REST Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 50 53
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing REST 16 3 9
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 2.13% 0.73% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.76% 6.82% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 8
10th Percentile £501 - £519
25th Percentile £606 - £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year +27.18% -0.18% +0.18%
75th Percentile £753 £603 £555
90th Percentile £797 £634 £577
South West median daily rate £500 £505 £550
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £62.41 - -
25th Percentile £62.43 - -
Median hourly rate £62.45 - -
75th Percentile £62.48 - -
90th Percentile £62.49 - -
South West median hourly rate £62.40 - £74.44
% change year-on-year - - +16.77%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 136 44 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 18.13% 10.73% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 27 77
10th Percentile £380 £450 £444
25th Percentile £500 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.90% +0.91%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £653
90th Percentile £691 £661 £690
South West median daily rate £530 £528 £550
% change year-on-year +0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £62.44 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £93.75 - -
90th Percentile £94.50 - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

REST job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Wiltshire

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing REST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing REST

REST
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Corsham -3 6 £715 +13.45% 1
Swindon -9 5 £600 +9.09% 4
Chippenham - 1 £457 - 1
REST
South West

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 5 (31.25%) Apache
2 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) SNMP
2 2 (12.50%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Metadata
1 5 (31.25%) Parquet
2 3 (18.75%) Big Data
2 3 (18.75%) Hadoop
3 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 2 (12.50%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GoCD
2 1 (6.25%) Gradle
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
2 1 (6.25%) Maven
General
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Military
3 1 (6.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Consultant
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Management Consultant
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Lead
4 3 (18.75%) Lead Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
6 1 (6.25%) IT Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Apache NiFi
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) JSON
2 3 (18.75%) Node.js
3 2 (12.50%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (12.50%) React
3 2 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Avro
4 1 (6.25%) FreeMarker
4 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
4 1 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) HTML5
4 1 (6.25%) JDBC
4 1 (6.25%) JPA
4 1 (6.25%) JSF
4 1 (6.25%) JSP
4 1 (6.25%) Redux
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) IVR
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Low-Code
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Data Fabric
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) AIX
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) AI
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Data Ingestion
4 5 (31.25%) Machine Learning
4 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (25.00%) API Integration
5 4 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (25.00%) Data Science
5 4 (25.00%) Data Validation
5 4 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (25.00%) Metadata Management
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (25.00%) Validation
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
3 5 (31.25%) Search Processing Language
4 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (68.75%) DV Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
3 3 (18.75%) Degree
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) JSP 440
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Nagios
1 5 (31.25%) ZABBIX
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Netcool
2 4 (25.00%) Tivoli
3 3 (18.75%) OpenView
3 3 (18.75%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) BMC
1 5 (31.25%) SolarWinds
1 5 (31.25%) Splunk
2 3 (18.75%) HP
2 3 (18.75%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow