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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 485 583
Rank change year-on-year +87 +98 +59
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 78 52 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.30% 1.21% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 40 34
10th Percentile £310 £325 £416
25th Percentile £360 £398 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £459 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.90% -16.59% +22.22%
75th Percentile £438 £650 £613
90th Percentile £500 £688 £625
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% -18.18% +18.28%

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 3,392 4,282 6,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.11% 11.64% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,301 2,913 4,826
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 206 201
10th Percentile £27.54 £31.71 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +22.75%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.88 £77.75 £83.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.70%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +65 42 £395 -7.06% 22
North of England +24 15 £400 -27.27% 60
South East +46 13 £501 -23.00% 65
Midlands - 8 £268 - 55
Yorkshire +24 7 £420 -23.64% 30
East Midlands - 5 £274 - 27
North West - 5 £400 - 21
North East +2 3 £363 +16.94% 9
West Midlands - 3 £190 - 25
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 (14.10%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (46.15%) AWS
2 24 (30.77%) Azure
3 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.13%) GitHub
4 3 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.56%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.28%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.28%) Firebase
6 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.28%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.13%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.85%) Redis
4 2 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.28%) DB2
5 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.28%) MySQL
5 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 56 (71.79%) Jenkins
2 48 (61.54%) Selenium
3 41 (52.56%) JIRA
4 39 (50.00%) Postman
5 37 (47.44%) Cucumber
6 29 (37.18%) GitLab
7 27 (34.62%) Git
8 19 (24.36%) Cypress.io
9 16 (20.51%) JMeter
10 12 (15.38%) JUnit
10 12 (15.38%) SonarQube
11 11 (14.10%) Maven
11 11 (14.10%) TestNG
12 10 (12.82%) SoapUI
13 4 (5.13%) Gatling
13 4 (5.13%) LoadRunner
14 3 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (3.85%) Subversion
14 3 (3.85%) Travis CI
14 3 (3.85%) Xcode
General
1 36 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 24 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (15.38%) Banking
4 9 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 8 (10.26%) Finance
5 8 (10.26%) Law
6 4 (5.13%) Police
7 3 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 32 (41.03%) Test Engineer
2 18 (23.08%) Senior
3 16 (20.51%) Senior Test Engineer
4 13 (16.67%) Java Engineer
5 10 (12.82%) Tester
6 9 (11.54%) Java Software Engineer
6 9 (11.54%) Software Engineer
7 8 (10.26%) Test Automation Engineer
8 7 (8.97%) Automation Tester
8 7 (8.97%) Python Engineer
8 7 (8.97%) QA Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Developer
9 5 (6.41%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.13%) Analyst
10 4 (5.13%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Senior Java Engineer
11 2 (2.56%) Business Analyst
11 2 (2.56%) QA Tester
11 2 (2.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (55.13%) REST
2 21 (26.92%) Playwright
3 13 (16.67%) Java EE
4 9 (11.54%) ARM Templates
5 8 (10.26%) Kafka
5 8 (10.26%) Web Services
6 7 (8.97%) pytest
7 6 (7.69%) Node.js
7 6 (7.69%) RESTful
8 5 (6.41%) SOAP
8 5 (6.41%) Spring
9 4 (5.13%) JSON
10 3 (3.85%) CSS
10 3 (3.85%) Hibernate
10 3 (3.85%) HTML
10 3 (3.85%) HTML5
10 3 (3.85%) J2EE
10 3 (3.85%) JPA
10 3 (3.85%) Spring MVC
10 3 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.56%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.56%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.56%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.28%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (91.03%) Test Automation
2 48 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 44 (56.41%) API Testing
4 41 (52.56%) Agile
5 29 (37.18%) Test Scripting
6 25 (32.05%) Test Strategy
7 24 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (26.92%) DevOps
9 20 (25.64%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (24.36%) Performance Testing
11 17 (21.79%) BDD
11 17 (21.79%) Software Engineering
12 16 (20.51%) Software Architecture
12 16 (20.51%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (17.95%) TDD
14 13 (16.67%) Configuration Management
14 13 (16.67%) Containerisation
15 11 (14.10%) Microservices
15 11 (14.10%) Regression Testing
15 11 (14.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 57 (73.08%) Java
2 27 (34.62%) JavaScript
3 16 (20.51%) Python
4 8 (10.26%) SQL
5 5 (6.41%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.13%) Groovy
7 3 (3.85%) Bash
7 3 (3.85%) C#
7 3 (3.85%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.56%) COBOL
8 2 (2.56%) JCL
8 2 (2.56%) RPG
9 1 (1.28%) Ada
9 1 (1.28%) Go
9 1 (1.28%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.28%) Scala
9 1 (1.28%) XPath
Qualifications
1 31 (39.74%) Security Cleared
2 29 (37.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.69%) Degree
4 5 (6.41%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.85%) CEH
5 3 (3.85%) CISSP
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (33.33%) QA
2 11 (14.10%) Accessibility
3 7 (8.97%) WCAG
4 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (32.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (24.36%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.54%) Ansible
2 9 (11.54%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (11.54%) Podman
2 9 (11.54%) Terraform
3 4 (5.13%) Kibana
4 1 (1.28%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (7.69%) Oracle
2 3 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (3.85%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.85%) Splunk
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.28%) Databricks
4 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.28%) Virgin Media