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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 464 528
Rank change year-on-year -86 +64 +81
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 114 94 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.29% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.84% 1.90% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 63 34
10th Percentile £318 £308 £330
25th Percentile £358 £359 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £498 £603
90th Percentile £639 £550 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £401 £375 £638
% change year-on-year +7.00% -41.18% +10.87%

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 6,196 4,939 5,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.57% 15.07% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,980 3,328 3,270
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 114 200
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.08 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £84.58 £73.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -103 95 £446 +17.37% 23
UK excluding London -84 54 £401 +7.00% 12
London -76 46 £445 +17.11% 13
Work from Home -76 35 £402 +0.50% 13
North of England -64 27 £426 +10.65% 4
North East -24 13 £378 +17.97%
North West -37 12 £560 +51.35% 4
Scotland - 9 £363 -
South West - 9 £513 - 3
Midlands -48 8 £525 +87.50% 1
West Midlands -46 7 £525 - 1
Yorkshire -43 5 - -
South East -77 5 £295 -33.75% 3
East Midlands -22 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 11 (9.65%) Confluence
2 2 (1.75%) Camunda
2 2 (1.75%) SAS
3 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (42.98%) AWS
2 44 (38.60%) Azure
3 35 (30.70%) GitHub
4 28 (24.56%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (19.30%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (12.28%) GCP
7 8 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (6.14%) Serverless
9 6 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.26%) BrowserStack
9 6 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (3.51%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.63%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.63%) SaaS
12 2 (1.75%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.75%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 1 (0.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.40%) MongoDB
2 9 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.02%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.51%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.75%) Base SAS
6 2 (1.75%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.88%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.88%) DataStage
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 69 (60.53%) Selenium
2 50 (43.86%) Jenkins
3 44 (38.60%) Cucumber
4 43 (37.72%) Postman
5 29 (25.44%) GitLab
6 24 (21.05%) JIRA
7 21 (18.42%) Cypress.io
7 21 (18.42%) Gatling
7 21 (18.42%) Git
8 19 (16.67%) JMeter
9 15 (13.16%) TestNG
10 14 (12.28%) Appium
10 14 (12.28%) JUnit
11 10 (8.77%) WebDriver
12 9 (7.89%) Gradle
12 9 (7.89%) Maven
12 9 (7.89%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (5.26%) LoadRunner
13 6 (5.26%) SonarQube
14 5 (4.39%) SoapUI
General
1 39 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.05%) Finance
3 22 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (17.54%) Public Sector
5 17 (14.91%) Banking
6 6 (5.26%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.63%) Front Office
7 3 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.63%) Military
8 1 (0.88%) Games
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
8 1 (0.88%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.88%) Police
8 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (34.21%) Test Engineer
2 18 (15.79%) Test Automation Engineer
3 17 (14.91%) Lead
3 17 (14.91%) Senior
4 15 (13.16%) QA Engineer
4 15 (13.16%) Tester
5 12 (10.53%) Automation Tester
6 11 (9.65%) Developer
7 10 (8.77%) Salesforce Engineer
8 9 (7.89%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (7.89%) Lead Test Engineer
9 8 (7.02%) Analyst
10 7 (6.14%) QA Automation Engineer
11 6 (5.26%) Test Analyst
12 5 (4.39%) .NET Developer
12 5 (4.39%) C# .NET Developer
12 5 (4.39%) C# Developer
12 5 (4.39%) Senior Developer
12 5 (4.39%) Senior Test Engineer
13 4 (3.51%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (58.77%) Playwright
2 30 (26.32%) REST
3 20 (17.54%) Kafka
4 18 (15.79%) Spring Boot
5 16 (14.04%) Spring
6 14 (12.28%) React
7 13 (11.40%) RESTful
8 12 (10.53%) Node.js
9 7 (6.14%) Gherkin
9 7 (6.14%) Spring Cloud
10 6 (5.26%) .NET
10 6 (5.26%) WireMock
11 5 (4.39%) HTML
11 5 (4.39%) pytest
11 5 (4.39%) XML
12 4 (3.51%) CSS
12 4 (3.51%) JSON
12 4 (3.51%) Terraform
12 4 (3.51%) WinForms
12 4 (3.51%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.65%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.14%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.63%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.75%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.75%) PKI
5 2 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.88%) Spread Betting
6 1 (0.88%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Android
1 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.75%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (88.60%) Test Automation
2 89 (78.07%) CI/CD
3 68 (59.65%) DevOps
4 55 (48.25%) Agile
5 53 (46.49%) API Testing
6 45 (39.47%) Test Strategy
7 42 (36.84%) BDD
8 33 (28.95%) Performance Testing
9 32 (28.07%) End-to-End Testing
10 30 (26.32%) Microservices
11 29 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (24.56%) Integration Testing
13 27 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (22.81%) Scrum
15 25 (21.93%) AI
15 25 (21.93%) Generative AI
15 25 (21.93%) Non-Functional Testing
16 24 (21.05%) Software Testing
17 23 (20.18%) TDD
18 21 (18.42%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 76 (66.67%) Java
2 35 (30.70%) JavaScript
3 31 (27.19%) Python
4 20 (17.54%) SQL
5 18 (15.79%) TypeScript
6 16 (14.04%) C#
7 7 (6.14%) Apex Code
7 7 (6.14%) Bash
8 4 (3.51%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.51%) Scala
9 2 (1.75%) PROC SQL
9 2 (1.75%) VBA
10 1 (0.88%) COBOL
10 1 (0.88%) Groovy
10 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.88%) Ruby
10 1 (0.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 38 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 32 (28.07%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.28%) ISTQB
4 12 (10.53%) Degree
5 10 (8.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (6.14%) DV Cleared
7 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.88%) ISEB
10 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (37.72%) QA
2 17 (14.91%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.51%) ISO 20022
3 4 (3.51%) WCAG
4 2 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.75%) MiFID
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.88%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (25.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.89%) Grafana
3 8 (7.02%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.39%) Ansible
4 5 (4.39%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.75%) Istio
6 1 (0.88%) Packer
6 1 (0.88%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (9.65%) Salesforce
2 8 (7.02%) Conga
2 8 (7.02%) GoCardless
2 8 (7.02%) Splunk
3 7 (6.14%) Oracle
4 5 (4.39%) HP
4 5 (4.39%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.51%) Citrix
6 3 (2.63%) IBM
6 3 (2.63%) Micro Focus
6 3 (2.63%) OpenText
6 3 (2.63%) Perfecto Mobile
7 2 (1.75%) Databricks
7 2 (1.75%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.75%) Pega
7 2 (1.75%) Veracode
8 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.88%) Confluent
8 1 (0.88%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.88%) UiPath