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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 433 531
Rank change year-on-year -82 +98 +88
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 131 90 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.30% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.21% 2.09% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 58 45
10th Percentile £350 £284 £325
25th Percentile £383 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £455
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -12.09% -17.27%
75th Percentile £556 £439 £650
90th Percentile £640 £540 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £371 £650
% change year-on-year +34.70% -42.89% +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 5,934 4,309 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.83% 14.55% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,839 2,877 3,518
10th Percentile £350 £331 £353
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £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 259 83 242
10th Percentile £26.25 £20.85 £31.30
25th Percentile £57.93 £46.59 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +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 15 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 15 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 -74 106 £475 +18.75% 9
UK excluding London -89 62 £500 +34.70% 8
London -58 48 £446 +11.50% 4
Work from Home -48 39 £445 +14.84% 6
North of England -56 34 £573 +48.47% 3
North West -32 14 £630 +57.50% 2
Yorkshire -45 14 £623 +48.21% 1
Midlands -50 14 £500 +82.48% 1
West Midlands -52 12 £500 +163.16%
North East -24 11 £363 +4.89%
Scotland -10 8 £382 - 2
South West - 8 £513 - 1
South East -70 3 £400 -20.08% 1
East Midlands -26 2 - - 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 12 (9.16%) Confluence
2 2 (1.53%) SAS
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.76%) Camunda
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 61 (46.56%) AWS
2 57 (43.51%) Azure
3 46 (35.11%) GitHub
4 32 (24.43%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (19.85%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (18.32%) GCP
7 9 (6.87%) BrowserStack
8 6 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.58%) Serverless
9 5 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.53%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.53%) Datadog
10 2 (1.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.53%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.53%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.53%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.76%) IBM Cloud
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 4 (3.05%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.53%) Base SAS
5 2 (1.53%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.53%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.76%) DataStage
6 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 81 (61.83%) Selenium
2 65 (49.62%) Jenkins
3 55 (41.98%) Cucumber
4 53 (40.46%) Postman
5 43 (32.82%) GitLab
6 29 (22.14%) Gatling
6 29 (22.14%) JIRA
7 22 (16.79%) Cypress.io
7 22 (16.79%) JMeter
8 20 (15.27%) Git
9 15 (11.45%) Serenity BDD
10 14 (10.69%) JUnit
10 14 (10.69%) WebDriver
11 10 (7.63%) Maven
12 8 (6.11%) Appium
12 8 (6.11%) Gradle
12 8 (6.11%) SoapUI
12 8 (6.11%) TestNG
13 7 (5.34%) SpecFlow
14 6 (4.58%) LoadRunner
General
1 49 (37.40%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.37%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (17.56%) Finance
4 20 (15.27%) Public Sector
5 14 (10.69%) Banking
6 7 (5.34%) Military
7 3 (2.29%) Front Office
8 2 (1.53%) Financial Institution
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%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (38.93%) Test Engineer
2 26 (19.85%) Lead
3 19 (14.50%) Tester
4 18 (13.74%) Test Automation Engineer
5 17 (12.98%) Automation Tester
6 15 (11.45%) Lead Test Engineer
7 14 (10.69%) Senior
8 13 (9.92%) QA Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) Salesforce Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Developer
11 7 (5.34%) Architect
11 7 (5.34%) 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%) Automation Test Lead
13 4 (3.05%) Principal Test Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) QA Leader
13 4 (3.05%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (51.15%) Playwright
2 41 (31.30%) REST
3 23 (17.56%) Kafka
4 21 (16.03%) Spring Boot
5 19 (14.50%) Spring
6 15 (11.45%) React
7 13 (9.92%) RESTful
8 12 (9.16%) Spring Cloud
9 8 (6.11%) Gherkin
9 8 (6.11%) LDAP
10 7 (5.34%) HTML
10 7 (5.34%) OpenID
10 7 (5.34%) SailPoint
11 6 (4.58%) Node.js
11 6 (4.58%) SOAP
12 5 (3.82%) .NET
12 5 (3.82%) Web Services
12 5 (3.82%) WireMock
13 4 (3.05%) pytest
14 3 (2.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.16%) 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 3 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.53%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.53%) PKI
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) Derivative
7 1 (0.76%) Equities
7 1 (0.76%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.76%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.29%) Linux
1 3 (2.29%) Unix
2 2 (1.53%) Android
2 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (90.08%) Test Automation
2 107 (81.68%) CI/CD
3 69 (52.67%) DevOps
4 66 (50.38%) Agile
5 65 (49.62%) API Testing
6 45 (34.35%) Test Strategy
7 43 (32.82%) BDD
8 38 (29.01%) Performance Testing
9 37 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (25.19%) Microservices
11 31 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (23.66%) Integration Testing
12 27 (20.61%) Software Testing
13 25 (19.08%) End-to-End Testing
14 24 (18.32%) Non-Functional Testing
14 24 (18.32%) Scrum
14 24 (18.32%) Test Scripting
15 23 (17.56%) Observability
16 22 (16.79%) AI
16 22 (16.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 95 (72.52%) Java
2 32 (24.43%) JavaScript
3 27 (20.61%) Python
4 26 (19.85%) SQL
5 15 (11.45%) C#
6 14 (10.69%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.34%) Apex Code
8 4 (3.05%) Bash
8 4 (3.05%) Scala
9 2 (1.53%) PROC SQL
9 2 (1.53%) VBA
10 1 (0.76%) Bicep
10 1 (0.76%) COBOL
10 1 (0.76%) Groovy
10 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 39 (29.77%) Security Cleared
2 30 (22.90%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.92%) ISTQB
4 12 (9.16%) Degree
5 6 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.58%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (34.35%) QA
2 23 (17.56%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.58%) WCAG
4 3 (2.29%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.53%) GDPR
5 2 (1.53%) MiFID
6 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (25.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (16.03%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.21%) Grafana
3 15 (11.45%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.82%) Terraform
5 3 (2.29%) Ansible
6 2 (1.53%) HP ALM
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 12 (9.16%) Salesforce
3 8 (6.11%) Conga
3 8 (6.11%) GoCardless
3 8 (6.11%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.58%) Google
5 5 (3.82%) Oracle
6 4 (3.05%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.29%) IBM
7 3 (2.29%) Micro Focus
7 3 (2.29%) OpenText
8 2 (1.53%) Citrix
8 2 (1.53%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.53%) HP
8 2 (1.53%) Pega
9 1 (0.76%) Adobe
9 1 (0.76%) Databricks
9 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.76%) UiPath
9 1 (0.76%) Veracode