automation Test Lead
10 5 (4.95%) Analyst
10 5 (4.95%) Developer
10 5 (4.95%) QA Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Test Leader
11 4 (3.96%) Selenium Automation Tester
11 4 (3.96%) Selenium Tester
11 4 (3.96%) Test Analyst
12 3 (2.97%) Software Developer
12 3 (2.97%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (48.51%) REST
2 26 (25.74%) Playwright
3 14 (13.86%) .NET
3 14 (13.86%) Spring Boot
4 12 (11.88%) OpenID
4 12 (11.88%) RESTful
5 11 (10.89%) LDAP
5 11 (10.89%) SailPoint
5 11 (10.89%) SOAP
6 10 (9.90%) Spring
6 10 (9.90%) WireMock
7 7 (6.93%) Kafka
8 6 (5.94%) HTML
8 6 (5.94%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (4.95%) Gherkin
10 4 (3.96%) React
10 4 (3.96%) Swagger
10 4 (3.96%) Web Services
11 3 (2.97%) CSS
11 3 (2.97%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.92%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.94%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.96%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.96%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.97%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.99%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.99%) Derivative
6 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.99%) Equities
6 1 (0.99%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.99%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.94%) Windows
2 3 (2.97%) Unix
3 2 (1.98%) Android
3 2 (1.98%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.98%) Linux
3 2 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.99%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (90.10%) Test Automation
2 72 (71.29%) CI/CD
3 58 (57.43%) Agile
4 53 (52.48%) API Testing
5 42 (41.58%) DevOps
6 36 (35.64%) Test Scripting
6 36 (35.64%) Test Strategy
7 30 (29.70%) Performance Testing
8 29 (28.71%) BDD
9 26 (25.74%) TDD
10 25 (24.75%) Regression Testing
10 25 (24.75%) Software Testing
11 22 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (18.81%) Integration Testing
12 19 (18.81%) Scenario Testing
13 18 (17.82%) Containerisation
13 18 (17.82%) Microservices
14 15 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (14.85%) Manual Testing
14 15 (14.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 64 (63.37%) Java
2 30 (29.70%) SQL
3 19 (18.81%) JavaScript
4 17 (16.83%) Python
5 16 (15.84%) C#
6 6 (5.94%) PHP
6 6 (5.94%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.97%) Groovy
8 2 (1.98%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.99%) Bicep
9 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.99%) Ruby
9 1 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (32.67%) Security Cleared
2 28 (27.72%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) Degree
3 5 (4.95%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.99%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (47.52%) QA
2 15 (14.85%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.95%) WCAG
4 3 (2.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.98%) GDPR
6 1 (0.99%) MiFID
6 1 (0.99%) NCSC
6 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.99%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 25 (24.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.93%) Terraform
3 5 (4.95%) Grafana
4 4 (3.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.99%) Ansible
5 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (12.87%) ServiceNow
2 8 (7.92%) Oracle
2 8 (7.92%) Splunk
3 3 (2.97%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.97%) Google
3 3 (2.97%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.98%) Adobe
4 2 (1.98%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.99%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.99%) Databricks
5 1 (0.99%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.99%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.99%) MarketAxess
5 1 (0.99%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.99%) Tradeweb