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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 533 621
Rank change year-on-year +97 +88 +87
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 83 67 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.02% 1.29% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 48 67
10th Percentile £305 £323 £390
25th Percentile £359 £361 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £452 £495
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% -8.69% +10.00%
75th Percentile £439 £631 £575
90th Percentile £545 £688 £614
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £650 £510
% change year-on-year -38.46% +27.45% +13.33%

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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

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 30 April 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 14 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 30 April 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 +71 68 £395 -14.59% 26
London +44 39 £390 -10.86% 14
Work from Home +55 32 £380 -15.87% 17
UK excluding London +52 29 £400 -38.46% 17
South East +29 13 £501 -23.00% 4
North of England +36 9 £371 +19.74% 1
Midlands +27 5 £196 - 4
North East +3 4 £336 +8.47%
North West - 4 £400 -
West Midlands +17 3 £190 - 3
East Midlands - 2 £202 - 1
Scotland +9 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £370 - 1
South West - 1 £550 - 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 (12.05%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 43 (51.81%) AWS
2 29 (34.94%) Azure
3 12 (14.46%) GitHub
4 11 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.61%) BrowserStack
6 3 (3.61%) GCP
6 3 (3.61%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.41%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (1.20%) Apigee
8 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.20%) Firebase
8 1 (1.20%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.41%) Redis
4 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.20%) MySQL
4 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (65.06%) Jenkins
2 47 (56.63%) JIRA
3 43 (51.81%) Selenium
4 39 (46.99%) Postman
5 33 (39.76%) Git
6 31 (37.35%) Cucumber
7 26 (31.33%) GitLab
8 19 (22.89%) Cypress.io
9 16 (19.28%) JMeter
10 11 (13.25%) SonarQube
11 8 (9.64%) SoapUI
12 6 (7.23%) Bitbucket
12 6 (7.23%) Gatling
12 6 (7.23%) JUnit
13 4 (4.82%) LoadRunner
13 4 (4.82%) TestNG
13 4 (4.82%) WebDriver
14 3 (3.61%) Maven
14 3 (3.61%) TestRail
14 3 (3.61%) Travis CI
General
1 33 (39.76%) Social Skills
2 24 (28.92%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (14.46%) Banking
4 11 (13.25%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.84%) Finance
6 8 (9.64%) Law
7 4 (4.82%) Police
8 2 (2.41%) Electronics
8 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.41%) Marketing
8 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (34.94%) Test Engineer
2 20 (24.10%) Tester
3 18 (21.69%) Senior
4 16 (19.28%) Senior Test Engineer
5 14 (16.87%) Automation Tester
6 12 (14.46%) Java Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) Software Engineer
8 8 (9.64%) Python Engineer
8 8 (9.64%) Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Developer
9 6 (7.23%) QA Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Java Developer
10 5 (6.02%) Lead
10 5 (6.02%) QA Tester
11 4 (4.82%) Analyst
11 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
12 3 (3.61%) Senior Java Engineer
13 2 (2.41%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (54.22%) REST
2 21 (25.30%) Playwright
3 13 (15.66%) Java EE
4 9 (10.84%) ARM Templates
4 9 (10.84%) pytest
5 8 (9.64%) Node.js
6 7 (8.43%) Kafka
6 7 (8.43%) Web Services
7 6 (7.23%) RESTful
8 4 (4.82%) Gherkin
8 4 (4.82%) JSON
8 4 (4.82%) SOAP
8 4 (4.82%) Spring
9 3 (3.61%) Jest
9 3 (3.61%) XML
10 2 (2.41%) CSS
10 2 (2.41%) Hibernate
10 2 (2.41%) HTML
10 2 (2.41%) J2EE
10 2 (2.41%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.41%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.41%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.20%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (92.77%) Test Automation
2 49 (59.04%) CI/CD
3 45 (54.22%) API Testing
4 39 (46.99%) Agile
5 33 (39.76%) Test Scripting
6 29 (34.94%) Test Strategy
7 27 (32.53%) DevOps
8 26 (31.33%) Performance Testing
9 25 (30.12%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (24.10%) BDD
10 20 (24.10%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (19.28%) Software Engineering
12 15 (18.07%) Regression Testing
12 15 (18.07%) Software Architecture
13 14 (16.87%) Containerisation
14 13 (15.66%) Configuration Management
14 13 (15.66%) Scrum
14 13 (15.66%) Technical Leadership
15 11 (13.25%) Security Testing
16 10 (12.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 49 (59.04%) Java
2 28 (33.73%) JavaScript
3 20 (24.10%) Python
4 11 (13.25%) SQL
5 8 (9.64%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.82%) Bash
7 3 (3.61%) Groovy
8 2 (2.41%) C#
8 2 (2.41%) RPG
8 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.20%) COBOL
9 1 (1.20%) Go
9 1 (1.20%) JCL
9 1 (1.20%) Scala
9 1 (1.20%) XPath
Qualifications
1 32 (38.55%) Security Cleared
2 30 (36.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.23%) Degree
3 6 (7.23%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.61%) CEH
4 3 (3.61%) CISSP
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (37.35%) QA
2 7 (8.43%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.82%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.41%) WCAG
5 1 (1.20%) GDPR
5 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (22.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (22.89%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.84%) Ansible
2 9 (10.84%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (10.84%) Podman
2 9 (10.84%) Terraform
3 4 (4.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (4.82%) Databricks
1 4 (4.82%) Oracle
2 3 (3.61%) Splunk
3 2 (2.41%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.41%) SAP
3 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.20%) Virgin Media