REST Job Trends in Wales

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 52 74
Rank change year-on-year -43 +22 -12
Permanent jobs citing REST 8 9 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.41% 1.71% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.25% 12.00% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 38
10th Percentile £42,000 £49,225 £42,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +33.33% -19.23%
75th Percentile £76,875 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 97 75 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 4.96% 14.23% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 81 69 303
10th Percentile £36,750 £37,733 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% +10.53%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing REST relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

REST job vacancy trend in Wales

REST
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Wales over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for REST in Wales

REST
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Wales region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. 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
South Wales -41 4 £45,000 -35.71% 5
West Wales - 4 £76,250 - 2
REST
UK

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (25.00%) CloudFront
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
5 1 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) JUnit
3 2 (25.00%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) Burp Suite
4 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (12.50%) Gatling
4 1 (12.50%) GitLab
4 1 (12.50%) IntelliJ
4 1 (12.50%) JMeter
4 1 (12.50%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (12.50%) Pa11y
4 1 (12.50%) Postman
4 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
4 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Spring Boot
2 4 (50.00%) HTML
2 4 (50.00%) Node.js
2 4 (50.00%) React
2 4 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
3 3 (37.50%) CSS
3 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
4 2 (25.00%) .NET
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (25.00%) AWS CDK
4 2 (25.00%) HTML5
4 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 2 (25.00%) Spring
4 2 (25.00%) Vue
5 1 (12.50%) CSS3
5 1 (12.50%) Jest
5 1 (12.50%) JPA
5 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (37.50%) Mainframe
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) AI
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (37.50%) BDD
4 3 (37.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) Information Assurance
5 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (25.00%) OWASP
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Ruby
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (25.00%) COBOL
5 1 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
1 2 (25.00%) WCAG
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) OneLogin
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle