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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 457 545
Rank change year-on-year -72 +88 +91
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 135 95 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.29% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.16% 2.00% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 64 39
10th Percentile £331 £280 £349
25th Percentile £363 £352 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -27.27% -
75th Percentile £550 £443 £650
90th Percentile £639 £544 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £370 £650
% change year-on-year +35.14% -43.08% +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 6,236 4,742 5,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 14.57% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,007 3,193 3,481
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £689 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 103 238
10th Percentile £25.68 £22.64 £26.00
25th Percentile £55.94 £49.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £72.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 18 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 18 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 -85 112 £453 +19.00% 9
UK excluding London -88 62 £500 +35.14% 7
London -42 54 £446 +15.77% 6
Work from Home -60 42 £428 +11.69% 5
North of England -63 32 £500 +34.70% 1
North West -43 15 £620 +67.57%
Midlands -50 14 £500 +86.57% 2
North East -22 13 £380 +9.95% 1
West Midlands -50 12 £500 +163.16% 2
Yorkshire -40 9 £620 +47.62%
South West - 9 £513 -
Scotland - 9 £363 -
South East -66 3 £400 -20.08% 4
East Midlands -17 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 11 (8.15%) Confluence
2 2 (1.48%) Camunda
2 2 (1.48%) SAS
3 1 (0.74%) Mule
3 1 (0.74%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (5.93%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 57 (42.22%) AWS
2 52 (38.52%) Azure
3 49 (36.30%) GitHub
4 32 (23.70%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (21.48%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (12.59%) GCP
7 12 (8.89%) BrowserStack
8 6 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.44%) Serverless
9 5 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.96%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.48%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.48%) Datadog
11 2 (1.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.48%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.48%) SaaS
11 2 (1.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (1.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) Firewall
1 2 (1.48%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.37%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.96%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.48%) Base SAS
5 2 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.48%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.74%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.74%) DataStage
6 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (60.74%) Selenium
2 65 (48.15%) Jenkins
3 53 (39.26%) Postman
4 50 (37.04%) Cucumber
5 37 (27.41%) GitLab
6 28 (20.74%) Gatling
6 28 (20.74%) JIRA
7 26 (19.26%) Cypress.io
8 22 (16.30%) Git
8 22 (16.30%) JMeter
9 18 (13.33%) JUnit
10 15 (11.11%) Serenity BDD
10 15 (11.11%) TestNG
11 13 (9.63%) Appium
12 12 (8.89%) Maven
13 11 (8.15%) WebDriver
14 9 (6.67%) Gradle
15 7 (5.19%) SoapUI
15 7 (5.19%) SonarQube
15 7 (5.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 48 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.48%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (17.78%) Finance
4 22 (16.30%) Public Sector
5 16 (11.85%) Banking
6 6 (4.44%) Military
7 4 (2.96%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.22%) Front Office
9 2 (1.48%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Games
10 1 (0.74%) Legal
10 1 (0.74%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (36.30%) Test Engineer
2 23 (17.04%) Lead
3 20 (14.81%) Tester
4 18 (13.33%) Automation Tester
5 17 (12.59%) Test Automation Engineer
6 15 (11.11%) QA Engineer
6 15 (11.11%) Senior
7 14 (10.37%) Lead Test Engineer
8 11 (8.15%) Developer
9 10 (7.41%) Salesforce Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Analyst
10 7 (5.19%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Senior Test Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Test Analyst
12 5 (3.70%) Architect
12 5 (3.70%) QA Automation Engineer
13 4 (2.96%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (2.96%) Principal Test Engineer
13 4 (2.96%) Senior Automation Tester
13 4 (2.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (54.07%) Playwright
2 38 (28.15%) REST
3 24 (17.78%) Kafka
4 22 (16.30%) Spring Boot
5 20 (14.81%) Spring
6 16 (11.85%) React
7 13 (9.63%) RESTful
8 12 (8.89%) Spring Cloud
9 8 (5.93%) Node.js
10 7 (5.19%) Gherkin
10 7 (5.19%) WireMock
11 6 (4.44%) HTML
12 5 (3.70%) .NET
12 5 (3.70%) pytest
12 5 (3.70%) Web Services
13 4 (2.96%) CSS
13 4 (2.96%) SOAP
13 4 (2.96%) XML
14 3 (2.22%) J2EE
14 3 (2.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.70%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.96%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (2.96%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.48%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.48%) PKI
6 2 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.74%) Derivative
7 1 (0.74%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.74%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.22%) Linux
1 3 (2.22%) Unix
2 2 (1.48%) Android
2 2 (1.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (88.15%) Test Automation
2 112 (82.96%) CI/CD
3 79 (58.52%) DevOps
4 69 (51.11%) Agile
5 63 (46.67%) API Testing
6 51 (37.78%) Test Strategy
7 44 (32.59%) BDD
8 40 (29.63%) Performance Testing
9 37 (27.41%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (25.93%) Microservices
11 30 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
12 29 (21.48%) Integration Testing
13 28 (20.74%) Non-Functional Testing
13 28 (20.74%) Software Testing
14 27 (20.00%) AI
14 27 (20.00%) Scrum
15 26 (19.26%) Generative AI
16 25 (18.52%) TDD
16 25 (18.52%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 91 (67.41%) Java
2 34 (25.19%) JavaScript
3 32 (23.70%) Python
4 26 (19.26%) SQL
5 17 (12.59%) C#
6 16 (11.85%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.19%) Apex Code
8 6 (4.44%) Bash
9 4 (2.96%) Scala
10 3 (2.22%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.48%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.48%) PROC SQL
11 2 (1.48%) VBA
12 1 (0.74%) Bicep
12 1 (0.74%) COBOL
12 1 (0.74%) Groovy
12 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.74%) Ruby
12 1 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (32.59%) Security Cleared
2 35 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.37%) Degree
4 12 (8.89%) ISTQB
5 8 (5.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.44%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (38.52%) QA
2 26 (19.26%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.70%) WCAG
4 2 (1.48%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.48%) GDPR
4 2 (1.48%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.48%) MiFID
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.74%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (25.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (16.30%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.85%) Grafana
3 15 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.70%) Terraform
5 4 (2.96%) Ansible
5 4 (2.96%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.48%) Istio
6 2 (1.48%) Kibana
7 1 (0.74%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.74%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (9.63%) Salesforce
1 13 (9.63%) Splunk
2 8 (5.93%) Conga
2 8 (5.93%) GoCardless
3 7 (5.19%) Oracle
4 4 (2.96%) Google
4 4 (2.96%) HP
4 4 (2.96%) IBM
4 4 (2.96%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.22%) Citrix
5 3 (2.22%) Micro Focus
5 3 (2.22%) OpenText
5 3 (2.22%) Perfecto Mobile
5 3 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.48%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.48%) Pega
6 2 (1.48%) Veracode
7 1 (0.74%) Databricks
7 1 (0.74%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.74%) UiPath