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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 51 42
Rank change year-on-year +18 -9 +15
Contract jobs citing REST 74 28 24
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.14% 3.73% 3.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.95% 10.22% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 25 24
10th Percentile - £313 £333
25th Percentile £320 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £377 £454 £423
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% +7.46% -6.11%
75th Percentile £480 £538 £441
90th Percentile £608 £541 £453
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -14.57%
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 309 274 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.64% 36.53% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 152 110
10th Percentile £309 £353 £350
25th Percentile £335 £413 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £435
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +9.20% -14.71%
75th Percentile £531 £575 £509
90th Percentile £625 £649 £619
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.11% -5.13%
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 2 October 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 8 (10.81%) SharePoint
1 8 (10.81%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (1.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.35%) JBoss
3 1 (1.35%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.49%) AWS
2 24 (32.43%) Azure
3 11 (14.86%) GitHub
4 10 (13.51%) GCP
4 10 (13.51%) Power Platform
5 9 (12.16%) Entra ID
6 8 (10.81%) GitHub Copilot
6 8 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (10.81%) OpenShift
6 8 (10.81%) Power Automate
6 8 (10.81%) PowerApps
7 7 (9.46%) ChatGPT
7 7 (9.46%) Collibra
8 6 (8.11%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.41%) Serverless
10 3 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.05%) Google Play
10 3 (4.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.76%) NAS
1 5 (6.76%) SAN
2 2 (2.70%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.35%) BGP
3 1 (1.35%) CTI
3 1 (1.35%) DHCP
3 1 (1.35%) DNS
3 1 (1.35%) Firewall
3 1 (1.35%) LAN
3 1 (1.35%) OSPF
3 1 (1.35%) PSTN
3 1 (1.35%) RTP
3 1 (1.35%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.35%) SSL
3 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.35%) VLAN
3 1 (1.35%) VPN
3 1 (1.35%) WAN
3 1 (1.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) Metadata
1 9 (12.16%) Power BI
2 8 (10.81%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.70%) MySQL
3 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.70%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.70%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.35%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.35%) Flink
4 1 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (48.65%) Git
2 19 (25.68%) Jenkins
3 14 (18.92%) Maven
4 13 (17.57%) Gradle
5 11 (14.86%) JUnit
6 7 (9.46%) GoCD
7 6 (8.11%) JIRA
7 6 (8.11%) JProfiler
8 4 (5.41%) Subversion
9 3 (4.05%) Android Studio
10 2 (2.70%) GitLab
11 1 (1.35%) Appium
11 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.35%) Gerrit
11 1 (1.35%) git-flow
11 1 (1.35%) Mocha
11 1 (1.35%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (1.35%) Postman
11 1 (1.35%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.35%) Selenium
General
1 25 (33.78%) Finance
2 15 (20.27%) Banking
3 14 (18.92%) Social Skills
4 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.05%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 52 (70.27%) Developer
2 23 (31.08%) Java Developer
3 13 (17.57%) Senior
4 12 (16.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (14.86%) Python Developer
6 10 (13.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (12.16%) Senior Developer
8 8 (10.81%) SharePoint Developer
9 6 (8.11%) Python Engineer
10 5 (6.76%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (5.41%) Lead
11 4 (5.41%) Lead Developer
11 4 (5.41%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (5.41%) Senior Python Developer
12 3 (4.05%) Android Developer
12 3 (4.05%) Architect
13 2 (2.70%) Integration Architect
13 2 (2.70%) iOS Developer
13 2 (2.70%) Java Engineer
13 2 (2.70%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (36.49%) React
1 27 (36.49%) Spring
1 27 (36.49%) Spring Boot
2 16 (21.62%) JPA
3 14 (18.92%) HTML
4 13 (17.57%) CSS
4 13 (17.57%) Kafka
5 12 (16.22%) JSON
5 12 (16.22%) Node.js
6 11 (14.86%) FreeMarker
6 11 (14.86%) YAML
7 10 (13.51%) FastAPI
7 10 (13.51%) pydantic
8 9 (12.16%) JSF
9 8 (10.81%) AngularJS
9 8 (10.81%) SPFx
10 7 (9.46%) RESTful
10 7 (9.46%) Terraform
11 6 (8.11%) HTML5
11 6 (8.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.46%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.11%) Taxonomies
4 3 (4.05%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.05%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) PKI
5 2 (2.70%) Replication
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.35%) IVR
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.46%) Unix
2 5 (6.76%) Linux
2 5 (6.76%) Windows
3 4 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.05%) Android
5 2 (2.70%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (67.57%) CI/CD
2 29 (39.19%) Agile
3 22 (29.73%) Microservices
4 18 (24.32%) Scrum
4 18 (24.32%) Test Automation
5 16 (21.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (20.27%) DevOps
7 14 (18.92%) AI
7 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (17.57%) Validation
9 11 (14.86%) Data Modelling
10 10 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (12.16%) Data Governance
11 9 (12.16%) Functional Programming
11 9 (12.16%) Migration
12 8 (10.81%) Document Management
12 8 (10.81%) Event-Driven
12 8 (10.81%) TDD
13 7 (9.46%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 35 (47.30%) Java
2 26 (35.14%) Python
3 21 (28.38%) SQL
4 20 (27.03%) JavaScript
5 9 (12.16%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.41%) Go
6 4 (5.41%) Perl
7 3 (4.05%) Bash
7 3 (4.05%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.05%) Ruby
8 2 (2.70%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.70%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.70%) Swift
9 1 (1.35%) C#
9 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (12.16%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.35%) Degree
2 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.86%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.81%) Accessibility
3 7 (9.46%) QA
4 3 (4.05%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (2.70%) GDPR
6 1 (1.35%) GRC
6 1 (1.35%) MiFID
6 1 (1.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (13.51%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) GPFS
2 2 (2.70%) NFS
3 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (33.78%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.86%) Ansible
3 3 (4.05%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.70%) Grafana
5 1 (1.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) Oracle
2 9 (12.16%) MuleSoft
3 4 (5.41%) Google
4 3 (4.05%) Informatica
4 3 (4.05%) Veritas
5 2 (2.70%) Databricks
5 2 (2.70%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.70%) IBM
5 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.70%) Splunk
6 1 (1.35%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.35%) Brocade
6 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.35%) EMC
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.35%) NetApp
6 1 (1.35%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.35%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.35%) Talend
6 1 (1.35%) webMethods