REST Assured Contracts in the UK excluding London

REST Assured
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 367 416
Rank change year-on-year +59 +49 +48
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 28 32 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.15% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.64% 1.41% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 32
10th Percentile £233 £476 £401
25th Percentile £318 £578 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £650 £510
Median % change year-on-year -40.68% +27.45% +13.33%
75th Percentile £475 £688 £588
90th Percentile £501 £716 £624
UK median daily rate £400 £454 £495
% change year-on-year -11.89% -8.28% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,711 2,265 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.40% 10.90% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,466 2,398
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 169 184
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £52.42 £52.50 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.36 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

REST Assured
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing REST Assured as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for REST Assured in the UK excluding London

REST Assured
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST Assured in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for REST Assured in the UK excluding London

REST Assured
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST Assured in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST Assured in the UK excluding London

REST Assured
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +32 13 £501 -23.00% 7
North of England +26 9 £371 -13.67% 1
Midlands +25 5 £196 - 3
North East +3 4 £336 +8.47%
North West - 4 £400 -
West Midlands +15 3 £190 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £202 - 1
Scotland +13 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +8 1 £370 -32.73% 1
REST Assured
UK

REST Assured
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (10.71%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) AWS
2 14 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (3.57%) Apigee
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub
3 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (71.43%) Cucumber
1 20 (71.43%) Selenium
2 18 (64.29%) Jenkins
3 17 (60.71%) GitLab
3 17 (60.71%) JIRA
4 9 (32.14%) SonarQube
5 7 (25.00%) Git
6 4 (14.29%) JMeter
6 4 (14.29%) Postman
7 3 (10.71%) TestNG
7 3 (10.71%) Travis CI
8 2 (7.14%) JUnit
9 1 (3.57%) Gatling
9 1 (3.57%) HP UFT
9 1 (3.57%) Maven
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 14 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (28.57%) Law
4 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
5 4 (14.29%) Police
6 3 (10.71%) Banking
6 3 (10.71%) Finance
7 2 (7.14%) Electronics
7 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
7 2 (7.14%) Marketing
7 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Java Engineer
1 9 (32.14%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (32.14%) Software Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Test Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Tester
4 2 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Automation Tester
5 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) QA Tester
5 1 (3.57%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Test Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (64.29%) REST
2 13 (46.43%) Java EE
3 9 (32.14%) ARM Templates
4 4 (14.29%) Playwright
5 2 (7.14%) Node.js
5 2 (7.14%) RESTful
6 1 (3.57%) JSON
6 1 (3.57%) RAML
6 1 (3.57%) SOAP
6 1 (3.57%) Web Services
6 1 (3.57%) XML
6 1 (3.57%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (57.14%) DevOps
3 15 (53.57%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (46.43%) Configuration Management
4 13 (46.43%) Software Architecture
4 13 (46.43%) Software Engineering
4 13 (46.43%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (39.29%) API Testing
6 10 (35.71%) Agile
6 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (32.14%) Containerisation
7 9 (32.14%) Decision-Making
7 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
9 6 (21.43%) Performance Testing
10 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (14.29%) Regression Testing
10 4 (14.29%) Test Scripting
11 3 (10.71%) Functional Testing
11 3 (10.71%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (78.57%) Java
2 3 (10.71%) Bash
2 3 (10.71%) Python
3 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) Scala
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) XPath
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 16 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 3 (10.71%) CEH
3 3 (10.71%) CISSP
3 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (32.14%) Ansible
2 9 (32.14%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (32.14%) Podman
2 9 (32.14%) Terraform
3 3 (10.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (3.57%) Splunk
2 1 (3.57%) Virgin Media