REST Assured Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

REST Assured
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring REST Assured skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.21% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £262 - -
25th Percentile £271 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 - -
75th Percentile £340 - -
90th Percentile £393 - -
England median daily rate £420 £538 £465
% change year-on-year -21.86% +15.59% -

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 450 287 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.67% 10.81% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 201 173
10th Percentile £313 £350 £319
25th Percentile £400 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £575
90th Percentile £637 £685 £672
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £37.88 - -
25th Percentile £40.69 £65.00 £76.59
Median hourly rate £46.25 £70.00 £78.19
Median % change year-on-year -33.93% -10.47% +64.60%
75th Percentile £52.69 £75.00 £79.78
90th Percentile £56.03 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

REST Assured
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST Assured relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

REST Assured job vacancy trend in the Midlands

REST Assured
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing REST Assured.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing REST Assured

REST Assured
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST Assured in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST Assured in the Midlands

REST Assured
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
East Midlands - 5 £280 -
West Midlands - 1 £430 - 3
REST Assured
England

REST Assured
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) DB2
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) IntelliJ
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Maven
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Automation Tester
1 4 (66.67%) Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) jQuery
1 3 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (16.67%) Java EE
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 2 (33.33%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Scenario Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Test Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (50.00%) Coaching
3 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) API Testing
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (33.33%) User Experience
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
5 1 (16.67%) System Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) COBOL
2 2 (33.33%) JCL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle