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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 465 514
Rank change year-on-year -99 +49 +69
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 118 95 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.29% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.91% 1.90% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 66 36
10th Percentile £313 £312 £314
25th Percentile £358 £359 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £499 £575
90th Percentile £640 £550 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £375 £638
% change year-on-year +13.60% -41.18% +10.87%

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 6,176 4,989 5,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.44% 15.14% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,964 3,360 3,265
10th Percentile £355 £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 £595 £600 £625
90th Percentile £689 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 114 182
10th Percentile £35.63 £28.59 £28.33
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £71.42 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.60 £86.83 £71.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -89 99 £447 +17.48% 27
UK excluding London -74 57 £426 +13.60% 19
London -70 47 £445 +17.03% 18
Work from Home -69 37 £402 -3.13% 16
North of England -56 31 £450 +16.88% 4
North West -46 16 £537 +57.94% 2
North East -26 13 £378 -1.31% 1
South West - 9 £513 - 5
Scotland - 9 £363 -
West Midlands -38 7 £525 - 1
Midlands -49 7 £525 +87.50% 1
Yorkshire -48 5 - - 1
South East -73 5 £295 -33.75% 5

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 14 (11.86%) Confluence
2 7 (5.93%) Camunda
3 2 (1.69%) SAS
4 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (7.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (40.68%) AWS
2 45 (38.14%) Azure
3 34 (28.81%) GitHub
4 29 (24.58%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (18.64%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (11.86%) GCP
7 10 (8.47%) OpenShift
8 8 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (5.93%) Serverless
10 6 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.08%) BrowserStack
10 6 (5.08%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (2.54%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.54%) SaaS
12 2 (1.69%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.69%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.85%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) Firewall
2 1 (0.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.86%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.02%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.78%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.39%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.69%) Base SAS
5 2 (1.69%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.85%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.85%) DataStage
6 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 69 (58.47%) Selenium
2 57 (48.31%) Jenkins
3 44 (37.29%) Cucumber
4 42 (35.59%) Postman
5 34 (28.81%) GitLab
6 27 (22.88%) JIRA
7 22 (18.64%) Git
8 21 (17.80%) Cypress.io
9 20 (16.95%) Gatling
10 19 (16.10%) JUnit
11 18 (15.25%) JMeter
12 15 (12.71%) TestNG
13 14 (11.86%) Appium
14 13 (11.02%) Gradle
14 13 (11.02%) Maven
15 11 (9.32%) SonarQube
15 11 (9.32%) WebDriver
16 9 (7.63%) Serenity BDD
16 9 (7.63%) Sonatype Nexus
17 7 (5.93%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 38 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.73%) Finance
3 21 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (17.80%) Banking
4 20 (16.95%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.08%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.54%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.54%) Military
7 2 (1.69%) Front Office
8 1 (0.85%) Games
8 1 (0.85%) Legal
8 1 (0.85%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.85%) Police
8 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (33.90%) Test Engineer
2 19 (16.10%) Test Automation Engineer
3 17 (14.41%) Developer
3 17 (14.41%) Senior
4 15 (12.71%) Lead
4 15 (12.71%) QA Engineer
5 14 (11.86%) Tester
6 11 (9.32%) Automation Tester
7 10 (8.47%) Salesforce Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) Lead Test Engineer
9 8 (6.78%) Analyst
10 7 (5.93%) QA Automation Engineer
11 6 (5.08%) Senior Developer
11 6 (5.08%) Test Analyst
12 5 (4.24%) .NET Developer
12 5 (4.24%) C# .NET Developer
12 5 (4.24%) C# Developer
12 5 (4.24%) Senior Test Engineer
13 4 (3.39%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (56.78%) Playwright
2 29 (24.58%) REST
3 24 (20.34%) Kafka
4 23 (19.49%) Spring Boot
5 19 (16.10%) React
5 19 (16.10%) Spring
6 12 (10.17%) Node.js
6 12 (10.17%) RESTful
7 11 (9.32%) HTML
8 9 (7.63%) CSS
9 8 (6.78%) Gherkin
9 8 (6.78%) Redux
10 7 (5.93%) Hibernate
10 7 (5.93%) JPA
10 7 (5.93%) Spring Cloud
11 6 (5.08%) .NET
11 6 (5.08%) WireMock
12 5 (4.24%) pytest
12 5 (4.24%) XML
13 4 (3.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.17%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.93%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.54%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.69%) PKI
5 2 (1.69%) Spread Betting
5 2 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.85%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.85%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.85%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.69%) Android
1 2 (1.69%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.69%) Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (88.14%) Test Automation
2 93 (78.81%) CI/CD
3 72 (61.02%) DevOps
4 62 (52.54%) Agile
5 53 (44.92%) API Testing
6 43 (36.44%) Test Strategy
7 42 (35.59%) BDD
8 36 (30.51%) Microservices
9 33 (27.97%) Performance Testing
10 32 (27.12%) End-to-End Testing
10 32 (27.12%) Scrum
11 28 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (23.73%) TDD
12 27 (22.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (22.88%) Integration Testing
13 25 (21.19%) AI
13 25 (21.19%) Generative AI
13 25 (21.19%) Non-Functional Testing
14 24 (20.34%) User Acceptance Testing
15 23 (19.49%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 81 (68.64%) Java
2 40 (33.90%) JavaScript
3 31 (26.27%) Python
4 24 (20.34%) SQL
5 18 (15.25%) TypeScript
6 16 (13.56%) C#
7 7 (5.93%) Apex Code
7 7 (5.93%) Bash
8 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.39%) Scala
9 2 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.69%) PROC SQL
9 2 (1.69%) VBA
10 1 (0.85%) COBOL
10 1 (0.85%) Groovy
10 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.85%) Ruby
10 1 (0.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 38 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 32 (27.12%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.41%) Degree
4 14 (11.86%) ISTQB
5 11 (9.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (8.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (5.93%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.69%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.85%) ISEB
10 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (35.59%) QA
2 18 (15.25%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.24%) WCAG
4 4 (3.39%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.85%) GDPR
6 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.85%) MiFID
6 1 (0.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 30 (25.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (17.80%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.63%) Grafana
3 8 (6.78%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.08%) Ansible
5 5 (4.24%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.69%) Istio
7 1 (0.85%) Packer
7 1 (0.85%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (9.32%) Salesforce
2 8 (6.78%) Conga
2 8 (6.78%) GoCardless
2 8 (6.78%) IBM
2 8 (6.78%) Oracle
2 8 (6.78%) Splunk
3 7 (5.93%) Veracode
4 5 (4.24%) HP
4 5 (4.24%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.39%) Citrix
6 3 (2.54%) Micro Focus
6 3 (2.54%) OpenText
6 3 (2.54%) Perfecto Mobile
7 2 (1.69%) Databricks
7 2 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.69%) Pega
8 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.85%) Confluent
8 1 (0.85%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.85%) UiPath