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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 443 530
Rank change year-on-year -73 +87 +101
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 128 90 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.30% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.15% 2.08% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 58 45
10th Percentile £350 £284 £325
25th Percentile £375 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £400 £455
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -12.09% -17.27%
75th Percentile £550 £439 £650
90th Percentile £640 £540 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £371 £650
% change year-on-year +34.70% -42.89% +13.04%

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 5,949 4,331 5,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 14.55% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,858 2,891 3,530
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 84 245
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £29.30
25th Percentile £56.56 £46.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +5.69%

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 18 June 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 14 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 18 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
England -89 105 £463 +15.63% 12
UK excluding London -73 62 £500 +34.70% 9
London -45 47 £446 +11.50% 8
Work from Home -49 39 £428 +10.32% 5
North of England -52 33 £525 +36.15% 4
North West -26 15 £620 +55.00% 2
Midlands -49 14 £500 +82.48%
West Midlands -42 12 £500 +163.16%
Yorkshire -56 12 £648 +54.17% 1
North East -27 11 £363 +4.89% 1
South West - 9 £513 -
Scotland -3 8 £382 - 2
South East -66 3 £400 -20.08% 3
East Midlands -26 2 - -

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 12 (9.38%) Confluence
2 2 (1.56%) SAS
3 1 (0.78%) Camunda
3 1 (0.78%) Mule
3 1 (0.78%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 59 (46.09%) AWS
2 55 (42.97%) Azure
3 45 (35.16%) GitHub
4 32 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (19.53%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (17.19%) GCP
7 9 (7.03%) BrowserStack
8 6 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.69%) Serverless
9 5 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.56%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.56%) Datadog
10 2 (1.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.56%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.56%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.56%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.78%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.78%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) Firewall
1 2 (1.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.06%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.94%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.13%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.56%) Base SAS
5 2 (1.56%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.56%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.78%) DataStage
6 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 78 (60.94%) Selenium
2 63 (49.22%) Jenkins
3 53 (41.41%) Cucumber
3 53 (41.41%) Postman
4 41 (32.03%) GitLab
5 28 (21.88%) Gatling
6 27 (21.09%) JIRA
7 22 (17.19%) Cypress.io
8 21 (16.41%) JMeter
9 20 (15.63%) Git
10 15 (11.72%) JUnit
10 15 (11.72%) Serenity BDD
11 12 (9.38%) WebDriver
12 10 (7.81%) Maven
13 9 (7.03%) TestNG
14 8 (6.25%) Appium
14 8 (6.25%) Gradle
14 8 (6.25%) SoapUI
15 7 (5.47%) SpecFlow
16 6 (4.69%) LoadRunner
General
1 48 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.09%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (17.19%) Public Sector
4 21 (16.41%) Finance
5 14 (10.94%) Banking
6 7 (5.47%) Military
7 3 (2.34%) Front Office
8 2 (1.56%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.78%) Games
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (39.84%) Test Engineer
2 25 (19.53%) Lead
3 19 (14.84%) Tester
4 17 (13.28%) Automation Tester
4 17 (13.28%) Test Automation Engineer
5 15 (11.72%) Lead Test Engineer
6 14 (10.94%) Senior
7 12 (9.38%) QA Engineer
8 10 (7.81%) Salesforce Engineer
9 8 (6.25%) Developer
10 7 (5.47%) Architect
10 7 (5.47%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (3.91%) Test Architect
11 5 (3.91%) Test Automation Architect
12 4 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
12 4 (3.13%) Principal Test Engineer
12 4 (3.13%) QA Automation Engineer
12 4 (3.13%) QA Leader
12 4 (3.13%) Senior Automation Tester
12 4 (3.13%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (53.13%) Playwright
2 40 (31.25%) REST
3 23 (17.97%) Kafka
4 21 (16.41%) Spring Boot
5 19 (14.84%) Spring
6 15 (11.72%) React
7 12 (9.38%) RESTful
7 12 (9.38%) Spring Cloud
8 7 (5.47%) Gherkin
8 7 (5.47%) HTML
9 6 (4.69%) LDAP
9 6 (4.69%) Node.js
9 6 (4.69%) SOAP
10 5 (3.91%) .NET
10 5 (3.91%) OpenID
10 5 (3.91%) SailPoint
10 5 (3.91%) Web Services
10 5 (3.91%) WireMock
11 4 (3.13%) pytest
12 3 (2.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.91%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.56%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.56%) PKI
7 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.78%) Derivative
7 1 (0.78%) Equities
7 1 (0.78%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.78%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.34%) Linux
1 3 (2.34%) Unix
2 2 (1.56%) Android
2 2 (1.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (89.84%) Test Automation
2 106 (82.81%) CI/CD
3 70 (54.69%) DevOps
4 66 (51.56%) Agile
5 63 (49.22%) API Testing
6 45 (35.16%) Test Strategy
7 43 (33.59%) BDD
8 37 (28.91%) Performance Testing
9 35 (27.34%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (25.78%) Microservices
11 30 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (22.66%) Integration Testing
13 28 (21.88%) Software Testing
14 25 (19.53%) End-to-End Testing
15 24 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
15 24 (18.75%) Scrum
15 24 (18.75%) Test Scripting
16 23 (17.97%) Observability
16 23 (17.97%) TDD
17 22 (17.19%) AI
Programming Languages
1 91 (71.09%) Java
2 32 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 27 (21.09%) Python
4 24 (18.75%) SQL
5 15 (11.72%) C#
6 14 (10.94%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.47%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.13%) Bash
8 4 (3.13%) Scala
9 2 (1.56%) PROC SQL
9 2 (1.56%) VBA
10 1 (0.78%) Bicep
10 1 (0.78%) COBOL
10 1 (0.78%) Groovy
10 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.78%) Swift
Qualifications
1 40 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 30 (23.44%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.16%) ISTQB
4 12 (9.38%) Degree
5 6 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.69%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (35.16%) QA
2 23 (17.97%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.69%) WCAG
4 3 (2.34%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.56%) GDPR
5 2 (1.56%) MiFID
6 1 (0.78%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (25.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.50%) Grafana
3 15 (11.72%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.91%) Terraform
5 3 (2.34%) Ansible
6 2 (1.56%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.56%) Istio
6 2 (1.56%) Kibana
7 1 (0.78%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.78%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (10.16%) Salesforce
1 13 (10.16%) Splunk
2 8 (6.25%) Conga
2 8 (6.25%) GoCardless
3 6 (4.69%) Google
3 6 (4.69%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.91%) Oracle
5 4 (3.13%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.34%) IBM
6 3 (2.34%) Micro Focus
6 3 (2.34%) OpenText
7 2 (1.56%) Citrix
7 2 (1.56%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.56%) HP
7 2 (1.56%) Pega
8 1 (0.78%) Databricks
8 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.78%) UiPath
8 1 (0.78%) Veracode