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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 50 42
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 +22
Contract jobs citing REST 61 33 25
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.89% 4.07% 3.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.29% 13.64% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 22
10th Percentile £314 £313 £383
25th Percentile - £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -31.91% +10.59% -33.33%
75th Percentile £398 £554 £478
90th Percentile £578 £588 £546
Scotland median daily rate £358 £463 £448
% change year-on-year -22.59% +3.35% -10.50%
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 232 242 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.39% 29.88% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 139 112
10th Percentile £304 £300 £325
25th Percentile £320 £404 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +9.41% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £548 £500
90th Percentile £644 £600 £611
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £459
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.49% -5.36%
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 27 July 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 (27.87%) SharePoint
2 15 (24.59%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.64%) Moodle
3 1 (1.64%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.98%) Azure
2 17 (27.87%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (27.87%) Power Automate
2 17 (27.87%) Power Platform
2 17 (27.87%) PowerApps
3 16 (26.23%) AWS
4 15 (24.59%) Entra ID
5 8 (13.11%) GitHub
5 8 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (11.48%) OpenShift
7 6 (9.84%) GCP
8 3 (4.92%) Google Play
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.64%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) NAS
1 5 (8.20%) SAN
2 1 (1.64%) CTI
2 1 (1.64%) PSTN
2 1 (1.64%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.59%) Power BI
2 9 (14.75%) MongoDB
3 6 (9.84%) MySQL
4 5 (8.20%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.56%) DynamoDB
5 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (31.15%) Jenkins
2 18 (29.51%) Git
3 9 (14.75%) Gradle
3 9 (14.75%) Maven
4 8 (13.11%) JUnit
5 6 (9.84%) GoCD
6 5 (8.20%) JProfiler
7 4 (6.56%) Subversion
8 3 (4.92%) Android Studio
8 3 (4.92%) JIRA
9 2 (3.28%) GitLab
9 2 (3.28%) Postman
9 2 (3.28%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.64%) Appium
10 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.64%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.64%) Mocha
10 1 (1.64%) Selenium
10 1 (1.64%) TestNG
General
1 15 (24.59%) Documentation Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Finance
3 9 (14.75%) Social Skills
4 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Banking
6 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.28%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (72.13%) Developer
2 15 (24.59%) Java Developer
2 15 (24.59%) SharePoint Developer
3 8 (13.11%) Senior
4 7 (11.48%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (11.48%) Senior Developer
5 6 (9.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Python Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Android Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Lead
7 3 (4.92%) Lead Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Power Platform Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (49.18%) React
2 21 (34.43%) CSS
2 21 (34.43%) HTML
3 18 (29.51%) Spring
3 18 (29.51%) Spring Boot
4 15 (24.59%) SPFx
5 13 (21.31%) Node.js
6 12 (19.67%) JPA
7 11 (18.03%) RESTful
8 9 (14.75%) Kafka
9 8 (13.11%) FreeMarker
9 8 (13.11%) Redux
10 7 (11.48%) Celery
10 7 (11.48%) JSF
10 7 (11.48%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (9.84%) HTML5
12 5 (8.20%) CSS3
13 4 (6.56%) Express.js
13 4 (6.56%) Flask
13 4 (6.56%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.20%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.64%) CMDB
4 1 (1.64%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.64%) FMCG
4 1 (1.64%) IVR
4 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.75%) Unix
2 7 (11.48%) Windows
3 3 (4.92%) Android
3 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (62.30%) CI/CD
2 24 (39.34%) Agile
3 16 (26.23%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (24.59%) Document Management
4 15 (24.59%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (24.59%) Microservices
5 14 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (22.95%) Scrum
6 10 (16.39%) DevOps
7 9 (14.75%) Test Automation
8 8 (13.11%) Event-Driven
9 7 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (11.48%) Functional Programming
9 7 (11.48%) Machine Learning
9 7 (11.48%) TDD
10 6 (9.84%) Data Protection
10 6 (9.84%) Migration
10 6 (9.84%) Performance Monitoring
11 5 (8.20%) MVVM
11 5 (8.20%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 30 (49.18%) JavaScript
2 25 (40.98%) Java
3 19 (31.15%) TypeScript
4 17 (27.87%) Python
5 5 (8.20%) Perl
6 4 (6.56%) SQL
7 3 (4.92%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.28%) PHP
8 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.28%) Ruby
8 2 (3.28%) Swift
9 1 (1.64%) Bash
9 1 (1.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (27.87%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.64%) Degree
2 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.20%) QA
3 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (31.15%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.11%) Ansible
3 5 (8.20%) NetBackup
4 4 (6.56%) Grafana
5 3 (4.92%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) MuleSoft
2 6 (9.84%) Oracle
3 5 (8.20%) Veritas
4 4 (6.56%) Google
5 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.64%) Apple
7 1 (1.64%) GoCardless
7 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.64%) Splunk