REST Jobs in Wales

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 88 77
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 +8
Permanent jobs citing REST 8 39 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.67% 1.78% 3.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.89% 10.00% 12.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6 37 18
10th Percentile £49,225 £42,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £43,750 £51,125
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 £71,938
90th Percentile £76,250 - £75,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.70%

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 90 390 458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.49% 17.82% 27.12%
Number of salaries quoted 82 278 227
10th Percentile £37,733 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £48,938 £41,563 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,875 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £73,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Wales

REST
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for REST in Wales

REST
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Wales over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
South Wales +9 8 £70,000 +33.33% 101
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (37.50%) CMS
1 3 (37.50%) Confluence
1 3 (37.50%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Contentful
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) Appium
3 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) JMeter
3 2 (25.00%) JUnit
3 2 (25.00%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (25.00%) Maven
3 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (25.00%) TestNG
4 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Lead
4 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Node.js
1 4 (50.00%) React
2 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) Bootstrap
2 3 (37.50%) CSS
2 3 (37.50%) Express.js
2 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
2 3 (37.50%) hapi
2 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) NestJS
2 3 (37.50%) OpenLayers
2 3 (37.50%) React Native
2 3 (37.50%) Vue
3 2 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) Django
4 1 (12.50%) Java EE
4 1 (12.50%) Redux
4 1 (12.50%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) API Development
4 3 (37.50%) BDD
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) Mobile Application Development
4 3 (37.50%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (37.50%) Sprint Retrospective
5 2 (25.00%) API Testing
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
3 4 (50.00%) Java
4 3 (37.50%) Python
5 2 (25.00%) Groovy
6 1 (12.50%) C
6 1 (12.50%) C#
6 1 (12.50%) C++
6 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
1 3 (37.50%) Google