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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 459 540
Rank change year-on-year -92 +81 +56
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 128 93 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.28% 0.081%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.02% 1.84% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 64 25
10th Percentile £331 £309 £304
25th Percentile £360 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £423 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% -11.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £522 £550
90th Percentile £650 £551 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £423 £525
% change year-on-year +5.92% -19.52% -8.70%

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 6,331 5,063 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.54% 15.31% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,047 3,408 3,229
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 110 176
10th Percentile £22.68 £28.94 £28.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.75 £73.88
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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -84 108 £450 +12.50% 60
UK excluding London -86 59 £448 +5.92% 30
London -61 53 £465 +20.00% 35
Work from Home -50 41 £424 -0.35% 33
North of England -55 35 £450 +7.14% 15
North West -30 20 £537 +57.94% 7
North East -34 12 £380 -12.64% 5
South West -34 9 £513 -6.14% 2
Scotland - 8 £382 -
West Midlands -40 6 £525 - 1
Yorkshire -41 6 £400 -5.33% 3
Midlands -45 6 £525 +87.50% 1
South East -82 5 £295 -33.75% 7

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 (14.06%) Confluence
2 9 (7.03%) Camunda
3 2 (1.56%) SAS
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (7.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (36.72%) Azure
2 46 (35.94%) AWS
3 37 (28.91%) GitHub
4 33 (25.78%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (10.16%) GCP
7 12 (9.38%) OpenShift
8 10 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (7.81%) Serverless
9 9 (7.03%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.47%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (4.69%) BrowserStack
12 5 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.91%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (2.34%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 3 (2.34%) Amazon S3
13 3 (2.34%) PowerApps
13 3 (2.34%) Route 53
13 3 (2.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) Firewall
2 1 (0.78%) HTTP
2 1 (0.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.28%) SQL Server
2 15 (11.72%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.13%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.56%) Base SAS
6 2 (1.56%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.56%) Power BI
6 2 (1.56%) Redis
6 2 (1.56%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (0.78%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.78%) DataStage
7 1 (0.78%) Db2
7 1 (0.78%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 74 (57.81%) Selenium
2 66 (51.56%) Jenkins
3 52 (40.63%) Cucumber
4 44 (34.38%) Postman
5 36 (28.13%) GitLab
6 34 (26.56%) JIRA
7 30 (23.44%) JUnit
8 29 (22.66%) Git
9 21 (16.41%) TestNG
10 20 (15.63%) Cypress.io
10 20 (15.63%) Gatling
11 19 (14.84%) JMeter
12 15 (11.72%) Gradle
12 15 (11.72%) Maven
13 14 (10.94%) WebDriver
14 13 (10.16%) SonarQube
14 13 (10.16%) Sonatype Nexus
15 12 (9.38%) Appium
16 10 (7.81%) Serenity BDD
17 9 (7.03%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 41 (32.03%) Social Skills
2 31 (24.22%) Finance
3 23 (17.97%) Banking
3 23 (17.97%) Public Sector
4 18 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.69%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.91%) Front Office
7 3 (2.34%) Military
8 2 (1.56%) Games
8 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Police
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (30.47%) Test Engineer
2 23 (17.97%) Developer
3 20 (15.63%) Senior
4 19 (14.84%) Test Automation Engineer
5 17 (13.28%) QA Engineer
5 17 (13.28%) Tester
6 16 (12.50%) Lead
7 14 (10.94%) Automation Tester
8 10 (7.81%) Automation Engineer
8 10 (7.81%) Salesforce Engineer
8 10 (7.81%) Senior Developer
9 9 (7.03%) Analyst
9 9 (7.03%) Lead Test Engineer
9 9 (7.03%) QA Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.47%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.47%) Test Analyst
11 6 (4.69%) .NET Developer
11 6 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.91%) C# Developer
12 5 (3.91%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (53.91%) Playwright
2 31 (24.22%) REST
3 28 (21.88%) Spring Boot
4 26 (20.31%) Kafka
5 22 (17.19%) Spring
6 20 (15.63%) React
7 13 (10.16%) HTML
8 12 (9.38%) Node.js
8 12 (9.38%) RESTful
9 11 (8.59%) CSS
10 10 (7.81%) Redux
11 9 (7.03%) Hibernate
11 9 (7.03%) JPA
12 8 (6.25%) .NET
13 7 (5.47%) Gherkin
13 7 (5.47%) Spring Cloud
14 6 (4.69%) WireMock
15 5 (3.91%) pytest
15 5 (3.91%) Web Services
15 5 (3.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.03%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.34%) Spread Betting
6 2 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.56%) PKI
6 2 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.56%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.78%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.78%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.78%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.78%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Android
2 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (86.72%) Test Automation
2 100 (78.13%) CI/CD
3 75 (58.59%) DevOps
4 70 (54.69%) Agile
5 56 (43.75%) API Testing
6 48 (37.50%) BDD
7 45 (35.16%) Microservices
8 44 (34.38%) Test Strategy
9 38 (29.69%) Scrum
10 34 (26.56%) End-to-End Testing
10 34 (26.56%) TDD
11 33 (25.78%) Integration Testing
11 33 (25.78%) Performance Testing
12 29 (22.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (22.66%) Non-Functional Testing
13 28 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (21.09%) AI
15 26 (20.31%) Generative AI
15 26 (20.31%) Software Testing
15 26 (20.31%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (68.75%) Java
2 44 (34.38%) JavaScript
3 35 (27.34%) Python
4 30 (23.44%) SQL
5 22 (17.19%) C#
6 20 (15.63%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.47%) Apex Code
8 5 (3.91%) Bash
9 4 (3.13%) Scala
10 3 (2.34%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.56%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.56%) PROC SQL
11 2 (1.56%) VBA
12 1 (0.78%) COBOL
12 1 (0.78%) Groovy
12 1 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (35.94%) Security Cleared
2 40 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.06%) Degree
4 14 (10.94%) ISTQB
5 12 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (7.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (6.25%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (2.34%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.56%) ISEB
11 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (34.38%) QA
2 22 (17.19%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.69%) WCAG
4 4 (3.13%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.78%) MiFID
6 1 (0.78%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (26.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.03%) Ansible
3 7 (5.47%) Grafana
3 7 (5.47%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.13%) HP ALM
5 3 (2.34%) Packer
6 2 (1.56%) Istio
7 1 (0.78%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (8.59%) Salesforce
2 10 (7.81%) IBM
2 10 (7.81%) Oracle
3 9 (7.03%) Veracode
4 8 (6.25%) Conga
4 8 (6.25%) GoCardless
5 7 (5.47%) Splunk
6 6 (4.69%) Microsoft
7 4 (3.13%) Citrix
7 4 (3.13%) HP
7 4 (3.13%) ION Trading
8 3 (2.34%) Databricks
8 3 (2.34%) Perfecto Mobile
9 2 (1.56%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.56%) Pega
10 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.78%) Micro Focus
10 1 (0.78%) OpenText
10 1 (0.78%) OutSystems
10 1 (0.78%) UiPath