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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 43 37
Rank change year-on-year +13 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing REST 10 2 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.31% 0.47% 4.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.18% 2.04% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile £384 - £202
25th Percentile £417 £434 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £438 £469
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% -6.67% -10.71%
75th Percentile £463 £441 £494
90th Percentile £483 - £568
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -4.35%

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 55 98 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 18.21% 23.06% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 77 98
10th Percentile £285 £325 £313
25th Percentile £322 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £531
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -15.29% -0.93%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £597
90th Percentile £609 £585 £650
UK median daily rate £514 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.37% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £31.58 £15.45 -
25th Percentile £35.06 £15.81 -
Median hourly rate £42.13 £20.24 -
Median % change year-on-year +108.18% - -
75th Percentile £50.44 £20.47 -
90th Percentile £54.68 £22.44 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +28.40%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Wales over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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

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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 25 June 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 +18 8 £431 -1.43% 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 (20.00%) NetWeaver
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Business Test Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Test Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Payments Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Developer
4 2 (20.00%) SAP Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) CRM Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) SOA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) SOAP
1 8 (80.00%) XML
2 6 (60.00%) JSON
3 2 (20.00%) EDI
3 2 (20.00%) IDoc
3 2 (20.00%) JDBC
3 2 (20.00%) JMS
3 2 (20.00%) Middleware
3 2 (20.00%) SAP PI
3 2 (20.00%) XSLT
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (10.00%) Swagger
4 1 (10.00%) XML Messaging
4 1 (10.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Team
3 2 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 5 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) API Testing
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (10.00%) API Design
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) ABAP
1 2 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
1 5 (50.00%) ISEB
1 5 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (10.00%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce