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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 57 34
Rank change year-on-year +14 -23 +36
Contract jobs citing REST 30 20 44
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.40% 2.72% 5.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.85% 12.58% 28.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 29
10th Percentile £338 £354 £404
25th Percentile £413 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £379 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.69% -24.20% -8.01%
75th Percentile £538 £428 £575
90th Percentile £563 £449 £716
Scotland median daily rate £475 £423 £499
% change year-on-year +12.43% -15.29% +6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.86 - -
Median hourly rate £58.73 - -
75th Percentile £60.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £58.73 - -

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 178 159 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.10% 21.63% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 107 102
10th Percentile £321 £350 £400
25th Percentile £402 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £425 £503
Median % change year-on-year +6.35% -15.51% +5.45%
75th Percentile £538 £517 £605
90th Percentile £606 £619 £714
Scotland median daily rate £500 £460 £499
% change year-on-year +8.70% -7.77% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.86 - -
Median hourly rate £58.73 - -
75th Percentile £60.59 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £58.73 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +160.22%

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 8 January 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 7 (23.33%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (20.00%) Apache
2 6 (20.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.67%) Alfresco
3 2 (6.67%) Apache Solr
4 1 (3.33%) nginx
4 1 (3.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (20.00%) Snowflake
3 5 (16.67%) AWS
4 3 (10.00%) Azure
4 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (10.00%) Serverless
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.67%) Apigee
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) DNS
2 5 (16.67%) HTTP
2 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.00%) DHCP
4 2 (6.67%) NAS
4 2 (6.67%) SAN
4 2 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) Power BI
2 8 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (20.00%) Big Data
3 6 (20.00%) Hadoop
4 4 (13.33%) MySQL
5 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (6.67%) Metadata
6 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (3.33%) DB2
7 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (50.00%) Git
2 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.67%) JUnit
3 2 (6.67%) Mockito
4 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Python Data Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Python Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Power Platform Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Security Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) SOAP
2 6 (20.00%) RESTful
3 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 3 (10.00%) HTML
4 3 (10.00%) JSON
4 3 (10.00%) Loki
4 3 (10.00%) OAuth
4 3 (10.00%) Spring
4 3 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.67%) .NET
5 2 (6.67%) CSS
5 2 (6.67%) JWT
6 1 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (3.33%) boto
6 1 (3.33%) FastAPI
6 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.33%) Pandas
6 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
6 1 (3.33%) React
6 1 (3.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 2 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (6.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) CMDB
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) FMCG
2 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.33%) STIX
2 1 (3.33%) TAXII
2 1 (3.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Linux
2 8 (26.67%) Unix
3 3 (10.00%) Windows
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Agile
1 15 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (30.00%) Data Integration
3 9 (30.00%) ETL
4 8 (26.67%) API Integration
4 8 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 8 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
6 6 (20.00%) Visualisation
7 5 (16.67%) Analytics
7 5 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 5 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (13.33%) Clean Code
8 4 (13.33%) ERP
8 4 (13.33%) Incident Response
8 4 (13.33%) Observability
8 4 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (13.33%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) Java
3 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (20.00%) Perl
5 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 4 (13.33%) SQL
6 3 (10.00%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (6.67%) Bash
7 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.33%) C#
8 1 (3.33%) Groovy
8 1 (3.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Grafana
2 4 (13.33%) Ansible
2 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 3 (10.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Databricks
1 6 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) ArcSight
3 3 (10.00%) F5
3 3 (10.00%) Infoblox
3 3 (10.00%) Splunk
3 3 (10.00%) Veritas
4 2 (6.67%) MuleSoft
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Apple
5 1 (3.33%) GoCardless
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) Pega