REST Assured Contract Job Trends in the North West

REST Assured
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring REST Assured skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 121 -
Rank change year-on-year -30 - -
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 9 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.28% 0.26% -
As % of the Development Applications category 2.16% 1.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £619 £364 -
25th Percentile £633 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% - -
75th Percentile £664 - -
90th Percentile £708 £460 -
England median daily rate £500 £395 £498
% change year-on-year +26.58% -20.60% -7.44%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 417 292 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.74% 14.94% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 211 220
10th Percentile £350 £338 £368
25th Percentile £385 £391 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -10.60% -3.15%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £606
90th Percentile £638 £600 £694
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 7 10
10th Percentile £37.25 £54.02 £36.59
25th Percentile £41.35 £63.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £52.94
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +41.67% +3.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £78.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.90 £81.35 £81.15
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%

REST Assured
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

REST Assured job vacancy trend in the North West

REST Assured
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

REST Assured
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 May 2026. 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
Manchester -36 7 £640 +60.00% 5
Cheshire -12 1 £725 +113.24%
Lancashire - 1 - - 1
REST Assured
England

REST Assured
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (11.11%) Mule
1 1 (11.11%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) GitHub
3 3 (33.33%) BrowserStack
4 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 6 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Selenium
2 6 (66.67%) Gatling
2 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (55.56%) GitLab
3 5 (55.56%) Serenity BDD
4 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (11.11%) Burp Suite
5 1 (11.11%) Git
5 1 (11.11%) Gradle
5 1 (11.11%) JUnit
5 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
5 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
5 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Military
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Lead
1 6 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Principal Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Development Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
4 1 (11.11%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Playwright
1 7 (77.78%) Spring
1 7 (77.78%) Spring Boot
2 6 (66.67%) Kafka
3 5 (55.56%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) J2EE
4 1 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) Quarkus
4 1 (11.11%) React
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Performance Testing
2 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) Test Strategy
3 6 (66.67%) Microservices
4 5 (55.56%) Observability
5 4 (44.44%) BDD
5 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (33.33%) API Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (33.33%) Build Automation
6 3 (33.33%) Component Testing
6 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (33.33%) SDET
7 2 (22.22%) Coaching
7 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Grafana
1 5 (55.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Istio
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle