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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 464 515
Rank change year-on-year -83 +51 +101
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 121 96 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.29% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.94% 1.95% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 66 37
10th Percentile £321 £280 £341
25th Percentile £357 £357 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £479 £625
90th Percentile £638 £549 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £370 £638
% change year-on-year +8.65% -41.96% +10.87%

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 6,229 4,911 4,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.72% 14.83% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,994 3,324 3,304
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £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 £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 109 214
10th Percentile £26.25 £25.24 £26.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £65.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.58 £84.05 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 3 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 3 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 -96 101 £447 +17.55% 22
UK excluding London -73 59 £402 +8.65% 12
London -56 48 £446 +17.21% 13
Work from Home -64 33 £401 +4.16% 17
North of England -56 30 £450 +21.23% 4
North East -26 14 £378 +9.23%
North West -45 13 £620 +67.57% 3
Midlands -46 10 £500 +86.57%
Scotland - 9 £363 -
South West - 9 £513 - 3
West Midlands -54 8 £500 +163.16%
Yorkshire -47 6 £620 +47.62% 1
South East -78 5 £295 -41.06% 5
East Midlands -20 2 - -

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 11 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (1.65%) Camunda
2 2 (1.65%) SAS
3 1 (0.83%) Mule
3 1 (0.83%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (6.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (42.15%) AWS
2 46 (38.02%) Azure
3 43 (35.54%) GitHub
4 28 (23.14%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (22.31%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (12.40%) GCP
7 8 (6.61%) BrowserStack
8 6 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.96%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (4.13%) Serverless
10 4 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.31%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.48%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.48%) SaaS
12 2 (1.65%) Datadog
12 2 (1.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.65%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.83%) Apigee
13 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) Firewall
1 2 (1.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.57%) MongoDB
2 11 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.61%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.31%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.65%) Base SAS
6 2 (1.65%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (0.83%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.83%) DataStage
7 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.83%) Power BI
7 1 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (58.68%) Selenium
2 55 (45.45%) Jenkins
3 47 (38.84%) Cucumber
4 46 (38.02%) Postman
5 28 (23.14%) GitLab
6 26 (21.49%) JIRA
7 23 (19.01%) Gatling
8 21 (17.36%) Cypress.io
9 20 (16.53%) Git
10 18 (14.88%) JMeter
11 17 (14.05%) JUnit
12 16 (13.22%) TestNG
13 14 (11.57%) Appium
14 11 (9.09%) Maven
14 11 (9.09%) Serenity BDD
15 9 (7.44%) Gradle
15 9 (7.44%) WebDriver
16 7 (5.79%) SonarQube
17 6 (4.96%) Bitbucket
17 6 (4.96%) SpecFlow
General
1 42 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.49%) Finance
3 22 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (17.36%) Public Sector
5 16 (13.22%) Banking
6 6 (4.96%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.13%) Military
8 3 (2.48%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.65%) Front Office
10 1 (0.83%) Games
10 1 (0.83%) Legal
10 1 (0.83%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (34.71%) Test Engineer
2 19 (15.70%) Lead
3 17 (14.05%) Test Automation Engineer
4 16 (13.22%) Tester
5 15 (12.40%) Senior
6 14 (11.57%) Automation Tester
6 14 (11.57%) QA Engineer
7 11 (9.09%) Developer
8 10 (8.26%) Lead Test Engineer
8 10 (8.26%) Salesforce Engineer
9 9 (7.44%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (6.61%) Analyst
11 7 (5.79%) QA Automation Engineer
12 6 (4.96%) Senior Test Engineer
12 6 (4.96%) Test Analyst
13 5 (4.13%) .NET Developer
13 5 (4.13%) C# .NET Developer
13 5 (4.13%) C# Developer
14 4 (3.31%) Senior Automation Tester
14 4 (3.31%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (56.20%) Playwright
2 30 (24.79%) REST
3 21 (17.36%) Kafka
4 18 (14.88%) Spring Boot
5 16 (13.22%) Spring
6 15 (12.40%) React
7 14 (11.57%) RESTful
8 12 (9.92%) Node.js
9 8 (6.61%) Gherkin
9 8 (6.61%) Spring Cloud
9 8 (6.61%) WireMock
10 7 (5.79%) pytest
11 6 (4.96%) XML
12 5 (4.13%) .NET
12 5 (4.13%) HTML
12 5 (4.13%) JSON
12 5 (4.13%) Web Services
13 4 (3.31%) CSS
13 4 (3.31%) WinForms
13 4 (3.31%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.79%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.31%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.48%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.65%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.65%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.65%) PKI
7 2 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.83%) Spread Betting
8 1 (0.83%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.48%) Linux
2 2 (1.65%) Android
2 2 (1.65%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (90.08%) Test Automation
2 97 (80.17%) CI/CD
3 70 (57.85%) DevOps
4 57 (47.11%) Agile
5 56 (46.28%) API Testing
6 47 (38.84%) Test Strategy
7 42 (34.71%) BDD
8 33 (27.27%) Performance Testing
9 32 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (24.79%) End-to-End Testing
10 30 (24.79%) Microservices
11 27 (22.31%) AI
11 27 (22.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (22.31%) Integration Testing
12 26 (21.49%) Generative AI
12 26 (21.49%) Scrum
12 26 (21.49%) Software Testing
13 25 (20.66%) Non-Functional Testing
13 25 (20.66%) TDD
14 20 (16.53%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 82 (67.77%) Java
2 36 (29.75%) JavaScript
3 33 (27.27%) Python
4 21 (17.36%) SQL
5 17 (14.05%) TypeScript
6 15 (12.40%) C#
7 7 (5.79%) Apex Code
7 7 (5.79%) 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%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.83%) Ruby
10 1 (0.83%) Swift
Qualifications
1 39 (32.23%) Security Cleared
2 31 (25.62%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.92%) Degree
4 10 (8.26%) ISTQB
5 8 (6.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (38.84%) QA
2 19 (15.70%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.31%) WCAG
4 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.65%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.65%) MiFID
5 1 (0.83%) GDPR
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.83%) SEPA
System Software
1 30 (24.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (17.36%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.92%) Grafana
3 11 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.13%) HP ALM
5 4 (3.31%) Ansible
6 3 (2.48%) Terraform
7 2 (1.65%) Istio
7 2 (1.65%) Kibana
8 1 (0.83%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 9 (7.44%) Splunk
3 8 (6.61%) Conga
3 8 (6.61%) GoCardless
4 7 (5.79%) Oracle
5 5 (4.13%) HP
5 5 (4.13%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.31%) Citrix
7 3 (2.48%) IBM
7 3 (2.48%) Micro Focus
7 3 (2.48%) OpenText
7 3 (2.48%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (1.65%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.65%) Pega
8 2 (1.65%) Veracode
9 1 (0.83%) Databricks
9 1 (0.83%) Google
9 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.83%) UiPath