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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 468 525
Rank change year-on-year -85 +57 +60
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 121 94 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.29% 0.083%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.92% 1.88% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 65 27
10th Percentile £331 £311 £306
25th Percentile £359 £359 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £544 £519 £553
90th Percentile £646 £551 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +11.88% -27.27% -4.35%

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 6,302 4,999 5,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.55% 15.19% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,018 3,365 3,256
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 110 177
10th Percentile £24.13 £30.58 £29.14
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.30 £73.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -91 103 £449 +12.13% 68
UK excluding London -92 57 £448 +11.88% 28
London -61 50 £447 +14.62% 45
Work from Home -71 40 £401 -5.65% 33
North of England -51 32 £450 +12.50% 13
North West -36 17 £537 +57.94% 8
North East -34 12 £380 -10.59% 2
South West -30 9 £513 -6.14% 3
Scotland - 8 £382 - 1
West Midlands -42 7 £525 - 2
Midlands -50 7 £525 +87.50% 2
Yorkshire -46 6 £400 -4.76% 3
South East -73 5 £295 -33.75% 5

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 16 (13.22%) Confluence
2 8 (6.61%) Camunda
3 2 (1.65%) SAS
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (7.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (37.19%) Azure
2 44 (36.36%) AWS
3 35 (28.93%) GitHub
4 30 (24.79%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (10.74%) GCP
7 11 (9.09%) OpenShift
8 9 (7.44%) Serverless
9 8 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.79%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (4.96%) BrowserStack
12 5 (4.13%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.48%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (2.48%) PowerApps
13 3 (2.48%) SaaS
14 2 (1.65%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 2 (1.65%) Amazon S3
14 2 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (1.65%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) Firewall
2 1 (0.83%) HTTP
2 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.40%) SQL Server
2 14 (11.57%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.61%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.31%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.65%) Base SAS
5 2 (1.65%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.65%) Power BI
5 2 (1.65%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.83%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.83%) DataStage
6 1 (0.83%) Redis
6 1 (0.83%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 70 (57.85%) Selenium
2 62 (51.24%) Jenkins
3 49 (40.50%) Cucumber
4 41 (33.88%) Postman
5 33 (27.27%) GitLab
6 30 (24.79%) JIRA
7 28 (23.14%) Git
8 25 (20.66%) JUnit
9 20 (16.53%) Gatling
10 19 (15.70%) Cypress.io
11 18 (14.88%) TestNG
12 17 (14.05%) JMeter
13 14 (11.57%) Gradle
13 14 (11.57%) Maven
14 13 (10.74%) WebDriver
15 12 (9.92%) SonarQube
16 11 (9.09%) Appium
16 11 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
17 10 (8.26%) Serenity BDD
18 8 (6.61%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 38 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 29 (23.97%) Finance
3 22 (18.18%) Banking
4 20 (16.53%) Public Sector
5 19 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.96%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.13%) Front Office
8 3 (2.48%) Military
9 2 (1.65%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Games
10 1 (0.83%) Legal
10 1 (0.83%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.83%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Police
10 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (30.58%) Test Engineer
2 21 (17.36%) Developer
3 19 (15.70%) Senior
4 18 (14.88%) Test Automation Engineer
5 17 (14.05%) QA Engineer
6 16 (13.22%) Tester
7 15 (12.40%) Lead
8 13 (10.74%) Automation Tester
9 10 (8.26%) Automation Engineer
9 10 (8.26%) Salesforce Engineer
10 9 (7.44%) Analyst
10 9 (7.44%) Lead Test Engineer
10 9 (7.44%) QA Automation Engineer
10 9 (7.44%) Senior Developer
11 7 (5.79%) Test Analyst
12 5 (4.13%) .NET Developer
12 5 (4.13%) C# .NET Developer
12 5 (4.13%) C# Developer
12 5 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.13%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (54.55%) Playwright
2 28 (23.14%) REST
3 27 (22.31%) Spring Boot
4 24 (19.83%) Kafka
5 22 (18.18%) Spring
6 19 (15.70%) React
7 12 (9.92%) HTML
7 12 (9.92%) Node.js
8 11 (9.09%) RESTful
9 10 (8.26%) CSS
10 9 (7.44%) Redux
11 8 (6.61%) Hibernate
11 8 (6.61%) JPA
12 7 (5.79%) .NET
12 7 (5.79%) Gherkin
12 7 (5.79%) Spring Cloud
13 6 (4.96%) WireMock
14 5 (4.13%) pytest
14 5 (4.13%) XML
15 4 (3.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.40%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.61%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.13%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.65%) PKI
5 2 (1.65%) Spread Betting
5 2 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.83%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.83%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.65%) Linux
2 1 (0.83%) Android
2 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (87.60%) Test Automation
2 95 (78.51%) CI/CD
3 71 (58.68%) DevOps
4 66 (54.55%) Agile
5 55 (45.45%) API Testing
6 48 (39.67%) BDD
7 42 (34.71%) Microservices
7 42 (34.71%) Test Strategy
8 34 (28.10%) Scrum
9 33 (27.27%) Integration Testing
10 32 (26.45%) End-to-End Testing
10 32 (26.45%) Performance Testing
10 32 (26.45%) TDD
11 29 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (22.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (21.49%) AI
13 26 (21.49%) Non-Functional Testing
14 25 (20.66%) Generative AI
14 25 (20.66%) Software Testing
15 23 (19.01%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 84 (69.42%) Java
2 41 (33.88%) JavaScript
3 33 (27.27%) Python
4 27 (22.31%) SQL
5 20 (16.53%) C#
5 20 (16.53%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.79%) Apex Code
7 6 (4.96%) Bash
8 4 (3.31%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.31%) Scala
9 2 (1.65%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.65%) PROC SQL
9 2 (1.65%) VBA
10 1 (0.83%) COBOL
10 1 (0.83%) Groovy
10 1 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (34.71%) Security Cleared
2 36 (29.75%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.05%) Degree
4 13 (10.74%) ISTQB
5 11 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (7.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (5.79%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.83%) ISEB
10 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (34.71%) QA
2 22 (18.18%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.96%) WCAG
4 4 (3.31%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.83%) GDPR
6 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.83%) MiFID
6 1 (0.83%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (19.01%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.61%) Grafana
3 7 (5.79%) Ansible
3 7 (5.79%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.31%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.65%) Istio
5 2 (1.65%) Packer
6 1 (0.83%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 9 (7.44%) IBM
2 9 (7.44%) Oracle
3 8 (6.61%) Conga
3 8 (6.61%) GoCardless
3 8 (6.61%) Splunk
3 8 (6.61%) Veracode
4 6 (4.96%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.31%) Citrix
5 4 (3.31%) HP
5 4 (3.31%) ION Trading
6 3 (2.48%) Databricks
6 3 (2.48%) Perfecto Mobile
7 2 (1.65%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.65%) Pega
8 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.83%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.83%) OpenText
8 1 (0.83%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.83%) UiPath