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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 53 49
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 0
Contract jobs citing REST 27 21 25
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.57% 2.87% 2.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.43% 14.00% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 18
10th Percentile £313 £323 £390
25th Percentile £380 £356 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.52% -13.89% -21.74%
75th Percentile £538 £425 £570
90th Percentile £544 £430 £700
Scotland median daily rate £500 £408 £498
% change year-on-year +22.55% -17.99% +0.76%

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 201 150 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.55% 20.49% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 105 111
10th Percentile £339 £348 £396
25th Percentile £410 £360 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £425 £503
Median % change year-on-year +11.18% -15.51% +0.60%
75th Percentile £569 £513 £582
90th Percentile £625 £619 £675
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +1.77%
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 7 November 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 (18.52%) Apache
1 5 (18.52%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (18.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.41%) Alfresco
2 2 (7.41%) Apache Solr
2 2 (7.41%) JBoss
2 2 (7.41%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.41%) WebLogic
2 2 (7.41%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.70%) Anypoint
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.70%) Mule
3 1 (3.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
3 4 (14.81%) Apigee
3 4 (14.81%) Snowflake
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.41%) Azure
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (29.63%) DNS
1 8 (29.63%) HTTP
2 7 (25.93%) TCP/IP
3 5 (18.52%) DHCP
4 4 (14.81%) SSL
5 1 (3.70%) AMQP
5 1 (3.70%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (18.52%) Power BI
2 4 (14.81%) Big Data
2 4 (14.81%) DB2
2 4 (14.81%) Hadoop
2 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.11%) MySQL
3 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.70%) Metadata
5 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (48.15%) Git
2 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.11%) JUnit
4 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
4 2 (7.41%) JIRA
4 2 (7.41%) Mockito
5 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.70%) GitLab
5 1 (3.70%) Maven
General
1 15 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Banking
2 3 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Developer
2 9 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Python Data Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Python Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Scrum Master
6 1 (3.70%) Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Database Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Integration Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (55.56%) SOAP
2 9 (33.33%) RESTful
3 7 (25.93%) AngularJS
4 5 (18.52%) Spring
5 4 (14.81%) Kafka
5 4 (14.81%) Spring Boot
6 3 (11.11%) HTML
6 3 (11.11%) J2EE
6 3 (11.11%) OAuth
7 2 (7.41%) CSS
7 2 (7.41%) JSON
7 2 (7.41%) JWT
7 2 (7.41%) OAuth2
7 2 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (7.41%) RAML
7 2 (7.41%) Web Services
7 2 (7.41%) WSDL
7 2 (7.41%) XML
8 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
8 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Onboarding
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.41%) Private Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.70%) Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) STIX
4 1 (3.70%) TAXII
4 1 (3.70%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (48.15%) Linux
2 8 (29.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
3 8 (29.63%) Software Engineering
4 6 (22.22%) API Integration
4 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (22.22%) Data Integration
4 6 (22.22%) ETL
4 6 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (18.52%) Analytics
5 5 (18.52%) API Development
5 5 (18.52%) Clean Code
5 5 (18.52%) Data Modelling
5 5 (18.52%) DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (18.52%) Microservices
5 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (18.52%) Scrum
5 5 (18.52%) Sprint Planning
5 5 (18.52%) Sprint Review
6 4 (14.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 13 (48.15%) Java
3 8 (29.63%) SQL
4 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
5 4 (14.81%) Bash
5 4 (14.81%) Perl
6 3 (11.11%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.70%) DataWeave
7 1 (3.70%) Groovy
7 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) F5
1 5 (18.52%) Infoblox
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
1 5 (18.52%) MuleSoft
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
1 5 (18.52%) ServiceNow
2 4 (14.81%) Databricks
3 3 (11.11%) ArcSight
3 3 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) DocuSign
4 1 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (3.70%) Pega