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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 463 524
Rank change year-on-year -93 +61 +79
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 118 93 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.28% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.93% 1.88% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 63 35
10th Percentile £313 £308 £314
25th Percentile £358 £359 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £501 £575
90th Percentile £640 £550 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £426 £373 £650
% change year-on-year +14.36% -42.69% +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 6,120 4,947 5,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.40% 15.10% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,928 3,335 3,261
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £623
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 252 114 184
10th Percentile £35.13 £28.59 £28.98
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.58 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -83 99 £447 +17.63% 48
UK excluding London -76 57 £426 +14.36% 30
London -64 47 £445 +17.11% 31
Work from Home -69 36 £402 +0.50% 30
North of England -52 31 £450 +21.62% 7
North West -35 16 £537 +57.94% 4
North East -29 13 £378 +17.97% 2
South West - 9 £513 - 7
Scotland - 9 £363 - 1
West Midlands -44 7 £525 - 2
Midlands -53 7 £525 +87.50% 3
Yorkshire -51 5 - - 1
South East -68 5 £295 -33.75% 5

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 14 (11.86%) Confluence
2 6 (5.08%) Camunda
3 2 (1.69%) SAS
4 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (7.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (40.68%) AWS
2 45 (38.14%) Azure
3 34 (28.81%) GitHub
4 29 (24.58%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (18.64%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (11.86%) GCP
7 9 (7.63%) OpenShift
8 8 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (5.93%) Serverless
10 6 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.08%) BrowserStack
10 6 (5.08%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (2.54%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.54%) SaaS
12 2 (1.69%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.69%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.85%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) Firewall
2 1 (0.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.02%) MongoDB
1 13 (11.02%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.78%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.39%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.69%) Base SAS
4 2 (1.69%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.85%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.85%) DataStage
5 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 69 (58.47%) Selenium
2 56 (47.46%) Jenkins
3 44 (37.29%) Cucumber
4 42 (35.59%) Postman
5 33 (27.97%) GitLab
6 27 (22.88%) JIRA
7 22 (18.64%) Git
8 21 (17.80%) Cypress.io
9 20 (16.95%) Gatling
10 18 (15.25%) JMeter
10 18 (15.25%) JUnit
11 15 (12.71%) TestNG
12 14 (11.86%) Appium
13 12 (10.17%) Gradle
13 12 (10.17%) Maven
14 11 (9.32%) WebDriver
15 10 (8.47%) SonarQube
16 9 (7.63%) Serenity BDD
17 8 (6.78%) Sonatype Nexus
18 6 (5.08%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 39 (33.05%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.73%) Finance
3 22 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (17.80%) Banking
5 20 (16.95%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.08%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.54%) Front Office
7 3 (2.54%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.54%) Military
8 1 (0.85%) Games
8 1 (0.85%) Legal
8 1 (0.85%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.85%) Police
8 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (33.90%) Test Engineer
2 19 (16.10%) Test Automation Engineer
3 17 (14.41%) Senior
4 16 (13.56%) Developer
4 16 (13.56%) Lead
5 15 (12.71%) QA Engineer
6 14 (11.86%) Tester
7 11 (9.32%) Automation Tester
8 10 (8.47%) Salesforce Engineer
9 9 (7.63%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (7.63%) Lead Test Engineer
10 8 (6.78%) Analyst
11 7 (5.93%) QA Automation Engineer
12 6 (5.08%) Senior Developer
12 6 (5.08%) Test Analyst
13 5 (4.24%) .NET Developer
13 5 (4.24%) C# .NET Developer
13 5 (4.24%) C# Developer
13 5 (4.24%) Senior Test Engineer
14 4 (3.39%) Automation Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (56.78%) Playwright
2 29 (24.58%) REST
3 23 (19.49%) Kafka
4 22 (18.64%) Spring Boot
5 18 (15.25%) React
5 18 (15.25%) Spring
6 12 (10.17%) Node.js
6 12 (10.17%) RESTful
7 10 (8.47%) HTML
8 8 (6.78%) CSS
8 8 (6.78%) Gherkin
9 7 (5.93%) Redux
9 7 (5.93%) Spring Cloud
10 6 (5.08%) .NET
10 6 (5.08%) Hibernate
10 6 (5.08%) JPA
10 6 (5.08%) WireMock
11 5 (4.24%) pytest
11 5 (4.24%) XML
12 4 (3.39%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.17%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.08%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.54%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.69%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.69%) PKI
6 2 (1.69%) Spread Betting
6 2 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.85%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.85%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.69%) Android
1 2 (1.69%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.69%) Linux
2 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (88.14%) Test Automation
2 93 (78.81%) CI/CD
3 72 (61.02%) DevOps
4 61 (51.69%) Agile
5 53 (44.92%) API Testing
6 43 (36.44%) Test Strategy
7 42 (35.59%) BDD
8 35 (29.66%) Microservices
9 33 (27.97%) End-to-End Testing
9 33 (27.97%) Performance Testing
10 31 (26.27%) Scrum
11 29 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (22.88%) Integration Testing
13 27 (22.88%) TDD
14 26 (22.03%) AI
14 26 (22.03%) Generative AI
15 25 (21.19%) Non-Functional Testing
16 24 (20.34%) Software Testing
16 24 (20.34%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 80 (67.80%) Java
2 39 (33.05%) JavaScript
3 31 (26.27%) Python
4 24 (20.34%) SQL
5 18 (15.25%) TypeScript
6 16 (13.56%) C#
7 7 (5.93%) Apex Code
7 7 (5.93%) Bash
8 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.39%) Scala
9 2 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.69%) PROC SQL
9 2 (1.69%) VBA
10 1 (0.85%) COBOL
10 1 (0.85%) Groovy
10 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.85%) Ruby
10 1 (0.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 38 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 32 (27.12%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.56%) Degree
4 14 (11.86%) ISTQB
5 10 (8.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.93%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.85%) ISEB
9 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (36.44%) QA
2 18 (15.25%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.24%) WCAG
4 4 (3.39%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.69%) MiFID
6 1 (0.85%) GDPR
6 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 30 (25.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (17.80%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.63%) Grafana
3 8 (6.78%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.08%) Ansible
5 5 (4.24%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.69%) Istio
7 1 (0.85%) Packer
7 1 (0.85%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (9.32%) Salesforce
2 8 (6.78%) Conga
2 8 (6.78%) GoCardless
2 8 (6.78%) Oracle
2 8 (6.78%) Splunk
3 7 (5.93%) IBM
4 6 (5.08%) Veracode
5 5 (4.24%) HP
5 5 (4.24%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.39%) Citrix
7 3 (2.54%) Micro Focus
7 3 (2.54%) OpenText
7 3 (2.54%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (1.69%) Databricks
8 2 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.69%) Pega
9 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.85%) Confluent
9 1 (0.85%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.85%) UiPath