REST Jobs in Cardiff

Representational State Transfer (REST)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 30 31
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +38
Permanent jobs citing REST 7 36 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.91% 5.01% 6.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.95% 18.85% 22.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5 34 16
10th Percentile £52,069 £42,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £43,000 £55,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -19.23% -1.89%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,500 - £75,000
South Wales median annual salary £70,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -19.23% +44.44%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cardiff

REST falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 39 191 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 21.79% 26.60% 28.75%
Number of salaries quoted 35 171 110
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,330 £43,565 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £66,125 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £60,000 £52,686 £51,104
% change year-on-year +13.88% +3.10% +2.21%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Cardiff

REST
Salary Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST in Cardiff.

Salary trend for REST in Cardiff

REST
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Cardiff over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (42.86%) CMS
1 3 (42.86%) Confluence
1 3 (42.86%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Contentful
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Appium
3 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) JMeter
3 2 (28.57%) JUnit
3 2 (28.57%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (28.57%) Maven
3 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
3 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) TestNG
4 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
4 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Node.js
1 4 (57.14%) React
2 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
2 3 (42.86%) Bootstrap
2 3 (42.86%) CSS
2 3 (42.86%) Express.js
2 3 (42.86%) GraphQL
2 3 (42.86%) hapi
2 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) NestJS
2 3 (42.86%) OpenLayers
2 3 (42.86%) React Native
2 3 (42.86%) Vue
3 2 (28.57%) SOAP
4 1 (14.29%) Django
4 1 (14.29%) Java EE
4 1 (14.29%) Redux
4 1 (14.29%) Spring
4 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
3 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (57.14%) TDD
4 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
5 3 (42.86%) API Development
5 3 (42.86%) BDD
5 3 (42.86%) Microservices
5 3 (42.86%) Mobile Application Development
5 3 (42.86%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (42.86%) Sprint Retrospective
6 2 (28.57%) API Testing
6 2 (28.57%) DevOps
6 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
6 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
7 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
7 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Atlassian
1 3 (42.86%) Google