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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 54 46
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing REST 27 22 31
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.57% 3.03% 3.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.04% 14.86% 18.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 20
10th Percentile £326 £349 £394
25th Percentile £405 £356 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £390 £463
Median % change year-on-year +28.37% -15.78% -22.92%
75th Percentile £538 £425 £650
90th Percentile £566 £437 £708
Scotland median daily rate £500 £400 £498
% change year-on-year +25.00% -19.60% -0.50%

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 207 148 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 27.38% 20.41% 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 104 117
10th Percentile £353 £350 £398
25th Percentile £402 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £510
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -16.67% +2.00%
75th Percentile £546 £538 £601
90th Percentile £625 £623 £691
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -0.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +43.34%

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 17 November 2025.

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 5 (18.52%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (14.81%) Apache
2 4 (14.81%) Apache Spark
3 2 (7.41%) Alfresco
3 2 (7.41%) Apache Solr
3 2 (7.41%) JBoss
3 2 (7.41%) Tomcat
3 2 (7.41%) WebLogic
3 2 (7.41%) WebSphere
4 1 (3.70%) Anypoint
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.70%) Mule
4 1 (3.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) AWS
1 6 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.81%) Apigee
2 4 (14.81%) Snowflake
3 3 (11.11%) Azure
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (29.63%) DNS
1 8 (29.63%) HTTP
2 7 (25.93%) TCP/IP
3 5 (18.52%) DHCP
4 4 (14.81%) SSL
5 1 (3.70%) AMQP
5 1 (3.70%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (22.22%) Power BI
2 4 (14.81%) Big Data
2 4 (14.81%) DB2
2 4 (14.81%) Hadoop
2 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.11%) MySQL
3 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
4 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.41%) Metadata
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (48.15%) Git
2 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.11%) JUnit
4 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
4 2 (7.41%) JIRA
4 2 (7.41%) Mockito
5 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.70%) GitLab
5 1 (3.70%) Maven
General
1 14 (51.85%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Banking
2 3 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Java Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Python Data Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Python Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Data Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Scrum Master
6 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Database Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Integration Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (59.26%) SOAP
2 8 (29.63%) RESTful
3 6 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 4 (14.81%) Kafka
4 4 (14.81%) Spring
4 4 (14.81%) Spring Boot
5 3 (11.11%) HTML
5 3 (11.11%) J2EE
5 3 (11.11%) OAuth
6 2 (7.41%) CSS
6 2 (7.41%) JSON
6 2 (7.41%) JWT
6 2 (7.41%) OAuth2
6 2 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (7.41%) RAML
6 2 (7.41%) Web Services
6 2 (7.41%) WSDL
6 2 (7.41%) XML
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CDK
7 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Onboarding
2 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.41%) Private Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.70%) Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) STIX
4 1 (3.70%) TAXII
4 1 (3.70%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (48.15%) Linux
2 8 (29.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Agile
2 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.93%) API Integration
3 7 (25.93%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (25.93%) Data Integration
3 7 (25.93%) ETL
3 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
4 6 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 6 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (18.52%) Analytics
5 5 (18.52%) API Development
5 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (18.52%) Microservices
5 5 (18.52%) Migration
5 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (18.52%) Scrum
5 5 (18.52%) Sprint Planning
5 5 (18.52%) Sprint Review
6 4 (14.81%) ERP
6 4 (14.81%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 12 (44.44%) Java
3 8 (29.63%) SQL
4 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
5 4 (14.81%) Bash
5 4 (14.81%) Perl
6 3 (11.11%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.70%) DataWeave
7 1 (3.70%) Groovy
7 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) F5
2 5 (18.52%) Infoblox
2 5 (18.52%) MuleSoft
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 5 (18.52%) ServiceNow
3 4 (14.81%) Databricks
4 3 (11.11%) ArcSight
4 3 (11.11%) Splunk
5 1 (3.70%) DocuSign
5 1 (3.70%) IBM
5 1 (3.70%) Pega