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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 60 35
Rank change year-on-year +11 -25 +32
Contract jobs citing REST 28 21 42
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.89% 2.55% 4.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.97% 10.50% 22.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 26
10th Percentile £320 £307 £409
25th Percentile £375 £356 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £379 £513
Median % change year-on-year +12.14% -26.05% -31.67%
75th Percentile £543 £528 £619
90th Percentile £575 £603 £740
Scotland median daily rate £425 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +3.03% -17.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £37.19 - -
25th Percentile £40.47 - -
Median hourly rate £46.86 - -
75th Percentile £54.19 - -
90th Percentile £58.03 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £46.86 - -

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 165 200 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.95% 24.27% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 135 114
10th Percentile £318 £348 £362
25th Percentile £400 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £440 £481
Median % change year-on-year - -8.43% -3.13%
75th Percentile £542 £512 £580
90th Percentile £616 £595 £696
Scotland median daily rate £500 £455 £477
% change year-on-year +9.89% -4.61% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £37.19 - £51.50
25th Percentile £40.47 - £51.88
Median hourly rate £46.86 - £55.00
75th Percentile £54.19 - £57.50
90th Percentile £58.03 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.68%

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 6 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing REST in Glasgow over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for REST in Glasgow

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 3 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.14%) Apache
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.14%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (3.57%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (21.43%) OpenShift
4 4 (14.29%) GCP
4 4 (14.29%) GitHub
4 4 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (10.71%) Power Automate
5 3 (10.71%) PowerApps
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (7.14%) Serverless
6 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) NAS
1 6 (21.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Power BI
2 5 (17.86%) MySQL
2 5 (17.86%) NoSQL
2 5 (17.86%) Relational Database
3 4 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (10.71%) Metadata
5 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (7.14%) Big Data
5 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
5 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (39.29%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.57%) JUnit
3 1 (3.57%) Mockito
General
1 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Finance
4 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) SharePoint Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Power Platform Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) Senior WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) Loki
2 6 (21.43%) React
3 5 (17.86%) FastAPI
4 4 (14.29%) Django
4 4 (14.29%) Express.js
4 4 (14.29%) Flask
4 4 (14.29%) GraphQL
4 4 (14.29%) MERN Stack
4 4 (14.29%) NestJS
4 4 (14.29%) Node.js
4 4 (14.29%) Redux
4 4 (14.29%) RESTful
4 4 (14.29%) SOAP
5 3 (10.71%) CSS
5 3 (10.71%) HTML
6 2 (7.14%) JSON
6 2 (7.14%) JWT
6 2 (7.14%) OAuth
6 2 (7.14%) Spring
6 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) CMDB
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) FMCG
3 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Unix
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
2 6 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (42.86%) Agile
3 11 (39.29%) Data Protection
3 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (35.71%) Observability
5 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (21.43%) Analytical Thinking
6 6 (21.43%) Data Deduplication
6 6 (21.43%) DevOps
6 6 (21.43%) Microservices
7 5 (17.86%) Application Security
7 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (17.86%) Data Modelling
7 5 (17.86%) ETL
7 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (14.29%) API Integration
8 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 4 (14.29%) Data Integration
8 4 (14.29%) Event-Driven
8 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Python
2 10 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 9 (32.14%) Perl
3 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
4 7 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.14%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) SQL
6 1 (3.57%) C#
6 1 (3.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 10 (35.71%) Ansible
2 10 (35.71%) Grafana
3 9 (32.14%) Prometheus
4 7 (25.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Veritas
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Apple
4 1 (3.57%) GoCardless
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce