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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 429 510
Rank change year-on-year -69 +81 +115
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 121 93 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.32% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.09% 2.24% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 62 47
10th Percentile £350 £286 £323
25th Percentile £385 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £400 £454
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% -11.89% -15.53%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £638
90th Percentile £650 £534 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £386 £650
% change year-on-year +29.67% -40.68% +20.93%

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 5,801 4,143 5,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.00% 14.38% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,797 2,777 3,440
10th Percentile £350 £337 £355
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £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 243 70 207
10th Percentile £34.59 £24.59 £32.48
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.07 £46.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +5.69%
75th Percentile £71.38 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.04 £78.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.03% -7.31% +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 22 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 22 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 -85 103 £500 +26.58% 15
UK excluding London -85 60 £500 +29.67% 10
London -58 41 £448 +13.29% 7
North of England -48 37 £525 +31.25% 4
Work from Home -40 32 £450 +16.88% 7
Yorkshire -38 21 £620 +47.62% 2
Midlands -61 14 £500 +86.57% 1
West Midlands -46 12 £500 +163.16% 1
North East -20 11 £363 -
North West -38 10 £640 +60.00% 2
South West - 9 £513 - 3
South East -66 3 £400 -20.08% 1
Scotland -2 2 £357 - 1
East Midlands -27 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 10 (8.26%) Confluence
2 2 (1.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.83%) Mule
3 1 (0.83%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (6.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (50.41%) AWS
2 53 (43.80%) Azure
3 40 (33.06%) GitHub
4 25 (20.66%) GCP
5 22 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (17.36%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.44%) BrowserStack
8 5 (4.13%) SaaS
9 4 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.31%) Serverless
10 3 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.48%) Figma
11 2 (1.65%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.65%) Datadog
11 2 (1.65%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.65%) PaaS
11 2 (1.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (1.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (1.65%) Vercel
12 1 (0.83%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) HTTP
2 1 (0.83%) DSL
2 1 (0.83%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.22%) MongoDB
2 13 (10.74%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.79%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.96%) MySQL
5 2 (1.65%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.83%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.83%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (65.29%) Selenium
2 65 (53.72%) Jenkins
3 55 (45.45%) Cucumber
4 54 (44.63%) Postman
5 45 (37.19%) GitLab
6 32 (26.45%) JIRA
7 26 (21.49%) Gatling
8 22 (18.18%) JMeter
9 17 (14.05%) Cypress.io
10 16 (13.22%) Git
11 15 (12.40%) Serenity BDD
12 14 (11.57%) JUnit
13 12 (9.92%) WebDriver
14 9 (7.44%) SoapUI
14 9 (7.44%) TestNG
15 8 (6.61%) TestRail
16 7 (5.79%) Maven
17 6 (4.96%) Gradle
18 5 (4.13%) Appium
18 5 (4.13%) LoadRunner
General
1 42 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (17.36%) Finance
4 17 (14.05%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.74%) Banking
6 6 (4.96%) Military
7 3 (2.48%) Front Office
8 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.65%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.65%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (42.15%) Test Engineer
2 30 (24.79%) Lead
3 21 (17.36%) Test Automation Engineer
4 18 (14.88%) Lead Test Engineer
5 13 (10.74%) Tester
6 12 (9.92%) QA Engineer
7 11 (9.09%) Automation Tester
8 9 (7.44%) Senior
9 8 (6.61%) Automation Test Lead
9 8 (6.61%) Salesforce Engineer
10 7 (5.79%) Architect
11 6 (4.96%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (4.13%) Automation Engineer
12 5 (4.13%) Developer
12 5 (4.13%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (4.13%) Test Architect
12 5 (4.13%) Test Automation Architect
13 4 (3.31%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (3.31%) Software Engineer
13 4 (3.31%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (47.93%) Playwright
2 46 (38.02%) REST
3 22 (18.18%) Kafka
4 20 (16.53%) Spring Boot
5 18 (14.88%) Spring
6 13 (10.74%) LDAP
6 13 (10.74%) OpenID
6 13 (10.74%) React
7 12 (9.92%) SailPoint
7 12 (9.92%) Spring Cloud
8 11 (9.09%) RESTful
9 10 (8.26%) .NET
10 7 (5.79%) Gherkin
11 6 (4.96%) HTML
11 6 (4.96%) SOAP
12 5 (4.13%) pytest
12 5 (4.13%) WireMock
13 4 (3.31%) Web Services
14 3 (2.48%) JSON
14 3 (2.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.26%) Cloud Native
1 10 (8.26%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.13%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.31%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.31%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.65%) Market Risk
4 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.83%) Derivative
5 1 (0.83%) Equities
5 1 (0.83%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.83%) PKI
5 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.31%) Linux
2 3 (2.48%) Unix
3 2 (1.65%) Android
3 2 (1.65%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (89.26%) Test Automation
2 104 (85.95%) CI/CD
3 66 (54.55%) DevOps
4 63 (52.07%) API Testing
5 58 (47.93%) Agile
6 41 (33.88%) BDD
6 41 (33.88%) Test Strategy
7 39 (32.23%) Performance Testing
8 31 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (24.79%) Microservices
10 29 (23.97%) Integration Testing
11 28 (23.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (21.49%) Test Scripting
13 23 (19.01%) Non-Functional Testing
13 23 (19.01%) Observability
13 23 (19.01%) Software Testing
13 23 (19.01%) TDD
14 22 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
15 21 (17.36%) AI
16 20 (16.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 92 (76.03%) Java
2 31 (25.62%) SQL
3 30 (24.79%) JavaScript
4 24 (19.83%) Python
5 12 (9.92%) C#
6 8 (6.61%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.79%) Apex Code
8 6 (4.96%) PHP
9 3 (2.48%) Bash
9 3 (2.48%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.65%) Scala
11 1 (0.83%) Bicep
11 1 (0.83%) COBOL
11 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.83%) Swift
11 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (28.10%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.66%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.26%) Degree
4 9 (7.44%) ISTQB
5 5 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (38.02%) QA
2 23 (19.01%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.96%) WCAG
4 4 (3.31%) GDPR
5 3 (2.48%) MiFID
6 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.83%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.83%) NCSC
7 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (23.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (14.05%) Kubernetes
2 16 (13.22%) Grafana
3 15 (12.40%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.79%) Terraform
5 3 (2.48%) Ansible
6 2 (1.65%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.65%) Kibana
7 1 (0.83%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.83%) Istio
7 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (12.40%) ServiceNow
1 15 (12.40%) Splunk
2 10 (8.26%) Salesforce
3 8 (6.61%) Conga
3 8 (6.61%) GoCardless
4 6 (4.96%) Google
4 6 (4.96%) Oracle
5 3 (2.48%) Micro Focus
5 3 (2.48%) OpenText
6 2 (1.65%) Adobe
6 2 (1.65%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.65%) HP
6 2 (1.65%) IBM
6 2 (1.65%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.65%) Pega
7 1 (0.83%) Citrix
7 1 (0.83%) Databricks
7 1 (0.83%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.83%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.83%) UiPath