REST Contracts in Glasgow

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 63 55
Rank change year-on-year +24 -8 -28
Contract jobs citing REST 45 21 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.13% 2.30% 2.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 22.28% 11.93% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 14 17
10th Percentile £413 £410 £325
25th Percentile £459 £449 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £750 £425
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +76.47% +4.94%
75th Percentile £575 - £495
90th Percentile £742 - £530
Scotland median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £49.54
Scotland median hourly rate - - £34.52
% change year-on-year - - -48.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 202 176 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.03% 19.26% 21.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 115 139
10th Percentile £350 £388 £319
25th Percentile £400 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +9.47% +15.85%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £538
90th Percentile £626 £738 £603
Scotland median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £51.50 - £46.71
25th Percentile £51.88 - £47.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £47.73 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year +15.23% -3.65% -25.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £66.65
90th Percentile - - £76.91
Scotland median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
% change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +12.50%

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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 28 April 2024.

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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (4.44%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.22%) IIS
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 27 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 4 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (8.89%) Serverless
4 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.67%) CloudFront
4 3 (6.67%) npm
5 2 (4.44%) Azure
6 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.78%) HTTP
1 8 (17.78%) SSL
1 8 (17.78%) TCP/IP
2 7 (15.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 7 (15.56%) NetScaler
3 4 (8.89%) NAS
3 4 (8.89%) SAN
4 1 (2.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.89%) Oracle Database
3 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (44.44%) Git
2 13 (28.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.67%) JIRA
3 3 (6.67%) webpack
4 2 (4.44%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.44%) JUnit
4 2 (4.44%) Subversion
5 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Finance
2 10 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (17.78%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (53.33%) Developer
2 18 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (17.78%) Full Stack Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Java Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Lead
7 3 (6.67%) Linux Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Senior
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Site Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Technical Leader
7 3 (6.67%) UI Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Unix Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (46.67%) Spring
1 21 (46.67%) Spring Boot
2 20 (44.44%) CSS
3 16 (35.56%) AngularJS
3 16 (35.56%) HTML
4 11 (24.44%) JPA
5 8 (17.78%) React
6 7 (15.56%) Kafka
7 4 (8.89%) Node.js
7 4 (8.89%) Twisted
8 3 (6.67%) GraphQL
8 3 (6.67%) JSON
8 3 (6.67%) OAuth
8 3 (6.67%) XML
9 2 (4.44%) Spring Security
9 2 (4.44%) Web Services
10 1 (2.22%) RESTful
10 1 (2.22%) SOAP
10 1 (2.22%) Spring MVC
10 1 (2.22%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) CMDB
4 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.11%) Linux
2 11 (24.44%) Unix
3 5 (11.11%) Windows
3 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (62.22%) CI/CD
2 21 (46.67%) Agile
2 21 (46.67%) Microservices
3 17 (37.78%) Full Stack Development
4 13 (28.89%) SDLC
5 12 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 11 (24.44%) Decision-Making
7 10 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
7 10 (22.22%) Machine Learning
7 10 (22.22%) Operational Stability
7 10 (22.22%) TDD
8 8 (17.78%) Data Protection
8 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (13.33%) Migration
11 5 (11.11%) Analytics
11 5 (11.11%) Low Latency
11 5 (11.11%) Observability
11 5 (11.11%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 31 (68.89%) Java
2 23 (51.11%) SQL
3 15 (33.33%) Python
3 15 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 13 (28.89%) Perl
5 9 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (17.78%) Bash
7 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Degree
1 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Grafana
1 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.89%) NetBackup
2 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.67%) Ansible
3 3 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) F5
2 6 (13.33%) Oracle
3 4 (8.89%) Veritas
4 2 (4.44%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.44%) IBM
4 2 (4.44%) Splunk
5 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow