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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 488 557
Rank change year-on-year +1 +69 +72
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 87 36 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.11% 0.098%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.64% 0.85% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 28 34
10th Percentile £359 £305 £325
25th Percentile £400 £346 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £400 £454
Median % change year-on-year +16.63% -11.85% -0.82%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £575
90th Percentile £582 £575 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £363 £575
% change year-on-year +31.03% -36.96% +21.05%

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 5,290 4,220 5,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.60% 13.39% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,625 2,653 3,763
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -6.51% -3.15%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £513
% change year-on-year -0.42% -6.93% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 72 200
10th Percentile £39.00 £28.88 £44.26
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.15 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -21 75 £468 +17.00% 10
UK excluding London -11 44 £475 +31.03% 9
Work from Home +4 26 £450 +18.42% 9
London -11 26 £415 -2.35% 3
North of England -31 24 £445 +31.37% 6
North East +1 12 £425 +37.10% 1
South West -6 12 £520 -5.45% 1
Yorkshire -29 11 £525 +14.13% 5
South East - 5 £375 - 2
Midlands - 3 £430 -
West Midlands - 2 £490 -
North West -31 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £263 -

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 7 (8.05%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.15%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 35 (40.23%) Azure
2 30 (34.48%) AWS
3 15 (17.24%) GCP
4 12 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (12.64%) GitHub
6 9 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.90%) SaaS
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.30%) BrowserStack
8 2 (2.30%) Figma
8 2 (2.30%) PaaS
8 2 (2.30%) Vercel
9 1 (1.15%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.15%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.15%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.15%) Sauce Labs
9 1 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) MySQL
1 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.45%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.45%) Redis
4 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.15%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.15%) DB2
4 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 61 (70.11%) Selenium
2 50 (57.47%) Cucumber
3 49 (56.32%) Postman
4 42 (48.28%) Jenkins
5 33 (37.93%) JIRA
6 26 (29.89%) GitLab
7 19 (21.84%) Cypress.io
8 15 (17.24%) Git
9 12 (13.79%) JMeter
9 12 (13.79%) JUnit
10 9 (10.34%) Gatling
10 9 (10.34%) SoapUI
11 8 (9.20%) TestNG
12 7 (8.05%) TestRail
12 7 (8.05%) WebDriver
13 6 (6.90%) Bitbucket
13 6 (6.90%) Maven
14 5 (5.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (4.60%) Gradle
15 4 (4.60%) Xcode
General
1 29 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.14%) Public Sector
3 20 (22.99%) Finance
4 16 (18.39%) Banking
5 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.45%) Automotive
6 3 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.45%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.30%) Military
8 1 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Front Office
8 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 19 (21.84%) Lead
3 16 (18.39%) Test Automation Engineer
4 15 (17.24%) Tester
5 13 (14.94%) Automation Tester
6 9 (10.34%) QA Leader
6 9 (10.34%) Senior
7 8 (9.20%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (8.05%) Analyst
9 6 (6.90%) Automation Test Lead
10 5 (5.75%) Developer
10 5 (5.75%) Lead Test Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) QA Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) QA Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Test Analyst
10 5 (5.75%) Test Leader
11 4 (4.60%) Selenium Automation Tester
11 4 (4.60%) Selenium Tester
12 3 (3.45%) Software Developer
13 2 (2.30%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (49.43%) REST
2 16 (18.39%) Playwright
3 12 (13.79%) .NET
4 11 (12.64%) RESTful
4 11 (12.64%) Spring Boot
5 10 (11.49%) OpenID
5 10 (11.49%) SOAP
5 10 (11.49%) WireMock
6 9 (10.34%) LDAP
6 9 (10.34%) SailPoint
7 7 (8.05%) Spring
8 5 (5.75%) Gherkin
8 5 (5.75%) Swagger
8 5 (5.75%) Web Services
9 4 (4.60%) CSS
9 4 (4.60%) HTML
9 4 (4.60%) Kafka
10 3 (3.45%) Hibernate
10 3 (3.45%) J2EE
10 3 (3.45%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.15%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.15%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.15%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.90%) Windows
2 3 (3.45%) Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Unix
3 2 (2.30%) Android
3 2 (2.30%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (88.51%) Test Automation
2 59 (67.82%) CI/CD
3 50 (57.47%) Agile
4 44 (50.57%) API Testing
5 33 (37.93%) Test Strategy
6 32 (36.78%) DevOps
7 31 (35.63%) Test Scripting
8 28 (32.18%) TDD
9 26 (29.89%) Regression Testing
10 25 (28.74%) BDD
10 25 (28.74%) Performance Testing
11 23 (26.44%) Software Testing
12 19 (21.84%) Containerisation
13 18 (20.69%) Scenario Testing
14 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (18.39%) Integration Testing
16 15 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (17.24%) Manual Testing
17 14 (16.09%) Functional Testing
17 14 (16.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 57 (65.52%) Java
2 25 (28.74%) SQL
3 19 (21.84%) JavaScript
4 16 (18.39%) Python
5 11 (12.64%) C#
6 6 (6.90%) PHP
7 4 (4.60%) Groovy
8 3 (3.45%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.30%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.15%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.15%) Bash
10 1 (1.15%) COBOL
10 1 (1.15%) JCL
10 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.15%) Ruby
10 1 (1.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 21 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.45%) Degree
3 3 (3.45%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (47.13%) QA
2 9 (10.34%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.75%) WCAG
4 3 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.30%) GDPR
6 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.15%) MiFID
6 1 (1.15%) NCSC
6 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 23 (26.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.75%) Terraform
3 1 (1.15%) Ansible
3 1 (1.15%) Control-M
3 1 (1.15%) Grafana
3 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (12.64%) ServiceNow
2 8 (9.20%) Oracle
3 5 (5.75%) Splunk
4 4 (4.60%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.30%) Adobe
6 2 (2.30%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.15%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.15%) Databricks
7 1 (1.15%) Google
7 1 (1.15%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.15%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.15%) MarketAxess
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.15%) Tradeweb