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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 452 523
Rank change year-on-year -87 +71 +103
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 128 94 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.29% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.06% 1.95% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 63 39
10th Percentile £331 £280 £348
25th Percentile £359 £356 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -27.27% +1.85%
75th Percentile £544 £463 £638
90th Percentile £638 £545 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £370 £638
% change year-on-year +21.62% -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 6,209 4,811 5,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 14.69% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,981 3,250 3,356
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 £598 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 106 221
10th Percentile £26.10 £24.05 £25.99
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £84.50 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -85 106 £450 +18.42% 11
UK excluding London -68 62 £450 +21.62% 8
London -57 49 £445 +16.95% 7
Work from Home -65 37 £402 +5.03% 6
North of England -56 32 £450 +21.23% 1
North East -28 15 £378 +9.23%
North West -39 14 £620 +67.57% 1
Midlands -47 14 £500 +86.57% 1
West Midlands -43 12 £500 +163.16% 1
South West - 9 £513 - 1
Scotland - 9 £363 -
Yorkshire -40 8 £648 +54.17%
South East -79 3 £400 -20.08% 5
East Midlands -17 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 (8.59%) Confluence
2 2 (1.56%) Camunda
2 2 (1.56%) SAS
3 1 (0.78%) Mule
3 1 (0.78%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 54 (42.19%) AWS
2 46 (35.94%) Azure
2 46 (35.94%) GitHub
3 28 (21.88%) GitHub Actions
4 27 (21.09%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (12.50%) GCP
6 10 (7.81%) BrowserStack
7 6 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (4.69%) Serverless
8 5 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.91%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (3.13%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.34%) SaaS
11 2 (1.56%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.56%) Datadog
11 2 (1.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.56%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.56%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.78%) Figma
12 1 (0.78%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) Firewall
1 2 (1.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 12 (9.38%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.13%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.56%) Base SAS
5 2 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.56%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.78%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.78%) DataStage
6 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (59.38%) Selenium
2 60 (46.88%) Jenkins
3 51 (39.84%) Cucumber
4 48 (37.50%) Postman
5 32 (25.00%) GitLab
6 27 (21.09%) JIRA
7 26 (20.31%) Gatling
8 22 (17.19%) Cypress.io
9 20 (15.63%) Git
9 20 (15.63%) JMeter
10 18 (14.06%) JUnit
11 15 (11.72%) TestNG
12 13 (10.16%) Appium
12 13 (10.16%) Serenity BDD
13 12 (9.38%) Maven
14 10 (7.81%) WebDriver
15 9 (7.03%) Gradle
16 7 (5.47%) SoapUI
16 7 (5.47%) SonarQube
17 6 (4.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 46 (35.94%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (17.19%) Finance
4 21 (16.41%) Public Sector
5 15 (11.72%) Banking
6 5 (3.91%) Military
7 4 (3.13%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.56%) Front Office
8 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.78%) Games
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (35.94%) Test Engineer
2 21 (16.41%) Lead
3 19 (14.84%) Tester
4 17 (13.28%) Automation Tester
4 17 (13.28%) Test Automation Engineer
5 15 (11.72%) Senior
6 13 (10.16%) QA Engineer
7 12 (9.38%) Lead Test Engineer
8 10 (7.81%) Salesforce Engineer
9 9 (7.03%) Developer
10 8 (6.25%) Analyst
11 7 (5.47%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (5.47%) Senior Test Engineer
12 6 (4.69%) Test Analyst
13 5 (3.91%) QA Automation Engineer
14 4 (3.13%) Architect
14 4 (3.13%) Principal Test Engineer
14 4 (3.13%) Senior Automation Tester
14 4 (3.13%) Senior Tester
14 4 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (53.91%) Playwright
2 33 (25.78%) REST
3 22 (17.19%) Kafka
4 20 (15.63%) Spring Boot
5 18 (14.06%) Spring
6 14 (10.94%) React
7 12 (9.38%) RESTful
8 10 (7.81%) Node.js
8 10 (7.81%) Spring Cloud
9 8 (6.25%) Gherkin
9 8 (6.25%) WireMock
10 6 (4.69%) HTML
11 5 (3.91%) CSS
11 5 (3.91%) pytest
11 5 (3.91%) Web Services
12 4 (3.13%) .NET
12 4 (3.13%) SOAP
12 4 (3.13%) XML
13 3 (2.34%) AngularJS
13 3 (2.34%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.16%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.47%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.34%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.56%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.56%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.56%) PKI
6 2 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.78%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.34%) Linux
2 2 (1.56%) Android
2 2 (1.56%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (88.28%) Test Automation
2 105 (82.03%) CI/CD
3 71 (55.47%) DevOps
4 63 (49.22%) Agile
5 58 (45.31%) API Testing
6 49 (38.28%) Test Strategy
7 43 (33.59%) BDD
8 36 (28.13%) Performance Testing
9 34 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (25.78%) Microservices
11 29 (22.66%) End-to-End Testing
12 28 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (21.09%) Integration Testing
13 27 (21.09%) Non-Functional Testing
14 26 (20.31%) AI
14 26 (20.31%) Scrum
14 26 (20.31%) TDD
15 25 (19.53%) Generative AI
16 24 (18.75%) Software Testing
17 21 (16.41%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 88 (68.75%) Java
2 35 (27.34%) JavaScript
3 32 (25.00%) Python
4 24 (18.75%) SQL
5 15 (11.72%) TypeScript
6 14 (10.94%) C#
7 7 (5.47%) Apex Code
7 7 (5.47%) Bash
8 4 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.13%) Scala
9 2 (1.56%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.56%) PROC SQL
9 2 (1.56%) VBA
10 1 (0.78%) COBOL
10 1 (0.78%) Groovy
10 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.78%) Ruby
10 1 (0.78%) Swift
Qualifications
1 40 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 31 (24.22%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.38%) Degree
4 10 (7.81%) ISTQB
5 9 (7.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.69%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (35.94%) QA
2 23 (17.97%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.91%) WCAG
4 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.56%) GDPR
4 2 (1.56%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.56%) MiFID
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.78%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (25.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (17.19%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.94%) Grafana
3 13 (10.16%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.91%) HP ALM
5 4 (3.13%) Ansible
5 4 (3.13%) Terraform
6 2 (1.56%) Istio
6 2 (1.56%) Kibana
7 1 (0.78%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.78%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (8.59%) Salesforce
1 11 (8.59%) Splunk
2 8 (6.25%) Conga
2 8 (6.25%) GoCardless
3 6 (4.69%) Oracle
4 5 (3.91%) HP
5 4 (3.13%) IBM
6 3 (2.34%) Citrix
6 3 (2.34%) Google
6 3 (2.34%) Micro Focus
6 3 (2.34%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.34%) OpenText
6 3 (2.34%) Perfecto Mobile
7 2 (1.56%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.56%) Pega
7 2 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.56%) Veracode
8 1 (0.78%) Databricks
8 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.78%) UiPath