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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 431 518
Rank change year-on-year -97 +87 +100
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 97 85 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.29% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.68% 2.06% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 56 48
10th Percentile £350 £286 £323
25th Percentile £375 £357 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £400 £455
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% -11.99% -15.05%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £631
90th Percentile £688 £542 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £371 £650
% change year-on-year +30.60% -42.98% +22.35%

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 5,765 4,118 5,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 14.21% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,774 2,750 3,428
10th Percentile £349 £340 £353
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 71 202
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.04 £33.20
25th Percentile £59.25 £47.75 £46.38
Median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £79.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -90 81 £488 +26.54% 18
UK excluding London -91 41 £484 +30.60% 13
London -60 38 £455 +15.19% 6
North of England -47 28 £513 +38.07% 5
Work from Home -45 24 £450 +18.34% 7
Yorkshire -38 17 £620 +67.57% 1
North East -12 8 £363 -
Midlands -59 8 £450 +67.91% 1
West Midlands -52 6 £450 +136.84% 1
North West -36 5 £725 +81.25% 4
South West - 3 - - 3
Scotland +7 2 £357 -
East Midlands -33 2 - -
South East -69 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 (10.31%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.03%) Mule
3 1 (1.03%) Mule ESB
3 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.03%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (50.52%) AWS
1 49 (50.52%) Azure
2 30 (30.93%) GitHub
3 24 (24.74%) GCP
4 19 (19.59%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (19.59%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (9.28%) BrowserStack
6 5 (5.15%) SaaS
7 3 (3.09%) Figma
8 2 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.06%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.06%) Datadog
8 2 (2.06%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.06%) PaaS
8 2 (2.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (2.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (2.06%) Serverless
8 2 (2.06%) Vercel
9 1 (1.03%) ChatGPT
9 1 (1.03%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) HTTP
2 1 (1.03%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.25%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.22%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.19%) MySQL
3 6 (6.19%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.03%) CockroachDB
5 1 (1.03%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 66 (68.04%) Selenium
2 53 (54.64%) Jenkins
3 45 (46.39%) Cucumber
3 45 (46.39%) Postman
4 38 (39.18%) GitLab
5 32 (32.99%) JIRA
6 21 (21.65%) JMeter
7 17 (17.53%) Gatling
8 15 (15.46%) Git
9 14 (14.43%) Cypress.io
10 13 (13.40%) JUnit
11 12 (12.37%) WebDriver
12 8 (8.25%) SoapUI
12 8 (8.25%) TestNG
13 7 (7.22%) Serenity BDD
13 7 (7.22%) TestRail
14 6 (6.19%) Maven
15 5 (5.15%) Appium
15 5 (5.15%) Gradle
16 4 (4.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 27 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.71%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (20.62%) Finance
4 12 (12.37%) Banking
4 12 (12.37%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.15%) Military
6 3 (3.09%) Front Office
7 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.06%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (36.08%) Test Engineer
2 22 (22.68%) Lead
3 19 (19.59%) Test Automation Engineer
4 13 (13.40%) Tester
5 11 (11.34%) Automation Tester
6 10 (10.31%) Lead Test Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) QA Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Senior
9 6 (6.19%) Architect
9 6 (6.19%) Automation Test Lead
10 4 (4.12%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Developer
10 4 (4.12%) QA Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Test Architect
10 4 (4.12%) Test Automation Architect
10 4 (4.12%) Test Leader
11 3 (3.09%) QA Leader
11 3 (3.09%) Senior Test Engineer
12 2 (2.06%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (44.33%) REST
2 37 (38.14%) Playwright
3 13 (13.40%) Kafka
3 13 (13.40%) LDAP
3 13 (13.40%) OpenID
4 12 (12.37%) SailPoint
4 12 (12.37%) Spring Boot
5 10 (10.31%) Spring
6 9 (9.28%) .NET
7 8 (8.25%) RESTful
8 7 (7.22%) Gherkin
9 6 (6.19%) HTML
9 6 (6.19%) Spring Cloud
10 5 (5.15%) pytest
10 5 (5.15%) React
10 5 (5.15%) SOAP
10 5 (5.15%) WireMock
11 3 (3.09%) JSON
11 3 (3.09%) Web Services
11 3 (3.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.28%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.15%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.12%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.06%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.03%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.03%) Derivative
7 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.03%) Equities
7 1 (1.03%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Linux
1 3 (3.09%) Unix
2 2 (2.06%) Android
2 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (88.66%) Test Automation
2 84 (86.60%) CI/CD
3 50 (51.55%) DevOps
4 47 (48.45%) Agile
5 46 (47.42%) API Testing
6 33 (34.02%) Performance Testing
7 28 (28.87%) BDD
8 25 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (25.77%) Test Strategy
9 22 (22.68%) Test Scripting
10 19 (19.59%) AI
10 19 (19.59%) Microservices
11 18 (18.56%) Observability
11 18 (18.56%) Software Testing
12 17 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (17.53%) Generative AI
13 16 (16.49%) Scrum
14 15 (15.46%) Manual Testing
14 15 (15.46%) Regression Testing
14 15 (15.46%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 70 (72.16%) Java
2 30 (30.93%) SQL
3 20 (20.62%) Python
4 18 (18.56%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.31%) C#
6 6 (6.19%) PHP
6 6 (6.19%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.09%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.06%) Bash
9 1 (1.03%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.03%) Bicep
9 1 (1.03%) COBOL
9 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.03%) Swift
9 1 (1.03%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.62%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.15%) Degree
4 4 (4.12%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (41.24%) QA
2 17 (17.53%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.19%) WCAG
4 4 (4.12%) GDPR
5 3 (3.09%) MiFID
6 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.03%) NCSC
7 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (21.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (16.49%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.31%) Grafana
3 9 (9.28%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.19%) Terraform
5 2 (2.06%) Ansible
5 2 (2.06%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.06%) Kibana
6 1 (1.03%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (15.46%) ServiceNow
2 10 (10.31%) Splunk
3 6 (6.19%) Google
4 5 (5.15%) Oracle
5 3 (3.09%) Micro Focus
5 3 (3.09%) OpenText
5 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.06%) Adobe
6 2 (2.06%) HP
6 2 (2.06%) IBM
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.06%) Pega
7 1 (1.03%) Conga
7 1 (1.03%) Databricks
7 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.03%) GoCardless
7 1 (1.03%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.03%) UiPath