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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 50 53
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing REST 3 11 25
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.71% 1.88% 2.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.82% 12.50% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 14
10th Percentile - £424 -
25th Percentile - £483 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £503
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% +9.55% -4.29%
75th Percentile £603 £551 £619
90th Percentile £634 £571 £721
South West median daily rate £528 £542 £575
% change year-on-year -2.59% -5.83% +9.52%

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 34 88 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 8.10% 15.02% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 62 77
10th Percentile £450 £414 £418
25th Percentile £525 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% +0.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £634 £655 £625
90th Percentile £653 £690 £693
South West median daily rate £524 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.73% +4.76% -

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
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 14 October 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
Swindon -4 2 £550 +18.92% 5
Corsham +8 1 £630 +14.34% 5
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 2 (66.67%) Alfresco
1 2 (66.67%) Camunda
2 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) JPA
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) Keycloak
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) SOLID
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Review
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) MCSA
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) OCA
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
1 1 (33.33%) Veeam
1 1 (33.33%) VMware