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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 56 35
Rank change year-on-year +8 -21 +28
Contract jobs citing REST 28 20 47
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.09% 2.65% 5.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.06% 11.49% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 30
10th Percentile £384 £303 £405
25th Percentile £413 £356 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.87% -25.00% -8.55%
75th Percentile £542 £423 £575
90th Percentile £575 £540 £708
Scotland median daily rate £475 £435 £500
% change year-on-year +9.20% -13.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.86 - -
Median hourly rate £58.73 - -
75th Percentile £60.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £58.73 - -

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 155 174 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.66% 23.05% 20.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 119 111
10th Percentile £358 £350 £400
25th Percentile £402 £363 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £543 £514 £599
90th Percentile £606 £619 £700
Scotland median daily rate £500 £470 £482
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.39% +1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.86 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £58.73 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +317.93%
75th Percentile £60.59 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £61.36 - £56.40
% change year-on-year - - +148.62%

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 29 January 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 5 (17.86%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (14.29%) Apache
2 4 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) nginx
3 1 (3.57%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 4 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 3 (10.71%) Azure
4 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (10.71%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.57%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) NAS
1 4 (14.29%) SAN
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 3 (10.71%) HTTP
2 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Power BI
2 6 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (14.29%) Big Data
3 4 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 3 (10.71%) Metadata
4 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
5 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (7.14%) MySQL
5 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.57%) DB2
6 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (42.86%) Git
2 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.14%) JUnit
3 2 (7.14%) Mockito
4 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Python Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Site Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (3.57%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) SOAP
2 6 (21.43%) Loki
3 3 (10.71%) HTML
3 3 (10.71%) JSON
3 3 (10.71%) OAuth
3 3 (10.71%) RESTful
3 3 (10.71%) Spring
3 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
4 2 (7.14%) .NET
4 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.14%) CSS
4 2 (7.14%) JWT
5 1 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.57%) Hugging Face
5 1 (3.57%) J2EE
5 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.57%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) CMDB
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) FMCG
3 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.57%) STIX
3 1 (3.57%) TAXII
3 1 (3.57%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Unix
2 7 (25.00%) Linux
3 5 (17.86%) Windows
4 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) CI/CD
2 12 (42.86%) Agile
3 10 (35.71%) Data Protection
3 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (28.57%) Observability
5 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 7 (25.00%) ETL
6 6 (21.43%) API Integration
6 6 (21.43%) Data Integration
6 6 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (17.86%) Analytics
7 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
8 4 (14.29%) Data Deduplication
8 4 (14.29%) Visualisation
9 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (10.71%) Microservices
9 3 (10.71%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) Perl
2 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (17.86%) Java
3 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.29%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
6 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.57%) C#
7 1 (3.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Ansible
1 8 (28.57%) Grafana
2 7 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
4 5 (17.86%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
1 5 (17.86%) Veritas
2 4 (14.29%) Databricks
2 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.71%) ArcSight
3 3 (10.71%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Apple
4 1 (3.57%) GoCardless
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Pega
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce