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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 470 539
Rank change year-on-year -100 +69 +55
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 133 83 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.25% 0.079%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.09% 1.63% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 61 24
10th Percentile £335 £305 £303
25th Percentile £362 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £415 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.71% -12.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £546 £501 £550
90th Percentile £647 £552 £569
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -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 6,370 5,083 5,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.61% 15.34% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,072 3,432 3,176
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 109 172
10th Percentile £22.68 £21.80 £31.43
25th Percentile £50.59 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.50 £73.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -82 113 £450 +12.50% 75
UK excluding London -95 62 £450 +7.14% 38
London -51 54 £465 +20.00% 45
Work from Home -63 43 £445 +5.33% 41
North of England -55 38 £450 +7.14% 15
North West -35 21 £519 +52.50% 8
North East -39 13 £415 -4.60% 4
South West -32 9 £513 -6.14% 3
Scotland - 8 £382 - 2
Yorkshire -36 7 £473 +11.83% 3
West Midlands -35 6 £525 - 1
Midlands -49 6 £525 +87.50% 4
South East -66 5 £295 -24.36% 8

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 18 (13.53%) Confluence
2 9 (6.77%) Camunda
3 2 (1.50%) SAS
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (36.84%) Azure
2 47 (35.34%) AWS
3 40 (30.08%) GitHub
4 35 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (18.80%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (11.28%) GCP
7 12 (9.02%) OpenShift
8 10 (7.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (7.52%) Serverless
9 9 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (6.02%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (5.26%) BrowserStack
12 6 (4.51%) Power Platform
13 5 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (2.26%) Amazon S3
14 3 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (2.26%) PowerApps
14 3 (2.26%) Route 53
14 3 (2.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) Firewall
2 2 (1.50%) HTTP
3 1 (0.75%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.75%) DNS
3 1 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.75%) Internet
3 1 (0.75%) Network Security
3 1 (0.75%) SSL
3 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.78%) SQL Server
2 15 (11.28%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.02%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.01%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.26%) Power BI
6 2 (1.50%) Base SAS
6 2 (1.50%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.50%) Redis
6 2 (1.50%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 2 (1.50%) ZAP BI
7 1 (0.75%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.75%) DataStage
7 1 (0.75%) Db2
Development Applications
1 77 (57.89%) Selenium
2 68 (51.13%) Jenkins
3 55 (41.35%) Cucumber
4 46 (34.59%) Postman
5 38 (28.57%) JIRA
6 37 (27.82%) GitLab
7 33 (24.81%) JUnit
8 30 (22.56%) Git
9 24 (18.05%) TestNG
10 20 (15.04%) Gatling
11 19 (14.29%) Cypress.io
11 19 (14.29%) JMeter
12 15 (11.28%) Gradle
12 15 (11.28%) Maven
13 14 (10.53%) WebDriver
14 13 (9.77%) Appium
14 13 (9.77%) SonarQube
14 13 (9.77%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (7.52%) Serenity BDD
16 9 (6.77%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 43 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 33 (24.81%) Finance
3 25 (18.80%) Public Sector
4 23 (17.29%) Banking
5 18 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.51%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.76%) Front Office
8 3 (2.26%) Military
9 2 (1.50%) Games
9 2 (1.50%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.50%) Police
10 1 (0.75%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.75%) Marketing
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (31.58%) Test Engineer
2 23 (17.29%) Developer
3 21 (15.79%) Senior
4 20 (15.04%) Test Automation Engineer
5 19 (14.29%) Lead
6 17 (12.78%) QA Engineer
6 17 (12.78%) Tester
7 14 (10.53%) Automation Tester
8 10 (7.52%) Automation Engineer
8 10 (7.52%) Lead Test Engineer
8 10 (7.52%) Salesforce Engineer
8 10 (7.52%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.77%) Analyst
9 9 (6.77%) QA Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Test Analyst
11 6 (4.51%) .NET Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.76%) C# .NET Developer
12 5 (3.76%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (52.63%) Playwright
2 33 (24.81%) REST
3 29 (21.80%) Spring Boot
4 26 (19.55%) Kafka
5 22 (16.54%) Spring
6 20 (15.04%) React
7 13 (9.77%) HTML
7 13 (9.77%) RESTful
8 12 (9.02%) Node.js
9 11 (8.27%) CSS
10 10 (7.52%) Redux
11 9 (6.77%) Hibernate
11 9 (6.77%) JPA
12 8 (6.02%) .NET
13 7 (5.26%) Gherkin
13 7 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
13 7 (5.26%) WireMock
14 6 (4.51%) pytest
15 5 (3.76%) Terraform
15 5 (3.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.03%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.77%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.51%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.26%) Spread Betting
6 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.50%) PKI
6 2 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.75%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.75%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.50%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Android
2 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (86.47%) Test Automation
2 103 (77.44%) CI/CD
3 77 (57.89%) DevOps
4 75 (56.39%) Agile
5 58 (43.61%) API Testing
6 50 (37.59%) BDD
7 48 (36.09%) Microservices
7 48 (36.09%) Test Strategy
8 42 (31.58%) Scrum
9 36 (27.07%) TDD
10 35 (26.32%) End-to-End Testing
10 35 (26.32%) Integration Testing
11 34 (25.56%) Performance Testing
12 32 (24.06%) Non-Functional Testing
13 30 (22.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (22.56%) Software Testing
14 29 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (21.05%) AI
15 28 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
16 26 (19.55%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 91 (68.42%) Java
2 47 (35.34%) JavaScript
3 39 (29.32%) Python
4 33 (24.81%) SQL
5 23 (17.29%) C#
6 21 (15.79%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.26%) Apex Code
8 6 (4.51%) Bash
9 4 (3.01%) Scala
10 3 (2.26%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.50%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.50%) PROC SQL
11 2 (1.50%) VBA
12 1 (0.75%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.75%) COBOL
12 1 (0.75%) Groovy
12 1 (0.75%) Ruby
12 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (36.09%) Security Cleared
2 42 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.53%) Degree
4 14 (10.53%) ISTQB
5 12 (9.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (7.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (6.02%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (2.26%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.50%) ISEB
11 1 (0.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (35.34%) QA
2 24 (18.05%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.26%) WCAG
4 4 (3.01%) ISO 20022
5 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.75%) MiFID
6 1 (0.75%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (18.05%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.52%) Ansible
3 7 (5.26%) Grafana
3 7 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.26%) HP ALM
4 3 (2.26%) Packer
5 2 (1.50%) Istio
6 1 (0.75%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (8.27%) Salesforce
2 10 (7.52%) IBM
2 10 (7.52%) Oracle
3 9 (6.77%) Veracode
4 8 (6.02%) Conga
4 8 (6.02%) GoCardless
4 8 (6.02%) Splunk
5 7 (5.26%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.01%) Citrix
6 4 (3.01%) Databricks
6 4 (3.01%) ION Trading
7 3 (2.26%) HP
7 3 (2.26%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (1.50%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.50%) OutSystems
8 2 (1.50%) Pega
9 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.75%) Confluent
9 1 (0.75%) F5
9 1 (0.75%) UiPath