REST Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 16 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing REST 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 2.04% 3.31% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.33% 33.33% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £551 £503
% change year-on-year -0.09% +9.55% -4.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 15 12 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 15.31% 9.92% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 14
10th Percentile £495 £393 £399
25th Percentile £525 £434 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.89% +6.62%
75th Percentile £563 £560 £625
90th Percentile £593 £609 £638
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -0.09% +0.09% +1.85%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

REST job vacancy trend in Swindon

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing REST

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Alfresco
1 2 (100.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Keycloak
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) SOLID
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes