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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 52 36
Rank change year-on-year +12 -16 +27
Contract jobs citing REST 63 29 25
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.45% 3.96% 3.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 21.80% 10.70% 17.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 26 23
10th Percentile - £313 £356
25th Percentile £320 £377 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £460 £425
Median % change year-on-year -29.92% +8.12% -5.56%
75th Percentile £435 £534 £453
90th Percentile £613 £540 £539
Scotland median daily rate £420 £475 £440
% change year-on-year -11.58% +7.95% -9.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 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 289 271 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.00% 37.02% 21.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 155 108
10th Percentile £308 £332 £350
25th Percentile £325 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £453
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +4.86% -11.18%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £519
90th Percentile £634 £644 £644
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% - -6.83%

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 16 September 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 12 (19.05%) SharePoint
2 11 (17.46%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (30.16%) AWS
1 19 (30.16%) Azure
2 13 (20.63%) Power Platform
3 12 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (19.05%) Power Automate
3 12 (19.05%) PowerApps
4 11 (17.46%) Entra ID
5 7 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 5 (7.94%) GitHub
7 4 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (6.35%) Serverless
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.76%) GCP
8 3 (4.76%) Google Play
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.17%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) NAS
1 4 (6.35%) SAN
2 1 (1.59%) CTI
2 1 (1.59%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.59%) PSTN
2 1 (1.59%) RTP
2 1 (1.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.05%) Power BI
2 7 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.76%) Metadata
3 3 (4.76%) MySQL
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.59%) Flink
4 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (39.68%) Git
2 18 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 13 (20.63%) Maven
4 10 (15.87%) Gradle
4 10 (15.87%) JUnit
5 7 (11.11%) GoCD
6 6 (9.52%) JProfiler
7 5 (7.94%) JIRA
8 4 (6.35%) Subversion
9 3 (4.76%) Android Studio
10 2 (3.17%) GitLab
11 1 (1.59%) Appium
11 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
11 1 (1.59%) git-flow
11 1 (1.59%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.59%) Mocha
11 1 (1.59%) Postman
11 1 (1.59%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.59%) Selenium
11 1 (1.59%) TestNG
General
1 19 (30.16%) Finance
2 13 (20.63%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.46%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.29%) Banking
5 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (77.78%) Developer
2 22 (34.92%) Java Developer
3 11 (17.46%) SharePoint Developer
4 10 (15.87%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (15.87%) Senior
5 9 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 8 (12.70%) Senior Developer
7 7 (11.11%) Python Developer
8 6 (9.52%) Python Engineer
9 5 (7.94%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (6.35%) Lead
10 4 (6.35%) Lead Developer
10 4 (6.35%) Lead Java Developer
11 3 (4.76%) Android Developer
12 2 (3.17%) Architect
12 2 (3.17%) iOS Developer
12 2 (3.17%) Senior Python Developer
13 1 (1.59%) Data Modeller
13 1 (1.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 1 (1.59%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (44.44%) React
2 24 (38.10%) Spring
2 24 (38.10%) Spring Boot
3 19 (30.16%) HTML
4 18 (28.57%) CSS
5 15 (23.81%) JPA
6 11 (17.46%) FreeMarker
6 11 (17.46%) Kafka
6 11 (17.46%) Node.js
6 11 (17.46%) SPFx
7 9 (14.29%) JSF
8 8 (12.70%) HTML5
8 8 (12.70%) RESTful
9 7 (11.11%) Celery
9 7 (11.11%) CSS3
9 7 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (11.11%) Spring MVC
10 6 (9.52%) JDBC
10 6 (9.52%) JSP
10 6 (9.52%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 7 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.59%) FMCG
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) IVR
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) PKI
5 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Unix
2 5 (7.94%) Windows
3 3 (4.76%) Android
4 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.17%) Linux
5 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 27 (42.86%) Agile
3 18 (28.57%) Scrum
4 17 (26.98%) Microservices
5 15 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (20.63%) Test Automation
7 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (17.46%) Document Management
9 10 (15.87%) DevOps
10 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (12.70%) Functional Programming
11 8 (12.70%) Machine Learning
11 8 (12.70%) Migration
11 8 (12.70%) TDD
12 7 (11.11%) MVC
12 7 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
12 7 (11.11%) Web Accessibility
13 6 (9.52%) Validation
14 5 (7.94%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (49.21%) Java
2 23 (36.51%) JavaScript
3 17 (26.98%) Python
4 12 (19.05%) SQL
5 11 (17.46%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.35%) Perl
7 3 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.76%) Ruby
8 2 (3.17%) Go
8 2 (3.17%) Swift
9 1 (1.59%) C#
9 1 (1.59%) PHP
9 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) Accessibility
2 7 (11.11%) QA
3 5 (7.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) GRC
4 1 (1.59%) MiFID
4 1 (1.59%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) GPFS
2 1 (1.59%) NFS
2 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (30.16%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.70%) Ansible
3 3 (4.76%) NetBackup
4 2 (3.17%) Grafana
5 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 8 (12.70%) Oracle
3 5 (7.94%) Google
4 3 (4.76%) Veritas
5 2 (3.17%) Informatica
5 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.17%) Splunk
6 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.59%) Apple
6 1 (1.59%) Brocade
6 1 (1.59%) Databricks
6 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.59%) EMC
6 1 (1.59%) IBM
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.59%) NetApp
6 1 (1.59%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.59%) Talend
6 1 (1.59%) VMware
6 1 (1.59%) webMethods