REST Contracts in Scotland

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 62 67
Rank change year-on-year +16 +5 -20
Contract jobs citing REST 86 112 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.00% 4.14% 3.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.59% 17.58% 16.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 84 74
10th Percentile £413 £413 £402
25th Percentile £438 £446 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £488 £477
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +2.20% +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £555 £542
90th Percentile £743 £703 £621
UK median daily rate £523 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.88% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.44 £56.25 £63.60
% change year-on-year +32.34% -11.56% +41.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland 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 439 637 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.41% 23.57% 21.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 477 505
10th Percentile £325 £400 £366
25th Percentile £401 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £545
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £36.10 £23.53 £31.95
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.09 £42.04
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +13.57% +14.63%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.77 £48.75
90th Percentile - £66.71 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 16 May 2024.

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

REST
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 16 May 2024. 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 +28 37 £499 -33.50% 3
Edinburgh -14 23 £477 -2.15% 6
West Lothian - 12 £525 -
South Lanarkshire - 6 £750 -
Perthshire - 2 £525 -
Lanarkshire - 1 £460 -
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 16 (18.60%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) Apache
3 2 (2.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 44 (51.16%) AWS
2 14 (16.28%) AWS CodePipeline
2 14 (16.28%) OpenShift
3 9 (10.47%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (10.47%) Serverless
4 8 (9.30%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.14%) Azure
6 6 (6.98%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (6.98%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 4 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.65%) IaaS
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (3.49%) CloudFront
8 3 (3.49%) npm
8 3 (3.49%) SaaS
9 2 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) NAS
1 4 (4.65%) SAN
2 3 (3.49%) HTTP
3 1 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.16%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.16%) SSL
3 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.77%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (16.28%) Oracle Database
3 6 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.33%) Power BI
7 1 (1.16%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.16%) Big Data
7 1 (1.16%) GIS
7 1 (1.16%) Impala
7 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.16%) MySQL
7 1 (1.16%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (27.91%) Git
2 19 (22.09%) Jenkins
3 16 (18.60%) JIRA
4 11 (12.79%) JUnit
5 9 (10.47%) Cucumber
6 8 (9.30%) GitLab
6 8 (9.30%) Postman
7 4 (4.65%) IntelliJ
7 4 (4.65%) Maven
7 4 (4.65%) Visual Studio
8 3 (3.49%) webpack
9 2 (2.33%) Artifactory
9 2 (2.33%) Subversion
10 1 (1.16%) Appium
10 1 (1.16%) Selenium
General
1 33 (38.37%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.42%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (10.47%) Finance
5 8 (9.30%) Back Office
5 8 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.65%) Banking
8 3 (3.49%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Legal
9 1 (1.16%) Military
9 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (40.70%) Developer
2 27 (31.40%) Java Developer
3 12 (13.95%) Senior
4 10 (11.63%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.47%) Architect
5 9 (10.47%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (9.30%) Applications Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Data Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Full Stack Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) JIRA Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) AWS Architect
7 7 (8.14%) Java Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Applications Support
8 6 (6.98%) Applications Support Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (45.35%) Spring
1 39 (45.35%) Spring Boot
2 22 (25.58%) CSS
3 18 (20.93%) HTML
4 17 (19.77%) Kafka
5 16 (18.60%) SOAP
6 13 (15.12%) React
7 12 (13.95%) AngularJS
7 12 (13.95%) Web Services
8 11 (12.79%) AWS CDK
8 11 (12.79%) JPA
9 9 (10.47%) Apache Camel
10 8 (9.30%) J2EE
10 8 (9.30%) Node.js
10 8 (9.30%) OAuth
11 5 (5.81%) .NET
11 5 (5.81%) Spring Security
12 4 (4.65%) Spring MVC
12 4 (4.65%) Spring Web Flow
12 4 (4.65%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Public Cloud
2 8 (9.30%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.14%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (8.14%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.33%) CMDB
6 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.12%) Linux
2 8 (9.30%) Windows
3 6 (6.98%) Unix
4 4 (4.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (48.84%) Agile
2 40 (46.51%) CI/CD
3 24 (27.91%) Microservices
4 18 (20.93%) DevOps
4 18 (20.93%) Migration
4 18 (20.93%) Service Management
5 17 (19.77%) SDLC
6 16 (18.60%) Full Stack Development
6 16 (18.60%) TDD
7 14 (16.28%) Data Protection
7 14 (16.28%) Software Engineering
8 13 (15.12%) Analytics
8 13 (15.12%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (15.12%) Machine Learning
9 12 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (13.95%) Roadmaps
9 12 (13.95%) Scrum
10 11 (12.79%) Decision-Making
11 10 (11.63%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 51 (59.30%) Java
2 44 (51.16%) SQL
3 17 (19.77%) Python
4 15 (17.44%) TypeScript
5 10 (11.63%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.98%) Perl
7 4 (4.65%) C#
7 4 (4.65%) PL/SQL
7 4 (4.65%) VB
7 4 (4.65%) VB6
8 2 (2.33%) Bash
8 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.49%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) Accessibility
1 7 (8.14%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 23 (26.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.47%) Grafana
2 8 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.30%) Terraform
3 4 (4.65%) Kibana
3 4 (4.65%) NetBackup
3 4 (4.65%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.49%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (29.07%) Oracle
2 8 (9.30%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.65%) Infragistics
3 4 (4.65%) Veritas
4 2 (2.33%) IBM
4 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.33%) Splunk
5 1 (1.16%) F5
5 1 (1.16%) Google