REST Contracts in Cardiff

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 34 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 -13 +27
Contract jobs citing REST 1 1 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.63% 0.47% 7.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.57% 1.56% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £202
25th Percentile £500 - £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 - £240
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.00%
75th Percentile £501 - £450
90th Percentile - - £560
South Wales median daily rate £475 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cardiff

REST falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 28 64 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 17.50% 30.19% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 56 93
10th Percentile £196 £369 £300
25th Percentile £312 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £586
90th Percentile £588 £623 £650
South Wales median daily rate £405 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -14.29% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for REST in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) CRM Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Webhook
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript