REST Jobs in South Wales

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 62 63
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +5
Permanent jobs citing REST 9 40 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.14% 2.73% 3.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.29% 14.34% 14.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7 37 18
10th Percentile £30,750 £42,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £37,350 £43,750 £49,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -19.23% +44.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,000 - £74,125
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
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 63 279 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 7.98% 19.07% 24.49%
Number of salaries quoted 57 196 140
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,411 £43,499 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,122 £67,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £77,500 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £63,250 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year +26.50% +4.17% -4.00%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in South Wales

REST
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for REST in South Wales

REST
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in South Wales over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in South Wales

REST
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +4 7 £70,000 +33.33% 8
Bridgend +56 2 £36,250 -30.95% 1
REST
Wales

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (33.33%) CMS
1 3 (33.33%) Confluence
1 3 (33.33%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Contentful
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git
2 3 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) Appium
3 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) JMeter
3 2 (22.22%) JUnit
3 2 (22.22%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (22.22%) Maven
3 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
3 2 (22.22%) Selenium
3 2 (22.22%) TestNG
4 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
4 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) AngularJS
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
1 5 (55.56%) HTML
2 4 (44.44%) Node.js
2 4 (44.44%) React
2 4 (44.44%) SOAP
3 3 (33.33%) Bootstrap
3 3 (33.33%) Express.js
3 3 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 3 (33.33%) hapi
3 3 (33.33%) NestJS
3 3 (33.33%) OpenLayers
3 3 (33.33%) React Native
3 3 (33.33%) Vue
4 2 (22.22%) .NET
4 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
4 2 (22.22%) RESTful
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
5 1 (11.11%) Django
5 1 (11.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (44.44%) TDD
5 4 (44.44%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
6 3 (33.33%) API Development
6 3 (33.33%) BDD
6 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
6 3 (33.33%) Design Patterns
6 3 (33.33%) Microservices
6 3 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (33.33%) Scrum
6 3 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
7 2 (22.22%) API Testing
7 2 (22.22%) CRM
7 2 (22.22%) DevOps
7 2 (22.22%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) TypeScript
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) C#
4 2 (22.22%) Groovy
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft