REST Assured Job Trends

REST Assured
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring REST Assured skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 682 670
Rank change year-on-year +56 -12 +133
Permanent jobs citing REST Assured 27 17 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.032% 0.092%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.74% 0.31% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 14 3 27
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,400 £42,000
25th Percentile £57,188 £53,375 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,258 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,813 £73,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,350 £81,600 £71,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £48,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +34.02% -7.62% +1.94%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,645 5,498 6,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.08% 10.27% 11.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,384 3,157 5,244
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,544 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,279 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.77% -4.35% +4.55%

REST Assured
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing REST Assured relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

REST Assured job vacancy trend in the UK

REST Assured
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing REST Assured.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing REST Assured

REST Assured
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST Assured over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for REST Assured in the UK

REST Assured
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST Assured within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +73 27 £65,258 -9.36% 11
UK excluding London +67 15 £65,000 +34.02% 9
London +48 10 £70,000 -2.78% 4
South West - 7 £73,500 -
Work from Home +72 6 £65,515 - 9
South East +36 4 £65,000 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £62,500 -
Midlands - 2 £62,500 -
North of England - 2 £60,000 - 7
North West - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £60,000 - 6

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.70%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (22.22%) AWS
3 6 (22.22%) GitHub
4 4 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (11.11%) GCP
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (7.41%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (7.41%) BrowserStack
6 2 (7.41%) SaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.70%) Google Ads
7 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (7.41%) CockroachDB
3 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (74.07%) Selenium
2 18 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 14 (51.85%) Postman
4 10 (37.04%) Cucumber
5 9 (33.33%) Cypress.io
5 9 (33.33%) Git
6 8 (29.63%) JMeter
6 8 (29.63%) JUnit
7 7 (25.93%) GitLab
8 6 (22.22%) Appium
9 5 (18.52%) JIRA
10 4 (14.81%) Bitbucket
10 4 (14.81%) TestNG
11 3 (11.11%) Katalon Studio
11 3 (11.11%) Subversion
11 3 (11.11%) TestRail
12 2 (7.41%) Gatling
12 2 (7.41%) LoadRunner
12 2 (7.41%) Serenity BDD
12 2 (7.41%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Advertising
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) International Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Test Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Lead
3 4 (14.81%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Lead Test Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Automation Test Lead
4 3 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Automation Tester
5 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Principal Test Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) QA Leader
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Software Test Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Test Automation Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Test Leader
5 2 (7.41%) Test Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (48.15%) Playwright
1 13 (48.15%) REST
2 5 (18.52%) pytest
3 4 (14.81%) Kafka
4 3 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (11.11%) RESTful
5 2 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (7.41%) Swagger
6 1 (3.70%) CSS
6 1 (3.70%) HTML
6 1 (3.70%) JSON
6 1 (3.70%) Nightwatchjs
6 1 (3.70%) SOAP
6 1 (3.70%) Web Services
6 1 (3.70%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (3.70%) WireMock
6 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.70%) Derivative
2 1 (3.70%) Equities
2 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (92.59%) Test Automation
2 19 (70.37%) API Testing
2 19 (70.37%) CI/CD
3 17 (62.96%) DevOps
4 14 (51.85%) Agile
5 12 (44.44%) Software Testing
6 8 (29.63%) BDD
6 8 (29.63%) Microservices
6 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.93%) Mentoring
7 7 (25.93%) Test Strategy
8 6 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (22.22%) Performance Testing
9 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (18.52%) Defect Tracking
9 5 (18.52%) Scrum
9 5 (18.52%) Test Scripting
10 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
10 4 (14.81%) Non-Functional Testing
10 4 (14.81%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) Java
2 12 (44.44%) Python
3 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
4 9 (33.33%) C#
5 7 (25.93%) SQL
6 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
7 2 (7.41%) Scala
8 1 (3.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) ISTQB
2 3 (11.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 3 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (66.67%) QA
2 6 (22.22%) Accessibility
3 2 (7.41%) SEPA
4 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Argo
3 1 (3.70%) CA Service Virtualization
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
3 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (7.41%) Guidewire
3 2 (7.41%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) Charles River
4 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.70%) Murex
4 1 (3.70%) UiPath