REST Assured Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

REST Assured
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 318 436
Rank change year-on-year +46 +118 +123
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 32 27 41
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.16% 1.46% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 34
10th Percentile £281 £324 £400
25th Percentile £359 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £452 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% -4.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £438 £650 £550
90th Percentile £549 £688 £575
UK median daily rate £400 £454 £495
% change year-on-year -11.89% -8.28% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

REST Assured
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing REST Assured as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

REST Assured trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

REST Assured
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing REST Assured.

REST Assured daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

REST Assured
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing REST Assured over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

REST Assured daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

REST Assured
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) AWS
2 16 (50.00%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (21.88%) GitHub
4 5 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (9.38%) GCP
6 2 (6.25%) BrowserStack
6 2 (6.25%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.13%) Apigee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.25%) Redis
3 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 21 (65.63%) Jenkins
2 19 (59.38%) JIRA
3 15 (46.88%) Postman
4 14 (43.75%) Cypress.io
5 13 (40.63%) GitLab
5 13 (40.63%) Selenium
6 9 (28.13%) Cucumber
6 9 (28.13%) Git
7 7 (21.88%) SonarQube
8 6 (18.75%) JMeter
9 4 (12.50%) SoapUI
10 3 (9.38%) Gatling
11 2 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
11 2 (6.25%) JUnit
11 2 (6.25%) Maven
11 2 (6.25%) Mockito
11 2 (6.25%) Subversion
11 2 (6.25%) TestRail
11 2 (6.25%) XCTest
General
1 17 (53.13%) Social Skills
2 14 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 5 (15.63%) Banking
4 5 (15.63%) Law
5 4 (12.50%) Finance
5 4 (12.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Test Engineer
1 10 (31.25%) Tester
2 8 (25.00%) Automation Tester
3 7 (21.88%) Java Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 7 (21.88%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
5 3 (9.38%) QA Tester
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Java Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Lead Tester
6 2 (6.25%) QA Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Automation Test Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (56.25%) REST
2 13 (40.63%) Playwright
3 5 (15.63%) ARM Templates
3 5 (15.63%) Java EE
4 4 (12.50%) Kafka
5 3 (9.38%) Gherkin
5 3 (9.38%) Jest
5 3 (9.38%) Node.js
5 3 (9.38%) Web Services
6 2 (6.25%) CSS
6 2 (6.25%) Hibernate
6 2 (6.25%) HTML
6 2 (6.25%) J2EE
6 2 (6.25%) Material-UI
6 2 (6.25%) pytest
6 2 (6.25%) SOAP
6 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (6.25%) Spring MVC
6 2 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (93.75%) Test Automation
2 20 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 18 (56.25%) Agile
4 16 (50.00%) API Testing
4 16 (50.00%) Test Scripting
5 13 (40.63%) DevOps
5 13 (40.63%) Test Strategy
6 11 (34.38%) Performance Testing
6 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (28.13%) Containerisation
7 9 (28.13%) Microservices
8 8 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 7 (21.88%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (21.88%) Security Testing
9 7 (21.88%) Software Architecture
10 6 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
10 6 (18.75%) Regression Testing
10 6 (18.75%) TDD
11 5 (15.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) Java
2 15 (46.88%) JavaScript
3 7 (21.88%) SQL
4 6 (18.75%) Python
4 6 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.25%) Groovy
5 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) COBOL
6 1 (3.13%) JCL
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.13%) CEH
5 1 (3.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (43.75%) QA
2 7 (21.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
4 2 (6.25%) WCAG
5 1 (3.13%) GDPR
5 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (15.63%) Ansible
2 5 (15.63%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (15.63%) Podman
2 5 (15.63%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Databricks
1 3 (9.38%) Splunk
2 2 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle