REST Contracts in Scotland

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 63 63
Rank change year-on-year +21 0 -15
Contract jobs citing REST 103 118 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.67% 4.13% 3.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.20% 17.08% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 93 69
10th Percentile £417 £413 £400
25th Percentile £451 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £637 £548 £538
90th Percentile £744 £610 £640
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.48
25th Percentile - - £25.32
Median hourly rate - - £34.52
75th Percentile - - £42.59
90th Percentile - - £46.76
UK median hourly rate £74.44 £53.87 £49.75
% change year-on-year +38.18% +8.28% +24.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 464 691 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.02% 24.21% 20.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 527 488
10th Percentile £325 £406 £360
25th Percentile £410 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £33.58 £49.99 £37.73
25th Percentile £44.94 £53.38 £41.89
Median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.52 £49.34
90th Percentile - £67.81 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Scotland

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for REST in Scotland

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Scotland

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for REST in Scotland

REST
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Glasgow +26 45 £500 -33.33% 6
Edinburgh +4 31 £479 -4.20% 6
West Lothian - 16 £523 -
South Lanarkshire - 6 £750 -
Lanarkshire - 1 £460 -
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 21 (20.39%) Confluence
2 3 (2.91%) Apache
3 2 (1.94%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.94%) IIS
3 2 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.94%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 50 (48.54%) AWS
2 18 (17.48%) OpenShift
3 14 (13.59%) AWS CodePipeline
3 14 (13.59%) Serverless
4 13 (12.62%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (12.62%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (11.65%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.83%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (5.83%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 4 (3.88%) IaaS
8 3 (2.91%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.91%) Azure
8 3 (2.91%) CloudFront
8 3 (2.91%) iPaaS
8 3 (2.91%) npm
8 3 (2.91%) SaaS
9 2 (1.94%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.97%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.97%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.97%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.68%) HTTP
2 8 (7.77%) SSL
2 8 (7.77%) TCP/IP
3 7 (6.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (6.80%) NetScaler
4 4 (3.88%) NAS
4 4 (3.88%) SAN
5 3 (2.91%) 5G
6 2 (1.94%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.36%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (13.59%) Oracle Database
3 7 (6.80%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.91%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.94%) Power BI
7 1 (0.97%) GIS
7 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (33.01%) Git
1 34 (33.01%) Jenkins
2 21 (20.39%) JIRA
3 15 (14.56%) JUnit
4 13 (12.62%) Cucumber
5 12 (11.65%) Postman
6 9 (8.74%) GitLab
7 5 (4.85%) IntelliJ
8 4 (3.88%) Cypress.io
8 4 (3.88%) Maven
9 3 (2.91%) webpack
10 2 (1.94%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.94%) Subversion
10 2 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (38.83%) Social Skills
2 27 (26.21%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.71%) Finance
3 10 (9.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (8.74%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (7.77%) Back Office
5 8 (7.77%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.85%) Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Legal
8 1 (0.97%) Military
8 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (55.34%) Developer
2 36 (34.95%) Java Developer
3 14 (13.59%) Senior
4 12 (11.65%) Senior Developer
5 11 (10.68%) Senior Java Developer
6 9 (8.74%) Architect
6 9 (8.74%) Full Stack Developer
7 8 (7.77%) Data Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Full Stack Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) AWS Architect
8 7 (6.80%) Java Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) JIRA Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Applications Support
10 5 (4.85%) Applications Support Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (45.63%) Spring Boot
2 46 (44.66%) Spring
3 31 (30.10%) CSS
4 27 (26.21%) HTML
5 21 (20.39%) Kafka
6 20 (19.42%) React
7 16 (15.53%) AngularJS
8 15 (14.56%) AWS CDK
9 13 (12.62%) Apache Camel
10 12 (11.65%) OAuth
10 12 (11.65%) SOAP
11 11 (10.68%) J2EE
11 11 (10.68%) JPA
11 11 (10.68%) Web Services
12 9 (8.74%) Spring Security
13 8 (7.77%) Node.js
13 8 (7.77%) Spring MVC
13 8 (7.77%) Spring Web Flow
14 7 (6.80%) Thymeleaf
15 6 (5.83%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Data Protection Act
1 11 (10.68%) Public Cloud
2 7 (6.80%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.83%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.94%) CMDB
4 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.97%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.45%) Linux
2 11 (10.68%) Unix
3 6 (5.83%) Windows
3 6 (5.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (50.49%) CI/CD
2 51 (49.51%) Agile
3 30 (29.13%) Microservices
4 23 (22.33%) TDD
5 22 (21.36%) Full Stack Development
6 21 (20.39%) Migration
7 20 (19.42%) Data Protection
7 20 (19.42%) DevOps
8 18 (17.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (16.50%) Service Management
10 16 (15.53%) Analytics
11 15 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (14.56%) Roadmaps
12 14 (13.59%) Software Engineering
13 13 (12.62%) Artificial Intelligence
13 13 (12.62%) Machine Learning
13 13 (12.62%) SDLC
14 12 (11.65%) Inclusive Design
14 12 (11.65%) MVC
14 12 (11.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 68 (66.02%) Java
2 46 (44.66%) SQL
3 31 (30.10%) Python
4 23 (22.33%) JavaScript
5 20 (19.42%) TypeScript
6 13 (12.62%) Perl
7 9 (8.74%) Bash
8 6 (5.83%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.91%) PHP
10 2 (1.94%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.97%) C#
11 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (7.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.85%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.91%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.62%) Accessibility
2 9 (8.74%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 30 (29.13%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (13.59%) Grafana
2 8 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.77%) Terraform
3 5 (4.85%) Kibana
4 4 (3.88%) NetBackup
4 4 (3.88%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.91%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (21.36%) Oracle
2 7 (6.80%) Atlassian
2 7 (6.80%) F5
3 4 (3.88%) Veritas
4 2 (1.94%) IBM
4 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.94%) Splunk