RESTful Contracts in Scotland

RESTful
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for RESTful skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RESTful over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 137 108
Rank change year-on-year +45 -29 -1
Contract jobs citing RESTful 39 28 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.77% 0.98% 1.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.41% 4.06% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 41
10th Percentile £352 £456 £413
25th Percentile £378 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -31.91% +11.90% +23.53%
75th Percentile £480 £628 £575
90th Percentile £538 £716 £610
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% +25.00% +46.34%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

RESTful 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 464 690 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.02% 24.13% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 526 486
10th Percentile £325 £406 £359
25th Percentile £410 £438 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £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%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in Scotland

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in Scotland

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in Scotland

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in Scotland

RESTful
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 RESTful within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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 +28 36 £400 -30.43% 13
Edinburgh +32 3 £463 -2.63% 7
RESTful
UK

RESTful
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 6 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) AWS
2 8 (20.51%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) GCP
4 4 (10.26%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.56%) Apigee
5 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.56%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.56%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Relational Database
2 5 (12.82%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.69%) MariaDB
3 3 (7.69%) MySQL
4 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) Jenkins
2 12 (30.77%) Git
3 6 (15.38%) Bitbucket
4 5 (12.82%) JIRA
5 3 (7.69%) webpack
6 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.13%) Selenium
6 2 (5.13%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.56%) Gatling
7 1 (2.56%) GitLab
7 1 (2.56%) JMeter
7 1 (2.56%) Maven
General
1 6 (15.38%) Banking
2 5 (12.82%) Finance
2 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (76.92%) Developer
2 16 (41.03%) Java Developer
3 9 (23.08%) Senior
3 9 (23.08%) Senior Developer
4 7 (17.95%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Backend Developer
6 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (7.69%) Java Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) AWS Developer
8 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Full Stack Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Developer in Test
9 1 (2.56%) Mobile Architect
9 1 (2.56%) React Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Senior React Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Software Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (38.46%) Spring
2 14 (35.90%) Spring Boot
3 8 (20.51%) Kafka
3 8 (20.51%) React
3 8 (20.51%) Web Services
4 7 (17.95%) JSON
4 7 (17.95%) XML
5 6 (15.38%) LDAP
5 6 (15.38%) OpenID
6 5 (12.82%) CSS
6 5 (12.82%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (12.82%) HTML
6 5 (12.82%) OpenTracing
7 4 (10.26%) Redux
8 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
8 3 (7.69%) CSS3
8 3 (7.69%) HTML5
8 3 (7.69%) Node.js
9 2 (5.13%) Gherkin
9 2 (5.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Cloud Native
1 8 (20.51%) Data Structures
1 8 (20.51%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (15.38%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Unix
1 4 (10.26%) VMS
2 2 (5.13%) Linux
3 1 (2.56%) Android
3 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) Microservices
2 19 (48.72%) Agile
3 17 (43.59%) CI/CD
4 13 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 12 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (25.64%) SDLC
7 8 (20.51%) End-to-End Testing
7 8 (20.51%) Software Engineering
8 7 (17.95%) OO
8 7 (17.95%) Release Management
9 6 (15.38%) Clean Code
9 6 (15.38%) Data Modelling
10 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
10 5 (12.82%) Continuous Delivery
10 5 (12.82%) DevOps
10 5 (12.82%) Front End Development
11 4 (10.26%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (10.26%) Dependency Injection
11 4 (10.26%) User Experience
11 4 (10.26%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) Java
2 14 (35.90%) SQL
3 9 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 9 (23.08%) Kotlin
3 9 (23.08%) Scala
4 7 (17.95%) Go
5 6 (15.38%) C
6 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.56%) Bash
7 1 (2.56%) C#
7 1 (2.56%) Python
7 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Docker
2 6 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Prometheus
2 5 (12.82%) Zipkin
3 2 (5.13%) Terraform
4 1 (2.56%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Cadence
2 2 (5.13%) Google
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) Adobe
3 1 (2.56%) Confluent
3 1 (2.56%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.56%) IBM
3 1 (2.56%) Teradata