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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 517 615
Rank change year-on-year +90 +98 +91
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 94 61 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.27% 1.19% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 47 46
10th Percentile £287 £323 £413
25th Percentile £358 £363 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £454 £539
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% -15.73% +19.72%
75th Percentile £438 £638 £588
90th Percentile £530 £688 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £386 £650 £538
% change year-on-year -40.68% +20.93% +19.44%

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 4,132 5,105 8,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.42% 12.03% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,784 3,439 5,839
10th Percentile £338 £355 £375
25th Percentile £410 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £594 £625 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 210 233
10th Percentile £24.59 £32.87 £43.17
25th Percentile £47.07 £47.06 £53.75
Median hourly rate £57.63 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% +5.69% +17.14%
75th Percentile £74.69 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £83.04 £78.08 £82.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -7.31% +5.69% +11.82%

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 23 May 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 23 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
England +82 78 £400 -16.67% 120
London +72 42 £400 -7.25% 20
Work from Home +70 41 £388 -15.44% 100
UK excluding London +56 36 £386 -40.68% 117
North of England +27 15 £400 -27.27% 32
South East +39 13 £501 -23.00% 27
Midlands - 8 £268 - 21
Yorkshire +20 7 £420 -23.64% 19
East Midlands - 5 £274 - 11
North West - 5 £400 - 8
North East +2 3 £363 +16.94% 5
West Midlands - 3 £190 - 9
Scotland +7 1 - - 8

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 (11.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.06%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (48.94%) AWS
2 32 (34.04%) Azure
3 12 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (12.77%) GitHub
4 8 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (3.19%) BrowserStack
5 3 (3.19%) GCP
5 3 (3.19%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.13%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (1.06%) Apigee
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.06%) Firebase
7 1 (1.06%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.26%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.19%) Redis
4 2 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.06%) DB2
5 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.06%) MySQL
5 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 62 (65.96%) Jenkins
2 51 (54.26%) Selenium
3 48 (51.06%) JIRA
4 47 (50.00%) Postman
5 39 (41.49%) Cucumber
6 34 (36.17%) GitLab
7 31 (32.98%) Git
8 27 (28.72%) Cypress.io
9 22 (23.40%) JMeter
10 12 (12.77%) JUnit
10 12 (12.77%) SonarQube
11 11 (11.70%) Maven
11 11 (11.70%) TestNG
12 10 (10.64%) SoapUI
13 7 (7.45%) Gatling
14 6 (6.38%) Bitbucket
15 4 (4.26%) LoadRunner
16 3 (3.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 3 (3.19%) Subversion
16 3 (3.19%) Xcode
General
1 38 (40.43%) Social Skills
2 28 (29.79%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.89%) Banking
4 11 (11.70%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.57%) Finance
6 8 (8.51%) Law
7 4 (4.26%) Police
8 3 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (35.11%) Test Engineer
2 24 (25.53%) Tester
3 21 (22.34%) Senior
4 17 (18.09%) Automation Tester
4 17 (18.09%) Senior Test Engineer
5 13 (13.83%) Java Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) Java Software Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Python Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) QA Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) QA Tester
9 5 (5.32%) Analyst
9 5 (5.32%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Developer
9 5 (5.32%) Java Developer
9 5 (5.32%) Lead
10 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Java Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (50.00%) REST
2 30 (31.91%) Playwright
3 13 (13.83%) Java EE
4 9 (9.57%) ARM Templates
4 9 (9.57%) pytest
5 8 (8.51%) Kafka
5 8 (8.51%) Node.js
5 8 (8.51%) Web Services
6 6 (6.38%) Gherkin
6 6 (6.38%) RESTful
7 5 (5.32%) SOAP
7 5 (5.32%) Spring
8 4 (4.26%) JSON
9 3 (3.19%) CSS
9 3 (3.19%) Hibernate
9 3 (3.19%) HTML
9 3 (3.19%) J2EE
9 3 (3.19%) JPA
9 3 (3.19%) Spring MVC
9 3 (3.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.64%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.13%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.13%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.13%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.06%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (92.55%) Test Automation
2 57 (60.64%) CI/CD
3 52 (55.32%) API Testing
4 48 (51.06%) Agile
5 38 (40.43%) Test Scripting
6 34 (36.17%) Test Strategy
7 29 (30.85%) DevOps
8 28 (29.79%) Performance Testing
8 28 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (23.40%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (22.34%) BDD
11 17 (18.09%) Regression Testing
11 17 (18.09%) Software Engineering
11 17 (18.09%) TDD
12 16 (17.02%) Software Architecture
12 16 (17.02%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (15.96%) Containerisation
14 14 (14.89%) Non-Functional Testing
14 14 (14.89%) Scrum
15 13 (13.83%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (62.77%) Java
2 35 (37.23%) JavaScript
3 22 (23.40%) Python
4 14 (14.89%) SQL
5 10 (10.64%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.26%) Groovy
7 3 (3.19%) Bash
7 3 (3.19%) C#
7 3 (3.19%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.13%) COBOL
8 2 (2.13%) JCL
8 2 (2.13%) RPG
9 1 (1.06%) Ada
9 1 (1.06%) Go
9 1 (1.06%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.06%) Scala
9 1 (1.06%) XPath
Qualifications
1 34 (36.17%) Security Cleared
2 32 (34.04%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.38%) Degree
3 6 (6.38%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.19%) CEH
4 3 (3.19%) CISSP
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (39.36%) QA
2 16 (17.02%) Accessibility
3 9 (9.57%) WCAG
4 5 (5.32%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.06%) GDPR
5 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (28.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (22.34%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.57%) Ansible
2 9 (9.57%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (9.57%) Podman
2 9 (9.57%) Terraform
3 4 (4.26%) Kibana
4 1 (1.06%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (6.38%) Oracle
2 5 (5.32%) Databricks
3 4 (4.26%) Splunk
4 3 (3.19%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (3.19%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.13%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.06%) Virgin Media