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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 442 524
Rank change year-on-year -76 +82 +107
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 99 84 64
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.29% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.71% 2.03% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 57 46
10th Percentile £350 £305 £322
25th Percentile £375 £356 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £390 £455
Median % change year-on-year +17.53% -14.19% -7.24%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £644
90th Percentile £688 £543 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £371 £650
% change year-on-year +30.60% -42.98% +31.98%

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 5,784 4,131 5,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.48% 14.02% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,852 2,777 3,452
10th Percentile £343 £338 £356
25th Percentile £404 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 67 183
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.92 £31.97
25th Percentile £60.68 £51.53 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.44 £76.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.15 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -102 83 £475 +24.92% 10
London -47 40 £465 +20.70% 3
UK excluding London -81 40 £484 +30.60% 8
North of England -50 28 £500 +36.52% 1
Work from Home -38 22 £450 +18.42% 5
Yorkshire -39 17 £620 +67.57%
North East -15 9 £350 +12.90%
Midlands -61 9 £500 +155.10%
West Midlands -53 7 £500 +163.16%
North West -42 4 £725 +81.25% 1
East Midlands -35 2 - -
South West -36 2 £375 -31.82% 2
Scotland -1 1 £313 -
South East -64 1 - - 3

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 (10.10%) Confluence
2 2 (2.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.01%) Mule
3 1 (1.01%) Mule ESB
3 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (52.53%) Azure
2 50 (50.51%) AWS
3 28 (28.28%) GitHub
4 24 (24.24%) GCP
5 20 (20.20%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (20.20%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (7.07%) BrowserStack
7 5 (5.05%) SaaS
8 3 (3.03%) Figma
9 2 (2.02%) Datadog
9 2 (2.02%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.02%) PaaS
9 2 (2.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (2.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (2.02%) Serverless
9 2 (2.02%) Vercel
10 1 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.01%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (1.01%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.02%) HTTP
2 1 (1.01%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) Relational Database
2 6 (6.06%) MongoDB
2 6 (6.06%) MySQL
2 6 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.01%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.01%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.01%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (64.65%) Selenium
2 53 (53.54%) Jenkins
3 48 (48.48%) Postman
4 44 (44.44%) Cucumber
5 39 (39.39%) GitLab
6 37 (37.37%) JIRA
7 19 (19.19%) JMeter
8 17 (17.17%) Cypress.io
9 15 (15.15%) Git
10 14 (14.14%) Gatling
10 14 (14.14%) JUnit
11 10 (10.10%) WebDriver
12 9 (9.09%) SoapUI
12 9 (9.09%) TestNG
13 8 (8.08%) TestRail
14 7 (7.07%) Maven
15 6 (6.06%) Gradle
15 6 (6.06%) Serenity BDD
16 4 (4.04%) Appium
16 4 (4.04%) LoadRunner
General
1 32 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (20.20%) Finance
4 13 (13.13%) Banking
5 11 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.05%) Military
7 4 (4.04%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.03%) Front Office
9 2 (2.02%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.02%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (34.34%) Test Engineer
2 21 (21.21%) Lead
3 16 (16.16%) Test Automation Engineer
4 15 (15.15%) Tester
5 13 (13.13%) Automation Tester
6 10 (10.10%) Lead Test Engineer
7 8 (8.08%) QA Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (7.07%) Senior
9 6 (6.06%) Architect
9 6 (6.06%) Automation Test Lead
10 5 (5.05%) QA Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) Test Leader
11 4 (4.04%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (4.04%) Test Architect
11 4 (4.04%) Test Automation Architect
12 3 (3.03%) Developer
12 3 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.03%) Software Engineer
13 2 (2.02%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (44.44%) REST
2 37 (37.37%) Playwright
3 13 (13.13%) LDAP
3 13 (13.13%) OpenID
4 12 (12.12%) SailPoint
5 11 (11.11%) Kafka
6 10 (10.10%) .NET
7 9 (9.09%) RESTful
7 9 (9.09%) Spring
7 9 (9.09%) Spring Boot
8 6 (6.06%) Gherkin
8 6 (6.06%) HTML
8 6 (6.06%) SOAP
8 6 (6.06%) WireMock
9 5 (5.05%) pytest
9 5 (5.05%) React
9 5 (5.05%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (3.03%) JSON
10 3 (3.03%) Web Services
10 3 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.10%) Cloud Native
1 10 (10.10%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.04%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.04%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.01%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.01%) Derivative
5 1 (1.01%) Equities
5 1 (1.01%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.01%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.01%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.03%) Linux
1 3 (3.03%) Windows
2 2 (2.02%) Unix
3 1 (1.01%) Android
3 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.01%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (89.90%) Test Automation
2 86 (86.87%) CI/CD
3 52 (52.53%) DevOps
4 49 (49.49%) Agile
5 46 (46.46%) API Testing
6 31 (31.31%) Performance Testing
7 29 (29.29%) Test Strategy
8 25 (25.25%) BDD
8 25 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (24.24%) Test Scripting
10 21 (21.21%) AI
11 18 (18.18%) Generative AI
12 17 (17.17%) Observability
12 17 (17.17%) Regression Testing
13 16 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (16.16%) Microservices
14 15 (15.15%) Scrum
14 15 (15.15%) Software Testing
14 15 (15.15%) TDD
14 15 (15.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 71 (71.72%) Java
2 32 (32.32%) SQL
3 21 (21.21%) JavaScript
3 21 (21.21%) Python
4 13 (13.13%) C#
5 6 (6.06%) PHP
5 6 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.03%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.02%) Bash
7 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.01%) Bicep
8 1 (1.01%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.01%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (23.23%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.06%) Degree
4 5 (5.05%) ISTQB
5 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.01%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (44.44%) QA
2 12 (12.12%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.04%) GDPR
4 3 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.02%) MiFID
5 2 (2.02%) WCAG
6 1 (1.01%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.01%) NCSC
6 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.01%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (21.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (16.16%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.10%) Grafana
3 8 (8.08%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.07%) Terraform
5 2 (2.02%) Ansible
5 2 (2.02%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.02%) Kibana
6 1 (1.01%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (15.15%) ServiceNow
2 9 (9.09%) Splunk
3 6 (6.06%) Google
4 5 (5.05%) Oracle
5 3 (3.03%) Micro Focus
5 3 (3.03%) OpenText
5 3 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.02%) Adobe
6 2 (2.02%) Databricks
6 2 (2.02%) HP
6 2 (2.02%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.01%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.01%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.01%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.01%) IBM
7 1 (1.01%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.01%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.01%) MarketAxess
7 1 (1.01%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.01%) Tradeweb