REST Contract Job Trends in Swansea

Representational State Transfer (REST)
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing REST 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swansea 3.70% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile £420 - -
West Wales median daily rate £400 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 12 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 22.22% 28.57% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 3
10th Percentile £379 - £423
25th Percentile £413 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - +2.70%
75th Percentile £459 £488 £506
90th Percentile £525 - £518
West Wales median daily rate £425 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -10.53% - +2.70%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

REST job vacancy trend in Swansea

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing REST

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform