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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 481 543
Rank change year-on-year -7 +62 +98
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 113 48 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.01% 1.15% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 40 37
10th Percentile £361 £281 £325
25th Percentile £406 £314 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £380 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £543 £438 £550
90th Percentile £675 £558 £606
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £315 £585
% change year-on-year +58.73% -46.15% +23.81%

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 5,624 4,186 5,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 13.59% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,838 2,682 3,679
10th Percentile £342 £330 £363
25th Percentile £405 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £626
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 65 216
10th Percentile £29.75 £25.65 £38.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.06
90th Percentile £83.00 £79.39 £86.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 19 February 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 13 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 19 February 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 -15 98 £475 +19.87% 11
UK excluding London -14 54 £500 +58.73% 9
London -38 39 £448 +5.29% 4
North of England -47 33 £472 +39.19% 2
Work from Home -12 30 £475 +25.00% 5
North East -3 16 £419 +35.08%
Yorkshire -41 16 £620 +24.00%
South West -7 12 £520 -5.45% 2
Midlands -59 8 £465 +137.24% 1
West Midlands -52 7 £465 +144.74% 1
North West -26 3 £725 +77.91% 2
South East - 2 £375 - 4
East Midlands -25 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 9 (7.96%) Confluence
2 2 (1.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.88%) Mule
3 1 (0.88%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 49 (43.36%) Azure
2 45 (39.82%) AWS
3 25 (22.12%) GitHub
4 20 (17.70%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (17.70%) GCP
5 18 (15.93%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (7.08%) BrowserStack
7 6 (5.31%) SaaS
8 3 (2.65%) Figma
9 2 (1.77%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.77%) Datadog
9 2 (1.77%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.77%) PaaS
9 2 (1.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (1.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.77%) Vercel
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.88%) CloudFront
10 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) DSL
1 1 (0.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.08%) Relational Database
2 7 (6.19%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.31%) MySQL
3 6 (5.31%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.77%) Redis
5 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.88%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.88%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 76 (67.26%) Selenium
2 58 (51.33%) Postman
3 57 (50.44%) Cucumber
4 56 (49.56%) Jenkins
5 38 (33.63%) GitLab
6 37 (32.74%) JIRA
7 26 (23.01%) Cypress.io
8 18 (15.93%) Git
9 16 (14.16%) JMeter
10 15 (13.27%) JUnit
11 14 (12.39%) Gatling
12 12 (10.62%) WebDriver
13 10 (8.85%) SoapUI
14 8 (7.08%) TestNG
15 7 (6.19%) Maven
15 7 (6.19%) Serenity BDD
15 7 (6.19%) TestRail
16 4 (3.54%) Bitbucket
16 4 (3.54%) Gradle
16 4 (3.54%) SpecFlow
General
1 33 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.58%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (18.58%) Finance
3 20 (17.70%) Public Sector
4 15 (13.27%) Banking
5 4 (3.54%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.54%) Military
6 3 (2.65%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.77%) Front Office
8 1 (0.88%) Automotive
8 1 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (33.63%) Test Engineer
2 26 (23.01%) Lead
3 18 (15.93%) Tester
4 17 (15.04%) Automation Tester
5 16 (14.16%) Test Automation Engineer
6 10 (8.85%) Lead Test Engineer
6 10 (8.85%) Senior
7 9 (7.96%) QA Leader
8 8 (7.08%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) QA Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Architect
9 6 (5.31%) Automation Test Lead
10 5 (4.42%) Analyst
10 5 (4.42%) Developer
10 5 (4.42%) QA Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Test Leader
11 4 (3.54%) Test Analyst
11 4 (3.54%) Test Architect
11 4 (3.54%) Test Automation Architect
12 3 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (44.25%) REST
2 31 (27.43%) Playwright
3 15 (13.27%) Spring Boot
4 13 (11.50%) LDAP
4 13 (11.50%) OpenID
5 12 (10.62%) SailPoint
5 12 (10.62%) WireMock
6 11 (9.73%) .NET
6 11 (9.73%) Spring
7 10 (8.85%) RESTful
8 9 (7.96%) Kafka
9 8 (7.08%) SOAP
10 6 (5.31%) Gherkin
10 6 (5.31%) HTML
10 6 (5.31%) Spring Cloud
11 5 (4.42%) Web Services
12 4 (3.54%) React
13 3 (2.65%) CSS
13 3 (2.65%) J2EE
13 3 (2.65%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.85%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.08%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (4.42%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.54%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.65%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Derivative
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) Equities
7 1 (0.88%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.88%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.54%) Windows
2 3 (2.65%) Linux
2 3 (2.65%) Unix
3 2 (1.77%) Android
3 2 (1.77%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (90.27%) Test Automation
2 89 (78.76%) CI/CD
3 64 (56.64%) Agile
4 57 (50.44%) API Testing
5 48 (42.48%) DevOps
6 39 (34.51%) Test Strategy
7 38 (33.63%) Test Scripting
8 34 (30.09%) Performance Testing
9 32 (28.32%) BDD
10 28 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (23.01%) Software Testing
12 25 (22.12%) TDD
13 22 (19.47%) Regression Testing
14 21 (18.58%) AI
14 21 (18.58%) Microservices
15 19 (16.81%) Containerisation
16 18 (15.93%) Scrum
17 17 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (15.04%) Functional Testing
17 17 (15.04%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (66.37%) Java
2 30 (26.55%) SQL
3 21 (18.58%) JavaScript
4 19 (16.81%) Python
5 15 (13.27%) C#
6 6 (5.31%) PHP
6 6 (5.31%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.77%) Groovy
7 2 (1.77%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.88%) Bicep
8 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.88%) Ruby
8 1 (0.88%) Scala
8 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (30.97%) Security Cleared
2 30 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.42%) Degree
4 4 (3.54%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (47.79%) QA
2 18 (15.93%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.31%) WCAG
4 3 (2.65%) GDPR
4 3 (2.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.88%) MiFID
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 28 (24.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.08%) Grafana
3 7 (6.19%) Prometheus
3 7 (6.19%) Terraform
4 2 (1.77%) Ansible
4 2 (1.77%) Kibana
5 1 (0.88%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (13.27%) ServiceNow
2 8 (7.08%) Splunk
3 6 (5.31%) Google
3 6 (5.31%) Oracle
4 3 (2.65%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.77%) Adobe
5 2 (1.77%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.77%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.88%) Databricks
6 1 (0.88%) IBM
6 1 (0.88%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.88%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.88%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.88%) Tradeweb