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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 450 512
Rank change year-on-year -113 +62 +100
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 111 95 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.29% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.78% 1.93% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 63 34
10th Percentile £314 £301 £330
25th Percentile £356 £358 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £498 £641
90th Percentile £637 £550 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £401 £370 £650
% change year-on-year +8.45% -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 6,242 4,923 4,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.65% 14.98% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,008 3,317 3,278
10th Percentile £354 £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 £594 £600 £625
90th Percentile £691 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 112 198
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.99 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £85.03 £73.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -120 93 £445 +17.11% 21
UK excluding London -87 54 £401 +8.45% 11
London -67 44 £445 +17.11% 10
Work from Home -61 33 £400 +1.27% 12
North of England -67 27 £426 +10.65% 4
North East -27 13 £378 +17.97%
North West -42 12 £560 +51.35% 4
Scotland - 9 £363 -
South West - 9 £513 - 3
Midlands -53 8 £525 +91.61% 1
West Midlands -41 7 £525 - 1
Yorkshire -46 5 - -
South East -86 5 £295 -41.06% 2
East Midlands -24 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 10 (9.01%) Confluence
2 2 (1.80%) Camunda
2 2 (1.80%) SAS
3 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (8.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (42.34%) AWS
2 43 (38.74%) Azure
3 35 (31.53%) GitHub
4 27 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (19.82%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (12.61%) GCP
7 6 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (5.41%) BrowserStack
7 6 (5.41%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (4.50%) Serverless
9 4 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.60%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.70%) SaaS
11 2 (1.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.80%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.90%) AWS CloudTrail
12 1 (0.90%) Kong
12 1 (0.90%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.90%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) Firewall
2 1 (0.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) MongoDB
2 9 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.21%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.60%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.80%) Base SAS
6 2 (1.80%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (0.90%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.90%) DataStage
7 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 68 (61.26%) Selenium
2 48 (43.24%) Jenkins
3 42 (37.84%) Cucumber
3 42 (37.84%) Postman
4 27 (24.32%) GitLab
5 23 (20.72%) JIRA
6 21 (18.92%) Gatling
7 20 (18.02%) Cypress.io
7 20 (18.02%) Git
8 17 (15.32%) JMeter
9 15 (13.51%) TestNG
10 14 (12.61%) Appium
11 13 (11.71%) JUnit
12 10 (9.01%) WebDriver
13 9 (8.11%) Gradle
13 9 (8.11%) Maven
13 9 (8.11%) Serenity BDD
14 6 (5.41%) LoadRunner
14 6 (5.41%) SonarQube
15 5 (4.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 39 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.62%) Finance
3 22 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (17.12%) Public Sector
5 17 (15.32%) Banking
6 6 (5.41%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.70%) Military
8 2 (1.80%) Front Office
9 1 (0.90%) Games
9 1 (0.90%) Legal
9 1 (0.90%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (34.23%) Test Engineer
2 17 (15.32%) Lead
2 17 (15.32%) Test Automation Engineer
3 16 (14.41%) Senior
4 15 (13.51%) QA Engineer
4 15 (13.51%) Tester
5 12 (10.81%) Automation Tester
6 10 (9.01%) Developer
6 10 (9.01%) Salesforce Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Automation Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Lead Test Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Analyst
9 7 (6.31%) QA Automation Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) Test Analyst
11 5 (4.50%) .NET Developer
11 5 (4.50%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (4.50%) C# Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Senior Test Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Automation Test Lead
12 4 (3.60%) Principal Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (58.56%) Playwright
2 29 (26.13%) REST
3 19 (17.12%) Kafka
4 16 (14.41%) Spring Boot
5 14 (12.61%) React
5 14 (12.61%) Spring
6 13 (11.71%) RESTful
7 12 (10.81%) Node.js
8 7 (6.31%) Gherkin
8 7 (6.31%) Spring Cloud
9 6 (5.41%) .NET
9 6 (5.41%) WireMock
10 5 (4.50%) HTML
10 5 (4.50%) pytest
10 5 (4.50%) XML
11 4 (3.60%) CSS
11 4 (3.60%) JSON
11 4 (3.60%) Web Services
11 4 (3.60%) WinForms
11 4 (3.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.01%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.70%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.80%) PKI
6 2 (1.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.90%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.90%) Spread Betting
7 1 (0.90%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.80%) Android
1 2 (1.80%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.80%) Linux
2 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (89.19%) Test Automation
2 87 (78.38%) CI/CD
3 66 (59.46%) DevOps
4 54 (48.65%) Agile
5 53 (47.75%) API Testing
6 45 (40.54%) Test Strategy
7 41 (36.94%) BDD
8 32 (28.83%) End-to-End Testing
8 32 (28.83%) Performance Testing
9 29 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (25.23%) Microservices
11 27 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (24.32%) Integration Testing
12 26 (23.42%) Scrum
13 24 (21.62%) AI
13 24 (21.62%) Generative AI
13 24 (21.62%) Non-Functional Testing
13 24 (21.62%) Software Testing
14 23 (20.72%) TDD
15 20 (18.02%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 74 (66.67%) Java
2 34 (30.63%) JavaScript
3 30 (27.03%) Python
4 20 (18.02%) SQL
5 17 (15.32%) TypeScript
6 16 (14.41%) C#
7 7 (6.31%) Apex Code
7 7 (6.31%) Bash
8 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.60%) Scala
9 2 (1.80%) PROC SQL
9 2 (1.80%) VBA
10 1 (0.90%) COBOL
10 1 (0.90%) Groovy
10 1 (0.90%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.90%) Ruby
10 1 (0.90%) Swift
Qualifications
1 37 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 31 (27.93%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.71%) ISTQB
4 12 (10.81%) Degree
5 9 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (5.41%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (38.74%) QA
2 17 (15.32%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.60%) ISO 20022
3 4 (3.60%) WCAG
4 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.80%) MiFID
5 1 (0.90%) GDPR
5 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.90%) SEPA
System Software
1 27 (24.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (17.12%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.11%) Grafana
3 8 (7.21%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.50%) HP ALM
5 3 (2.70%) Ansible
5 3 (2.70%) Terraform
6 2 (1.80%) Istio
7 1 (0.90%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (9.91%) Salesforce
2 8 (7.21%) Conga
2 8 (7.21%) GoCardless
2 8 (7.21%) Splunk
3 6 (5.41%) Oracle
4 5 (4.50%) HP
4 5 (4.50%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.60%) Citrix
6 3 (2.70%) IBM
6 3 (2.70%) Micro Focus
6 3 (2.70%) OpenText
6 3 (2.70%) Perfecto Mobile
7 2 (1.80%) Databricks
7 2 (1.80%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.80%) Pega
7 2 (1.80%) Veracode
8 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.90%) Confluent
8 1 (0.90%) UiPath