REST Assured Contracts in England

REST Assured
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring REST Assured skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST Assured over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 500 590
Rank change year-on-year +78 +90 +66
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 72 54 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.98% 1.20% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 31
10th Percentile £290 £329 £355
25th Percentile £356 £413 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.97% -11.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £438 £650 £613
90th Percentile £501 £688 £625
UK median daily rate £400 £463 £550
% change year-on-year -13.51% -15.91% +15.79%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,641 4,500 6,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.20% 12.12% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,477 3,012 4,731
10th Percentile £335 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £730 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 234 202
10th Percentile £28.27 £33.02 £48.20
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% +18.10%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +19.05%

REST Assured
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing REST Assured as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for REST Assured in England

REST Assured
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST Assured in England.

Daily rate trend for REST Assured in England

REST Assured
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST Assured in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST Assured in England

REST Assured
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST Assured in England.

Hourly rate trend for REST Assured in England

REST Assured
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. 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
London +57 37 £400 -9.86% 40
North of England +22 14 £386 -29.89% 38
South East +41 13 £501 -23.00% 31
Midlands - 9 £274 - 27
Yorkshire +6 7 £420 -23.64% 13
East Midlands - 6 £280 - 12
North West - 5 £400 - 21
West Midlands - 3 £190 - 14
North East +3 2 £346 +11.48% 4
REST Assured
UK

REST Assured
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (15.28%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (45.83%) AWS
2 23 (31.94%) Azure
3 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.78%) GitHub
5 2 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.78%) SaaS
5 2 (2.78%) Serverless
5 2 (2.78%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.39%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.39%) Firebase
6 1 (1.39%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.39%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.94%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.17%) Redis
4 2 (2.78%) DB2
4 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (70.83%) Jenkins
2 42 (58.33%) Selenium
3 37 (51.39%) JIRA
4 35 (48.61%) Postman
5 32 (44.44%) Cucumber
6 27 (37.50%) GitLab
7 20 (27.78%) Git
8 18 (25.00%) Cypress.io
9 14 (19.44%) JMeter
10 12 (16.67%) SonarQube
11 11 (15.28%) Maven
12 10 (13.89%) SoapUI
12 10 (13.89%) TestNG
13 9 (12.50%) JUnit
14 5 (6.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (5.56%) Gatling
16 3 (4.17%) Eclipse
16 3 (4.17%) LoadRunner
16 3 (4.17%) Mockito
16 3 (4.17%) Travis CI
General
1 34 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 22 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.67%) Banking
4 8 (11.11%) Finance
4 8 (11.11%) Law
5 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.56%) Police
7 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.39%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 25 (34.72%) Test Engineer
2 15 (20.83%) Senior
3 13 (18.06%) Java Engineer
4 12 (16.67%) Tester
5 11 (15.28%) Senior Test Engineer
6 9 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
6 9 (12.50%) Software Engineer
7 8 (11.11%) Automation Tester
8 7 (9.72%) QA Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (8.33%) Analyst
10 5 (6.94%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (6.94%) Developer
10 5 (6.94%) Java Developer
11 4 (5.56%) Python Engineer
11 4 (5.56%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (5.56%) Test Analyst
12 3 (4.17%) Lead
13 2 (2.78%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (48.61%) REST
2 23 (31.94%) Playwright
3 13 (18.06%) Java EE
4 9 (12.50%) ARM Templates
5 7 (9.72%) Kafka
5 7 (9.72%) Web Services
6 5 (6.94%) Node.js
6 5 (6.94%) Spring
7 4 (5.56%) pytest
7 4 (5.56%) RESTful
7 4 (5.56%) SOAP
8 3 (4.17%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.17%) Bootstrap
8 3 (4.17%) CSS3
8 3 (4.17%) Jest
8 3 (4.17%) JPA
8 3 (4.17%) Material-UI
8 3 (4.17%) Spring Boot
8 3 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.17%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.78%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (2.78%) Online Banking
3 2 (2.78%) VSAM
4 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (90.28%) Test Automation
2 42 (58.33%) Agile
2 42 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 37 (51.39%) API Testing
4 24 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 22 (30.56%) DevOps
5 22 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (30.56%) Test Strategy
6 19 (26.39%) Continuous Integration
7 17 (23.61%) Software Engineering
8 16 (22.22%) Performance Testing
8 16 (22.22%) Software Architecture
8 16 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (18.06%) Configuration Management
9 13 (18.06%) TDD
10 12 (16.67%) BDD
10 12 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 12 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (15.28%) Scenario Testing
11 11 (15.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 53 (73.61%) Java
2 26 (36.11%) JavaScript
3 12 (16.67%) Python
4 9 (12.50%) SQL
5 6 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.56%) Groovy
7 3 (4.17%) Bash
7 3 (4.17%) C#
7 3 (4.17%) COBOL
7 3 (4.17%) JCL
7 3 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.78%) RPG
9 1 (1.39%) Ada
9 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.39%) Scala
9 1 (1.39%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 25 (34.72%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.33%) Degree
4 4 (5.56%) ISTQB
5 3 (4.17%) CEH
5 3 (4.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (31.94%) QA
2 11 (15.28%) Accessibility
3 7 (9.72%) WCAG
4 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 24 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (26.39%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.50%) Ansible
2 9 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (12.50%) Podman
2 9 (12.50%) Terraform
3 4 (5.56%) Kibana
4 1 (1.39%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (9.72%) Oracle
2 3 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (4.17%) Dynatrace
2 3 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.17%) Splunk
3 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.39%) Databricks
4 1 (1.39%) Salesforce