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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 47 45
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 +13
Contract jobs citing REST 71 29 22
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.90% 3.89% 3.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 23.36% 10.70% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 25 22
10th Percentile - £313 £356
25th Percentile £320 £375 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £377 £454 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% +6.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £476 £538 £447
90th Percentile £610 £541 £453
Scotland median daily rate £438 £500 £430
% change year-on-year -12.50% +16.28% -12.91%
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 304 271 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.25% 36.38% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 149 108
10th Percentile £308 £352 £350
25th Percentile £325 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £493 £435
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +13.33% -14.71%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £513
90th Percentile £625 £650 £619
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% -4.62%
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 1 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 9 (12.68%) SharePoint
1 9 (12.68%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (2.82%) Apache
3 1 (1.41%) Confluence
3 1 (1.41%) JBoss
3 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (36.62%) AWS
2 24 (33.80%) Azure
3 11 (15.49%) Power Platform
4 9 (12.68%) Entra ID
4 9 (12.68%) GCP
4 9 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (12.68%) Power Automate
4 9 (12.68%) PowerApps
5 8 (11.27%) GitHub
5 8 (11.27%) OpenShift
6 6 (8.45%) ChatGPT
6 6 (8.45%) Collibra
7 5 (7.04%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (7.04%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.63%) Serverless
9 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.23%) Google Play
9 3 (4.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) NAS
1 5 (7.04%) SAN
2 2 (2.82%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.41%) BGP
3 1 (1.41%) CTI
3 1 (1.41%) DHCP
3 1 (1.41%) DNS
3 1 (1.41%) Firewall
3 1 (1.41%) LAN
3 1 (1.41%) OSPF
3 1 (1.41%) PSTN
3 1 (1.41%) RTP
3 1 (1.41%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.41%) SSL
3 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.41%) VLAN
3 1 (1.41%) VPN
3 1 (1.41%) WAN
3 1 (1.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) Power BI
2 8 (11.27%) Metadata
2 8 (11.27%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.82%) MySQL
3 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.82%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.41%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.41%) Flink
4 1 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (46.48%) Git
2 18 (25.35%) Jenkins
3 13 (18.31%) Maven
4 11 (15.49%) Gradle
4 11 (15.49%) JUnit
5 7 (9.86%) GoCD
6 6 (8.45%) JIRA
6 6 (8.45%) JProfiler
7 4 (5.63%) Subversion
8 3 (4.23%) Android Studio
9 2 (2.82%) GitLab
10 1 (1.41%) Appium
10 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.41%) Gerrit
10 1 (1.41%) git-flow
10 1 (1.41%) Mocha
10 1 (1.41%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (1.41%) Postman
10 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.41%) Selenium
General
1 24 (33.80%) Finance
2 14 (19.72%) Banking
2 14 (19.72%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.68%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.23%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 51 (71.83%) Developer
2 22 (30.99%) Java Developer
3 12 (16.90%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (16.90%) Senior
4 10 (14.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 10 (14.08%) Python Developer
5 9 (12.68%) Senior Developer
5 9 (12.68%) SharePoint Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Python Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Lead
8 4 (5.63%) Lead Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Python Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Android Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Architect
10 2 (2.82%) Integration Architect
10 2 (2.82%) iOS Developer
11 1 (1.41%) Cloud Architect
11 1 (1.41%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (39.44%) React
2 26 (36.62%) Spring
2 26 (36.62%) Spring Boot
3 16 (22.54%) JPA
4 15 (21.13%) HTML
5 14 (19.72%) CSS
6 12 (16.90%) Kafka
6 12 (16.90%) Node.js
7 11 (15.49%) FreeMarker
8 10 (14.08%) JSON
8 10 (14.08%) YAML
9 9 (12.68%) FastAPI
9 9 (12.68%) JSF
9 9 (12.68%) pydantic
9 9 (12.68%) SPFx
10 8 (11.27%) AngularJS
11 7 (9.86%) RESTful
12 6 (8.45%) Celery
12 6 (8.45%) HTML5
12 6 (8.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.86%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.04%) Taxonomies
4 3 (4.23%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.23%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) PKI
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Unix
2 5 (7.04%) Windows
3 3 (4.23%) Android
3 3 (4.23%) Linux
4 2 (2.82%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (66.20%) CI/CD
2 29 (40.85%) Agile
3 21 (29.58%) Microservices
4 18 (25.35%) Scrum
5 17 (23.94%) Test Automation
6 16 (22.54%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (18.31%) DevOps
9 11 (15.49%) AI
9 11 (15.49%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (14.08%) Data Modelling
10 10 (14.08%) Validation
11 9 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (12.68%) Document Management
11 9 (12.68%) Functional Programming
12 8 (11.27%) Data Governance
12 8 (11.27%) TDD
13 7 (9.86%) Machine Learning
13 7 (9.86%) Migration
13 7 (9.86%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.07%) Java
2 24 (33.80%) Python
3 21 (29.58%) JavaScript
4 20 (28.17%) SQL
5 10 (14.08%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.63%) Go
6 4 (5.63%) Perl
7 3 (4.23%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.23%) Ruby
8 2 (2.82%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.82%) Swift
9 1 (1.41%) Bash
9 1 (1.41%) C#
9 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (14.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.41%) Degree
2 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.08%) Data Quality
2 8 (11.27%) Accessibility
3 7 (9.86%) QA
4 3 (4.23%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (2.82%) GDPR
6 1 (1.41%) GRC
6 1 (1.41%) MiFID
6 1 (1.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (12.68%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) GPFS
2 2 (2.82%) NFS
3 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (33.80%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.68%) Ansible
3 3 (4.23%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.82%) Grafana
5 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Oracle
2 9 (12.68%) MuleSoft
3 4 (5.63%) Google
4 3 (4.23%) Informatica
4 3 (4.23%) Veritas
5 2 (2.82%) Databricks
5 2 (2.82%) IBM
5 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.82%) Splunk
6 1 (1.41%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.41%) Brocade
6 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.41%) EMC
6 1 (1.41%) NetApp
6 1 (1.41%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.41%) Talend
6 1 (1.41%) VMware
6 1 (1.41%) webMethods