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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 54 47
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing REST 29 23 31
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.84% 3.05% 3.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.01% 14.38% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 21
10th Percentile £338 £356 £400
25th Percentile £420 £357 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £390 £498
Median % change year-on-year +28.37% -21.71% -9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £425 £700
90th Percentile £563 £438 £780
Scotland median daily rate £500 £420 £503
% change year-on-year +19.05% -16.50% +5.01%

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 207 160 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 27.42% 21.19% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 112 104
10th Percentile £355 £350 £400
25th Percentile £404 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £542 £538 £603
90th Percentile £625 £671 £711
Scotland median daily rate £500 £461 £498
% change year-on-year +8.40% -7.29% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +43.34%

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 8 December 2025.

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 6 (20.69%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (17.24%) Apache
2 5 (17.24%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.90%) Alfresco
3 2 (6.90%) Apache Solr
4 1 (3.45%) Anypoint
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.45%) Mule
4 1 (3.45%) nginx
4 1 (3.45%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Power Platform
2 5 (17.24%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Snowflake
3 4 (13.79%) Apigee
3 4 (13.79%) Azure
4 3 (10.34%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (10.34%) Serverless
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.45%) Apple Pay
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.45%) Google Pay
6 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) DNS
2 7 (24.14%) 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 8 (27.59%) Power BI
2 7 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (17.24%) Big Data
3 5 (17.24%) Hadoop
4 4 (13.79%) MySQL
5 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
6 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (6.90%) DB2
6 2 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (6.90%) Metadata
6 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
6 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (44.83%) Git
2 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) JUnit
3 2 (6.90%) Mockito
4 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 13 (44.83%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Banking
2 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) Java Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Data Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Developer
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%) Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Integration Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Power Platform Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (51.72%) SOAP
2 8 (27.59%) RESTful
3 6 (20.69%) AngularJS
4 4 (13.79%) OAuth
4 4 (13.79%) Spring
4 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
5 3 (10.34%) HTML
5 3 (10.34%) JSON
5 3 (10.34%) JWT
5 3 (10.34%) Kafka
6 2 (6.90%) .NET
6 2 (6.90%) CSS
6 2 (6.90%) J2EE
6 2 (6.90%) OAuth2
6 2 (6.90%) XML
7 1 (3.45%) Apache Camel
7 1 (3.45%) boto
7 1 (3.45%) OpenCV
7 1 (3.45%) Pandas
7 1 (3.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
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%) CMDB
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) FMCG
4 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.45%) STIX
4 1 (3.45%) TAXII
4 1 (3.45%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Linux
2 8 (27.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Agile
2 14 (48.28%) CI/CD
3 9 (31.03%) API Integration
3 9 (31.03%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (27.59%) Data Integration
4 8 (27.59%) ETL
4 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
5 7 (24.14%) Data Modelling
5 7 (24.14%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.24%) Analytics
7 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (17.24%) Microservices
7 5 (17.24%) Migration
7 5 (17.24%) Visualisation
8 4 (13.79%) ERP
8 4 (13.79%) Incident Response
8 4 (13.79%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (13.79%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 12 (41.38%) Java
3 9 (31.03%) JavaScript
4 5 (17.24%) SQL
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%) PHP
8 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Grafana
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) ServiceNow
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.24%) Databricks
3 5 (17.24%) F5
3 5 (17.24%) Infoblox
3 5 (17.24%) MuleSoft
4 3 (10.34%) ArcSight
4 3 (10.34%) Splunk
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle
6 1 (3.45%) Apple
6 1 (3.45%) DocuSign
6 1 (3.45%) GoCardless
6 1 (3.45%) Google
6 1 (3.45%) Pega