REST Assured Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

REST Assured
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring REST Assured skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 - 115
Rank change year-on-year - - +49
Contract jobs citing REST Assured 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.053% - 0.049%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.33% - 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £415 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.44%
75th Percentile £445 - £425
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £400 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% +3.26%

All Development Application Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 302 190 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.10% 10.12% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 134 122
10th Percentile £368 £351 £319
25th Percentile £425 £414 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +8.80% -
75th Percentile £575 £622 £600
90th Percentile £700 £711 £688
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% -
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 - - +7.44%

REST Assured
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

REST Assured job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

REST Assured
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

REST Assured
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Shropshire - 1 £430 - 2
REST Assured
England

REST Assured
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility