REST Contracts in Glasgow

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 39 63
Rank change year-on-year -13 +24 -9
Contract jobs citing REST 27 45 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.38% 5.13% 2.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.62% 22.28% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 14
10th Percentile £313 £413 £410
25th Percentile £358 £459 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £750
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -33.33% +76.47%
75th Percentile £572 £575 -
90th Percentile £600 £742 -
Scotland median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.00% - +5.26%

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 214 202 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.82% 23.03% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 130 115
10th Percentile £313 £350 £388
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £458 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -11.97% +10.34%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £650
90th Percentile £601 £626 £738
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year - +15.23% -3.65%
Scotland median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
% change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for REST in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for REST in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) JBoss
1 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.70%) WebLogic
1 1 (3.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) AWS
1 4 (14.81%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.70%) IaaS
3 1 (3.70%) PaaS
3 1 (3.70%) SaaS
3 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) FTP
1 1 (3.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.81%) DB2
3 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.41%) CockroachDB
5 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Git
2 6 (22.22%) JIRA
3 2 (7.41%) Mercurial
3 2 (7.41%) Subversion
4 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.70%) Mockito
4 1 (3.70%) Selenium
4 1 (3.70%) Toad
General
1 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Back Office
4 2 (7.41%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (81.48%) Developer
2 9 (33.33%) ServiceNow Developer
3 8 (29.63%) Java Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Senior
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Database Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (11.11%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Junior
6 2 (7.41%) Junior Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Junior Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Agile Scrum Master
7 1 (3.70%) Angular Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Integration Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (55.56%) SOAP
2 11 (40.74%) AngularJS
3 8 (29.63%) CSS
3 8 (29.63%) HTML
4 7 (25.93%) Kafka
4 7 (25.93%) Web Services
5 6 (22.22%) Spring Boot
6 5 (18.52%) JSON
6 5 (18.52%) Spring
7 4 (14.81%) HTML5
7 4 (14.81%) jQuery
7 4 (14.81%) Middleware
7 4 (14.81%) XML
8 3 (11.11%) Express.js
8 3 (11.11%) J2EE
8 3 (11.11%) Node.js
8 3 (11.11%) React
9 2 (7.41%) Django
9 2 (7.41%) JDBC
10 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
1 3 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) Microservices
3 7 (25.93%) SDLC
4 6 (22.22%) Waterfall
5 5 (18.52%) API Integration
5 5 (18.52%) DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (18.52%) Web Development
6 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.81%) IT Asset Management
6 4 (14.81%) ITSM
6 4 (14.81%) Regression Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Security Operations
6 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Thought Leadership
6 4 (14.81%) User Stories
6 4 (14.81%) Workflow
7 3 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 3 (11.11%) Scrum
7 3 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) JavaScript
2 11 (40.74%) Java
3 9 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (14.81%) PL/SQL
4 4 (14.81%) Python
5 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) GRC
2 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) ServiceNow
2 7 (25.93%) Oracle
3 4 (14.81%) Snow
4 3 (11.11%) DocuSign
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.70%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.70%) Okta
6 1 (3.70%) Talend