REST Contracts in Wales

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 38 43 30
Rank change year-on-year +5 -13 +28
Contract jobs citing REST 5 1 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.71% 0.25% 4.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.42% 1.14% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 12
10th Percentile £451 - £203
25th Percentile £452 - £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.90%
75th Percentile £475 - £510
90th Percentile £490 - £641
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -6.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 48 88 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 16.38% 22.28% 27.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 72 135
10th Percentile £234 £290 £313
25th Percentile £327 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £547 £531 £586
90th Percentile £596 £594 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £20.68 £15.38 -
25th Percentile £21.53 £15.66 -
Median hourly rate £25.63 £18.14 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.26% - -
75th Percentile £36.31 £21.29 -
90th Percentile £49.03 £22.77 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Wales

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for REST in Wales

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for REST in Wales

REST
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Wales +7 2 £475 - 19
Dyfed - 2 £460 -
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Developer
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) CRM Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) EDI
1 2 (40.00%) IDoc
1 2 (40.00%) JDBC
1 2 (40.00%) JMS
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
1 2 (40.00%) SAP PI
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) XML
1 2 (40.00%) XSLT
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Webhook
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) ABAP
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Natural
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) IIBA
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce