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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 508 566
Rank change year-on-year +3 +58 +64
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 77 35 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.098% 0.092%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.40% 0.74% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 29 32
10th Percentile £358 £305 £360
25th Percentile £375 £356 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £486
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -12.60% +4.85%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £575
90th Percentile £570 £575 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £368 £575
% change year-on-year +19.05% -36.09% +16.16%

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 5,481 4,716 5,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 13.21% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,793 2,957 4,102
10th Percentile £331 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £693 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £514
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.07% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 109 224
10th Percentile £30.35 £34.30 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.50 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £89.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 -1 68 £428 +0.59% 55
UK excluding London -14 34 £438 +19.05% 52
London +2 30 £400 -15.79% 7
Work from Home +14 28 £445 +4.09% 11
North of England -33 14 £425 +34.92% 15
North East +6 12 £425 +37.10% 1
South West -1 12 £520 -5.45% 5
South East - 5 £375 - 11
Midlands - 3 £430 - 12
North West -15 2 £268 -34.23% 3
West Midlands - 2 £490 - 5
East Midlands - 1 £263 - 6

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 7 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) CICS
2 1 (1.30%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 26 (33.77%) Azure
2 18 (23.38%) AWS
3 12 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (11.69%) GitHub
5 7 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.19%) GCP
7 3 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.90%) SaaS
7 3 (3.90%) Serverless
8 2 (2.60%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.30%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.30%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.30%) Sauce Labs
9 1 (1.30%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (1.30%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) DSL
1 1 (1.30%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.49%) Oracle Database
2 5 (6.49%) Redis
3 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.30%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.30%) DB2
3 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.30%) Parquet
3 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 47 (61.04%) Selenium
2 44 (57.14%) Postman
3 34 (44.16%) Cucumber
4 33 (42.86%) Jenkins
5 27 (35.06%) JIRA
6 20 (25.97%) Cypress.io
7 18 (23.38%) Git
8 16 (20.78%) GitLab
9 14 (18.18%) JUnit
10 12 (15.58%) SoapUI
11 10 (12.99%) JMeter
12 9 (11.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (10.39%) Maven
14 7 (9.09%) TestNG
15 6 (7.79%) Bitbucket
15 6 (7.79%) Gatling
15 6 (7.79%) Xcode
16 5 (6.49%) Mockito
16 5 (6.49%) SonarQube
16 5 (6.49%) XCTest
General
1 25 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 21 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 19 (24.68%) Finance
4 14 (18.18%) Banking
5 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.19%) Automotive
7 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.60%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Front Office
9 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.30%) Military
9 1 (1.30%) Retail
9 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (25.97%) Test Engineer
2 18 (23.38%) Tester
3 15 (19.48%) Automation Tester
4 13 (16.88%) Lead
5 11 (14.29%) Senior
6 9 (11.69%) Analyst
6 9 (11.69%) QA Leader
7 7 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Test Analyst
7 7 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Developer
9 4 (5.19%) QA Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) QA Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Selenium Automation Tester
9 4 (5.19%) Selenium Tester
10 3 (3.90%) Software Developer
11 2 (2.60%) Programme Manager
11 2 (2.60%) Senior Test Analyst
11 2 (2.60%) Senior Tester
11 2 (2.60%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (51.95%) REST
2 16 (20.78%) Playwright
3 12 (15.58%) SOAP
4 11 (14.29%) RESTful
4 11 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 10 (12.99%) WireMock
6 8 (10.39%) Swagger
7 7 (9.09%) Spring
8 6 (7.79%) CSS
8 6 (7.79%) HTML
8 6 (7.79%) Kafka
8 6 (7.79%) Web Services
9 5 (6.49%) .NET
9 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
9 5 (6.49%) Bootstrap
9 5 (6.49%) CSS3
9 5 (6.49%) Hibernate
9 5 (6.49%) HTML5
9 5 (6.49%) J2EE
9 5 (6.49%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.49%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.30%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.30%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.30%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.30%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.30%) Synthetic Data
4 1 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.30%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Unix
2 4 (5.19%) Windows
3 2 (2.60%) Android
3 2 (2.60%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.30%) Linux
4 1 (1.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 47 (61.04%) CI/CD
3 44 (57.14%) Agile
4 31 (40.26%) API Testing
4 31 (40.26%) Test Strategy
5 25 (32.47%) Regression Testing
5 25 (32.47%) Software Testing
6 24 (31.17%) DevOps
6 24 (31.17%) TDD
6 24 (31.17%) Test Scripting
7 21 (27.27%) Performance Testing
8 18 (23.38%) BDD
9 17 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (20.78%) Microservices
10 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (19.48%) Containerisation
11 15 (19.48%) Scenario Testing
12 14 (18.18%) AI
13 13 (16.88%) Functional Testing
13 13 (16.88%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (58.44%) Java
2 17 (22.08%) JavaScript
3 16 (20.78%) SQL
4 12 (15.58%) Python
5 11 (14.29%) C#
6 6 (7.79%) Groovy
7 5 (6.49%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.19%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.30%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.30%) Bash
9 1 (1.30%) COBOL
9 1 (1.30%) JCL
9 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.30%) Ruby
9 1 (1.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (33.77%) Security Cleared
2 22 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Degree
4 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.60%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (44.16%) QA
2 9 (11.69%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.19%) WCAG
4 3 (3.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.60%) GDPR
6 1 (1.30%) MiFID
6 1 (1.30%) NCSC
6 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.90%) Terraform
3 1 (1.30%) Ansible
3 1 (1.30%) Control-M
3 1 (1.30%) Grafana
3 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (10.39%) Oracle
2 7 (9.09%) Splunk
3 6 (7.79%) Dynatrace
4 5 (6.49%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.60%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.30%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.30%) Databricks
6 1 (1.30%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.30%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.30%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.30%) Progress
6 1 (1.30%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.30%) UiPath