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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 500 561
Rank change year-on-year +3 +61 +63
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 89 35 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.10% 0.096%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.62% 0.78% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 29 33
10th Percentile £359 £305 £330
25th Percentile £400 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £420 £465
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% -9.68% +1.64%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £575
90th Percentile £569 £575 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £363 £575
% change year-on-year +29.10% -36.96% +17.35%

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 5,477 4,501 5,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.91% 13.26% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,765 2,845 3,958
10th Percentile £341 £330 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £638
90th Percentile £692 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £513
% change year-on-year -2.06% -5.41% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 84 212
10th Percentile £39.00 £41.63 £44.73
25th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.77
90th Percentile £84.20 £75.18 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 21 December 2025.

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 13 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 21 December 2025. 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 +15 77 £445 +5.95% 10
UK excluding London +4 43 £468 +29.10% 9
Work from Home +10 29 £445 +17.11% 8
London +1 29 £408 -4.12% 2
North of England -23 23 £425 +25.46% 5
North East +3 12 £425 +37.10%
South West -1 12 £520 -5.45% 2
Yorkshire -37 9 £500 +8.70% 5
South East - 5 £375 - 2
Midlands - 3 £430 -
North West -29 2 £268 -34.23%
West Midlands - 2 £490 -
East Midlands - 1 £263 -

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 7 (7.87%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.12%) CICS
3 1 (1.12%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 36 (40.45%) Azure
2 29 (32.58%) AWS
3 14 (15.73%) GCP
4 12 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (12.36%) GitHub
6 9 (10.11%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.74%) SaaS
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.25%) BrowserStack
8 2 (2.25%) Figma
8 2 (2.25%) PaaS
8 2 (2.25%) Serverless
8 2 (2.25%) Vercel
9 1 (1.12%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.12%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.12%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.12%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) DSL
1 1 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) MySQL
1 6 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (6.74%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.62%) Oracle Database
2 5 (5.62%) Redis
3 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.12%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.12%) DB2
3 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.12%) Parquet
3 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 60 (67.42%) Selenium
2 52 (58.43%) Postman
3 49 (55.06%) Cucumber
4 42 (47.19%) Jenkins
5 34 (38.20%) JIRA
6 25 (28.09%) GitLab
7 20 (22.47%) Cypress.io
8 17 (19.10%) Git
9 15 (16.85%) JUnit
10 12 (13.48%) JMeter
11 11 (12.36%) SoapUI
12 8 (8.99%) Gatling
12 8 (8.99%) Maven
12 8 (8.99%) TestNG
13 7 (7.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (7.87%) TestRail
14 6 (6.74%) Bitbucket
14 6 (6.74%) WebDriver
14 6 (6.74%) Xcode
15 5 (5.62%) Subversion
General
1 29 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.60%) Finance
2 21 (23.60%) Public Sector
3 18 (20.22%) Banking
4 7 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.37%) Automotive
5 3 (3.37%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.37%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Front Office
7 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.12%) Military
7 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (31.46%) Test Engineer
2 18 (20.22%) Lead
3 17 (19.10%) Tester
4 15 (16.85%) Automation Tester
4 15 (16.85%) Test Automation Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) QA Leader
5 9 (10.11%) Senior
6 8 (8.99%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Analyst
8 6 (6.74%) Automation Test Lead
9 5 (5.62%) Developer
9 5 (5.62%) QA Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) QA Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Test Analyst
9 5 (5.62%) Test Leader
10 4 (4.49%) Lead Test Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Selenium Automation Tester
10 4 (4.49%) Selenium Tester
11 3 (3.37%) Software Developer
12 2 (2.25%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (51.69%) REST
2 16 (17.98%) Playwright
3 13 (14.61%) RESTful
3 13 (14.61%) Spring Boot
4 12 (13.48%) SOAP
5 11 (12.36%) .NET
6 10 (11.24%) WireMock
7 9 (10.11%) Spring
8 8 (8.99%) OpenID
8 8 (8.99%) Swagger
9 7 (7.87%) LDAP
9 7 (7.87%) SailPoint
10 6 (6.74%) CSS
10 6 (6.74%) HTML
10 6 (6.74%) Kafka
10 6 (6.74%) Web Services
11 5 (5.62%) AngularJS
11 5 (5.62%) Bootstrap
11 5 (5.62%) J2EE
11 5 (5.62%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.12%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.12%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.12%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.12%) Synthetic Data
5 1 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.12%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.74%) Windows
2 5 (5.62%) Unix
3 3 (3.37%) Linux
4 2 (2.25%) Android
4 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (86.52%) Test Automation
2 57 (64.04%) CI/CD
3 50 (56.18%) Agile
4 43 (48.31%) API Testing
5 34 (38.20%) Test Strategy
6 33 (37.08%) Test Scripting
7 31 (34.83%) DevOps
7 31 (34.83%) TDD
8 27 (30.34%) Regression Testing
9 26 (29.21%) BDD
10 25 (28.09%) Performance Testing
10 25 (28.09%) Software Testing
11 20 (22.47%) Scenario Testing
12 19 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (19.10%) Containerisation
15 16 (17.98%) Integration Testing
15 16 (17.98%) Microservices
16 14 (15.73%) AI
16 14 (15.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 60 (67.42%) Java
2 25 (28.09%) SQL
3 22 (24.72%) JavaScript
4 18 (20.22%) Python
5 11 (12.36%) C#
6 6 (6.74%) Groovy
6 6 (6.74%) PHP
7 5 (5.62%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.37%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.25%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.12%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.12%) Bash
10 1 (1.12%) COBOL
10 1 (1.12%) JCL
10 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.12%) Ruby
10 1 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (29.21%) Security Cleared
2 22 (24.72%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) Degree
4 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.25%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.12%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (47.19%) QA
2 9 (10.11%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.49%) WCAG
4 3 (3.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.25%) GDPR
6 1 (1.12%) MiFID
6 1 (1.12%) NCSC
6 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 23 (25.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (16.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.62%) Terraform
3 1 (1.12%) Ansible
3 1 (1.12%) Control-M
3 1 (1.12%) Grafana
3 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (11.24%) Oracle
2 9 (10.11%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.87%) Splunk
4 6 (6.74%) Dynatrace
5 5 (5.62%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.25%) Adobe
6 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.12%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.12%) Databricks
7 1 (1.12%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.12%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.12%) MarketAxess
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.12%) Progress
7 1 (1.12%) Tradeweb
7 1 (1.12%) UiPath