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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 462 529
Rank change year-on-year -56 +67 +100
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 137 89 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.28% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.25% 1.92% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 59 45
10th Percentile £350 £284 £337
25th Percentile £363 £356 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £439 £650
90th Percentile £640 £539 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £371 £650
% change year-on-year +34.70% -42.89% +13.04%

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 6,096 4,634 5,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.77% 14.57% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,916 3,104 3,569
10th Percentile £350 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £693 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 94 251
10th Percentile £26.15 £21.22 £31.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.44
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 6 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 6 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 -79 114 £463 +17.09% 14
UK excluding London -80 66 £500 +34.70% 11
London -58 52 £447 +11.75% 7
Work from Home -48 43 £428 +10.32% 7
North of England -53 36 £513 +32.91% 6
North West -33 15 £620 +55.00% 3
North East -24 14 £375 +8.51% 2
Midlands -55 14 £500 +82.48% 1
Yorkshire -46 12 £648 +54.17% 1
West Midlands -48 12 £500 +163.16%
Scotland -6 9 £363 - 1
South West - 9 £513 -
South East -61 3 £400 -20.08% 3
East Midlands -22 2 - - 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 13 (9.49%) Confluence
2 2 (1.46%) SAS
3 1 (0.73%) Camunda
3 1 (0.73%) Mule
3 1 (0.73%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.46%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (5.84%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 60 (43.80%) AWS
2 57 (41.61%) Azure
3 48 (35.04%) GitHub
4 33 (24.09%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (20.44%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (14.60%) GCP
7 11 (8.03%) BrowserStack
8 6 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.38%) Serverless
9 5 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.46%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.46%) Datadog
11 2 (1.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.46%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.46%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.46%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (1.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 1 (0.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.46%) Firewall
1 2 (1.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.14%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.22%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.92%) DynamoDB
3 4 (2.92%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.46%) Base SAS
4 2 (1.46%) Data Mart
4 2 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.46%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.73%) DataStage
5 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 86 (62.77%) Selenium
2 67 (48.91%) Jenkins
3 55 (40.15%) Cucumber
3 55 (40.15%) Postman
4 39 (28.47%) GitLab
5 31 (22.63%) JIRA
6 27 (19.71%) Gatling
7 26 (18.98%) Cypress.io
8 23 (16.79%) Git
9 21 (15.33%) JMeter
10 18 (13.14%) JUnit
11 15 (10.95%) Serenity BDD
12 14 (10.22%) TestNG
13 12 (8.76%) Appium
13 12 (8.76%) WebDriver
14 11 (8.03%) Maven
15 9 (6.57%) SoapUI
16 8 (5.84%) Gradle
17 7 (5.11%) SpecFlow
18 6 (4.38%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.90%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (17.52%) Finance
4 22 (16.06%) Public Sector
5 15 (10.95%) Banking
6 6 (4.38%) Military
7 3 (2.19%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.19%) Front Office
8 2 (1.46%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Games
9 1 (0.73%) Legal
9 1 (0.73%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (37.23%) Test Engineer
2 24 (17.52%) Lead
3 20 (14.60%) Tester
4 18 (13.14%) Automation Tester
4 18 (13.14%) Test Automation Engineer
5 14 (10.22%) Lead Test Engineer
5 14 (10.22%) QA Engineer
5 14 (10.22%) Senior
6 10 (7.30%) Salesforce Engineer
7 8 (5.84%) Developer
8 7 (5.11%) Analyst
8 7 (5.11%) Architect
8 7 (5.11%) Senior Test Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.38%) Test Analyst
10 5 (3.65%) QA Automation Engineer
10 5 (3.65%) Test Architect
10 5 (3.65%) Test Automation Architect
11 4 (2.92%) QA Leader
11 4 (2.92%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (54.74%) Playwright
2 42 (30.66%) REST
3 23 (16.79%) Kafka
4 21 (15.33%) Spring Boot
5 19 (13.87%) Spring
6 15 (10.95%) React
7 12 (8.76%) RESTful
7 12 (8.76%) Spring Cloud
8 7 (5.11%) Gherkin
8 7 (5.11%) HTML
8 7 (5.11%) Node.js
9 6 (4.38%) LDAP
9 6 (4.38%) SOAP
9 6 (4.38%) WireMock
10 5 (3.65%) OpenID
10 5 (3.65%) pytest
10 5 (3.65%) SailPoint
11 4 (2.92%) .NET
11 4 (2.92%) Web Services
11 4 (2.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.22%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.30%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.65%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.65%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.92%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.46%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.46%) PKI
6 2 (1.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.73%) Derivative
7 1 (0.73%) Equities
7 1 (0.73%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.73%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.19%) Linux
1 3 (2.19%) Unix
2 2 (1.46%) Android
2 2 (1.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (89.78%) Test Automation
2 114 (83.21%) CI/CD
3 79 (57.66%) DevOps
4 70 (51.09%) Agile
5 67 (48.91%) API Testing
6 52 (37.96%) Test Strategy
7 45 (32.85%) BDD
8 39 (28.47%) Performance Testing
9 38 (27.74%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (24.82%) Microservices
11 30 (21.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (21.90%) End-to-End Testing
11 30 (21.90%) Integration Testing
12 29 (21.17%) Software Testing
13 28 (20.44%) Non-Functional Testing
14 26 (18.98%) Scrum
14 26 (18.98%) Test Scripting
15 25 (18.25%) AI
16 24 (17.52%) Generative AI
16 24 (17.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 94 (68.61%) Java
2 34 (24.82%) JavaScript
3 30 (21.90%) Python
4 27 (19.71%) SQL
5 17 (12.41%) C#
6 16 (11.68%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.11%) Apex Code
8 5 (3.65%) Bash
9 4 (2.92%) Scala
10 2 (1.46%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.46%) PROC SQL
10 2 (1.46%) VBA
11 1 (0.73%) Bicep
11 1 (0.73%) COBOL
11 1 (0.73%) Groovy
11 1 (0.73%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.73%) Ruby
11 1 (0.73%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (32.85%) Security Cleared
2 36 (26.28%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.49%) Degree
4 12 (8.76%) ISTQB
5 7 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.38%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (37.96%) QA
2 25 (18.25%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.65%) WCAG
4 3 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.46%) GDPR
5 2 (1.46%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.46%) MiFID
6 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.73%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (24.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (14.60%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.68%) Grafana
3 15 (10.95%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.65%) Terraform
5 3 (2.19%) Ansible
5 3 (2.19%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.46%) Istio
6 2 (1.46%) Kibana
7 1 (0.73%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.73%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (9.49%) Salesforce
1 13 (9.49%) Splunk
2 8 (5.84%) Conga
2 8 (5.84%) GoCardless
3 6 (4.38%) Google
3 6 (4.38%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.65%) Oracle
5 4 (2.92%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.19%) HP
6 3 (2.19%) IBM
6 3 (2.19%) Micro Focus
6 3 (2.19%) OpenText
7 2 (1.46%) Citrix
7 2 (1.46%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.46%) Pega
7 2 (1.46%) Perfecto Mobile
8 1 (0.73%) Databricks
8 1 (0.73%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.73%) UiPath
8 1 (0.73%) Veracode