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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 86 65
Rank change year-on-year +46 -21 -4
Contract jobs citing REST 14 3 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 3.07% 0.33% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.95% 3.33% 19.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 13
10th Percentile £550 - £485
25th Percentile £563 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% +7.95%
75th Percentile £616 £488 £625
90th Percentile £643 - £723
South West median daily rate £575 £488 £575
% change year-on-year +17.95% -15.22% +10.58%

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 61 90 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 13.38% 9.87% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 68 93
10th Percentile £499 £410 £438
25th Percentile £531 £512 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +7.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £625
90th Percentile £688 - £696
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +2.44%

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

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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 3 July 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 +46 12 £575 -
Swindon 0 2 £550 +15.79% 3
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 (57.14%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) Alfresco
2 2 (14.29%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (85.71%) Bitbucket
1 12 (85.71%) Git
2 10 (71.43%) Jenkins
3 8 (57.14%) JIRA
4 2 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (78.57%) SOAP
2 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) JPA
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) Keycloak
2 2 (14.29%) Spring
2 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 2 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
2 10 (71.43%) Windows
2 10 (71.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Agile
1 12 (85.71%) Configuration Management
1 12 (85.71%) Deployment Automation
2 11 (78.57%) Infrastructure Automation
2 11 (78.57%) NsoIT
2 11 (78.57%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (78.57%) Reverse Engineering
2 11 (78.57%) Validation
3 10 (71.43%) Service Management
3 10 (71.43%) System Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) TDD
6 2 (14.29%) High Availability
6 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 2 (14.29%) Microservices
6 2 (14.29%) Observability
6 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) SOLID
6 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 11 (78.57%) Bash
2 11 (78.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (78.57%) OCA
2 11 (78.57%) Oracle Certification
2 11 (78.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 10 (71.43%) CCNP
3 10 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (71.43%) RHCA
3 10 (71.43%) RHCE
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) MCSA
4 1 (7.14%) MCSE
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Ansible
2 11 (78.57%) Progress Chef
2 11 (78.57%) Puppet
2 11 (78.57%) vCenter Server
3 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.14%) PowerCLI
4 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Oracle
1 11 (78.57%) VMware
2 10 (71.43%) Cisco
3 8 (57.14%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.14%) Veeam