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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 448 538
Rank change year-on-year -67 +90 +100
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 139 95 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.29% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.22% 2.00% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 63 43
10th Percentile £331 £281 £357
25th Percentile £363 £356 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £439 £638
90th Percentile £640 £545 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £371 £650
% change year-on-year +28.17% -42.98% +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 6,269 4,752 5,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.84% 14.55% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,039 3,194 3,536
10th Percentile £350 £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 £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £690 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 101 248
10th Percentile £26.15 £22.05 £30.28
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.09% -2.31% +5.69%

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 July 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 14 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 July 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 -70 116 £453 +17.46% 18
UK excluding London -68 65 £475 +28.17% 15
London -42 55 £447 +13.16% 10
Work from Home -49 44 £428 +11.69% 9
North of England -58 35 £475 +27.96% 7
North East -22 15 £375 +8.51% 4
North West -37 15 £620 +67.57% 2
Midlands -41 14 £500 +82.48% 1
West Midlands -52 12 £500 +163.16% 1
Yorkshire -47 10 £648 +54.17% 1
Scotland -5 9 £363 - 1
South West - 9 £513 - 1
South East -77 3 £400 -20.08% 3
East Midlands -19 2 - -

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 13 (9.35%) Confluence
2 2 (1.44%) SAS
3 1 (0.72%) Camunda
3 1 (0.72%) Mule
3 1 (0.72%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (5.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 60 (43.17%) AWS
2 56 (40.29%) Azure
3 49 (35.25%) GitHub
4 33 (23.74%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (20.86%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (12.95%) GCP
7 12 (8.63%) BrowserStack
8 6 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.32%) Serverless
9 5 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.60%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (1.44%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.44%) Datadog
10 2 (1.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.44%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.44%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.44%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.44%) SaaS
10 2 (1.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.44%) Firewall
1 2 (1.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.95%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.07%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.60%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.88%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.44%) Base SAS
5 2 (1.44%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.44%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.72%) DataStage
6 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 87 (62.59%) Selenium
2 66 (47.48%) Jenkins
3 56 (40.29%) Postman
4 54 (38.85%) Cucumber
5 37 (26.62%) GitLab
6 31 (22.30%) JIRA
7 28 (20.14%) Gatling
8 27 (19.42%) Cypress.io
9 23 (16.55%) Git
10 22 (15.83%) JMeter
11 18 (12.95%) JUnit
12 15 (10.79%) Serenity BDD
12 15 (10.79%) TestNG
13 13 (9.35%) Appium
14 12 (8.63%) WebDriver
15 11 (7.91%) Maven
16 9 (6.47%) SoapUI
17 8 (5.76%) Gradle
18 7 (5.04%) SpecFlow
19 6 (4.32%) LoadRunner
General
1 48 (34.53%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.30%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (17.27%) Finance
4 22 (15.83%) Public Sector
5 16 (11.51%) Banking
6 6 (4.32%) Military
7 4 (2.88%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.16%) Front Office
8 3 (2.16%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Games
9 1 (0.72%) Legal
9 1 (0.72%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (36.69%) Test Engineer
2 24 (17.27%) Lead
3 21 (15.11%) Tester
4 19 (13.67%) Automation Tester
5 17 (12.23%) Test Automation Engineer
6 15 (10.79%) QA Engineer
6 15 (10.79%) Senior
7 14 (10.07%) Lead Test Engineer
8 10 (7.19%) Salesforce Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Developer
10 7 (5.04%) Analyst
10 7 (5.04%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Senior Test Engineer
11 6 (4.32%) Architect
11 6 (4.32%) Test Analyst
12 5 (3.60%) QA Automation Engineer
13 4 (2.88%) Principal Test Engineer
13 4 (2.88%) Senior Automation Tester
13 4 (2.88%) Test Architect
13 4 (2.88%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (55.40%) Playwright
2 41 (29.50%) REST
3 23 (16.55%) Kafka
4 21 (15.11%) Spring Boot
5 19 (13.67%) Spring
6 15 (10.79%) React
7 13 (9.35%) RESTful
8 12 (8.63%) Spring Cloud
9 8 (5.76%) Node.js
10 7 (5.04%) Gherkin
10 7 (5.04%) HTML
10 7 (5.04%) WireMock
11 6 (4.32%) SOAP
12 5 (3.60%) .NET
12 5 (3.60%) pytest
12 5 (3.60%) Web Services
13 4 (2.88%) LDAP
13 4 (2.88%) XML
14 3 (2.16%) CSS
14 3 (2.16%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.07%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.47%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.32%) Virtual Team
4 5 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.60%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.88%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.44%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.44%) PKI
7 2 (1.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.72%) Derivative
8 1 (0.72%) Equities
8 1 (0.72%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.72%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.16%) Linux
1 3 (2.16%) Unix
2 2 (1.44%) Android
2 2 (1.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (89.21%) Test Automation
2 114 (82.01%) CI/CD
3 80 (57.55%) DevOps
4 70 (50.36%) Agile
5 65 (46.76%) API Testing
6 53 (38.13%) Test Strategy
7 45 (32.37%) BDD
8 40 (28.78%) Performance Testing
9 38 (27.34%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (25.18%) Microservices
11 31 (22.30%) End-to-End Testing
12 30 (21.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (21.58%) Integration Testing
12 30 (21.58%) Software Testing
13 28 (20.14%) Non-Functional Testing
14 27 (19.42%) AI
14 27 (19.42%) Scrum
15 26 (18.71%) Generative AI
15 26 (18.71%) Test Scripting
16 24 (17.27%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 93 (66.91%) Java
2 35 (25.18%) JavaScript
3 32 (23.02%) Python
4 25 (17.99%) SQL
5 18 (12.95%) C#
6 17 (12.23%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.04%) Apex Code
8 6 (4.32%) Bash
9 4 (2.88%) Scala
10 3 (2.16%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.44%) PROC SQL
11 2 (1.44%) VBA
12 1 (0.72%) Bicep
12 1 (0.72%) COBOL
12 1 (0.72%) Groovy
12 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.72%) Ruby
12 1 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 46 (33.09%) Security Cleared
2 37 (26.62%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.35%) Degree
4 12 (8.63%) ISTQB
5 8 (5.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (4.32%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (38.85%) QA
2 26 (18.71%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.60%) WCAG
4 3 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.44%) GDPR
5 2 (1.44%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.44%) MiFID
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (24.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (15.11%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.51%) Grafana
3 15 (10.79%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.60%) Terraform
5 4 (2.88%) HP ALM
6 3 (2.16%) Ansible
7 2 (1.44%) Istio
7 2 (1.44%) Kibana
8 1 (0.72%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.72%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (9.35%) Salesforce
1 13 (9.35%) Splunk
2 8 (5.76%) Conga
2 8 (5.76%) GoCardless
3 6 (4.32%) Oracle
4 5 (3.60%) Google
5 4 (2.88%) HP
5 4 (2.88%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.88%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.16%) Citrix
6 3 (2.16%) IBM
6 3 (2.16%) Micro Focus
6 3 (2.16%) OpenText
6 3 (2.16%) Perfecto Mobile
7 2 (1.44%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.44%) Pega
8 1 (0.72%) Databricks
8 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.72%) UiPath
8 1 (0.72%) Veracode