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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 497 539
Rank change year-on-year +7 +42 +96
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 88 37 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.12% 0.097%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.63% 0.87% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 29 34
10th Percentile £359 £305 £325
25th Percentile £400 £356 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £420 £454
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -7.44% -0.82%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £575
90th Percentile £581 £575 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £363 £575
% change year-on-year +31.03% -36.96% +21.69%

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 5,413 4,269 5,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.59% 13.41% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,711 2,694 3,674
10th Percentile £338 £331 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% -6.84% -4.02%
75th Percentile £594 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £513
% change year-on-year -0.42% -6.93% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 72 199
10th Percentile £39.00 £28.88 £43.93
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.15 £90.00
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 15 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 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 15 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 -8 76 £467 +11.07% 9
UK excluding London -29 45 £475 +31.03% 7
Work from Home +18 26 £450 +18.42% 7
London -21 26 £415 -2.35% 4
North of England -24 25 £435 +28.41% 5
North East -1 13 £425 +37.10% 1
South West -8 12 £520 -5.45%
Yorkshire -37 11 £525 +14.13% 4
South East - 5 £375 - 2
Midlands - 3 £430 -
West Midlands - 2 £490 -
North West -24 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £263 -

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 8 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 36 (40.91%) Azure
2 31 (35.23%) AWS
3 15 (17.05%) GCP
4 13 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (12.50%) GitHub
6 9 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.82%) SaaS
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.27%) BrowserStack
8 2 (2.27%) Figma
8 2 (2.27%) PaaS
8 2 (2.27%) Vercel
9 1 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.14%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.14%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.14%) Sauce Labs
9 1 (1.14%) Serverless
9 1 (1.14%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) MySQL
1 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.27%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.27%) Redis
4 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.14%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 63 (71.59%) Selenium
2 51 (57.95%) Cucumber
3 50 (56.82%) Postman
4 42 (47.73%) Jenkins
5 33 (37.50%) JIRA
6 26 (29.55%) GitLab
7 20 (22.73%) Cypress.io
8 15 (17.05%) Git
9 12 (13.64%) JMeter
10 11 (12.50%) JUnit
11 9 (10.23%) Gatling
11 9 (10.23%) SoapUI
12 8 (9.09%) TestNG
12 8 (9.09%) WebDriver
13 7 (7.95%) TestRail
14 6 (6.82%) Bitbucket
15 5 (5.68%) Maven
16 4 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (4.55%) Gradle
17 3 (3.41%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.86%) Public Sector
3 19 (21.59%) Finance
4 15 (17.05%) Banking
5 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Automotive
6 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.41%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.27%) Military
8 1 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Front Office
8 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (34.09%) Test Engineer
2 19 (21.59%) Lead
3 16 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
3 16 (18.18%) Tester
4 14 (15.91%) Automation Tester
5 9 (10.23%) QA Leader
5 9 (10.23%) Senior
6 8 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Analyst
8 6 (6.82%) Automation Test Lead
9 5 (5.68%) Lead Test Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) QA Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) QA Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Test Analyst
9 5 (5.68%) Test Leader
10 4 (4.55%) Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Selenium Automation Tester
10 4 (4.55%) Selenium Tester
11 3 (3.41%) Software Developer
12 2 (2.27%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (48.86%) REST
2 18 (20.45%) Playwright
3 12 (13.64%) .NET
4 11 (12.50%) RESTful
5 10 (11.36%) OpenID
5 10 (11.36%) SOAP
5 10 (11.36%) Spring Boot
5 10 (11.36%) WireMock
6 9 (10.23%) LDAP
6 9 (10.23%) SailPoint
7 6 (6.82%) Spring
8 5 (5.68%) Gherkin
9 4 (4.55%) HTML
9 4 (4.55%) Swagger
9 4 (4.55%) Web Services
10 3 (3.41%) CSS
10 3 (3.41%) Kafka
11 2 (2.27%) AngularJS
11 2 (2.27%) Bootstrap
11 2 (2.27%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.27%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.14%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.82%) Windows
2 2 (2.27%) Android
2 2 (2.27%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.27%) Linux
2 2 (2.27%) Unix
2 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (89.77%) Test Automation
2 61 (69.32%) CI/CD
3 50 (56.82%) Agile
4 45 (51.14%) API Testing
5 33 (37.50%) DevOps
5 33 (37.50%) Test Strategy
6 32 (36.36%) Test Scripting
7 27 (30.68%) TDD
8 26 (29.55%) Regression Testing
9 25 (28.41%) BDD
9 25 (28.41%) Performance Testing
10 23 (26.14%) Software Testing
11 19 (21.59%) Containerisation
12 18 (20.45%) Scenario Testing
13 17 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (18.18%) Integration Testing
15 15 (17.05%) Manual Testing
15 15 (17.05%) Scrum
16 14 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (15.91%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (64.77%) Java
2 24 (27.27%) SQL
3 19 (21.59%) JavaScript
4 16 (18.18%) Python
5 12 (13.64%) C#
6 6 (6.82%) PHP
7 4 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.41%) Groovy
9 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.14%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.14%) Ruby
10 1 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (30.68%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.41%) Degree
3 3 (3.41%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (47.73%) QA
2 9 (10.23%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.68%) WCAG
4 3 (3.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.27%) GDPR
6 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.14%) MiFID
6 1 (1.14%) NCSC
6 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (15.91%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.68%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) Ansible
3 1 (1.14%) Grafana
3 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 7 (7.95%) Oracle
3 4 (4.55%) Splunk
4 3 (3.41%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.27%) Adobe
5 2 (2.27%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.14%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.14%) Databricks
6 1 (1.14%) Google
6 1 (1.14%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.14%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.14%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.14%) Tradeweb