REST Contracts in Wiltshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 45 88 80
Rank change year-on-year +43 -8 -20
Contract jobs citing REST 12 1 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 2.67% 0.11% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.90% 1.61% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 8
10th Percentile - - £434
25th Percentile £563 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.80%
75th Percentile £625 - £578
90th Percentile £648 - £591
South West median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +5.77%

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 71 62 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 15.81% 6.57% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 49 121
10th Percentile £505 £490 £438
25th Percentile £531 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £688 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.64% +25.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £600
90th Percentile £738 £705 £700
South West median daily rate £548 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.38% - +5.00%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Wiltshire

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for REST in Wiltshire

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in Wiltshire

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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 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
Corsham - 12 £575 -
REST
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 8 (66.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 12 (100.00%) Git
2 10 (83.33%) Jenkins
3 8 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 10 (83.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
1 12 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 12 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 11 (91.67%) NsoIT
2 11 (91.67%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (91.67%) Reverse Engineering
2 11 (91.67%) Validation
3 10 (83.33%) Service Management
3 10 (83.33%) System Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
7 1 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (91.67%) Bash
2 11 (91.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (91.67%) OCA
2 11 (91.67%) Oracle Certification
2 11 (91.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 10 (83.33%) CCNP
3 10 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (83.33%) RHCA
3 10 (83.33%) RHCE
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) MCSA
4 1 (8.33%) MCSE
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
2 11 (91.67%) Progress Chef
2 11 (91.67%) Puppet
2 11 (91.67%) vCenter Server
3 1 (8.33%) PowerCLI
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Oracle
1 11 (91.67%) VMware
2 10 (83.33%) Cisco
3 8 (66.67%) Atlassian
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (8.33%) Veeam