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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 529 573
Rank change year-on-year +67 +44 +87
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 95 33 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.086% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.90% 0.64% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 28 42
10th Percentile £312 £307 £363
25th Percentile £359 £394 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +18.28%
75th Percentile £527 £552 £588
90th Percentile £551 £679 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -27.27% -4.35% +27.78%

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 4,998 5,118 6,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.17% 13.28% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,359 3,268 4,627
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £723 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 176 244
10th Percentile £30.75 £28.62 £45.97
25th Percentile £50.50 £51.19 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.81 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

REST Assured
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for REST Assured 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +58 79 £400 -22.89% 13
Work from Home +55 44 £423 -11.05% 5
UK excluding London +41 42 £400 -27.27% 11
London +19 34 £390 -22.00% 5
South East +32 17 £445 -34.04% 7
North of England -14 17 £400 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire -13 7 £420 -20.00%
Midlands - 6 £280 -
North West - 6 £340 - 1
East Midlands - 5 £280 -
North East +2 4 £425 +37.10% 1
South West - 4 £546 - 2
West Midlands - 1 - -

REST Assured
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (10.53%) Confluence
2 3 (3.16%) CICS
3 1 (1.05%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (43.16%) AWS
2 37 (38.95%) Azure
3 11 (11.58%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.53%) GitHub
5 8 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.26%) GCP
7 4 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.21%) Serverless
8 3 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.16%) SaaS
9 2 (2.11%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.11%) BrowserStack
9 2 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.11%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (1.05%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.05%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.05%) Firebase
10 1 (1.05%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.05%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.05%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.42%) Oracle Database
1 8 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.32%) Redis
3 3 (3.16%) DB2
4 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.05%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 57 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 55 (57.89%) Selenium
3 45 (47.37%) Cucumber
4 44 (46.32%) Postman
5 41 (43.16%) JIRA
6 31 (32.63%) GitLab
7 24 (25.26%) Cypress.io
8 20 (21.05%) Git
9 18 (18.95%) JMeter
10 16 (16.84%) JUnit
10 16 (16.84%) Maven
11 15 (15.79%) SonarQube
12 14 (14.74%) SoapUI
13 10 (10.53%) TestNG
14 9 (9.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (7.37%) Gatling
16 6 (6.32%) Mockito
16 6 (6.32%) Subversion
16 6 (6.32%) Xcode
16 6 (6.32%) XCTest
General
1 33 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.16%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (18.95%) Finance
4 14 (14.74%) Banking
4 14 (14.74%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.42%) Law
6 4 (4.21%) Automotive
6 4 (4.21%) Police
7 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Military
9 1 (1.05%) Retail
9 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (28.42%) Tester
2 24 (25.26%) Test Engineer
3 19 (20.00%) Automation Tester
4 16 (16.84%) Senior
5 11 (11.58%) Java Engineer
6 10 (10.53%) Lead
7 9 (9.47%) Analyst
7 9 (9.47%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (9.47%) Software Engineer
7 9 (9.47%) Test Automation Engineer
8 8 (8.42%) Developer
9 7 (7.37%) QA Engineer
10 6 (6.32%) Java Developer
10 6 (6.32%) QA Leader
10 6 (6.32%) QA Tester
10 6 (6.32%) Test Analyst
11 5 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
12 4 (4.21%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
12 4 (4.21%) Selenium Tester
12 4 (4.21%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (51.58%) REST
2 28 (29.47%) Playwright
3 13 (13.68%) Java EE
4 12 (12.63%) SOAP
5 10 (10.53%) RESTful
5 10 (10.53%) Web Services
6 9 (9.47%) ARM Templates
6 9 (9.47%) Spring Boot
6 9 (9.47%) Swagger
7 8 (8.42%) Kafka
8 7 (7.37%) Gherkin
8 7 (7.37%) Spring
9 6 (6.32%) CSS
9 6 (6.32%) CSS3
9 6 (6.32%) Hibernate
9 6 (6.32%) HTML5
9 6 (6.32%) J2EE
9 6 (6.32%) JPA
9 6 (6.32%) Node.js
9 6 (6.32%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.32%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.21%) Mainframe
3 4 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.16%) VSAM
5 2 (2.11%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.05%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.05%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.32%) Unix
2 3 (3.16%) Windows
3 1 (1.05%) Android
3 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.05%) Linux
3 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (86.32%) Test Automation
2 52 (54.74%) Agile
3 47 (49.47%) CI/CD
4 35 (36.84%) API Testing
5 32 (33.68%) DevOps
6 30 (31.58%) Test Strategy
7 26 (27.37%) Performance Testing
8 25 (26.32%) TDD
8 25 (26.32%) Test Scripting
9 22 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (23.16%) Regression Testing
10 20 (21.05%) Software Testing
11 19 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (20.00%) Software Architecture
12 18 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (18.95%) Scenario Testing
13 17 (17.89%) Containerisation
13 17 (17.89%) Microservices
14 16 (16.84%) Software Engineering
14 16 (16.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 63 (66.32%) Java
2 29 (30.53%) JavaScript
3 21 (22.11%) SQL
4 18 (18.95%) Python
5 8 (8.42%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.37%) C#
6 7 (7.37%) Groovy
7 6 (6.32%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.21%) COBOL
8 4 (4.21%) JCL
9 2 (2.11%) Bash
10 1 (1.05%) Ada
10 1 (1.05%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.05%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.05%) XPath
Qualifications
1 36 (37.89%) Security Cleared
2 32 (33.68%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.21%) Degree
3 4 (4.21%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.05%) CEH
5 1 (1.05%) CISSP
5 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (33.68%) QA
2 15 (15.79%) Accessibility
3 9 (9.47%) WCAG
4 7 (7.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.05%) GDPR
5 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (31.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (22.11%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.47%) Ansible
2 9 (9.47%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (9.47%) Podman
2 9 (9.47%) Terraform
3 2 (2.11%) Kibana
4 1 (1.05%) Control-M
4 1 (1.05%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (11.58%) Oracle
2 6 (6.32%) CA Agile Central
2 6 (6.32%) Databricks
2 6 (6.32%) Dynatrace
2 6 (6.32%) Splunk
3 3 (3.16%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.05%) Progress
5 1 (1.05%) UiPath