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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 450 526
Rank change year-on-year -82 +76 +108
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 131 95 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.29% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.11% 1.99% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 64 38
10th Percentile £331 £280 £346
25th Percentile £360 £352 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -27.27% +0.92%
75th Percentile £550 £443 £644
90th Percentile £640 £544 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £370 £650
% change year-on-year +28.38% -43.08% +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 6,204 4,773 5,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.76% 14.63% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,985 3,215 3,430
10th Percentile £350 £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 £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 102 234
10th Percentile £26.00 £22.45 £26.60
25th Percentile £55.94 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.68 £73.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +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 22 July 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 22 July 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 £450 +18.34% 12
UK excluding London -83 64 £475 +28.38% 8
London -60 49 £445 +15.51% 7
Work from Home -59 38 £406 +6.07% 7
North of England -55 34 £475 +27.96% 1
North East -23 15 £378 +9.23%
North West -38 15 £620 +67.57% 1
Midlands -50 14 £500 +86.57% 2
West Midlands -46 12 £500 +163.16% 2
Yorkshire -46 9 £620 +47.62%
South West - 9 £513 - 1
Scotland - 9 £363 -
South East -71 3 £400 -20.08% 4
East Midlands -17 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 (8.40%) Confluence
2 2 (1.53%) Camunda
2 2 (1.53%) SAS
3 1 (0.76%) Mule
3 1 (0.76%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 57 (43.51%) AWS
2 48 (36.64%) GitHub
3 47 (35.88%) Azure
4 28 (21.37%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (20.61%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (12.98%) GCP
7 12 (9.16%) BrowserStack
8 6 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.58%) Serverless
9 5 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.82%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (3.05%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.29%) SaaS
12 2 (1.53%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.53%) Datadog
12 2 (1.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.53%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.76%) ChatGPT
13 1 (0.76%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) Firewall
1 2 (1.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.74%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.69%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.58%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.05%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.53%) Base SAS
5 2 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.53%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.76%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.76%) DataStage
6 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (60.31%) Selenium
2 63 (48.09%) Jenkins
3 52 (39.69%) Cucumber
4 48 (36.64%) Postman
5 35 (26.72%) GitLab
6 28 (21.37%) Gatling
7 27 (20.61%) JIRA
8 23 (17.56%) Cypress.io
9 21 (16.03%) JMeter
10 20 (15.27%) Git
11 18 (13.74%) JUnit
12 15 (11.45%) Serenity BDD
12 15 (11.45%) TestNG
13 13 (9.92%) Appium
14 12 (9.16%) Maven
15 9 (6.87%) Gradle
15 9 (6.87%) WebDriver
16 7 (5.34%) SoapUI
16 7 (5.34%) SonarQube
16 7 (5.34%) SpecFlow
General
1 45 (34.35%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.32%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (17.56%) Finance
4 22 (16.79%) Public Sector
5 15 (11.45%) Banking
6 6 (4.58%) Military
7 4 (3.05%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.53%) Front Office
8 2 (1.53%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Games
9 1 (0.76%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (37.40%) Test Engineer
2 23 (17.56%) Lead
3 19 (14.50%) Tester
4 17 (12.98%) Automation Tester
4 17 (12.98%) Test Automation Engineer
5 15 (11.45%) Senior
6 14 (10.69%) Lead Test Engineer
6 14 (10.69%) QA Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Salesforce Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Developer
9 8 (6.11%) Analyst
10 7 (5.34%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Senior Test Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Test Analyst
12 5 (3.82%) Architect
12 5 (3.82%) QA Automation Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) Principal Test Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) Senior Automation Tester
13 4 (3.05%) Senior Tester
13 4 (3.05%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (54.20%) Playwright
2 34 (25.95%) REST
3 24 (18.32%) Kafka
4 22 (16.79%) Spring Boot
5 20 (15.27%) Spring
6 14 (10.69%) React
7 12 (9.16%) RESTful
7 12 (9.16%) Spring Cloud
8 10 (7.63%) Node.js
9 8 (6.11%) Gherkin
9 8 (6.11%) WireMock
10 6 (4.58%) HTML
11 5 (3.82%) .NET
11 5 (3.82%) CSS
11 5 (3.82%) pytest
11 5 (3.82%) Web Services
12 4 (3.05%) SOAP
12 4 (3.05%) XML
13 3 (2.29%) JSON
13 3 (2.29%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.92%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.11%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.05%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.29%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.53%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.53%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.53%) PKI
6 2 (1.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.76%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.29%) Linux
2 2 (1.53%) Android
2 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (88.55%) Test Automation
2 108 (82.44%) CI/CD
3 74 (56.49%) DevOps
4 64 (48.85%) Agile
5 59 (45.04%) API Testing
6 51 (38.93%) Test Strategy
7 45 (34.35%) BDD
8 39 (29.77%) Performance Testing
9 35 (26.72%) Microservices
10 34 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (21.37%) End-to-End Testing
11 28 (21.37%) Non-Functional Testing
12 26 (19.85%) AI
12 26 (19.85%) Integration Testing
12 26 (19.85%) Scrum
12 26 (19.85%) TDD
13 25 (19.08%) Generative AI
13 25 (19.08%) Software Testing
14 23 (17.56%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 91 (69.47%) Java
2 35 (26.72%) JavaScript
3 32 (24.43%) Python
4 24 (18.32%) SQL
5 15 (11.45%) C#
5 15 (11.45%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.34%) Apex Code
6 7 (5.34%) Bash
7 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.05%) Scala
8 2 (1.53%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.53%) PROC SQL
8 2 (1.53%) VBA
9 1 (0.76%) Bicep
9 1 (0.76%) COBOL
9 1 (0.76%) Groovy
9 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.76%) Ruby
9 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 42 (32.06%) Security Cleared
2 33 (25.19%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.16%) Degree
4 11 (8.40%) ISTQB
5 8 (6.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.58%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (35.88%) QA
2 25 (19.08%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.82%) WCAG
4 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.53%) GDPR
4 2 (1.53%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.53%) MiFID
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (26.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (16.79%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.21%) Grafana
3 15 (11.45%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.82%) HP ALM
4 5 (3.82%) Terraform
5 4 (3.05%) Ansible
6 2 (1.53%) Istio
6 2 (1.53%) Kibana
7 1 (0.76%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.76%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (9.92%) Splunk
2 11 (8.40%) Salesforce
3 8 (6.11%) Conga
3 8 (6.11%) GoCardless
4 6 (4.58%) Oracle
5 5 (3.82%) HP
6 4 (3.05%) Google
6 4 (3.05%) IBM
6 4 (3.05%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.29%) Citrix
7 3 (2.29%) Micro Focus
7 3 (2.29%) OpenText
7 3 (2.29%) Perfecto Mobile
7 3 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.53%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.53%) Pega
8 2 (1.53%) Veracode
9 1 (0.76%) Databricks
9 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.76%) UiPath