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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 434 538
Rank change year-on-year -82 +104 +105
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 134 91 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.31% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.26% 2.12% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 59 44
10th Percentile £350 £284 £325
25th Percentile £375 £357 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £452
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.50% -17.82%
75th Percentile £550 £439 £650
90th Percentile £640 £539 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £371 £650
% change year-on-year +34.92% -42.98% +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 5,934 4,301 5,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 14.61% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,840 2,874 3,526
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £625
90th Percentile £686 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 81 233
10th Percentile £34.90 £20.85 £31.34
25th Percentile £57.93 £46.92 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.96 £77.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.67% -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 12 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 12 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 -82 109 £468 +18.48% 8
UK excluding London -60 65 £500 +34.92% 7
London -56 48 £445 +11.25% 4
Work from Home -55 39 £445 +14.84% 5
North of England -49 37 £525 +41.43% 3
Yorkshire -41 18 £620 +47.62% 1
Midlands -58 14 £500 +82.48%
North West -23 13 £640 +60.00% 2
West Midlands -49 12 £500 +163.16%
North East -26 11 £363 -
Scotland -1 8 £382 - 2
South West - 8 £513 - 1
South East -82 3 £400 -20.08% 1
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 11 (8.21%) Confluence
2 2 (1.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.49%) SAS
3 1 (0.75%) Camunda
3 1 (0.75%) Mule
3 1 (0.75%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.49%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 65 (48.51%) AWS
2 60 (44.78%) Azure
3 45 (33.58%) GitHub
4 31 (23.13%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (20.15%) GCP
6 26 (19.40%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (6.72%) BrowserStack
8 6 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.48%) Serverless
9 5 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.99%) SaaS
11 2 (1.49%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.49%) Datadog
11 2 (1.49%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.49%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.49%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 1 (0.75%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.75%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.49%) HTTP
2 1 (0.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.43%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.45%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.22%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.99%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.99%) MySQL
5 2 (1.49%) Base SAS
5 2 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.49%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.75%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 86 (64.18%) Selenium
2 68 (50.75%) Jenkins
3 59 (44.03%) Cucumber
4 58 (43.28%) Postman
5 47 (35.07%) GitLab
6 33 (24.63%) JIRA
7 28 (20.90%) Gatling
8 22 (16.42%) Cypress.io
8 22 (16.42%) JMeter
9 19 (14.18%) Git
10 15 (11.19%) JUnit
10 15 (11.19%) Serenity BDD
10 15 (11.19%) WebDriver
11 10 (7.46%) Maven
12 9 (6.72%) TestNG
13 8 (5.97%) Appium
13 8 (5.97%) SoapUI
14 7 (5.22%) Gradle
14 7 (5.22%) SpecFlow
14 7 (5.22%) TestRail
General
1 49 (36.57%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (16.42%) Finance
4 20 (14.93%) Public Sector
5 14 (10.45%) Banking
6 7 (5.22%) Military
7 3 (2.24%) Front Office
8 2 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Games
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (40.30%) Test Engineer
2 28 (20.90%) Lead
3 21 (15.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 19 (14.18%) Tester
5 17 (12.69%) Automation Tester
6 16 (11.94%) Lead Test Engineer
7 14 (10.45%) Senior
8 13 (9.70%) QA Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) Salesforce Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Developer
11 7 (5.22%) Architect
11 7 (5.22%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (3.73%) Automation Test Lead
12 5 (3.73%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (3.73%) Test Architect
12 5 (3.73%) Test Automation Architect
13 4 (2.99%) Automation Engineer
13 4 (2.99%) Principal Test Engineer
13 4 (2.99%) QA Leader
13 4 (2.99%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (49.25%) Playwright
2 45 (33.58%) REST
3 23 (17.16%) Kafka
4 20 (14.93%) Spring Boot
5 18 (13.43%) Spring
6 14 (10.45%) React
6 14 (10.45%) RESTful
7 12 (8.96%) LDAP
7 12 (8.96%) Spring Cloud
8 11 (8.21%) OpenID
8 11 (8.21%) SailPoint
9 9 (6.72%) .NET
9 9 (6.72%) Gherkin
10 7 (5.22%) HTML
11 6 (4.48%) SOAP
12 5 (3.73%) Node.js
12 5 (3.73%) Web Services
12 5 (3.73%) WireMock
13 4 (2.99%) pytest
14 3 (2.24%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.96%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.46%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.73%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.99%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.99%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.49%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.75%) Derivative
7 1 (0.75%) Equities
7 1 (0.75%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.75%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.24%) Unix
2 2 (1.49%) Android
2 2 (1.49%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (91.04%) Test Automation
2 111 (82.84%) CI/CD
3 72 (53.73%) DevOps
4 70 (52.24%) API Testing
5 68 (50.75%) Agile
6 47 (35.07%) BDD
6 47 (35.07%) Test Strategy
7 40 (29.85%) Performance Testing
8 35 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (24.63%) Microservices
10 31 (23.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (23.13%) Integration Testing
11 28 (20.90%) Test Scripting
12 27 (20.15%) Software Testing
12 27 (20.15%) TDD
13 25 (18.66%) Scrum
14 24 (17.91%) End-to-End Testing
14 24 (17.91%) Non-Functional Testing
15 23 (17.16%) Observability
16 21 (15.67%) AI
Programming Languages
1 99 (73.88%) Java
2 36 (26.87%) JavaScript
3 30 (22.39%) Python
4 29 (21.64%) SQL
5 15 (11.19%) C#
6 14 (10.45%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.22%) Apex Code
8 4 (2.99%) PHP
8 4 (2.99%) Scala
9 3 (2.24%) Bash
10 2 (1.49%) PROC SQL
11 1 (0.75%) Bicep
11 1 (0.75%) COBOL
11 1 (0.75%) Groovy
11 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.75%) Swift
11 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (29.10%) Security Cleared
2 30 (22.39%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.70%) ISTQB
4 11 (8.21%) Degree
5 6 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.48%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (36.57%) QA
2 23 (17.16%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.48%) WCAG
4 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.49%) GDPR
4 2 (1.49%) MiFID
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (25.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (14.93%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.94%) Grafana
3 15 (11.19%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.99%) Terraform
5 2 (1.49%) Ansible
5 2 (1.49%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.49%) Kibana
6 1 (0.75%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.75%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (9.70%) Splunk
2 12 (8.96%) Salesforce
2 12 (8.96%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.97%) Conga
3 8 (5.97%) GoCardless
4 6 (4.48%) Google
5 5 (3.73%) Oracle
6 4 (2.99%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.24%) IBM
7 3 (2.24%) Micro Focus
7 3 (2.24%) OpenText
8 2 (1.49%) Adobe
8 2 (1.49%) Citrix
8 2 (1.49%) HP
8 2 (1.49%) Pega
9 1 (0.75%) Databricks
9 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.75%) UiPath
9 1 (0.75%) Veracode