REST Contracts in Scotland

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 41 59
Rank change year-on-year -22 +18 +6
Contract jobs citing REST 55 103 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.38% 4.65% 4.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.25% 22.06% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 66 94
10th Percentile £357 £417 £413
25th Percentile £405 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £637 £547
90th Percentile £593 £744 £609
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -6.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 467 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.75% 21.06% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 302 527
10th Percentile £348 £328 £406
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.58 £49.99
25th Percentile - £44.94 £53.38
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.52
90th Percentile - - £67.81
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Scotland

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for REST in Scotland

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Scotland

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for REST in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -13 27 £425 -15.00% 19
Edinburgh -3 23 £463 -3.44% 17
Stirling - 2 £456 -
Perthshire - 1 - -
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (1.82%) Confluence
1 1 (1.82%) JBoss
1 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.82%) WebLogic
1 1 (1.82%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.27%) Azure
2 13 (23.64%) AWS
3 8 (14.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (10.91%) Amazon S3
4 6 (10.91%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (10.91%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (10.91%) Power Platform
4 6 (10.91%) Serverless
5 5 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (7.27%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (7.27%) OpenShift
7 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.82%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.82%) IaaS
9 1 (1.82%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) FTP
1 1 (1.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (16.36%) Relational Database
3 6 (10.91%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (10.91%) RDBMS
3 6 (10.91%) SQL Server
4 5 (9.09%) Oracle Database
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (7.27%) DB2
6 2 (3.64%) CockroachDB
6 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.82%) GIS
7 1 (1.82%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (29.09%) Git
2 6 (10.91%) GitLab
2 6 (10.91%) JIRA
3 5 (9.09%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (3.64%) Mercurial
4 2 (3.64%) Selenium
4 2 (3.64%) Subversion
5 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.82%) JUnit
5 1 (1.82%) Mockito
5 1 (1.82%) MSTest
5 1 (1.82%) NUnit
5 1 (1.82%) Postman
5 1 (1.82%) Ranorex
5 1 (1.82%) Storybook
5 1 (1.82%) Toad
General
1 23 (41.82%) Public Sector
2 8 (14.55%) Back Office
2 8 (14.55%) Finance
3 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Financial Institution
4 2 (3.64%) Front Office
5 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Banking
5 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (58.18%) Developer
2 12 (21.82%) Java Developer
3 9 (16.36%) ServiceNow Developer
4 8 (14.55%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Senior
5 5 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Database Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (5.45%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Junior
8 2 (3.64%) Junior Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Junior Java Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Python Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Python Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (34.55%) SOAP
2 18 (32.73%) AngularJS
3 12 (21.82%) CSS
3 12 (21.82%) Spring Boot
4 11 (20.00%) HTML
4 11 (20.00%) Spring
5 10 (18.18%) Node.js
5 10 (18.18%) React
6 9 (16.36%) Web Services
7 7 (12.73%) .NET
7 7 (12.73%) AWS CDK
7 7 (12.73%) Kafka
8 6 (10.91%) JSON
9 5 (9.09%) ASP.NET
9 5 (9.09%) Middleware
9 5 (9.09%) XML
10 4 (7.27%) Express.js
10 4 (7.27%) HTML5
10 4 (7.27%) jQuery
11 3 (5.45%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.45%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.64%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
1 4 (7.27%) Unix
2 1 (1.82%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (60.00%) Agile
2 22 (40.00%) DevOps
3 18 (32.73%) CI/CD
4 12 (21.82%) Microservices
4 12 (21.82%) Scrum
5 10 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (18.18%) TDD
6 8 (14.55%) SDLC
7 7 (12.73%) Kanban
7 7 (12.73%) Test Automation
7 7 (12.73%) Web Development
8 6 (10.91%) API Development
8 6 (10.91%) API Integration
8 6 (10.91%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (10.91%) Data Integration
8 6 (10.91%) Data Transformation
8 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.91%) Software Engineering
8 6 (10.91%) Unit Testing
8 6 (10.91%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.82%) SQL
2 20 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 18 (32.73%) Java
4 13 (23.64%) Python
5 9 (16.36%) PL/SQL
6 7 (12.73%) TypeScript
7 6 (10.91%) C#
8 4 (7.27%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.82%) Bash
9 1 (1.82%) Perl
9 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) Degree
2 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (10.91%) Accessibility
3 4 (7.27%) GRC
3 4 (7.27%) QA
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.82%) GDPR
4 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (10.91%) Docker
2 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.82%) KVM
3 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) Grafana
1 4 (7.27%) Terraform
2 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) HAProxy
3 1 (1.82%) Nagios
3 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 15 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 14 (25.45%) Oracle
3 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.27%) Snow
4 3 (5.45%) DocuSign
5 2 (3.64%) Workday
6 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.82%) Commvault
6 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.82%) NetApp
6 1 (1.82%) Okta
6 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.82%) Talend