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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 472 537
Rank change year-on-year -49 +65 +116
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 115 54 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.98% 1.33% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 42 37
10th Percentile £350 £294 £325
25th Percentile £403 £337 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £380 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £438 £575
90th Percentile £675 £498 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £315 £613
% change year-on-year +58.73% -48.57% +28.95%

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 5,821 4,060 5,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.50% 13.73% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,911 2,695 3,560
10th Percentile £343 £331 £356
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 68 200
10th Percentile £35.00 £23.76 £37.44
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £77.50 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £83.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -44 98 £500 +31.58% 14
UK excluding London -49 53 £500 +58.73% 7
London -43 41 £455 +14.83% 9
North of England -35 31 £475 +40.22% 2
Work from Home -19 27 £475 +25.00% 7
Yorkshire - 16 £620 -
North East -2 14 £413 +33.06%
South West -15 12 £520 -5.45% 1
Midlands -52 9 £465 +137.24% 1
West Midlands -56 7 £465 +144.74% 1
North West -39 3 £725 +81.25% 2
East Midlands -29 2 - -
Scotland +8 1 £313 -
South East - 1 - - 3

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 9 (7.83%) Confluence
2 2 (1.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.87%) Mule
3 1 (0.87%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 49 (42.61%) Azure
2 48 (41.74%) AWS
3 28 (24.35%) GitHub
4 21 (18.26%) GCP
5 20 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (16.52%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.96%) BrowserStack
8 5 (4.35%) SaaS
9 3 (2.61%) Figma
10 2 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.74%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.74%) Datadog
10 2 (1.74%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.74%) PaaS
10 2 (1.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (1.74%) Vercel
11 1 (0.87%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.87%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.74%) HTTP
2 1 (0.87%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.96%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.22%) MongoDB
2 6 (5.22%) MySQL
2 6 (5.22%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.74%) Redis
5 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.87%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.87%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 75 (65.22%) Selenium
2 60 (52.17%) Postman
3 53 (46.09%) Jenkins
4 51 (44.35%) Cucumber
5 39 (33.91%) GitLab
6 37 (32.17%) JIRA
7 28 (24.35%) Cypress.io
8 17 (14.78%) JMeter
9 16 (13.91%) Git
10 15 (13.04%) JUnit
11 13 (11.30%) Gatling
12 11 (9.57%) WebDriver
13 10 (8.70%) SoapUI
14 9 (7.83%) TestNG
15 8 (6.96%) TestRail
16 7 (6.09%) Maven
17 6 (5.22%) Serenity BDD
18 5 (4.35%) Gradle
19 3 (2.61%) Mockito
19 3 (2.61%) Zephyr
General
1 34 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.87%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (18.26%) Finance
4 16 (13.91%) Banking
4 16 (13.91%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.48%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.48%) Military
6 3 (2.61%) Front Office
7 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.74%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (32.17%) Test Engineer
2 29 (25.22%) Lead
3 17 (14.78%) Tester
4 16 (13.91%) Automation Tester
5 15 (13.04%) Test Automation Engineer
6 11 (9.57%) Senior
7 10 (8.70%) Lead Test Engineer
7 10 (8.70%) QA Leader
8 8 (6.96%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) QA Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Architect
9 6 (5.22%) Automation Test Lead
10 5 (4.35%) Developer
10 5 (4.35%) QA Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Test Leader
11 4 (3.48%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Test Architect
11 4 (3.48%) Test Automation Architect
12 3 (2.61%) Analyst
12 3 (2.61%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (44.35%) REST
2 34 (29.57%) Playwright
3 13 (11.30%) LDAP
3 13 (11.30%) OpenID
3 13 (11.30%) Spring Boot
4 12 (10.43%) SailPoint
5 11 (9.57%) Spring
5 11 (9.57%) WireMock
6 10 (8.70%) .NET
6 10 (8.70%) Kafka
6 10 (8.70%) RESTful
7 7 (6.09%) Gherkin
8 6 (5.22%) HTML
8 6 (5.22%) SOAP
8 6 (5.22%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (4.35%) Web Services
10 4 (3.48%) pytest
10 4 (3.48%) React
11 3 (2.61%) Swagger
11 3 (2.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.96%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.96%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.48%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.87%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.87%) Derivative
7 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.87%) Equities
7 1 (0.87%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.87%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.87%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.61%) Linux
1 3 (2.61%) Unix
1 3 (2.61%) Windows
2 2 (1.74%) Android
2 2 (1.74%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.87%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (90.43%) Test Automation
2 90 (78.26%) CI/CD
3 60 (52.17%) Agile
4 56 (48.70%) API Testing
5 50 (43.48%) DevOps
6 40 (34.78%) Test Strategy
7 35 (30.43%) Test Scripting
8 33 (28.70%) Performance Testing
9 31 (26.96%) BDD
10 28 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (22.61%) Software Testing
12 24 (20.87%) AI
13 22 (19.13%) TDD
14 20 (17.39%) Regression Testing
15 18 (15.65%) Microservices
15 18 (15.65%) Scrum
16 17 (14.78%) Containerisation
16 17 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (14.78%) Manual Testing
17 15 (13.04%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 75 (65.22%) Java
2 31 (26.96%) SQL
3 21 (18.26%) JavaScript
4 19 (16.52%) Python
5 13 (11.30%) C#
6 6 (5.22%) PHP
6 6 (5.22%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.61%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.74%) Groovy
9 1 (0.87%) Bash
9 1 (0.87%) Bicep
9 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.87%) Ruby
9 1 (0.87%) Scala
9 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.87%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (28.70%) Security Cleared
2 28 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.35%) Degree
3 5 (4.35%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.87%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (49.57%) QA
2 16 (13.91%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.48%) WCAG
4 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.61%) GDPR
4 3 (2.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.74%) MiFID
6 1 (0.87%) NCSC
6 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.87%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (22.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (13.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.83%) Grafana
3 8 (6.96%) Prometheus
3 8 (6.96%) Terraform
4 2 (1.74%) Ansible
4 2 (1.74%) Kibana
5 1 (0.87%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.87%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (13.04%) ServiceNow
2 8 (6.96%) Splunk
3 6 (5.22%) Google
3 6 (5.22%) Oracle
4 3 (2.61%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.74%) Adobe
5 2 (1.74%) Databricks
5 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.74%) Micro Focus
5 2 (1.74%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.74%) OpenText
6 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.87%) HP
6 1 (0.87%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.87%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.87%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.87%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.87%) Tradeweb