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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 484 534
Rank change year-on-year -76 +50 +54
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 137 77 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.23% 0.077%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.11% 1.51% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 59 23
10th Percentile £338 £304 £302
25th Percentile £363 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £548 £510 £550
90th Percentile £644 £555 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £423 £460
% change year-on-year +6.51% -8.15% -20.00%

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 6,500 5,104 5,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 15.37% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,165 3,464 3,138
10th Percentile £354 £326 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £494
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 111 168
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £29.67
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £71.88
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 15 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 15 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 -78 116 £458 +10.91% 47
UK excluding London -69 64 £450 +6.51% 24
London -54 56 £468 +24.67% 26
Work from Home -62 44 £447 +5.80% 27
North of England -53 39 £450 +6.51% 10
North West -32 22 £510 +50.00% 3
North East -33 13 £415 -2.35% 4
South West -32 9 £513 -6.14% 1
Scotland - 9 £382 - 1
Yorkshire -39 7 £545 +28.99% 3
West Midlands -38 6 £525 +22.09% 2
Midlands -47 6 £525 +69.35% 2
South East -69 5 £295 -22.88% 3

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 (13.14%) Confluence
2 10 (7.30%) Camunda
3 2 (1.46%) SAS
4 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.73%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (5.84%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 50 (36.50%) Azure
2 47 (34.31%) AWS
3 44 (32.12%) GitHub
4 36 (26.28%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (19.71%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (12.41%) GCP
7 13 (9.49%) OpenShift
8 10 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (7.30%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (7.30%) Serverless
9 9 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (5.84%) BrowserStack
11 7 (5.11%) Power Platform
12 5 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (2.19%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 3 (2.19%) Azure API Management
14 3 (2.19%) PowerApps
14 3 (2.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) Firewall
1 4 (2.92%) HTTP
2 2 (1.46%) BIG-IP
2 2 (1.46%) DNS
2 2 (1.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 2 (1.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (1.46%) Network Security
2 2 (1.46%) SSL
2 2 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.73%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.14%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.95%) MongoDB
3 8 (5.84%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.92%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.92%) Power BI
5 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.19%) ZAP BI
6 2 (1.46%) Base SAS
6 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.46%) Redis
6 2 (1.46%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (0.73%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.73%) DataStage
7 1 (0.73%) Db2
Development Applications
1 77 (56.20%) Selenium
2 69 (50.36%) Jenkins
3 55 (40.15%) Cucumber
4 48 (35.04%) Postman
5 40 (29.20%) JIRA
6 38 (27.74%) GitLab
7 34 (24.82%) JUnit
8 32 (23.36%) Git
9 24 (17.52%) TestNG
10 21 (15.33%) Cypress.io
11 19 (13.87%) Gatling
11 19 (13.87%) JMeter
12 15 (10.95%) Gradle
12 15 (10.95%) Maven
13 14 (10.22%) Appium
13 14 (10.22%) WebDriver
14 13 (9.49%) SonarQube
14 13 (9.49%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (7.30%) Mockito
15 10 (7.30%) Serenity BDD
General
1 45 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 36 (26.28%) Finance
3 25 (18.25%) Public Sector
4 24 (17.52%) Banking
5 20 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.38%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.65%) Front Office
8 2 (1.46%) Games
8 2 (1.46%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.46%) Military
8 2 (1.46%) Police
9 1 (0.73%) Legal
9 1 (0.73%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.73%) Marketing
9 1 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (29.20%) Test Engineer
2 23 (16.79%) Developer
3 21 (15.33%) Senior
4 19 (13.87%) Lead
4 19 (13.87%) Test Automation Engineer
5 17 (12.41%) QA Engineer
5 17 (12.41%) Tester
6 15 (10.95%) Automation Tester
7 11 (8.03%) Automation Engineer
8 10 (7.30%) Lead Test Engineer
8 10 (7.30%) Salesforce Engineer
8 10 (7.30%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.57%) Analyst
9 9 (6.57%) QA Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Test Analyst
11 6 (4.38%) .NET Developer
11 6 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.65%) C# Developer
12 5 (3.65%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (52.55%) Playwright
2 32 (23.36%) REST
3 30 (21.90%) Spring Boot
4 25 (18.25%) Kafka
5 23 (16.79%) Spring
6 22 (16.06%) React
7 14 (10.22%) HTML
8 13 (9.49%) RESTful
9 12 (8.76%) CSS
9 12 (8.76%) Node.js
10 11 (8.03%) Redux
11 10 (7.30%) Hibernate
11 10 (7.30%) JPA
12 8 (5.84%) .NET
13 7 (5.11%) Gherkin
13 7 (5.11%) Spring Cloud
13 7 (5.11%) WireMock
14 6 (4.38%) pytest
14 6 (4.38%) Terraform
14 6 (4.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.68%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.57%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.38%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.92%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.19%) Spread Betting
7 2 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.46%) PKI
7 2 (1.46%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.73%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.73%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.73%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.46%) Linux
2 1 (0.73%) Android
2 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (86.13%) Test Automation
2 107 (78.10%) CI/CD
3 80 (58.39%) Agile
4 78 (56.93%) DevOps
5 61 (44.53%) API Testing
6 51 (37.23%) BDD
7 50 (36.50%) Microservices
8 49 (35.77%) Test Strategy
9 45 (32.85%) Scrum
10 39 (28.47%) TDD
11 37 (27.01%) End-to-End Testing
11 37 (27.01%) Integration Testing
12 33 (24.09%) Non-Functional Testing
13 32 (23.36%) AI
13 32 (23.36%) Performance Testing
14 31 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (22.63%) Software Testing
15 30 (21.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (21.17%) User Acceptance Testing
17 28 (20.44%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 92 (67.15%) Java
2 50 (36.50%) JavaScript
3 41 (29.93%) Python
4 34 (24.82%) SQL
5 25 (18.25%) C#
6 23 (16.79%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.11%) Apex Code
7 7 (5.11%) Bash
8 4 (2.92%) Scala
9 3 (2.19%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.46%) ActionScript
10 2 (1.46%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.46%) PROC SQL
10 2 (1.46%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.46%) VBA
11 1 (0.73%) COBOL
11 1 (0.73%) Groovy
11 1 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (35.04%) Security Cleared
2 42 (30.66%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.14%) Degree
4 14 (10.22%) ISTQB
5 12 (8.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (7.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (5.84%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (2.19%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.46%) ISEB
11 1 (0.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (35.04%) QA
2 26 (18.98%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.11%) WCAG
4 4 (2.92%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.19%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.73%) MiFID
6 1 (0.73%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (25.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (17.52%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.03%) Ansible
3 7 (5.11%) Grafana
3 7 (5.11%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.19%) HP ALM
4 3 (2.19%) Packer
5 2 (1.46%) Istio
6 1 (0.73%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (8.76%) Salesforce
2 10 (7.30%) IBM
2 10 (7.30%) Oracle
3 9 (6.57%) Veracode
4 8 (5.84%) Conga
4 8 (5.84%) GoCardless
4 8 (5.84%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.84%) Splunk
5 5 (3.65%) Databricks
6 4 (2.92%) Citrix
6 4 (2.92%) ION Trading
7 3 (2.19%) HP
7 3 (2.19%) OutSystems
7 3 (2.19%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (1.46%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.46%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.46%) F5
8 2 (1.46%) Pega
9 1 (0.73%) Confluent
9 1 (0.73%) UiPath