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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 45 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 -4
Contract jobs citing REST 24 9 16
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 4.04% 1.91% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 33.80% 11.39% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 10
10th Percentile £549 £422 -
25th Percentile £557 £543 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £551 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +22.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £631 - £546
90th Percentile £681 £574 £725
South West median daily rate £575 £578 £475
% change year-on-year -0.43% +21.58% -13.64%

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 71 79 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 11.95% 16.77% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 59 75
10th Percentile £423 £423 £433
25th Percentile £525 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £712 £742 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 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
Corsham -7 10 £609 +10.48% 5
Swindon +2 6 £588 +30.56% 1
Chippenham - 1 £568 -
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 16 (66.67%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Documentum
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (4.17%) Boomi
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 16 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) Mocha
General
1 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Advertising
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Automation Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Consultant
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Service Management Specialist
3 3 (12.50%) Administrator
3 3 (12.50%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) JIRA Administrator
3 3 (12.50%) JIRA Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Management Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Service Management Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Integration Developer
5 1 (4.17%) ITSM Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) JIRA Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) SOAP
2 5 (20.83%) Web Services
3 1 (4.17%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.17%) Express.js
3 1 (4.17%) Jest
3 1 (4.17%) JWT
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) Middleware
3 1 (4.17%) ModSecurity
3 1 (4.17%) NestJS
3 1 (4.17%) Node.js
3 1 (4.17%) OAuth
3 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) XML
3 1 (4.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Data Fabric
1 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) Agile
2 18 (75.00%) Service Management
3 15 (62.50%) ITIL
3 15 (62.50%) ITSM
4 13 (54.17%) DevOps
5 12 (50.00%) Change Management
6 8 (33.33%) Incident Management
6 8 (33.33%) Problem Management
7 7 (29.17%) Dashboard Development
7 7 (29.17%) Performance Metrics
7 7 (29.17%) Service Delivery
8 6 (25.00%) Workflow
9 5 (20.83%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (20.83%) Incident Response
10 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
10 4 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
10 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (16.67%) Kanban
10 4 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 17 (70.83%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.67%) PHP
4 1 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (91.67%) SC Cleared
1 22 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) MCSA
5 1 (4.17%) MCSE
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.17%) OCA
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) JSP 440
1 1 (4.17%) NCSC
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Atlassian
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Dell
3 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.17%) OpenText
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.17%) Veeam
3 1 (4.17%) VMware