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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 477 547
Rank change year-on-year -21 +70 +108
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 112 51 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.94% 1.26% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 40 35
10th Percentile £350 £291 £325
25th Percentile £405 £326 £343
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 £508 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £315 £600
% change year-on-year +61.11% -47.50% +26.32%

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 5,770 4,050 5,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.51% 13.76% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 2,668 3,594
10th Percentile £341 £330 £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 £628
90th Percentile £688 £725 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 69 205
10th Percentile £35.00 £24.17 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £77.31 £71.25 £72.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £78.77 £82.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 12 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 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 12 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 -38 96 £500 +31.58% 17
UK excluding London -48 52 £508 +61.11% 9
London -38 39 £455 +8.66% 9
North of England -40 31 £475 +40.22% 4
Work from Home -15 27 £475 +25.00% 11
Yorkshire - 16 £620 - 1
North East -4 14 £413 +33.06% 1
South West -9 12 £520 -5.45% 1
Midlands -54 9 £465 +137.24% 1
West Midlands -55 7 £465 +144.74% 1
North West -36 3 £725 +81.25% 2
East Midlands -32 2 - -
South East - 1 - - 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 9 (8.04%) Confluence
2 2 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.89%) Mule
3 1 (0.89%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 47 (41.96%) Azure
2 45 (40.18%) AWS
3 28 (25.00%) GitHub
4 20 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (16.96%) GCP
6 8 (7.14%) BrowserStack
7 5 (4.46%) SaaS
8 3 (2.68%) Figma
9 2 (1.79%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.79%) Datadog
9 2 (1.79%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.79%) PaaS
9 2 (1.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.79%) Vercel
10 1 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.89%) CloudFront
10 1 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.79%) HTTP
2 1 (0.89%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.36%) MongoDB
2 6 (5.36%) MySQL
2 6 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.79%) Redis
5 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.89%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.89%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.89%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 73 (65.18%) Selenium
2 57 (50.89%) Postman
3 53 (47.32%) Jenkins
4 51 (45.54%) Cucumber
5 38 (33.93%) GitLab
6 37 (33.04%) JIRA
7 26 (23.21%) Cypress.io
8 16 (14.29%) Git
9 15 (13.39%) JMeter
9 15 (13.39%) JUnit
10 13 (11.61%) Gatling
11 11 (9.82%) WebDriver
12 10 (8.93%) SoapUI
13 9 (8.04%) TestNG
14 8 (7.14%) TestRail
15 7 (6.25%) Maven
16 6 (5.36%) Serenity BDD
17 5 (4.46%) Gradle
18 3 (2.68%) Mockito
18 3 (2.68%) Zephyr
General
1 34 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (18.75%) Finance
4 16 (14.29%) Banking
4 16 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.57%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.57%) Military
6 3 (2.68%) Front Office
7 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.79%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (32.14%) Test Engineer
2 28 (25.00%) Lead
3 17 (15.18%) Tester
4 16 (14.29%) Automation Tester
5 15 (13.39%) Test Automation Engineer
6 11 (9.82%) Senior
7 10 (8.93%) Lead Test Engineer
7 10 (8.93%) QA Leader
8 8 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) QA Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Architect
9 6 (5.36%) Automation Test Lead
10 5 (4.46%) Developer
10 5 (4.46%) QA Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Test Leader
11 4 (3.57%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Test Architect
11 4 (3.57%) Test Automation Architect
12 3 (2.68%) Analyst
12 3 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (42.86%) REST
2 32 (28.57%) Playwright
3 13 (11.61%) LDAP
3 13 (11.61%) OpenID
3 13 (11.61%) Spring Boot
4 12 (10.71%) SailPoint
5 11 (9.82%) Spring
5 11 (9.82%) WireMock
6 10 (8.93%) .NET
6 10 (8.93%) Kafka
6 10 (8.93%) RESTful
7 7 (6.25%) Gherkin
8 6 (5.36%) HTML
8 6 (5.36%) SOAP
8 6 (5.36%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (4.46%) Web Services
10 4 (3.57%) React
11 3 (2.68%) JSON
11 3 (2.68%) pytest
11 3 (2.68%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.04%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.46%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.68%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.89%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.89%) Derivative
6 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.89%) Equities
6 1 (0.89%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.89%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.89%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.68%) Linux
1 3 (2.68%) Unix
1 3 (2.68%) Windows
2 2 (1.79%) Android
2 2 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.89%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (90.18%) Test Automation
2 87 (77.68%) CI/CD
3 60 (53.57%) Agile
4 55 (49.11%) API Testing
5 47 (41.96%) DevOps
6 40 (35.71%) Test Strategy
7 35 (31.25%) Test Scripting
8 31 (27.68%) BDD
8 31 (27.68%) Performance Testing
9 27 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (23.21%) Software Testing
11 22 (19.64%) AI
11 22 (19.64%) TDD
12 20 (17.86%) Regression Testing
13 18 (16.07%) Microservices
13 18 (16.07%) Scrum
14 17 (15.18%) Containerisation
14 17 (15.18%) Manual Testing
15 16 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (13.39%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 73 (65.18%) Java
2 31 (27.68%) SQL
3 21 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 18 (16.07%) Python
5 13 (11.61%) C#
6 6 (5.36%) PHP
6 6 (5.36%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.68%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.79%) Groovy
9 1 (0.89%) Bicep
9 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.89%) Ruby
9 1 (0.89%) Scala
9 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.89%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 28 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.46%) Degree
3 5 (4.46%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (50.89%) QA
2 16 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.57%) WCAG
4 3 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.68%) GDPR
4 3 (2.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.79%) MiFID
6 1 (0.89%) NCSC
6 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.89%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (23.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.14%) Grafana
3 7 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 7 (6.25%) Terraform
4 2 (1.79%) Ansible
4 2 (1.79%) Kibana
5 1 (0.89%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.89%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (13.39%) ServiceNow
2 8 (7.14%) Splunk
3 6 (5.36%) Google
3 6 (5.36%) Oracle
4 3 (2.68%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.79%) Adobe
5 2 (1.79%) Databricks
5 2 (1.79%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.89%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.89%) HP
6 1 (0.89%) IBM
6 1 (0.89%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.89%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.89%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.89%) Tradeweb