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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 58 43
Rank change year-on-year +23 -15 +21
Contract jobs citing REST 56 29 26
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.53% 3.57% 3.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.93% 12.66% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 21
10th Percentile £314 £313 £400
25th Percentile - £357 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £488 £435
Median % change year-on-year -34.36% +12.07% -42.00%
75th Percentile £441 £574 £500
90th Percentile £603 £623 £550
Scotland median daily rate £402 £463 £455
% change year-on-year -13.03% +1.76% -9.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 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 216 229 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.32% 28.20% 22.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 133 124
10th Percentile £306 £300 £333
25th Percentile £320 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £470 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +7.43% -14.22%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £510
90th Percentile £644 £608 £609
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £461
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.98% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £51.50
25th Percentile - £52.50 £51.88
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - +80.65%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
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 11 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 (30.36%) SharePoint
2 15 (26.79%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.79%) Moodle
3 1 (1.79%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (44.64%) Azure
2 17 (30.36%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (30.36%) Power Automate
2 17 (30.36%) Power Platform
2 17 (30.36%) PowerApps
3 15 (26.79%) Entra ID
4 14 (25.00%) AWS
5 9 (16.07%) OpenShift
6 8 (14.29%) GitHub
6 8 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (10.71%) GCP
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.79%) Apple Pay
9 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.79%) Serverless
9 1 (1.79%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) NAS
1 7 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (1.79%) CTI
2 1 (1.79%) PSTN
2 1 (1.79%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.79%) Power BI
2 7 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.71%) MySQL
4 5 (8.93%) NoSQL
5 4 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 4 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.79%) Metadata
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (33.93%) Jenkins
2 11 (19.64%) Git
3 6 (10.71%) JUnit
4 5 (8.93%) Maven
5 4 (7.14%) GoCD
5 4 (7.14%) Gradle
5 4 (7.14%) Subversion
6 3 (5.36%) JProfiler
7 2 (3.57%) GitLab
7 2 (3.57%) Postman
7 2 (3.57%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.79%) Appium
8 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.79%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.79%) JIRA
8 1 (1.79%) Mocha
8 1 (1.79%) Selenium
8 1 (1.79%) TestNG
General
1 15 (26.79%) Documentation Skills
2 13 (23.21%) Finance
2 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 12 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.14%) Banking
4 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (60.71%) Developer
2 15 (26.79%) SharePoint Developer
3 9 (16.07%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.71%) Senior
5 5 (8.93%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Python Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Python Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Site Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Power Platform Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Salesforce Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Python Developer
8 1 (1.79%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (1.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (46.43%) React
2 19 (33.93%) CSS
2 19 (33.93%) HTML
3 15 (26.79%) SPFx
4 12 (21.43%) Spring
4 12 (21.43%) Spring Boot
5 11 (19.64%) RESTful
6 9 (16.07%) Kafka
6 9 (16.07%) Node.js
7 8 (14.29%) JPA
8 7 (12.50%) Celery
8 7 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (10.71%) Redux
10 5 (8.93%) JSF
10 5 (8.93%) Loki
11 4 (7.14%) Django
11 4 (7.14%) FreeMarker
11 4 (7.14%) HTML5
11 4 (7.14%) SOAP
11 4 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.79%) CMDB
5 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.79%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.79%) FMCG
5 1 (1.79%) IVR
5 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (19.64%) Unix
2 9 (16.07%) Windows
3 5 (8.93%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (69.64%) CI/CD
2 17 (30.36%) Agile
3 16 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (26.79%) Document Management
5 13 (23.21%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (19.64%) Data Protection
6 11 (19.64%) DevOps
6 11 (19.64%) Microservices
7 8 (14.29%) Event-Driven
7 8 (14.29%) Observability
8 7 (12.50%) Machine Learning
8 7 (12.50%) Migration
8 7 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 6 (10.71%) Analytical Thinking
10 5 (8.93%) Data Deduplication
10 5 (8.93%) Functional Programming
10 5 (8.93%) Scrum
10 5 (8.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (8.93%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 22 (39.29%) Python
3 19 (33.93%) TypeScript
4 16 (28.57%) Java
5 8 (14.29%) Perl
6 5 (8.93%) PowerShell
7 4 (7.14%) SQL
8 2 (3.57%) PHP
9 1 (1.79%) Bash
9 1 (1.79%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) Degree
3 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (8.93%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (33.93%) Kubernetes
2 10 (17.86%) Ansible
3 7 (12.50%) Grafana
3 7 (12.50%) NetBackup
4 6 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (12.50%) Veritas
2 5 (8.93%) MuleSoft
3 4 (7.14%) Oracle
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.36%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) Apple
5 1 (1.79%) GoCardless
5 1 (1.79%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.79%) Splunk