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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 485 550
Rank change year-on-year -2 +65 +88
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 110 41 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.00% 0.97% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 32 38
10th Percentile £355 £305 £325
25th Percentile £400 £356 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £419 £452
Median % change year-on-year +12.60% -7.36% -3.83%
75th Percentile £538 £478 £575
90th Percentile £649 £573 £589
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £339 £575
% change year-on-year +47.60% -41.09% +22.34%

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 5,504 4,247 5,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.06% 13.64% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,773 2,666 3,743
10th Percentile £343 £335 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £631
90th Percentile £695 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 67 210
10th Percentile £35.43 £26.40 £41.13
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £50.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.75 £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 5 February 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 12 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 5 February 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 -9 93 £475 +13.43% 22
UK excluding London -10 54 £500 +47.60% 15
London -29 34 £445 +4.71% 13
Work from Home +8 33 £458 +20.62% 13
North of England -34 32 £457 +44.92% 4
North East 0 16 £419 +35.08%
Yorkshire -41 15 £573 +14.50%
South West -4 12 £520 -5.45% 1
West Midlands - 6 £500 - 2
Midlands - 6 £500 - 2
South East - 5 £375 - 7
North West -25 3 - - 4

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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (1.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 48 (43.64%) Azure
2 44 (40.00%) AWS
3 21 (19.09%) GCP
4 19 (17.27%) GitHub
5 18 (16.36%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.36%) BrowserStack
8 6 (5.45%) SaaS
9 3 (2.73%) Figma
10 2 (1.82%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.82%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.82%) PaaS
10 2 (1.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (1.82%) Vercel
11 1 (0.91%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.91%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.91%) CloudFront
11 1 (0.91%) Google Gemini
11 1 (0.91%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) MySQL
1 6 (5.45%) Relational Database
1 6 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.82%) Redis
5 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.91%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.91%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 77 (70.00%) Selenium
2 57 (51.82%) Cucumber
3 56 (50.91%) Postman
4 54 (49.09%) Jenkins
5 38 (34.55%) JIRA
6 37 (33.64%) GitLab
7 24 (21.82%) Cypress.io
8 18 (16.36%) Git
9 15 (13.64%) JMeter
10 13 (11.82%) Gatling
10 13 (11.82%) JUnit
11 12 (10.91%) WebDriver
12 11 (10.00%) SoapUI
13 7 (6.36%) TestRail
14 6 (5.45%) Bitbucket
14 6 (5.45%) TestNG
15 5 (4.55%) Maven
15 5 (4.55%) Serenity BDD
16 4 (3.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (3.64%) Gradle
General
1 32 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.00%) Finance
2 22 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 20 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.64%) Banking
5 4 (3.64%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.64%) Military
6 3 (2.73%) Automotive
6 3 (2.73%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.82%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.82%) Front Office
8 1 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (33.64%) Test Engineer
2 24 (21.82%) Lead
3 21 (19.09%) Tester
4 20 (18.18%) Automation Tester
5 16 (14.55%) Test Automation Engineer
6 10 (9.09%) Senior
7 9 (8.18%) Lead Test Engineer
7 9 (8.18%) QA Leader
8 8 (7.27%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) QA Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Automation Test Lead
10 5 (4.55%) Analyst
10 5 (4.55%) Architect
10 5 (4.55%) Developer
10 5 (4.55%) QA Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Test Leader
11 4 (3.64%) Selenium Tester
11 4 (3.64%) Test Analyst
11 4 (3.64%) Test Architect
11 4 (3.64%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (48.18%) REST
2 27 (24.55%) Playwright
3 15 (13.64%) Spring Boot
4 14 (12.73%) .NET
5 13 (11.82%) OpenID
5 13 (11.82%) RESTful
6 12 (10.91%) LDAP
6 12 (10.91%) SailPoint
6 12 (10.91%) SOAP
7 11 (10.00%) Spring
7 11 (10.00%) WireMock
8 8 (7.27%) Kafka
9 7 (6.36%) HTML
10 6 (5.45%) Spring Cloud
11 5 (4.55%) Gherkin
11 5 (4.55%) Web Services
12 4 (3.64%) CSS
12 4 (3.64%) Swagger
13 3 (2.73%) AngularJS
13 3 (2.73%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.27%) Product Ownership
1 8 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.45%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.64%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.73%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.82%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.91%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.91%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.91%) Derivative
6 1 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.91%) Equities
6 1 (0.91%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.91%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.45%) Windows
2 3 (2.73%) Unix
3 2 (1.82%) Android
3 2 (1.82%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.82%) Linux
3 2 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (89.09%) Test Automation
2 81 (73.64%) CI/CD
3 65 (59.09%) Agile
4 56 (50.91%) API Testing
5 45 (40.91%) DevOps
6 37 (33.64%) Test Scripting
6 37 (33.64%) Test Strategy
7 33 (30.00%) Performance Testing
8 30 (27.27%) BDD
9 27 (24.55%) TDD
10 26 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (22.73%) Software Testing
12 23 (20.91%) Regression Testing
13 20 (18.18%) Microservices
14 19 (17.27%) Containerisation
14 19 (17.27%) Scenario Testing
15 18 (16.36%) AI
15 18 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (16.36%) Integration Testing
15 18 (16.36%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 71 (64.55%) Java
2 32 (29.09%) SQL
3 20 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 19 (17.27%) Python
5 16 (14.55%) C#
6 6 (5.45%) PHP
6 6 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.73%) Groovy
8 2 (1.82%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.82%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.91%) Bicep
9 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.91%) Ruby
9 1 (0.91%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.55%) Degree
3 5 (4.55%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.91%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (44.55%) QA
2 18 (16.36%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.45%) WCAG
4 3 (2.73%) GDPR
4 3 (2.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.91%) MiFID
6 1 (0.91%) NCSC
6 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.91%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 27 (24.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.36%) Terraform
3 6 (5.45%) Grafana
4 5 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.91%) Ansible
5 1 (0.91%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.91%) Kibana
5 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (12.73%) ServiceNow
2 8 (7.27%) Oracle
2 8 (7.27%) Splunk
3 5 (4.55%) Google
4 3 (2.73%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.82%) Adobe
5 2 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.91%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.91%) Databricks
6 1 (0.91%) IBM
6 1 (0.91%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.91%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.91%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.91%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.91%) Tradeweb