REST Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 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 West Wales 3.23% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.18% - -
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 - -
Wales median daily rate £563 £450 £419
% change year-on-year +25.00% +7.46% +18.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 17.74% 28.57% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 3
10th Percentile £375 - £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 £481 £488 £506
90th Percentile £525 - £518
Wales median daily rate £460 £454 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -6.87% +2.63%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

REST job vacancy trend in West Wales

REST
Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing REST

REST
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 24 July 2026. 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
Swansea - 2 £400 - 1
REST
Wales

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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