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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 53 46
Rank change year-on-year +20 -7 +17
Contract jobs citing REST 66 32 24
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.28% 4.06% 3.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 27.97% 13.39% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 25 22
10th Percentile £314 £313 £383
25th Percentile £320 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -32.21% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £398 £545 £484
90th Percentile £603 £575 £546
Scotland median daily rate £377 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -18.92% +3.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 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 236 239 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.45% 30.29% 20.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 135 110
10th Percentile £304 £300 £325
25th Percentile £320 £408 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +10.59% -15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £500
90th Percentile £644 £600 £614
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile - - £51.38
25th Percentile - £52.50 £51.56
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +2.33% +76.55%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £56.56
90th Percentile - - £57.13
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - +15.23%

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 6 August 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 17 (25.76%) SharePoint
2 15 (22.73%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.52%) Moodle
3 1 (1.52%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (39.39%) Azure
2 18 (27.27%) AWS
2 18 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 17 (25.76%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (25.76%) Power Automate
3 17 (25.76%) PowerApps
4 15 (22.73%) Entra ID
5 8 (12.12%) GitHub
5 8 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (10.61%) GCP
6 7 (10.61%) OpenShift
7 3 (4.55%) Google Play
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.52%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) NAS
1 5 (7.58%) SAN
2 1 (1.52%) CTI
2 1 (1.52%) PSTN
2 1 (1.52%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (24.24%) Power BI
2 10 (15.15%) MongoDB
3 6 (9.09%) MySQL
4 5 (7.58%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.06%) DynamoDB
5 4 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.52%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 21 (31.82%) Git
3 12 (18.18%) 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%) Subversion
9 3 (4.55%) Android Studio
10 2 (3.03%) GitLab
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%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.52%) Mocha
11 1 (1.52%) Selenium
11 1 (1.52%) TestNG
General
1 15 (22.73%) Documentation Skills
2 11 (16.67%) Finance
3 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
4 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Banking
6 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.03%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (74.24%) Developer
2 19 (28.79%) Java Developer
3 15 (22.73%) SharePoint Developer
4 10 (15.15%) Senior
5 9 (13.64%) Senior Developer
6 8 (12.12%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (10.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (7.58%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Lead
9 4 (6.06%) Lead Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Python Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Python Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Android Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Architect
10 3 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Automation Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) iOS Developer
11 2 (3.03%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (51.52%) React
2 23 (34.85%) CSS
2 23 (34.85%) HTML
3 22 (33.33%) Spring
3 22 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 16 (24.24%) Node.js
5 15 (22.73%) JPA
5 15 (22.73%) SPFx
6 11 (16.67%) FreeMarker
6 11 (16.67%) RESTful
7 10 (15.15%) Kafka
7 10 (15.15%) Redux
8 9 (13.64%) JSF
9 8 (12.12%) HTML5
10 7 (10.61%) Celery
10 7 (10.61%) CSS3
10 7 (10.61%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (9.09%) JDBC
11 6 (9.09%) JSP
11 6 (9.09%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.21%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.58%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) CMDB
5 1 (1.52%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.52%) FMCG
5 1 (1.52%) IVR
5 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) Unix
2 7 (10.61%) Windows
3 3 (4.55%) Android
3 3 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.03%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 28 (42.42%) Agile
3 18 (27.27%) Microservices
4 17 (25.76%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (25.76%) Scrum
5 16 (24.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (22.73%) Document Management
7 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 10 (15.15%) DevOps
10 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (13.64%) TDD
11 8 (12.12%) Event-Driven
11 8 (12.12%) Functional Programming
11 8 (12.12%) Machine Learning
12 7 (10.61%) Migration
12 7 (10.61%) Performance Monitoring
12 7 (10.61%) Web Accessibility
13 6 (9.09%) Data Protection
13 6 (9.09%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 32 (48.48%) JavaScript
2 29 (43.94%) Java
3 19 (28.79%) TypeScript
4 18 (27.27%) Python
5 6 (9.09%) SQL
6 5 (7.58%) Perl
7 3 (4.55%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.55%) Ruby
8 2 (3.03%) PHP
8 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.03%) Swift
9 1 (1.52%) Bash
9 1 (1.52%) C#
9 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (25.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.52%) Degree
2 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.58%) QA
3 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (7.58%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.64%) Ansible
3 5 (7.58%) NetBackup
4 4 (6.06%) Grafana
5 3 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (13.64%) MuleSoft
2 7 (10.61%) Oracle
3 5 (7.58%) Veritas
4 4 (6.06%) Google
5 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.52%) Apple
7 1 (1.52%) GoCardless
7 1 (1.52%) Informatica
7 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.52%) Splunk
7 1 (1.52%) Talend