REST Assured Contract Job Trends

REST Assured
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring REST Assured skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 526 596
Rank change year-on-year +30 +70 +55
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 91 29 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.079% 0.081%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.69% 0.60% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 23 31
10th Percentile £324 £306 £355
25th Percentile £360 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +2.15% -
75th Percentile £530 £550 £558
90th Percentile £552 £575 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £460 £575
% change year-on-year -7.61% -20.00% +16.16%

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 contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,389 4,836 6,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.42% 13.17% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,709 3,033 4,247
10th Percentile £327 £348 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £542
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.97% -2.43%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £680 £719 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £506
% change year-on-year -2.56% -3.66% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 138 236
10th Percentile £19.63 £25.16 £45.24
25th Percentile £48.13 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £78.25 £74.13 £85.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

REST Assured
Job Vacancy Trend

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

REST Assured job vacancy trend in the UK

REST Assured
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing REST Assured.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing REST Assured

REST Assured
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST Assured over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST Assured in the UK

REST Assured
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing REST Assured.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing REST Assured

REST Assured
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 November 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
England +30 79 £425 -12.82% 43
UK excluding London -1 43 £425 -7.61% 35
Work from Home +45 39 £425 -0.58% 28
London +12 32 £400 -20.99% 17
North of England -14 23 £416 -0.89% 12
North East +3 13 £425 +37.10% 4
South West +13 10 £529 -3.91% 9
Midlands - 7 £340 - 1
Yorkshire -25 6 £423 -15.50%
East Midlands - 5 £280 -
South East - 5 £375 - 13
North West -21 4 £340 +7.94% 8
West Midlands - 2 £490 - 1

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.69%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) CICS
3 1 (1.10%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (28.57%) Azure
2 24 (26.37%) AWS
3 11 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (8.79%) GitHub
5 6 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.40%) GCP
6 4 (4.40%) Serverless
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.30%) SaaS
8 2 (2.20%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.10%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.10%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.79%) Oracle Database
2 7 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.59%) Redis
4 3 (3.30%) DB2
4 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.10%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 56 (61.54%) Selenium
2 50 (54.95%) Postman
3 44 (48.35%) Cucumber
4 40 (43.96%) Jenkins
5 28 (30.77%) Cypress.io
6 27 (29.67%) JIRA
7 22 (24.18%) GitLab
8 19 (20.88%) Git
9 18 (19.78%) JUnit
10 17 (18.68%) Maven
11 15 (16.48%) JMeter
12 14 (15.38%) SoapUI
13 12 (13.19%) TestNG
14 10 (10.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (7.69%) Xcode
16 6 (6.59%) Gatling
16 6 (6.59%) Mockito
16 6 (6.59%) SonarQube
16 6 (6.59%) Subversion
16 6 (6.59%) XCTest
General
1 28 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.18%) Public Sector
3 19 (20.88%) Finance
4 15 (16.48%) Banking
5 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.40%) Automotive
7 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.10%) Front Office
8 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.10%) Military
8 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
8 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (29.67%) Test Engineer
2 24 (26.37%) Tester
3 20 (21.98%) Automation Tester
4 15 (16.48%) Senior
5 11 (12.09%) Lead
6 10 (10.99%) Analyst
7 9 (9.89%) QA Leader
8 8 (8.79%) Test Analyst
8 8 (8.79%) Test Automation Engineer
9 7 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Developer
11 4 (4.40%) QA Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Selenium Automation Tester
11 4 (4.40%) Selenium Tester
12 3 (3.30%) Automation Test Analyst
12 3 (3.30%) QA Automation Engineer
12 3 (3.30%) QA Tester
12 3 (3.30%) Senior Test Engineer
12 3 (3.30%) Senior Tester
12 3 (3.30%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (47.25%) REST
2 24 (26.37%) Playwright
3 13 (14.29%) SOAP
4 12 (13.19%) Spring Boot
5 11 (12.09%) RESTful
5 11 (12.09%) WireMock
6 9 (9.89%) Swagger
7 8 (8.79%) Spring
8 7 (7.69%) CSS
8 7 (7.69%) HTML
8 7 (7.69%) Web Services
9 6 (6.59%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.59%) Bootstrap
9 6 (6.59%) CSS3
9 6 (6.59%) Gherkin
9 6 (6.59%) Hibernate
9 6 (6.59%) J2EE
9 6 (6.59%) JPA
9 6 (6.59%) Kafka
9 6 (6.59%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.59%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.30%) Mainframe
3 3 (3.30%) VSAM
4 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Unix
2 4 (4.40%) Windows
3 2 (2.20%) Android
3 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.10%) Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (89.01%) Test Automation
2 55 (60.44%) CI/CD
3 53 (58.24%) Agile
4 38 (41.76%) Test Strategy
5 37 (40.66%) API Testing
6 31 (34.07%) TDD
7 29 (31.87%) Test Scripting
8 27 (29.67%) Software Testing
9 24 (26.37%) DevOps
9 24 (26.37%) Performance Testing
9 24 (26.37%) Regression Testing
10 21 (23.08%) BDD
10 21 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (20.88%) Microservices
12 19 (20.88%) Scenario Testing
13 16 (17.58%) Containerisation
13 16 (17.58%) Non-Functional Testing
14 12 (13.19%) AI
14 12 (13.19%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 59 (64.84%) Java
2 24 (26.37%) JavaScript
3 19 (20.88%) SQL
4 14 (15.38%) Python
5 10 (10.99%) C#
6 7 (7.69%) Groovy
7 6 (6.59%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.59%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.30%) COBOL
8 3 (3.30%) JCL
9 1 (1.10%) Ada
9 1 (1.10%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.10%) Bash
9 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.10%) Ruby
9 1 (1.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (34.07%) Security Cleared
2 27 (29.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.30%) Degree
4 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.20%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (40.66%) QA
2 18 (19.78%) Accessibility
3 11 (12.09%) WCAG
4 4 (4.40%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 29 (31.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.20%) Terraform
3 1 (1.10%) Control-M
3 1 (1.10%) Grafana
3 1 (1.10%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (10.99%) Oracle
2 6 (6.59%) CA Agile Central
2 6 (6.59%) Dynatrace
2 6 (6.59%) Splunk
3 3 (3.30%) Databricks
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.10%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.10%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.10%) MarketAxess
5 1 (1.10%) Progress
5 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.10%) Tradeweb
5 1 (1.10%) UiPath