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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 496 549
Rank change year-on-year +5 +53 +90
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 94 38 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.73% 0.89% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 30 40
10th Percentile £362 £305 £325
25th Percentile £402 £356 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £403 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -10.56% -1.64%
75th Percentile £538 £484 £575
90th Percentile £593 £575 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £339 £575
% change year-on-year +40.22% -41.09% +27.78%

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 5,447 4,261 5,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.38% 13.51% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,746 2,676 3,773
10th Percentile £344 £331 £363
25th Percentile £408 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £592 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -0.94% -4.10% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 73 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.70 £41.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £48.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £82.40 £76.05 £89.63
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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -13 83 £475 +18.01% 11
UK excluding London -31 46 £475 +40.22% 6
London -12 32 £448 +5.29% 7
Work from Home +4 30 £475 +25.00% 8
North of England -36 27 £435 +38.10% 2
North East -2 14 £419 +35.08% 1
South West -4 12 £520 -5.45% 1
Yorkshire -36 12 £525 +5.00%
South East - 5 £375 - 2
Midlands - 2 £490 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £490 - 1
North West -28 1 - - 1

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 (10.64%) Confluence
2 2 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 41 (43.62%) Azure
2 33 (35.11%) AWS
3 16 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (17.02%) GCP
4 10 (10.64%) GitHub
4 10 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (6.38%) SaaS
6 2 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.13%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.13%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.13%) Figma
6 2 (2.13%) PaaS
6 2 (2.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (2.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (2.13%) Vercel
7 1 (1.06%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.06%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (1.06%) Serverless
7 1 (1.06%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.38%) MySQL
1 6 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.13%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.13%) Redis
4 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.06%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.06%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 68 (72.34%) Selenium
2 53 (56.38%) Postman
3 52 (55.32%) Cucumber
4 43 (45.74%) Jenkins
5 36 (38.30%) JIRA
6 28 (29.79%) GitLab
7 23 (24.47%) Cypress.io
8 17 (18.09%) Git
9 12 (12.77%) JMeter
9 12 (12.77%) JUnit
10 10 (10.64%) SoapUI
10 10 (10.64%) WebDriver
11 9 (9.57%) Gatling
12 8 (8.51%) TestNG
13 7 (7.45%) TestRail
14 6 (6.38%) Bitbucket
15 4 (4.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (4.26%) Gradle
15 4 (4.26%) Maven
16 3 (3.19%) Xcode
General
1 30 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.34%) Finance
3 20 (21.28%) Public Sector
4 17 (18.09%) Banking
5 14 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.19%) Automotive
7 3 (3.19%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.13%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.13%) Front Office
8 2 (2.13%) Military
9 1 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (31.91%) Test Engineer
2 19 (20.21%) Lead
3 18 (19.15%) Tester
4 16 (17.02%) Automation Tester
5 15 (15.96%) Test Automation Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) QA Leader
6 9 (9.57%) Senior
7 8 (8.51%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Automation Test Lead
8 6 (6.38%) Developer
8 6 (6.38%) QA Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Analyst
9 5 (5.32%) Lead Test Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) QA Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Test Leader
10 4 (4.26%) Selenium Automation Tester
10 4 (4.26%) Selenium Tester
10 4 (4.26%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Test Analyst
11 3 (3.19%) Developer in Test
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (50.00%) REST
2 21 (22.34%) Playwright
3 12 (12.77%) .NET
3 12 (12.77%) RESTful
4 11 (11.70%) OpenID
4 11 (11.70%) SOAP
5 10 (10.64%) LDAP
5 10 (10.64%) SailPoint
5 10 (10.64%) Spring Boot
5 10 (10.64%) WireMock
6 6 (6.38%) HTML
6 6 (6.38%) Spring
7 5 (5.32%) Gherkin
8 4 (4.26%) React
8 4 (4.26%) Swagger
8 4 (4.26%) Web Services
9 3 (3.19%) CSS
9 3 (3.19%) HTML5
9 3 (3.19%) Kafka
10 2 (2.13%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.32%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.26%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.19%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.06%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.06%) Derivative
6 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.06%) Equities
6 1 (1.06%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.06%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.38%) Windows
2 3 (3.19%) Unix
3 2 (2.13%) Android
3 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.13%) Linux
3 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (90.43%) Test Automation
2 65 (69.15%) CI/CD
3 55 (58.51%) Agile
4 50 (53.19%) API Testing
5 36 (38.30%) DevOps
6 35 (37.23%) Test Scripting
7 32 (34.04%) Test Strategy
8 27 (28.72%) TDD
9 26 (27.66%) BDD
9 26 (27.66%) Performance Testing
9 26 (27.66%) Regression Testing
9 26 (27.66%) Software Testing
10 21 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (20.21%) Containerisation
11 19 (20.21%) Integration Testing
11 19 (20.21%) Scenario Testing
12 15 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (15.96%) Manual Testing
12 15 (15.96%) Scrum
13 14 (14.89%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 58 (61.70%) Java
2 27 (28.72%) SQL
3 19 (20.21%) JavaScript
4 17 (18.09%) Python
5 14 (14.89%) C#
6 6 (6.38%) PHP
6 6 (6.38%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.19%) Groovy
8 2 (2.13%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.06%) Ruby
9 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) Degree
4 4 (4.26%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (50.00%) QA
2 10 (10.64%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.32%) WCAG
4 3 (3.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.13%) GDPR
6 1 (1.06%) MiFID
6 1 (1.06%) NCSC
6 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.06%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (23.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.32%) Terraform
3 1 (1.06%) Ansible
3 1 (1.06%) Grafana
3 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (12.77%) ServiceNow
2 8 (8.51%) Oracle
3 4 (4.26%) Splunk
4 3 (3.19%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.19%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.13%) Adobe
5 2 (2.13%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.06%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.06%) Databricks
6 1 (1.06%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.06%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.06%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.06%) Tradeweb