The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT jobs advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited REST over the 3 months to 22 May 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 South Wales region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 80 81 74
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -7
Permanent jobs citing REST 6 6 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 0.566% 0.604% 0.792%
As % of the Application Development category 1.386% 1.563% 1.882%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 7
Average salary £31,792 £27,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.60% -26.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,200 £27,500 £33,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,717 £51,250 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -
All Application Development
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
433 384 372
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 40.85% 38.63% 42.08%
Number of salaries quoted 399 340 344
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,000 £29,100
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £55,000 £41,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
REST
Wales

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales REST Salary Trend

REST
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing REST across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South Wales REST Salary Histogram

REST
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Newport - 5 £30,896 -
Cardiff -18 1 £50,000 -2.43%
REST
Wales

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 24 (100.00%) SOAP
2 21 (87.50%) Web Services
3 13 (54.17%) SQL
4 12 (50.00%) Maven
5 11 (45.83%) Banking
5 11 (45.83%) MVC
5 11 (45.83%) Mobile Banking
6 10 (41.67%) Scrum
6 10 (41.67%) Windows
6 10 (41.67%) Blackberry
6 10 (41.67%) Java
6 10 (41.67%) OO
6 10 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
6 10 (41.67%) Android
6 10 (41.67%) Apple iOS
7 9 (37.50%) XML
8 8 (33.33%) Finance
8 8 (33.33%) Mobile Commerce
8 8 (33.33%) Financial Institution
9 7 (29.17%) soapUI
9 7 (29.17%) Selenium
10 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
10 6 (25.00%) TDD
11 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2005
11 5 (20.83%) .NET Framework
11 5 (20.83%) Degree
11 5 (20.83%) WCF
11 5 (20.83%) iPhone
11 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2008
11 5 (20.83%) XSLT

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 24 (100.00%) SOAP
2 21 (87.50%) Web Services
3 9 (37.50%) XML
4 7 (29.17%) soapUI
5 5 (20.83%) .NET Framework
5 5 (20.83%) WCF
5 5 (20.83%) XSLT
5 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET
5 5 (20.83%) .NET
6 4 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (16.67%) WPF
6 4 (16.67%) JSON
6 4 (16.67%) Apache FOP
7 3 (12.50%) Spring
7 3 (12.50%) Java EE
7 3 (12.50%) Symfony
7 3 (12.50%) Spring Web Flow
7 3 (12.50%) JPA
7 3 (12.50%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (4.167%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) 4G
1 3 (12.50%) 3G
1 3 (12.50%) 2G
2 1 (4.167%) NFC
2 1 (4.167%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (12.50%) MySQL
4 1 (4.167%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Maven
2 7 (29.17%) Selenium
3 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (16.67%) Ant
3 4 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 4 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (12.50%) JIRA
4 3 (12.50%) WebDriver
5 1 (4.167%) Hudson
5 1 (4.167%) Mercurial
5 1 (4.167%) Git (software)
5 1 (4.167%) Subversion
5 1 (4.167%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (4.167%) LoadRunner
5 1 (4.167%) Xcode
5 1 (4.167%) JUnit
5 1 (4.167%) Eclipse
General
1 11 (45.83%) Banking
2 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Graduate
3 4 (16.67%) Programmer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Senior Test Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) .NET Programmer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior .NET Programmer
4 3 (12.50%) PHP Web Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Programmer
4 3 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Graduate Java Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Tester
4 3 (12.50%) Web Developer
4 3 (12.50%) PHP Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Applications Tester
4 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Mobile Tester
5 2 (8.333%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) Mobile Banking
2 10 (41.67%) Blackberry
3 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 5 (20.83%) iPhone
4 5 (20.83%) Mobile App
5 4 (16.67%) Handset
6 3 (12.50%) iPad
7 1 (4.167%) Java Card
7 1 (4.167%) Animation
7 1 (4.167%) Flash Lite
7 1 (4.167%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Windows
1 10 (41.67%) Android
1 10 (41.67%) Apple iOS
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) MVC
2 10 (41.67%) Scrum
2 10 (41.67%) OO
2 10 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (33.33%) Mobile Commerce
4 6 (25.00%) TDD
5 4 (16.67%) Regression Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Project Management
5 4 (16.67%) OOP
5 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 4 (16.67%) BDD
6 3 (12.50%) Refactoring
6 3 (12.50%) UML
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (8.333%) Automation Testing
8 1 (4.167%) Memory Management
8 1 (4.167%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (4.167%) Multithreading
8 1 (4.167%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) SQL
2 10 (41.67%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) VB.NET
3 5 (20.83%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) PHP5
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) PHP
5 1 (4.167%) Objective-C
5 1 (4.167%) C
5 1 (4.167%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Zend
2 2 (8.333%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.167%) Google
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle