REST Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 48 41
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 +18
Contract jobs citing REST 63 36 26
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.71% 4.90% 3.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.42% 13.48% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 29 24
10th Percentile - £313 £357
25th Percentile £320 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £454 £425
Median % change year-on-year -29.07% +6.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £407 £538 £463
90th Percentile £633 £551 £539
Scotland median daily rate £390 £463 £445
% change year-on-year -15.68% +3.93% -7.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

REST falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 281 267 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.45% 36.33% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 154 112
10th Percentile £311 £313 £356
25th Percentile £325 £411 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +3.26% -11.54%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £519
90th Percentile £636 £625 £629
Scotland median daily rate £450 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -8.81% +3.89% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - +3.03%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

REST job vacancy trend in Glasgow

REST
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing REST

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Glasgow over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Glasgow

REST
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing REST.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing REST

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 15 (23.81%) SharePoint
2 13 (20.63%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.59%) Moodle
3 1 (1.59%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.33%) Azure
2 17 (26.98%) AWS
3 16 (25.40%) Power Platform
4 15 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (23.81%) Power Automate
4 15 (23.81%) PowerApps
5 13 (20.63%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.94%) GitHub
6 5 (7.94%) OpenShift
7 4 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.76%) GCP
8 3 (4.76%) Google Play
8 3 (4.76%) Serverless
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) NAS
1 3 (4.76%) SAN
2 1 (1.59%) CTI
2 1 (1.59%) PSTN
2 1 (1.59%) RTP
2 1 (1.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.22%) Power BI
2 6 (9.52%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.76%) Metadata
4 2 (3.17%) MySQL
5 1 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (34.92%) Git
2 16 (25.40%) Jenkins
3 12 (19.05%) Maven
4 10 (15.87%) Gradle
4 10 (15.87%) JUnit
5 7 (11.11%) GoCD
6 6 (9.52%) JProfiler
7 5 (7.94%) JIRA
8 4 (6.35%) Subversion
9 3 (4.76%) Android Studio
9 3 (4.76%) GitLab
10 2 (3.17%) Postman
10 2 (3.17%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.59%) Appium
11 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.59%) git-flow
11 1 (1.59%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.59%) Mocha
11 1 (1.59%) Selenium
11 1 (1.59%) TestNG
General
1 13 (20.63%) Documentation Skills
1 13 (20.63%) Finance
2 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.52%) Banking
5 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (77.78%) Developer
2 20 (31.75%) Java Developer
3 13 (20.63%) SharePoint Developer
4 10 (15.87%) Senior
5 9 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 8 (12.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (7.94%) Python Developer
8 5 (7.94%) Python Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Architect
9 4 (6.35%) Lead
9 4 (6.35%) Lead Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Lead Java Developer
10 3 (4.76%) Android Developer
11 2 (3.17%) iOS Developer
11 2 (3.17%) Power Platform Developer
11 2 (3.17%) Senior Python Developer
12 1 (1.59%) Moodle Developer
12 1 (1.59%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (44.44%) React
2 23 (36.51%) Spring
2 23 (36.51%) Spring Boot
3 21 (33.33%) CSS
3 21 (33.33%) HTML
4 15 (23.81%) JPA
5 13 (20.63%) SPFx
6 12 (19.05%) Node.js
7 11 (17.46%) FreeMarker
8 10 (15.87%) Kafka
9 9 (14.29%) JSF
10 8 (12.70%) HTML5
11 7 (11.11%) Celery
11 7 (11.11%) CSS3
11 7 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (11.11%) RESTful
12 6 (9.52%) JDBC
12 6 (9.52%) JSP
12 6 (9.52%) Redux
12 6 (9.52%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) CMDB
5 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.59%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.59%) FMCG
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) IVR
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.11%) Unix
2 5 (7.94%) Windows
3 3 (4.76%) Android
4 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.59%) Linux
5 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (58.73%) CI/CD
2 26 (41.27%) Agile
3 17 (26.98%) Scrum
4 16 (25.40%) Microservices
5 15 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (20.63%) Document Management
7 12 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (19.05%) Test Automation
8 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (14.29%) TDD
9 8 (12.70%) Functional Programming
9 8 (12.70%) Machine Learning
10 7 (11.11%) Migration
10 7 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
10 7 (11.11%) Web Accessibility
11 6 (9.52%) DevOps
11 6 (9.52%) MVC
11 6 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (7.94%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 30 (47.62%) Java
2 26 (41.27%) JavaScript
3 15 (23.81%) Python
4 13 (20.63%) TypeScript
5 9 (14.29%) SQL
6 3 (4.76%) Kotlin
6 3 (4.76%) Perl
6 3 (4.76%) Ruby
7 2 (3.17%) PHP
7 2 (3.17%) Swift
8 1 (1.59%) Bash
8 1 (1.59%) C#
8 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.59%) Degree
2 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.94%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) GRC
3 1 (1.59%) MiFID
3 1 (1.59%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.11%) Ansible
3 3 (4.76%) NetBackup
4 2 (3.17%) Grafana
5 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 7 (11.11%) Oracle
3 4 (6.35%) Google
4 3 (4.76%) Veritas
5 2 (3.17%) Informatica
5 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) Apple
6 1 (1.59%) Databricks
6 1 (1.59%) GoCardless
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.59%) Splunk
6 1 (1.59%) Talend