The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited REST over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Cardiff region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank - 53 69
Permanent jobs citing REST 0 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff - 0.489% 0.490%
As % of the Application Development category - 1.183% 1.010%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 3
Average salary - £51,250 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.88%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -5.55%
All Application Development
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
225 169 297
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 40.47% 41.32% 48.53%
Number of salaries quoted 194 154 276
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £55,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
REST
South Wales

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing REST across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Cardiff REST Jobs Demand Trend

REST
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing REST across the Cardiff region.

Cardiff REST Salary Trend

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff region citing REST also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited REST.

1 10 (100.00%) SOAP
1 10 (100.00%) Web Services
2 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 9 (90.00%) Banking
2 9 (90.00%) Maven
2 9 (90.00%) Mobile Banking
3 7 (70.00%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (70.00%) Java
4 6 (60.00%) Finance
4 6 (60.00%) Scrum
4 6 (60.00%) Mobile Commerce
4 6 (60.00%) Financial Institution
5 4 (40.00%) Regression Testing
5 4 (40.00%) Blackberry
5 4 (40.00%) Handset
5 4 (40.00%) Windows
5 4 (40.00%) Apple iOS
5 4 (40.00%) soapUI
5 4 (40.00%) Selenium
5 4 (40.00%) Android
5 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (30.00%) BDD
6 3 (30.00%) JPA
6 3 (30.00%) Spring Web Flow
6 3 (30.00%) Java EE
6 3 (30.00%) Degree
6 3 (30.00%) Refactoring
6 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (30.00%) Jenkins

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff region citing REST also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited REST. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (100.00%) SOAP
1 10 (100.00%) Web Services
2 4 (40.00%) soapUI
3 3 (30.00%) JPA
3 3 (30.00%) Spring Web Flow
3 3 (30.00%) Java EE
3 3 (30.00%) J2EE
3 3 (30.00%) Struts
3 3 (30.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (30.00%) Spring
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Maven
2 4 (40.00%) Selenium
3 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (30.00%) Ant
4 1 (10.00%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 9 (90.00%) Banking
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Test Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Graduate Java Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Graduate
2 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Mobile Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Blackberry
2 4 (40.00%) Handset
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (10.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Apple iOS
1 4 (40.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (60.00%) Scrum
2 6 (60.00%) Mobile Commerce
3 4 (40.00%) Regression Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) BDD
4 3 (30.00%) Refactoring
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) UML
4 3 (30.00%) OO
4 3 (30.00%) Project Management
4 3 (30.00%) MVC
5 1 (10.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) SOA
5 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
5 1 (10.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle