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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 53 56
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing REST 28 19 18
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.74% 2.68% 2.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.27% 13.57% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 12
10th Percentile £313 £321 £379
25th Percentile £381 £356 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £425 £516
90th Percentile £544 £432 £684
Scotland median daily rate £500 £423 £498
% change year-on-year +18.34% -15.08% -0.50%

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 211 140 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 28.17% 19.75% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 101 103
10th Percentile £324 £348 £400
25th Percentile £407 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £542 £513 £579
90th Percentile £625 £619 £668
Scotland median daily rate £500 £455 £484
% change year-on-year +9.89% -5.94% -0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £13.16
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.72
% change year-on-year - -4.70% +40.14%

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 24 October 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 5 (17.86%) Apache
1 5 (17.86%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (17.86%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.14%) Alfresco
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Solr
2 2 (7.14%) JBoss
2 2 (7.14%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.14%) WebLogic
2 2 (7.14%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.57%) Anypoint
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.57%) Mule
3 1 (3.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
3 4 (14.29%) Apigee
3 4 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.14%) Azure
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) Serverless
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) DNS
1 8 (28.57%) HTTP
2 7 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (17.86%) DHCP
4 4 (14.29%) SSL
5 1 (3.57%) AMQP
5 1 (3.57%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (17.86%) Power BI
2 4 (14.29%) Big Data
2 4 (14.29%) DB2
2 4 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.71%) MySQL
3 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.57%) Metadata
5 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Git
2 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (14.29%) JUnit
4 3 (10.71%) Mockito
5 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
5 2 (7.14%) JIRA
5 2 (7.14%) Maven
6 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.57%) GitLab
6 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (53.57%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Banking
2 3 (10.71%) Investment Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Developer
2 10 (35.71%) Java Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Python Data Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Python Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Scrum Master
7 1 (3.57%) Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Data Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Database Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Integration Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (53.57%) SOAP
2 9 (32.14%) RESTful
3 7 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 5 (17.86%) Spring
4 5 (17.86%) Spring Boot
5 4 (14.29%) Kafka
5 4 (14.29%) OAuth
6 3 (10.71%) HTML
6 3 (10.71%) J2EE
7 2 (7.14%) CSS
7 2 (7.14%) JSON
7 2 (7.14%) JWT
7 2 (7.14%) OAuth2
7 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (7.14%) RAML
7 2 (7.14%) Web Services
7 2 (7.14%) WSDL
7 2 (7.14%) XML
8 1 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.57%) Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) STIX
4 1 (3.57%) TAXII
4 1 (3.57%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Linux
2 8 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Agile
2 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 7 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (21.43%) API Integration
5 6 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (21.43%) Data Integration
5 6 (21.43%) DevOps
5 6 (21.43%) ETL
6 5 (17.86%) Analytics
6 5 (17.86%) API Development
6 5 (17.86%) Clean Code
6 5 (17.86%) Data Modelling
6 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (17.86%) Microservices
6 5 (17.86%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (17.86%) Scrum
6 5 (17.86%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (17.86%) Sprint Review
7 4 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Java
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
3 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.29%) Bash
4 4 (14.29%) Perl
5 3 (10.71%) Search Processing Language
5 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.57%) DataWeave
6 1 (3.57%) Groovy
6 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Grafana
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle
2 5 (17.86%) F5
2 5 (17.86%) Infoblox
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) MuleSoft
2 5 (17.86%) ServiceNow
3 4 (14.29%) Databricks
4 3 (10.71%) ArcSight
4 3 (10.71%) Splunk
5 1 (3.57%) DocuSign
5 1 (3.57%) IBM
5 1 (3.57%) Pega