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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 53 43
Rank change year-on-year +18 -10 +13
Contract jobs citing REST 70 28 25
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.88% 3.75% 3.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.26% 10.22% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 25 24
10th Percentile - £313 £356
25th Percentile £320 £375 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £454 £425
Median % change year-on-year -29.07% +6.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £476 £538 £453
90th Percentile £610 £541 £533
Scotland median daily rate £430 £483 £438
% change year-on-year -10.88% +10.29% -10.71%
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 301 274 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.29% 36.68% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 152 107
10th Percentile £306 £350 £350
25th Percentile £325 £411 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -11.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £513
90th Percentile £625 £649 £648
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -1.55%
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% - -4.70%

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 26 September 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 10 (14.29%) SharePoint
1 10 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (2.86%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) Confluence
3 1 (1.43%) JBoss
3 1 (1.43%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.29%) AWS
2 22 (31.43%) Azure
3 11 (15.71%) Power Platform
4 10 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 10 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 10 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 9 (12.86%) GitHub
6 7 (10.00%) GCP
6 7 (10.00%) OpenShift
7 6 (8.57%) ChatGPT
7 6 (8.57%) Collibra
8 5 (7.14%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.71%) Serverless
10 3 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.29%) Google Play
10 3 (4.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) NAS
1 4 (5.71%) SAN
2 1 (1.43%) BGP
2 1 (1.43%) CTI
2 1 (1.43%) DHCP
2 1 (1.43%) DNS
2 1 (1.43%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) IPv4
2 1 (1.43%) IPv6
2 1 (1.43%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.43%) LAN
2 1 (1.43%) OSPF
2 1 (1.43%) PSTN
2 1 (1.43%) RTP
2 1 (1.43%) SSL
2 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.43%) VLAN
2 1 (1.43%) VPN
2 1 (1.43%) WAN
2 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.71%) Power BI
2 8 (11.43%) Metadata
2 8 (11.43%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.86%) MySQL
3 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.43%) Flink
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (45.71%) Git
2 19 (27.14%) Jenkins
3 13 (18.57%) Maven
4 11 (15.71%) Gradle
5 10 (14.29%) JUnit
6 7 (10.00%) GoCD
7 6 (8.57%) JIRA
7 6 (8.57%) JProfiler
8 4 (5.71%) Subversion
9 3 (4.29%) Android Studio
10 2 (2.86%) GitLab
11 1 (1.43%) Appium
11 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.43%) Gerrit
11 1 (1.43%) git-flow
11 1 (1.43%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.43%) Mocha
11 1 (1.43%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.43%) Selenium
11 1 (1.43%) TestNG
General
1 25 (35.71%) Finance
2 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.57%) Banking
4 12 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (71.43%) Developer
2 21 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 13 (18.57%) Senior
4 11 (15.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 10 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 10 (14.29%) SharePoint Developer
6 9 (12.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (8.57%) Python Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Lead
9 4 (5.71%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Lead Java Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Android Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Architect
11 2 (2.86%) Integration Architect
11 2 (2.86%) iOS Developer
12 1 (1.43%) Consultant
12 1 (1.43%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (40.00%) React
2 25 (35.71%) Spring
2 25 (35.71%) Spring Boot
3 16 (22.86%) HTML
4 15 (21.43%) CSS
4 15 (21.43%) JPA
5 12 (17.14%) Kafka
6 11 (15.71%) FreeMarker
6 11 (15.71%) Node.js
7 10 (14.29%) JSON
7 10 (14.29%) SPFx
7 10 (14.29%) YAML
8 9 (12.86%) FastAPI
8 9 (12.86%) JSF
8 9 (12.86%) pydantic
9 8 (11.43%) RESTful
10 7 (10.00%) Celery
10 7 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (8.57%) AngularJS
11 6 (8.57%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.14%) Taxonomies
4 3 (4.29%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.86%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) PKI
5 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) IVR
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.43%) Unix
2 5 (7.14%) Windows
3 3 (4.29%) Android
4 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.86%) Linux
5 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (65.71%) CI/CD
2 28 (40.00%) Agile
3 21 (30.00%) Microservices
4 18 (25.71%) Scrum
5 17 (24.29%) Test Automation
6 15 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (17.14%) DevOps
9 11 (15.71%) AI
10 10 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 10 (14.29%) Document Management
10 10 (14.29%) Validation
11 9 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (11.43%) Data Governance
12 8 (11.43%) Functional Programming
12 8 (11.43%) Machine Learning
12 8 (11.43%) Migration
12 8 (11.43%) TDD
13 7 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (44.29%) Java
2 24 (34.29%) Python
3 21 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 17 (24.29%) SQL
5 11 (15.71%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.71%) Go
6 4 (5.71%) Perl
7 3 (4.29%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.29%) Ruby
8 2 (2.86%) Swift
9 1 (1.43%) Bash
9 1 (1.43%) C#
9 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.43%) Degree
2 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 8 (11.43%) Accessibility
3 7 (10.00%) QA
4 2 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.86%) GDPR
5 1 (1.43%) GRC
5 1 (1.43%) MiFID
5 1 (1.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (11.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) GPFS
2 1 (1.43%) NFS
2 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (31.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.86%) Ansible
3 3 (4.29%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.86%) Grafana
5 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) MuleSoft
1 9 (12.86%) Oracle
2 4 (5.71%) Google
3 3 (4.29%) Informatica
3 3 (4.29%) Veritas
4 2 (2.86%) Databricks
4 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.86%) Splunk
5 1 (1.43%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.43%) Brocade
5 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.43%) EMC
5 1 (1.43%) IBM
5 1 (1.43%) NetApp
5 1 (1.43%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.43%) Talend
5 1 (1.43%) VMware
5 1 (1.43%) webMethods