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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 428 526
Rank change year-on-year -76 +98 +122
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 125 93 60
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.32% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.13% 2.23% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 62 46
10th Percentile £350 £286 £322
25th Percentile £375 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £452
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.50% -17.82%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £644
90th Percentile £640 £501 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £386 £650
% change year-on-year +29.67% -40.68% +16.59%

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 5,859 4,163 5,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.00% 14.53% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,817 2,807 3,450
10th Percentile £350 £340 £351
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 71 216
10th Percentile £35.00 £20.86 £29.63
25th Percentile £55.00 £45.96 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.56 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.96 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -94 107 £475 +20.25% 16
UK excluding London -64 61 £500 +29.67% 13
London -65 44 £418 +5.70% 7
North of England -50 38 £573 +43.13% 4
Work from Home -55 35 £448 +16.23% 10
Yorkshire -44 21 £620 +47.62% 2
Midlands -55 14 £500 +86.57% 1
West Midlands -51 12 £500 +163.16% 1
North East -20 11 £363 -
North West -32 11 £640 +60.00% 2
South West - 9 £513 - 3
South East -64 3 £400 -20.08% 1
Scotland -2 2 £357 - 3
East Midlands -29 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 11 (8.80%) Confluence
2 2 (1.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.80%) Camunda
3 1 (0.80%) Mule
3 1 (0.80%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 64 (51.20%) AWS
2 52 (41.60%) Azure
3 40 (32.00%) GitHub
4 25 (20.00%) GCP
5 21 (16.80%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (16.80%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.20%) BrowserStack
7 6 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (4.80%) Serverless
8 5 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.00%) SaaS
9 3 (2.40%) Figma
10 2 (1.60%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.60%) Datadog
10 2 (1.60%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.60%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.60%) PaaS
10 2 (1.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (1.60%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) HTTP
2 1 (0.80%) DSL
2 1 (0.80%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.40%) MongoDB
2 14 (11.20%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.40%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.80%) MySQL
5 4 (3.20%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.80%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.80%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.80%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 80 (64.00%) Selenium
2 66 (52.80%) Jenkins
3 58 (46.40%) Cucumber
4 54 (43.20%) Postman
5 45 (36.00%) GitLab
6 33 (26.40%) JIRA
7 29 (23.20%) Gatling
8 23 (18.40%) JMeter
9 17 (13.60%) Cypress.io
10 16 (12.80%) Git
11 15 (12.00%) Serenity BDD
12 14 (11.20%) JUnit
13 12 (9.60%) WebDriver
14 9 (7.20%) SoapUI
14 9 (7.20%) TestRail
15 8 (6.40%) Maven
15 8 (6.40%) TestNG
16 7 (5.60%) Gradle
17 5 (4.00%) Appium
17 5 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (16.80%) Finance
4 18 (14.40%) Public Sector
5 14 (11.20%) Banking
6 6 (4.80%) Military
7 3 (2.40%) Front Office
8 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.60%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.80%) Legal
9 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (43.20%) Test Engineer
2 30 (24.00%) Lead
3 23 (18.40%) Test Automation Engineer
4 19 (15.20%) Lead Test Engineer
5 14 (11.20%) Tester
6 12 (9.60%) QA Engineer
7 11 (8.80%) Automation Tester
8 9 (7.20%) Senior
9 8 (6.40%) Automation Test Lead
9 8 (6.40%) Salesforce Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) Architect
11 6 (4.80%) Developer
11 6 (4.80%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
12 5 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (4.00%) Test Architect
12 5 (4.00%) Test Automation Architect
13 4 (3.20%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (3.20%) QA Leader
13 4 (3.20%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (48.00%) Playwright
2 46 (36.80%) REST
3 24 (19.20%) Kafka
4 22 (17.60%) Spring Boot
5 20 (16.00%) Spring
6 14 (11.20%) React
7 13 (10.40%) LDAP
7 13 (10.40%) OpenID
7 13 (10.40%) RESTful
8 12 (9.60%) SailPoint
8 12 (9.60%) Spring Cloud
9 10 (8.00%) .NET
10 7 (5.60%) Gherkin
10 7 (5.60%) HTML
11 6 (4.80%) SOAP
12 5 (4.00%) Node.js
12 5 (4.00%) pytest
12 5 (4.00%) WireMock
13 4 (3.20%) Web Services
14 3 (2.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.00%) Cloud Native
1 10 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.20%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (3.20%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.60%) Market Risk
4 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.80%) Derivative
5 1 (0.80%) Equities
5 1 (0.80%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (0.80%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.20%) Linux
2 3 (2.40%) Unix
3 2 (1.60%) Android
3 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (90.40%) Test Automation
2 105 (84.00%) CI/CD
3 66 (52.80%) API Testing
3 66 (52.80%) DevOps
4 62 (49.60%) Agile
5 44 (35.20%) Test Strategy
6 42 (33.60%) BDD
7 41 (32.80%) Performance Testing
8 33 (26.40%) Microservices
9 31 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (23.20%) Integration Testing
11 28 (22.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (20.00%) Software Testing
12 25 (20.00%) Test Scripting
13 24 (19.20%) Non-Functional Testing
13 24 (19.20%) TDD
14 23 (18.40%) End-to-End Testing
14 23 (18.40%) Observability
15 21 (16.80%) Scrum
16 20 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 96 (76.80%) Java
2 34 (27.20%) JavaScript
3 32 (25.60%) SQL
4 25 (20.00%) Python
5 11 (8.80%) C#
6 9 (7.20%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.60%) Apex Code
8 6 (4.80%) PHP
9 4 (3.20%) Scala
10 3 (2.40%) Bash
10 3 (2.40%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.80%) Bicep
11 1 (0.80%) COBOL
11 1 (0.80%) Groovy
11 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.80%) Swift
11 1 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.80%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.80%) Degree
4 9 (7.20%) ISTQB
5 5 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (38.40%) QA
2 23 (18.40%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.80%) WCAG
4 3 (2.40%) GDPR
4 3 (2.40%) MiFID
5 2 (1.60%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.80%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.80%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (14.40%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.80%) Grafana
3 15 (12.00%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.80%) Terraform
5 2 (1.60%) Ansible
5 2 (1.60%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.60%) Kibana
6 1 (0.80%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.80%) Istio
6 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (11.20%) ServiceNow
1 14 (11.20%) Splunk
2 10 (8.00%) Salesforce
3 8 (6.40%) Conga
3 8 (6.40%) GoCardless
4 7 (5.60%) Oracle
5 6 (4.80%) Google
6 3 (2.40%) IBM
6 3 (2.40%) Micro Focus
6 3 (2.40%) OpenText
7 2 (1.60%) Adobe
7 2 (1.60%) HP
7 2 (1.60%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.60%) Pega
8 1 (0.80%) Citrix
8 1 (0.80%) Databricks
8 1 (0.80%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.80%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.80%) UiPath
8 1 (0.80%) Veracode