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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 459 542
Rank change year-on-year -55 +83 +99
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 111 71 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.91% 1.74% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 52 43
10th Percentile £350 £305 £325
25th Percentile £400 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £380 £455
Median % change year-on-year +24.92% -16.43% -4.71%
75th Percentile £550 £438 £650
90th Percentile £676 £550 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £363 £650
% change year-on-year +37.93% -44.23% +34.72%

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 5,826 4,086 5,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.88% 13.97% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 2,743 3,487
10th Percentile £343 £340 £358
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £717 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 73 174
10th Percentile £39.53 £25.41 £32.10
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%
75th Percentile £75.88 £75.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.95 £82.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.65% +4.03% +0.81%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -70 95 £500 +31.58% 13
UK excluding London -77 49 £500 +37.93% 4
London -51 42 £465 +20.70% 10
North of England -52 30 £484 +33.52% 1
Work from Home -32 26 £475 +25.00% 7
Yorkshire -37 17 £620 +67.57%
North East -8 11 £375 +20.97%
Midlands -63 10 £465 +137.24% 1
South West -16 8 £515 -6.36%
West Midlands -51 8 £465 +144.74% 1
North West -39 4 £725 +81.25% 1
East Midlands -33 2 - -
Scotland +6 1 £313 -
South East -61 1 - - 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 9 (8.11%) Confluence
2 2 (1.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.90%) Mule
3 1 (0.90%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (46.85%) Azure
2 51 (45.95%) AWS
3 28 (25.23%) GitHub
4 24 (21.62%) GCP
5 21 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (18.02%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.21%) BrowserStack
8 5 (4.50%) SaaS
9 3 (2.70%) Figma
10 2 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.80%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.80%) Datadog
10 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.80%) PaaS
10 2 (1.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (1.80%) Serverless
10 2 (1.80%) Vercel
11 1 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.90%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) HTTP
2 1 (0.90%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.21%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 6 (5.41%) MySQL
2 6 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.90%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.90%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.90%) Data Mart
4 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (63.96%) Selenium
2 56 (50.45%) Postman
3 53 (47.75%) Jenkins
4 49 (44.14%) Cucumber
5 40 (36.04%) GitLab
6 36 (32.43%) JIRA
7 23 (20.72%) Cypress.io
8 18 (16.22%) JMeter
9 16 (14.41%) Git
10 15 (13.51%) JUnit
11 14 (12.61%) Gatling
12 11 (9.91%) WebDriver
13 10 (9.01%) SoapUI
13 10 (9.01%) TestNG
14 8 (7.21%) TestRail
15 7 (6.31%) Maven
16 6 (5.41%) Gradle
16 6 (5.41%) Serenity BDD
17 4 (3.60%) Appium
17 4 (3.60%) LoadRunner
General
1 35 (31.53%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.52%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (18.92%) Finance
4 15 (13.51%) Banking
5 14 (12.61%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.50%) Military
7 4 (3.60%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.70%) Front Office
9 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.80%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 25 (22.52%) Lead
3 16 (14.41%) Test Automation Engineer
4 15 (13.51%) Tester
5 14 (12.61%) Automation Tester
6 10 (9.01%) Lead Test Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Senior
8 8 (7.21%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) QA Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Architect
9 6 (5.41%) Automation Test Lead
9 6 (5.41%) QA Leader
10 5 (4.50%) QA Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Test Leader
11 4 (3.60%) Developer
11 4 (3.60%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Test Architect
11 4 (3.60%) Test Automation Architect
12 3 (2.70%) Analyst
12 3 (2.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (43.24%) REST
2 36 (32.43%) Playwright
3 13 (11.71%) LDAP
3 13 (11.71%) OpenID
4 12 (10.81%) SailPoint
5 11 (9.91%) Kafka
5 11 (9.91%) RESTful
6 10 (9.01%) .NET
6 10 (9.01%) Spring
6 10 (9.01%) Spring Boot
7 8 (7.21%) WireMock
8 7 (6.31%) Gherkin
9 6 (5.41%) SOAP
10 5 (4.50%) HTML
10 5 (4.50%) React
10 5 (4.50%) Spring Cloud
11 4 (3.60%) pytest
11 4 (3.60%) Web Services
12 3 (2.70%) JSON
12 3 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.01%) Cloud Native
1 10 (9.01%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.50%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.60%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.90%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.90%) Derivative
6 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.90%) Equities
6 1 (0.90%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.90%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.70%) Linux
1 3 (2.70%) Windows
2 2 (1.80%) Android
2 2 (1.80%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.80%) Unix
3 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (90.99%) Test Automation
2 91 (81.98%) CI/CD
3 57 (51.35%) Agile
4 54 (48.65%) DevOps
5 52 (46.85%) API Testing
6 38 (34.23%) Test Strategy
7 32 (28.83%) Performance Testing
8 31 (27.93%) Test Scripting
9 29 (26.13%) BDD
10 28 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (21.62%) AI
12 22 (19.82%) Software Testing
13 20 (18.02%) Regression Testing
14 19 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (17.12%) Scrum
15 18 (16.22%) Generative AI
15 18 (16.22%) TDD
16 17 (15.32%) Manual Testing
16 17 (15.32%) Observability
17 16 (14.41%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 76 (68.47%) Java
2 32 (28.83%) SQL
3 21 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 20 (18.02%) Python
5 13 (11.71%) C#
6 6 (5.41%) PHP
6 6 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.70%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.80%) Bash
8 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.90%) Bicep
9 1 (0.90%) Groovy
9 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.90%) Ruby
9 1 (0.90%) Scala
9 1 (0.90%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (26.13%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.41%) Degree
4 5 (4.50%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (45.95%) QA
2 14 (12.61%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.60%) GDPR
4 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.80%) MiFID
5 2 (1.80%) WCAG
6 1 (0.90%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.90%) NCSC
6 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.90%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (21.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (15.32%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.01%) Grafana
3 8 (7.21%) Prometheus
3 8 (7.21%) Terraform
4 2 (1.80%) Ansible
4 2 (1.80%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.80%) Kibana
5 1 (0.90%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (13.51%) ServiceNow
2 9 (8.11%) Splunk
3 6 (5.41%) Google
4 5 (4.50%) Oracle
5 3 (2.70%) Micro Focus
5 3 (2.70%) OpenText
5 3 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.80%) Adobe
6 2 (1.80%) Databricks
6 2 (1.80%) HP
6 2 (1.80%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.90%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.90%) IBM
7 1 (0.90%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.90%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.90%) MarketAxess
7 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.90%) Tradeweb