REST Contracts in South Wales

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 41 29
Rank change year-on-year +8 -12 +25
Contract jobs citing REST 2 1 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.83% 0.30% 5.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.13% 1.25% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £455 - £203
25th Percentile £463 - £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £488 - £526
90th Percentile £496 - £650
Wales median daily rate £460 - £463
% change year-on-year - - -11.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 39 80 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 16.12% 23.88% 29.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 65 116
10th Percentile £206 £318 £300
25th Percentile £309 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £544 £531 £591
90th Percentile £593 £600 £650
Wales median daily rate £425 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £20.49 £15.38 -
25th Percentile £21.06 £15.66 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.28% - -
75th Percentile £39.75 £21.29 -
90th Percentile £50.40 £22.77 -
Wales median hourly rate £25.63 £18.14 -
% change year-on-year +41.26% - -

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in South Wales

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for REST in South Wales

REST
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Cardiff +6 1 £501 - 17
Gwent - 1 £450 -
REST
Wales

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) CRM Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Webhook
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) IIBA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce