REST Assured Contract Job Trends in the North of England

REST Assured
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring REST Assured skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 163 192
Rank change year-on-year -2 +29 +35
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 16 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.41% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.14% 0.93% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 6
10th Percentile £289 £354 £519
25th Percentile £335 £420 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% -16.67% +24.68%
75th Percentile £424 £575 £625
90th Percentile £447 - -
England median daily rate £390 £544 £553
% change year-on-year -28.28% -1.58% +22.78%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 748 535 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.95% 13.06% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 358 396
10th Percentile £319 £362 £352
25th Percentile £381 £404 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% -4.30% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £615
90th Percentile £638 £638 £679
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 35
10th Percentile £47.20 £37.55 £42.11
25th Percentile £60.55 £41.86 -
Median hourly rate £70.08 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.75% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £75.63 £47.47 £64.38
90th Percentile £77.88 £51.00 £77.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

REST Assured
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing REST Assured as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for REST Assured in the North of England

REST Assured
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing REST Assured.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing REST Assured

REST Assured
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST Assured in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST Assured in the North of England

REST Assured
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Yorkshire -11 7 £420 -20.00% 1
North West - 6 £340 - 1
North East -2 3 £383 +23.39% 1
REST Assured
England

REST Assured
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (12.50%) CICS
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) DB2
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (81.25%) Cucumber
2 12 (75.00%) Selenium
3 9 (56.25%) Jenkins
4 8 (50.00%) Postman
5 7 (43.75%) JMeter
5 7 (43.75%) Maven
6 6 (37.50%) Cypress.io
6 6 (37.50%) GitLab
6 6 (37.50%) TestNG
7 4 (25.00%) Git
7 4 (25.00%) JUnit
8 2 (12.50%) Eclipse
8 2 (12.50%) IntelliJ
8 2 (12.50%) JIRA
9 1 (6.25%) Gatling
9 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Test Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Automation Tester
2 3 (18.75%) Test Automation Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Tester
3 2 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) Playwright
2 4 (25.00%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) Node.js
3 2 (12.50%) SOAP
3 2 (12.50%) WireMock
4 1 (6.25%) jQuery
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) RAML
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
4 1 (6.25%) XML
4 1 (6.25%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Mainframe
1 2 (12.50%) VSAM
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
3 11 (68.75%) Agile
4 10 (62.50%) API Testing
5 8 (50.00%) Test Strategy
6 7 (43.75%) TDD
7 5 (31.25%) Non-Functional Testing
7 5 (31.25%) Performance Testing
7 5 (31.25%) Test Scripting
8 4 (25.00%) BDD
8 4 (25.00%) User Experience
9 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (18.75%) DevOps
9 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
9 3 (18.75%) Scenario Testing
9 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
9 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (18.75%) Test Planning
10 2 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
10 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Java
2 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) COBOL
4 2 (12.50%) JCL
5 1 (6.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 7 (43.75%) WCAG
3 4 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle