REST Assured Contract Job Trends in the City of London

REST Assured
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring REST Assured skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 121 134
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 +58
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.03% 1.01% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £508
25th Percentile £723 £413 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £745 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year +75.29% -20.93% +20.79%
75th Percentile £768 £438 £556
90th Percentile - - £568
Central London median daily rate £368 £425 £538
% change year-on-year -13.53% -20.93% +20.79%

All Development Application Skills
City of London

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 in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 291 297 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.09% 14.31% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 169 193
10th Percentile £351 £381 £365
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -11.29%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £675
90th Percentile £766 £769 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.09%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +26.09%

REST Assured
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST Assured relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

REST Assured job vacancy trend in the City of London

REST Assured
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing REST Assured.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing REST Assured

REST Assured
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) SoapUI
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk