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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 470 540
Rank change year-on-year -31 +70 +111
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 110 48 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.89% 1.17% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 38 36
10th Percentile £356 £289 £325
25th Percentile £406 £319 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £380 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £438 £556
90th Percentile £675 £523 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £315 £593
% change year-on-year +61.11% -46.84% +24.74%

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 5,830 4,115 5,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.70% 13.60% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,969 2,666 3,631
10th Percentile £343 £331 £358
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £618 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £482 £500
% change year-on-year -1.35% -3.70% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 64 214
10th Percentile £32.15 £26.10 £37.50
25th Percentile £53.13 £52.19 £46.20
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £70.13 £71.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £83.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 5 March 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 13 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 5 March 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 -31 96 £500 +31.58% 13
UK excluding London -49 53 £508 +61.11% 8
London -41 38 £455 +8.66% 6
North of England -35 32 £475 +40.22% 3
Work from Home -12 26 £475 +25.00% 7
Yorkshire - 16 £620 - 1
North East 0 15 £413 +33.06% 1
South West -16 12 £520 -5.45% 2
Midlands -54 9 £465 +137.24% 1
West Midlands -48 7 £465 +144.74% 1
North West -35 3 £725 +81.25% 1
East Midlands -29 2 - -
South East - 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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (1.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.91%) Mule
3 1 (0.91%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 48 (43.64%) Azure
2 45 (40.91%) AWS
3 27 (24.55%) GitHub
4 19 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (17.27%) GCP
4 19 (17.27%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (7.27%) BrowserStack
6 5 (4.55%) SaaS
7 3 (2.73%) Figma
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.82%) Datadog
8 2 (1.82%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.82%) PaaS
8 2 (1.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.82%) Vercel
9 1 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.91%) IBM Cloud
9 1 (0.91%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) HTTP
2 1 (0.91%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.27%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.45%) MongoDB
2 6 (5.45%) MySQL
2 6 (5.45%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.82%) Redis
5 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.91%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.91%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 71 (64.55%) Selenium
2 57 (51.82%) Postman
3 53 (48.18%) Cucumber
3 53 (48.18%) Jenkins
4 37 (33.64%) GitLab
4 37 (33.64%) JIRA
5 26 (23.64%) Cypress.io
6 17 (15.45%) Git
7 15 (13.64%) JMeter
7 15 (13.64%) JUnit
8 14 (12.73%) Gatling
9 11 (10.00%) WebDriver
10 10 (9.09%) SoapUI
11 9 (8.18%) TestNG
12 7 (6.36%) Maven
12 7 (6.36%) TestRail
13 6 (5.45%) Serenity BDD
14 5 (4.55%) Gradle
15 4 (3.64%) SpecFlow
16 3 (2.73%) Bitbucket
General
1 35 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (18.18%) Finance
4 17 (15.45%) Public Sector
5 15 (13.64%) Banking
6 4 (3.64%) Military
7 3 (2.73%) Front Office
7 3 (2.73%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.82%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.82%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (32.73%) Test Engineer
2 28 (25.45%) Lead
3 17 (15.45%) Tester
4 16 (14.55%) Automation Tester
5 14 (12.73%) Test Automation Engineer
6 10 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
6 10 (9.09%) QA Leader
6 10 (9.09%) Senior
7 8 (7.27%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (7.27%) QA Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Architect
8 6 (5.45%) Automation Test Lead
9 5 (4.55%) Developer
9 5 (4.55%) QA Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Test Leader
10 4 (3.64%) Test Architect
10 4 (3.64%) Test Automation Architect
11 3 (2.73%) Analyst
11 3 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.73%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (43.64%) REST
2 31 (28.18%) Playwright
3 13 (11.82%) LDAP
3 13 (11.82%) OpenID
3 13 (11.82%) Spring Boot
4 12 (10.91%) SailPoint
5 11 (10.00%) Spring
6 10 (9.09%) .NET
6 10 (9.09%) Kafka
6 10 (9.09%) RESTful
6 10 (9.09%) WireMock
7 7 (6.36%) SOAP
8 6 (5.45%) Gherkin
8 6 (5.45%) HTML
8 6 (5.45%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (4.55%) Web Services
10 4 (3.64%) React
11 3 (2.73%) CSS
11 3 (2.73%) J2EE
11 3 (2.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.18%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.64%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.73%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.91%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.91%) Derivative
7 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.91%) Equities
7 1 (0.91%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.91%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.91%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.73%) Linux
1 3 (2.73%) Unix
1 3 (2.73%) Windows
2 2 (1.82%) Android
2 2 (1.82%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 87 (79.09%) CI/CD
3 61 (55.45%) Agile
4 54 (49.09%) API Testing
5 47 (42.73%) DevOps
6 40 (36.36%) Test Strategy
7 36 (32.73%) Test Scripting
8 31 (28.18%) BDD
8 31 (28.18%) Performance Testing
9 27 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (22.73%) Software Testing
11 23 (20.91%) TDD
12 22 (20.00%) AI
13 20 (18.18%) Regression Testing
14 19 (17.27%) Microservices
15 18 (16.36%) Scrum
16 17 (15.45%) Containerisation
17 16 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (14.55%) Manual Testing
18 15 (13.64%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 73 (66.36%) Java
2 31 (28.18%) SQL
3 21 (19.09%) JavaScript
4 18 (16.36%) Python
5 14 (12.73%) C#
6 6 (5.45%) PHP
6 6 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.82%) Groovy
7 2 (1.82%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.91%) Bicep
8 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.91%) Ruby
8 1 (0.91%) Scala
8 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (30.91%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.55%) Degree
4 4 (3.64%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (50.00%) QA
2 16 (14.55%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.64%) WCAG
4 3 (2.73%) GDPR
4 3 (2.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.82%) MiFID
6 1 (0.91%) NCSC
6 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.91%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (23.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (14.55%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.27%) Grafana
3 7 (6.36%) Prometheus
3 7 (6.36%) Terraform
4 2 (1.82%) Ansible
4 2 (1.82%) Kibana
5 1 (0.91%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (13.64%) ServiceNow
2 8 (7.27%) Splunk
3 6 (5.45%) Google
3 6 (5.45%) Oracle
4 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.82%) Adobe
5 2 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.82%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.91%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.91%) Databricks
6 1 (0.91%) IBM
6 1 (0.91%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.91%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.91%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.91%) Tradeweb