REST Contracts in Glasgow

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 41 60
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 -7
Contract jobs citing REST 29 26 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.70% 3.41% 2.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.43% 14.86% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 13
10th Percentile £313 £392 £401
25th Percentile £357 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £435 £750
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% -42.00% +55.84%
75th Percentile £574 £502 -
90th Percentile £623 £565 -
Scotland median daily rate £469 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.00% -

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 216 175 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 27.55% 22.94% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 118 122
10th Percentile £300 £325 £389
25th Percentile £404 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £435 £521
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% -16.55% +6.92%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £613
90th Percentile £604 £588 £736
Scotland median daily rate £475 £459 £488
% change year-on-year +3.49% -5.85% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £51.50 £16.62
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.88 £21.80
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £30.45
Median % change year-on-year - +80.65% -35.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £39.09
90th Percentile - - £44.27
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £38.87
% change year-on-year - +41.52% -17.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for REST in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Glasgow over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for REST in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) JBoss
1 3 (10.34%) Tomcat
1 3 (10.34%) WebLogic
1 3 (10.34%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.45%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) Apigee
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.45%) PaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) HTTP
1 3 (10.34%) SSL
2 2 (6.90%) DHCP
2 2 (6.90%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.45%) AMQP
3 1 (3.45%) DSL
3 1 (3.45%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) DB2
1 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.90%) CockroachDB
3 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Git
2 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.90%) JIRA
4 2 (6.90%) JUnit
4 2 (6.90%) Maven
4 2 (6.90%) Mercurial
4 2 (6.90%) Mockito
4 2 (6.90%) Subversion
5 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.45%) GitLab
5 1 (3.45%) Selenium
5 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.45%) Toad
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 21 (72.41%) Developer
2 9 (31.03%) Java Developer
2 9 (31.03%) ServiceNow Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) Senior Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Scrum Master
4 3 (10.34%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Integration Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Junior
5 2 (6.90%) Junior Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Junior Java Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (55.17%) SOAP
2 12 (41.38%) AngularJS
3 9 (31.03%) Web Services
4 7 (24.14%) CSS
4 7 (24.14%) HTML
5 6 (20.69%) JSON
5 6 (20.69%) Spring
6 5 (17.24%) Kafka
6 5 (17.24%) XML
7 4 (13.79%) HTML5
7 4 (13.79%) jQuery
7 4 (13.79%) RESTful
7 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
8 3 (10.34%) OAuth
8 3 (10.34%) RAML
8 3 (10.34%) React
8 3 (10.34%) WSDL
9 2 (6.90%) Apache Camel
9 2 (6.90%) JAX-RS
9 2 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.34%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
1 3 (10.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Agile
2 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
2 8 (27.59%) Microservices
3 7 (24.14%) DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) Scrum
4 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (17.24%) SDLC
4 5 (17.24%) Web Development
5 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (13.79%) IT Asset Management
5 4 (13.79%) ITSM
5 4 (13.79%) Regression Testing
5 4 (13.79%) Security Operations
5 4 (13.79%) TDD
5 4 (13.79%) Thought Leadership
5 4 (13.79%) User Stories
6 3 (10.34%) Budget Control
6 3 (10.34%) Migration
6 3 (10.34%) Service Management
6 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) JavaScript
2 13 (44.83%) Java
3 11 (37.93%) SQL
4 6 (20.69%) Python
5 2 (6.90%) Bash
5 2 (6.90%) Perl
5 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) DataWeave
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
1 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) GRC
2 2 (6.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.45%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.90%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) ServiceNow
2 9 (31.03%) Oracle
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.79%) MuleSoft
3 4 (13.79%) Snow
4 2 (6.90%) F5
4 2 (6.90%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (3.45%) DocuSign
5 1 (3.45%) IBM
5 1 (3.45%) Okta
5 1 (3.45%) Talend