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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 51 42
Rank change year-on-year +16 -9 +22
Contract jobs citing REST 62 32 25
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.98% 3.99% 3.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 26.50% 13.50% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 25 22
10th Percentile £314 £313 £383
25th Percentile - £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -31.18% +9.41% -33.33%
75th Percentile £398 £545 £478
90th Percentile £578 £575 £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 234 237 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.59% 29.51% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 135 112
10th Percentile £304 £300 £325
25th Percentile £320 £402 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% +10.59% -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 28 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 (27.42%) SharePoint
2 15 (24.19%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.61%) Moodle
3 1 (1.61%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (41.94%) Azure
2 17 (27.42%) AWS
2 17 (27.42%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (27.42%) Power Automate
2 17 (27.42%) Power Platform
2 17 (27.42%) PowerApps
3 15 (24.19%) Entra ID
4 8 (12.90%) GitHub
4 8 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (11.29%) GCP
5 7 (11.29%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.84%) Google Play
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.61%) Apple Pay
8 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.61%) Google Pay
8 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) NAS
1 5 (8.06%) SAN
2 1 (1.61%) CTI
2 1 (1.61%) PSTN
2 1 (1.61%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.19%) Power BI
2 9 (14.52%) MongoDB
3 6 (9.68%) MySQL
4 5 (8.06%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.45%) DynamoDB
5 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (30.65%) Jenkins
2 18 (29.03%) Git
3 9 (14.52%) Gradle
3 9 (14.52%) JUnit
3 9 (14.52%) Maven
4 6 (9.68%) GoCD
5 5 (8.06%) JProfiler
6 4 (6.45%) Subversion
7 3 (4.84%) Android Studio
7 3 (4.84%) JIRA
8 2 (3.23%) GitLab
8 2 (3.23%) Postman
8 2 (3.23%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.61%) Appium
9 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.61%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.61%) Mocha
9 1 (1.61%) Selenium
9 1 (1.61%) TestNG
General
1 15 (24.19%) Documentation Skills
2 11 (17.74%) Finance
3 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
4 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Banking
6 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (72.58%) Developer
2 16 (25.81%) Java Developer
3 15 (24.19%) SharePoint Developer
4 8 (12.90%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (12.90%) Senior
5 7 (11.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 7 (11.29%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Python Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Android Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Lead
7 3 (4.84%) Lead Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Power Platform Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (50.00%) React
2 21 (33.87%) CSS
2 21 (33.87%) HTML
3 19 (30.65%) Spring
3 19 (30.65%) Spring Boot
4 15 (24.19%) SPFx
5 13 (20.97%) JPA
5 13 (20.97%) Node.js
6 11 (17.74%) RESTful
7 10 (16.13%) Kafka
8 8 (12.90%) FreeMarker
8 8 (12.90%) Redux
9 7 (11.29%) Celery
9 7 (11.29%) JSF
9 7 (11.29%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (9.68%) HTML5
11 5 (8.06%) CSS3
12 4 (6.45%) Django
12 4 (6.45%) Express.js
12 4 (6.45%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.97%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.06%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) CMDB
4 1 (1.61%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.61%) FMCG
4 1 (1.61%) IVR
4 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Unix
2 7 (11.29%) Windows
3 3 (4.84%) Android
3 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (62.90%) CI/CD
2 25 (40.32%) Agile
3 16 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (25.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (24.19%) Document Management
4 15 (24.19%) Microservices
5 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (22.58%) Scrum
6 10 (16.13%) DevOps
7 9 (14.52%) Test Automation
8 8 (12.90%) Event-Driven
8 8 (12.90%) Functional Programming
9 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (11.29%) Machine Learning
9 7 (11.29%) TDD
10 6 (9.68%) Data Protection
10 6 (9.68%) Migration
10 6 (9.68%) Performance Monitoring
11 5 (8.06%) MVVM
11 5 (8.06%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 30 (48.39%) JavaScript
2 26 (41.94%) Java
3 19 (30.65%) TypeScript
4 17 (27.42%) Python
5 5 (8.06%) Perl
5 5 (8.06%) SQL
6 3 (4.84%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.23%) PHP
7 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.23%) Ruby
7 2 (3.23%) Swift
8 1 (1.61%) Bash
8 1 (1.61%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (27.42%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Degree
2 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.06%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (32.26%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.90%) Ansible
3 5 (8.06%) NetBackup
4 4 (6.45%) Grafana
5 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.29%) MuleSoft
2 6 (9.68%) Oracle
3 5 (8.06%) Veritas
4 4 (6.45%) Google
5 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.61%) Apple
7 1 (1.61%) GoCardless
7 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.61%) Splunk