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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 426 527
Rank change year-on-year -76 +101 +92
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 131 92 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.32% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.22% 2.17% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 60 45
10th Percentile £350 £285 £321
25th Percentile £374 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £563 £438 £650
90th Percentile £640 £504 £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 5,890 4,242 5,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.93% 14.61% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,830 2,830 3,467
10th Percentile £350 £340 £352
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 76 227
10th Percentile £35.00 £20.86 £29.95
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.36 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.48 £76.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +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 6 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 6 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 -71 108 £475 +21.79% 11
UK excluding London -71 65 £500 +34.92% 8
London -67 44 £418 +4.38% 6
North of England -49 39 £525 +41.43% 2
Work from Home -47 37 £445 +14.84% 6
Yorkshire -49 21 £620 +47.62% 2
Midlands -50 14 £500 +82.48% 1
North West -34 12 £640 +60.00%
West Midlands -48 12 £500 +163.16% 1
North East -18 11 £363 -
South West - 8 £513 - 2
Scotland -4 6 £363 - 2
South East -71 3 £400 -20.08% 1
East Midlands -28 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 10 (7.63%) Confluence
2 2 (1.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.76%) Camunda
3 1 (0.76%) Mule
3 1 (0.76%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.76%) SAS
3 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 67 (51.15%) AWS
2 56 (42.75%) Azure
3 41 (31.30%) GitHub
4 27 (20.61%) GCP
5 25 (19.08%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (16.79%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (6.87%) BrowserStack
8 6 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.58%) Serverless
9 5 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.82%) SaaS
10 3 (2.29%) Figma
11 2 (1.53%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.53%) Datadog
11 2 (1.53%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.53%) PaaS
11 2 (1.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (1.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (1.53%) Vercel
12 1 (0.76%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) HTTP
2 1 (0.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.74%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.69%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.11%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.58%) MySQL
5 4 (3.05%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.76%) Base SAS
7 1 (0.76%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.76%) Redis
7 1 (0.76%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 85 (64.89%) Selenium
2 67 (51.15%) Jenkins
3 59 (45.04%) Cucumber
4 57 (43.51%) Postman
5 46 (35.11%) GitLab
6 32 (24.43%) JIRA
7 28 (21.37%) Gatling
8 22 (16.79%) JMeter
9 20 (15.27%) Cypress.io
10 16 (12.21%) Git
11 15 (11.45%) Serenity BDD
12 13 (9.92%) JUnit
12 13 (9.92%) WebDriver
13 9 (6.87%) TestRail
14 8 (6.11%) Maven
14 8 (6.11%) SoapUI
15 7 (5.34%) Appium
15 7 (5.34%) Gradle
15 7 (5.34%) TestNG
16 5 (3.82%) SpecFlow
General
1 47 (35.88%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.32%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (15.27%) Finance
3 20 (15.27%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.45%) Banking
5 7 (5.34%) Military
6 3 (2.29%) Front Office
7 2 (1.53%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.53%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.76%) Games
8 1 (0.76%) Legal
8 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (41.98%) Test Engineer
2 31 (23.66%) Lead
3 23 (17.56%) Test Automation Engineer
4 19 (14.50%) Lead Test Engineer
5 16 (12.21%) Tester
6 14 (10.69%) Automation Tester
7 12 (9.16%) QA Engineer
7 12 (9.16%) Senior
8 9 (6.87%) Salesforce Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Automation Test Lead
10 7 (5.34%) Architect
10 7 (5.34%) Developer
11 6 (4.58%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Test Architect
12 5 (3.82%) Test Automation Architect
13 4 (3.05%) Automation Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) QA Leader
13 4 (3.05%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (48.85%) Playwright
2 46 (35.11%) REST
3 23 (17.56%) Kafka
4 22 (16.79%) Spring Boot
5 20 (15.27%) Spring
6 14 (10.69%) React
7 13 (9.92%) LDAP
7 13 (9.92%) RESTful
8 12 (9.16%) OpenID
8 12 (9.16%) SailPoint
8 12 (9.16%) Spring Cloud
9 10 (7.63%) .NET
10 7 (5.34%) Gherkin
10 7 (5.34%) HTML
11 6 (4.58%) SOAP
12 5 (3.82%) Node.js
12 5 (3.82%) WireMock
13 4 (3.05%) pytest
13 4 (3.05%) Web Services
14 3 (2.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.40%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.63%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.82%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.05%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.53%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.76%) Derivative
6 1 (0.76%) Equities
6 1 (0.76%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.76%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.76%) PKI
6 1 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.05%) Linux
2 3 (2.29%) Unix
3 2 (1.53%) Android
3 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (90.08%) Test Automation
2 108 (82.44%) CI/CD
3 69 (52.67%) API Testing
3 69 (52.67%) DevOps
4 65 (49.62%) Agile
5 45 (34.35%) Test Strategy
6 44 (33.59%) BDD
7 40 (30.53%) Performance Testing
8 33 (25.19%) Microservices
9 32 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (22.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (22.90%) Integration Testing
11 27 (20.61%) Software Testing
11 27 (20.61%) TDD
12 26 (19.85%) Test Scripting
13 24 (18.32%) End-to-End Testing
13 24 (18.32%) Non-Functional Testing
14 23 (17.56%) Observability
14 23 (17.56%) Scrum
15 20 (15.27%) AI
Programming Languages
1 99 (75.57%) Java
2 35 (26.72%) JavaScript
3 31 (23.66%) SQL
4 27 (20.61%) Python
5 12 (9.16%) C#
6 11 (8.40%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.34%) Apex Code
8 6 (4.58%) PHP
9 4 (3.05%) Scala
10 3 (2.29%) Bash
10 3 (2.29%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.76%) Bicep
11 1 (0.76%) COBOL
11 1 (0.76%) Groovy
11 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.76%) PROC SQL
11 1 (0.76%) Swift
11 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (27.48%) Security Cleared
2 28 (21.37%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.16%) Degree
4 11 (8.40%) ISTQB
5 5 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.05%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (36.64%) QA
2 23 (17.56%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.58%) WCAG
4 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.53%) GDPR
4 2 (1.53%) MiFID
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (24.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (15.27%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.21%) Grafana
3 15 (11.45%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.58%) Terraform
5 2 (1.53%) Ansible
5 2 (1.53%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.53%) Kibana
6 1 (0.76%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.76%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (9.92%) ServiceNow
1 13 (9.92%) Splunk
2 11 (8.40%) Salesforce
3 8 (6.11%) Conga
3 8 (6.11%) GoCardless
4 6 (4.58%) Google
4 6 (4.58%) Oracle
5 3 (2.29%) IBM
5 3 (2.29%) Micro Focus
5 3 (2.29%) OpenText
6 2 (1.53%) Adobe
6 2 (1.53%) HP
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.53%) Pega
7 1 (0.76%) Citrix
7 1 (0.76%) Databricks
7 1 (0.76%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.76%) UiPath
7 1 (0.76%) Veracode