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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 50 36
Rank change year-on-year +13 -14 +25
Contract jobs citing REST 66 36 28
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.70% 4.88% 4.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.68% 13.09% 18.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 29 26
10th Percentile - £313 £356
25th Percentile £320 £375 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £454 £425
Median % change year-on-year -29.07% +6.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £425 £538 £453
90th Percentile £610 £543 £531
Scotland median daily rate £407 £465 £440
% change year-on-year -12.42% +5.68% -9.74%
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 291 275 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.15% 37.31% 21.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 159 110
10th Percentile £311 £319 £355
25th Percentile £325 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +3.26% -9.80%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £531
90th Percentile £634 £638 £635
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -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% - -3.53%

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 12 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 14 (21.21%) SharePoint
2 12 (18.18%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.52%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (31.82%) Azure
2 20 (30.30%) AWS
3 15 (22.73%) Power Platform
4 14 (21.21%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (21.21%) Power Automate
4 14 (21.21%) PowerApps
5 12 (18.18%) Entra ID
6 7 (10.61%) OpenShift
7 6 (9.09%) GitHub
8 5 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (6.06%) GCP
10 3 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.55%) Google Play
10 3 (4.55%) Serverless
11 2 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (3.03%) Collibra
11 2 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) NAS
1 4 (6.06%) SAN
2 1 (1.52%) CTI
2 1 (1.52%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.52%) PSTN
2 1 (1.52%) RTP
2 1 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.70%) Power BI
2 7 (10.61%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.55%) Metadata
3 3 (4.55%) MySQL
4 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.52%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (36.36%) Git
2 18 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 13 (19.70%) Maven
4 10 (15.15%) Gradle
4 10 (15.15%) JUnit
5 7 (10.61%) GoCD
6 6 (9.09%) JProfiler
7 5 (7.58%) JIRA
8 4 (6.06%) GitLab
8 4 (6.06%) Subversion
9 3 (4.55%) Android Studio
10 2 (3.03%) Postman
10 2 (3.03%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.52%) Appium
11 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.52%) git-flow
11 1 (1.52%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.52%) Mocha
11 1 (1.52%) Selenium
11 1 (1.52%) TestNG
General
1 19 (28.79%) Finance
2 13 (19.70%) Social Skills
3 12 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.64%) Banking
5 4 (6.06%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (75.76%) Developer
2 21 (31.82%) Java Developer
3 12 (18.18%) SharePoint Developer
4 10 (15.15%) Senior
5 9 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (12.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 8 (12.12%) Senior Developer
7 7 (10.61%) Python Developer
8 6 (9.09%) Python Engineer
9 5 (7.58%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (6.06%) Lead
10 4 (6.06%) Lead Developer
10 4 (6.06%) Lead Java Developer
11 3 (4.55%) Android Developer
11 3 (4.55%) Architect
12 2 (3.03%) iOS Developer
12 2 (3.03%) Power Platform Developer
12 2 (3.03%) Senior Python Developer
13 1 (1.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 1 (1.52%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (42.42%) React
2 24 (36.36%) Spring
2 24 (36.36%) Spring Boot
3 20 (30.30%) HTML
4 19 (28.79%) CSS
5 16 (24.24%) JPA
6 12 (18.18%) SPFx
7 11 (16.67%) FreeMarker
7 11 (16.67%) Kafka
7 11 (16.67%) Node.js
8 9 (13.64%) JSF
9 8 (12.12%) HTML5
9 8 (12.12%) RESTful
10 7 (10.61%) Celery
10 7 (10.61%) CSS3
10 7 (10.61%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (10.61%) Spring MVC
11 6 (9.09%) JDBC
11 6 (9.09%) JSP
11 6 (9.09%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.61%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.52%) FMCG
6 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) IVR
6 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.52%) PKI
6 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.12%) Unix
2 5 (7.58%) Windows
3 3 (4.55%) Android
4 2 (3.03%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.03%) Linux
5 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (62.12%) CI/CD
2 26 (39.39%) Agile
3 18 (27.27%) Microservices
4 17 (25.76%) Scrum
5 14 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (21.21%) Test Automation
6 12 (18.18%) Document Management
6 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (15.15%) DevOps
8 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.12%) Functional Programming
9 8 (12.12%) Machine Learning
9 8 (12.12%) TDD
10 7 (10.61%) Migration
10 7 (10.61%) MVC
10 7 (10.61%) Performance Monitoring
10 7 (10.61%) Web Accessibility
11 6 (9.09%) Data Modelling
11 6 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 32 (48.48%) Java
2 24 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 18 (27.27%) Python
4 12 (18.18%) SQL
4 12 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.06%) Perl
6 3 (4.55%) Kotlin
6 3 (4.55%) Ruby
7 2 (3.03%) Go
7 2 (3.03%) Swift
8 1 (1.52%) Bash
8 1 (1.52%) C#
8 1 (1.52%) PHP
8 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (19.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) Accessibility
2 6 (9.09%) QA
3 5 (7.58%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.52%) GDPR
4 1 (1.52%) GRC
4 1 (1.52%) MiFID
4 1 (1.52%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) GPFS
2 1 (1.52%) NFS
2 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (28.79%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.12%) Ansible
3 3 (4.55%) Grafana
3 3 (4.55%) NetBackup
4 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (13.64%) MuleSoft
2 8 (12.12%) Oracle
3 5 (7.58%) Google
4 3 (4.55%) Veritas
5 2 (3.03%) Informatica
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.03%) Splunk
6 1 (1.52%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.52%) Apple
6 1 (1.52%) Brocade
6 1 (1.52%) Databricks
6 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.52%) EMC
6 1 (1.52%) GoCardless
6 1 (1.52%) IBM
6 1 (1.52%) NetApp
6 1 (1.52%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.52%) Talend
6 1 (1.52%) VMware