REST Assured Contracts

REST Assured
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 528 629
Rank change year-on-year +69 +101 +80
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 89 57 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.13% 0.095%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.92% 1.06% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 45 35
10th Percentile £284 £337 £363
25th Percentile £356 £405 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £439 £650 £600
90th Percentile £539 £688 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £371 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -42.89% +13.04% +30.98%

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 4,636 5,392 7,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.56% 12.45% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,105 3,569 5,592
10th Percentile £330 £350 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £692 £725 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 251 237
10th Percentile £21.22 £31.25 £45.71
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £73.44 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.44 £85.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +10.81%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for REST Assured in the UK

REST Assured
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for REST Assured in the UK

REST Assured
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for REST Assured in the UK

REST Assured
Top 13 Contract 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 6 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
England +72 72 £395 -21.00% 38
Work from Home +53 41 £388 -16.22% 37
London +47 37 £400 -11.11% 14
UK excluding London +54 35 £371 -42.89% 36
North of England +14 14 £386 -29.89% 15
South East +29 13 £501 -23.00% 3
Midlands - 9 £274 - 1
Yorkshire +10 7 £420 -23.64% 3
East Midlands - 6 £280 - 1
North West - 5 £400 - 10
West Midlands - 3 £190 -
North East 0 2 £346 +11.48% 2
Scotland +6 1 - - 3

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 11 (12.36%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (48.31%) AWS
2 31 (34.83%) Azure
3 12 (13.48%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (11.24%) GitHub
5 7 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.37%) BrowserStack
6 3 (3.37%) GCP
6 3 (3.37%) Sauce Labs
6 3 (3.37%) Serverless
7 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.25%) SaaS
7 2 (2.25%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.12%) Apigee
8 1 (1.12%) Firebase
8 1 (1.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.62%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.37%) Redis
4 2 (2.25%) DB2
4 2 (2.25%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 56 (62.92%) Jenkins
2 43 (48.31%) Selenium
3 42 (47.19%) JIRA
3 42 (47.19%) Postman
4 34 (38.20%) Cucumber
5 31 (34.83%) GitLab
6 26 (29.21%) Cypress.io
7 23 (25.84%) Git
8 20 (22.47%) JMeter
9 12 (13.48%) SonarQube
10 11 (12.36%) Maven
11 10 (11.24%) SoapUI
11 10 (11.24%) TestNG
12 9 (10.11%) JUnit
13 7 (7.87%) Gatling
14 5 (5.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket
15 4 (4.49%) TestRail
16 3 (3.37%) Mockito
16 3 (3.37%) Travis CI
General
1 36 (40.45%) Social Skills
2 27 (30.34%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.73%) Banking
4 10 (11.24%) Finance
5 9 (10.11%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.99%) Law
7 4 (4.49%) Police
8 3 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.12%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) Tester
2 25 (28.09%) Test Engineer
3 18 (20.22%) Automation Tester
3 18 (20.22%) Senior
4 13 (14.61%) Java Engineer
5 11 (12.36%) Senior Test Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) QA Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Analyst
8 7 (7.87%) QA Tester
8 7 (7.87%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Lead
10 5 (5.62%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Developer
10 5 (5.62%) Java Developer
10 5 (5.62%) Test Analyst
11 4 (4.49%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (42.70%) REST
2 34 (38.20%) Playwright
3 13 (14.61%) Java EE
4 9 (10.11%) ARM Templates
5 8 (8.99%) Node.js
6 7 (7.87%) Gherkin
6 7 (7.87%) Kafka
6 7 (7.87%) Web Services
7 5 (5.62%) Spring
8 4 (4.49%) pytest
8 4 (4.49%) RESTful
8 4 (4.49%) SOAP
9 3 (3.37%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.37%) Bootstrap
9 3 (3.37%) CSS3
9 3 (3.37%) HTML5
9 3 (3.37%) Jest
9 3 (3.37%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.37%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (3.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.87%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.37%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.25%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.25%) Online Banking
4 2 (2.25%) VSAM
5 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (92.13%) Test Automation
2 50 (56.18%) Agile
2 50 (56.18%) CI/CD
3 44 (49.44%) API Testing
4 31 (34.83%) Test Scripting
5 30 (33.71%) DevOps
5 30 (33.71%) Test Strategy
6 27 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (29.21%) Performance Testing
8 22 (24.72%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (19.10%) Regression Testing
9 17 (19.10%) Software Engineering
10 16 (17.98%) Software Architecture
10 16 (17.98%) TDD
10 16 (17.98%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (16.85%) Non-Functional Testing
12 14 (15.73%) BDD
12 14 (15.73%) Containerisation
12 14 (15.73%) Scrum
13 13 (14.61%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (64.04%) Java
2 35 (39.33%) JavaScript
3 17 (19.10%) Python
4 16 (17.98%) SQL
5 11 (12.36%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.49%) Groovy
7 3 (3.37%) Bash
7 3 (3.37%) C#
7 3 (3.37%) COBOL
7 3 (3.37%) JCL
7 3 (3.37%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.25%) RPG
9 1 (1.12%) Ada
9 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.12%) Scala
9 1 (1.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 29 (32.58%) Security Cleared
2 27 (30.34%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.74%) Degree
4 5 (5.62%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.37%) CEH
5 3 (3.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (38.20%) QA
2 16 (17.98%) Accessibility
3 9 (10.11%) WCAG
4 6 (6.74%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.12%) GDPR
5 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (29.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (23.60%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.11%) Ansible
2 9 (10.11%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (10.11%) Podman
2 9 (10.11%) Terraform
3 4 (4.49%) Kibana
4 1 (1.12%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (7.87%) Oracle
2 6 (6.74%) Databricks
3 4 (4.49%) Splunk
4 3 (3.37%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (3.37%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.12%) Salesforce