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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 36 63
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 -14
Contract jobs citing REST 29 25 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.96% 3.70% 1.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.78% 18.80% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 9
10th Percentile £313 £356 £365
25th Percentile £377 £371 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.12% -5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £534 £453 £488
90th Percentile £540 £539 £515
Scotland median daily rate £475 £440 £488
% change year-on-year +7.95% -9.74% -2.50%

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 227 133 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 31.01% 19.67% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 100 107
10th Percentile £313 £350 £395
25th Percentile £410 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £541 £566
90th Percentile £613 £675 £638
Scotland median daily rate £491 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +3.37% -0.84% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.62
25th Percentile £52.50 - £21.80
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £30.45
Median % change year-on-year - - +131.34%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £39.09
90th Percentile - - £44.27
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -6.83% -1.09%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Glasgow

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Glasgow over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Glasgow

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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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 5 (17.24%) Apache
1 5 (17.24%) Apache Spark
2 4 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (10.34%) JBoss
3 3 (10.34%) Tomcat
3 3 (10.34%) WebLogic
3 3 (10.34%) WebSphere
4 2 (6.90%) Alfresco
4 2 (6.90%) Apache Solr
5 1 (3.45%) Anypoint
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (3.45%) Mule
5 1 (3.45%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
3 4 (13.79%) Apigee
3 4 (13.79%) Snowflake
4 3 (10.34%) Azure
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) DNS
1 8 (27.59%) HTTP
2 7 (24.14%) TCP/IP
3 5 (17.24%) DHCP
4 4 (13.79%) SSL
5 1 (3.45%) AMQP
5 1 (3.45%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) DB2
2 4 (13.79%) Big Data
2 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (13.79%) Hadoop
2 4 (13.79%) Power BI
3 3 (10.34%) MySQL
3 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (58.62%) Git
2 9 (31.03%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
3 3 (10.34%) JUnit
4 2 (6.90%) JIRA
4 2 (6.90%) Maven
4 2 (6.90%) Mockito
5 1 (3.45%) GitLab
5 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (55.17%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Back Office
5 1 (3.45%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (58.62%) Developer
2 9 (31.03%) Java Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Data Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Python Data Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Python Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Scrum Master
6 1 (3.45%) Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Database Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (3.45%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Security Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (51.72%) SOAP
2 9 (31.03%) RESTful
3 8 (27.59%) AngularJS
4 4 (13.79%) HTML
4 4 (13.79%) Kafka
4 4 (13.79%) OAuth
4 4 (13.79%) Spring
4 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
5 3 (10.34%) CSS
5 3 (10.34%) RAML
5 3 (10.34%) Web Services
5 3 (10.34%) WSDL
6 2 (6.90%) .NET
6 2 (6.90%) J2EE
6 2 (6.90%) JSON
6 2 (6.90%) JWT
6 2 (6.90%) Node.js
6 2 (6.90%) OAuth2
6 2 (6.90%) React
6 2 (6.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.34%) Private Cloud
2 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.90%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) STIX
4 1 (3.45%) TAXII
4 1 (3.45%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Linux
2 8 (27.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Agile
2 14 (48.28%) CI/CD
3 8 (27.59%) DevOps
3 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
4 7 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (24.14%) Scrum
5 6 (20.69%) API Development
5 6 (20.69%) API Integration
6 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (17.24%) Clean Code
6 5 (17.24%) Data Integration
6 5 (17.24%) ETL
6 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (17.24%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (17.24%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (17.24%) Sprint Review
7 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
7 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (13.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Python
2 13 (44.83%) Java
3 9 (31.03%) SQL
4 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.79%) Bash
5 4 (13.79%) Perl
6 3 (10.34%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
7 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.45%) C#
8 1 (3.45%) DataWeave
8 1 (3.45%) Groovy
8 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle
2 5 (17.24%) F5
2 5 (17.24%) Infoblox
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) MuleSoft
2 5 (17.24%) ServiceNow
3 4 (13.79%) Databricks
4 3 (10.34%) ArcSight
4 3 (10.34%) Splunk
5 1 (3.45%) DocuSign
5 1 (3.45%) IBM
5 1 (3.45%) Pega