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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 53 50
Rank change year-on-year +21 -3 +9
Contract jobs citing REST 75 29 21
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.27% 3.87% 3.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.35% 10.78% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 26 21
10th Percentile £320 £313 £323
25th Percentile £321 £377 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £460 £388
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% +18.58% -13.89%
75th Percentile £484 £538 £425
90th Percentile £609 £544 £450
Scotland median daily rate £459 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -8.30% +17.65% -14.57%
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 308 269 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.73% 35.87% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 150 105
10th Percentile £311 £352 £349
25th Percentile £339 £413 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -15.25%
75th Percentile £501 £575 £500
90th Percentile £612 £650 £619
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -4.17%
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% - -4.70%

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 9 October 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 6 (8.00%) SharePoint
1 6 (8.00%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (2.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.33%) Confluence
3 1 (1.33%) JBoss
3 1 (1.33%) nginx
3 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.33%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (37.33%) AWS
2 23 (30.67%) Azure
3 12 (16.00%) GitHub
4 11 (14.67%) GCP
5 9 (12.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 8 (10.67%) ChatGPT
6 8 (10.67%) Collibra
6 8 (10.67%) OpenShift
6 8 (10.67%) Power Platform
7 7 (9.33%) Anthropic Claude
7 7 (9.33%) Entra ID
8 6 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (8.00%) Power Automate
8 6 (8.00%) PowerApps
9 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.33%) Serverless
10 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.00%) Google Play
10 3 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.67%) NAS
1 5 (6.67%) SAN
2 2 (2.67%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.33%) BGP
3 1 (1.33%) CTI
3 1 (1.33%) DHCP
3 1 (1.33%) DNS
3 1 (1.33%) IPv4
3 1 (1.33%) IPv6
3 1 (1.33%) LAN
3 1 (1.33%) OSPF
3 1 (1.33%) PSTN
3 1 (1.33%) RTP
3 1 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.33%) SSL
3 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.33%) VLAN
3 1 (1.33%) VPN
3 1 (1.33%) WAN
3 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.67%) Metadata
2 9 (12.00%) MongoDB
3 7 (9.33%) Power BI
4 3 (4.00%) MySQL
4 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.67%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.33%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.33%) Flink
6 1 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (52.00%) Git
2 19 (25.33%) Jenkins
3 14 (18.67%) Maven
4 13 (17.33%) Gradle
5 11 (14.67%) JUnit
6 7 (9.33%) GoCD
7 6 (8.00%) JIRA
7 6 (8.00%) JProfiler
8 4 (5.33%) Subversion
9 3 (4.00%) Android Studio
10 2 (2.67%) Cypress.io
10 2 (2.67%) GitLab
11 1 (1.33%) Appium
11 1 (1.33%) Gerrit
11 1 (1.33%) git-flow
11 1 (1.33%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.33%) Mocha
11 1 (1.33%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (1.33%) Selenium
11 1 (1.33%) TestNG
General
1 26 (34.67%) Finance
2 16 (21.33%) Banking
3 14 (18.67%) Social Skills
4 12 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 52 (69.33%) Developer
2 23 (30.67%) Java Developer
3 14 (18.67%) Senior
4 13 (17.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (14.67%) Python Developer
6 10 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 10 (13.33%) Senior Developer
7 6 (8.00%) Python Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) SharePoint Developer
8 5 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Lead
9 4 (5.33%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Senior Python Developer
10 3 (4.00%) Android Developer
10 3 (4.00%) Architect
11 2 (2.67%) Integration Architect
11 2 (2.67%) iOS Developer
11 2 (2.67%) Java Engineer
11 2 (2.67%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (36.00%) React
1 27 (36.00%) Spring
1 27 (36.00%) Spring Boot
2 16 (21.33%) JPA
3 14 (18.67%) HTML
3 14 (18.67%) JSON
4 13 (17.33%) CSS
4 13 (17.33%) Kafka
5 12 (16.00%) Node.js
5 12 (16.00%) YAML
6 11 (14.67%) FastAPI
6 11 (14.67%) FreeMarker
6 11 (14.67%) pydantic
7 9 (12.00%) JSF
8 8 (10.67%) AngularJS
8 8 (10.67%) RESTful
9 7 (9.33%) HTML5
9 7 (9.33%) Terraform
10 6 (8.00%) Celery
10 6 (8.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.33%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (9.33%) Taxonomies
3 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) PKI
5 2 (2.67%) Replication
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) IVR
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.33%) Unix
2 5 (6.67%) Linux
2 5 (6.67%) Windows
3 4 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.00%) Android
5 2 (2.67%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (68.00%) CI/CD
2 30 (40.00%) Agile
3 23 (30.67%) Microservices
4 20 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 18 (24.00%) Scrum
6 17 (22.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (20.00%) AI
7 15 (20.00%) DevOps
8 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (18.67%) Validation
9 12 (16.00%) Data Modelling
10 10 (13.33%) Data Governance
11 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (12.00%) Functional Programming
11 9 (12.00%) Migration
12 8 (10.67%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (10.67%) Event-Driven
12 8 (10.67%) Metadata Management
12 8 (10.67%) TDD
13 7 (9.33%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.67%) Java
2 27 (36.00%) Python
3 22 (29.33%) SQL
4 20 (26.67%) JavaScript
5 9 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.67%) Go
7 4 (5.33%) Perl
8 3 (4.00%) Bash
8 3 (4.00%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.00%) Ruby
9 2 (2.67%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.67%) Swift
10 1 (1.33%) C#
10 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (9.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.33%) Degree
2 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (12.00%) Accessibility
3 8 (10.67%) QA
4 3 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (2.67%) GDPR
6 1 (1.33%) GRC
6 1 (1.33%) MiFID
6 1 (1.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 11 (14.67%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) GPFS
2 2 (2.67%) NFS
3 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (34.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.67%) Ansible
3 3 (4.00%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.67%) Grafana
5 1 (1.33%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Oracle
2 9 (12.00%) MuleSoft
3 4 (5.33%) Google
4 3 (4.00%) Informatica
4 3 (4.00%) Veritas
5 2 (2.67%) Databricks
5 2 (2.67%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.67%) IBM
5 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.67%) Splunk
6 1 (1.33%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.33%) EMC
6 1 (1.33%) F5
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.33%) NetApp
6 1 (1.33%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.33%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.33%) Talend
6 1 (1.33%) webMethods