RESTful Contracts in Scotland

RESTful
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring RESTful skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RESTful over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 75 124
Rank change year-on-year -6 +49 -3
Contract jobs citing RESTful 38 49 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.29% 2.30% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.82% 11.29% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 30 19
10th Percentile £287 £348 £448
25th Percentile £400 £382 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £410 £510
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -19.61% -2.86%
75th Percentile £525 £469 £606
90th Percentile £605 £538 £705
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% -13.04% +6.48%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

RESTful 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 387 434 631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.36% 20.37% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 286 464
10th Percentile £313 £325 £400
25th Percentile £410 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £461 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% -5.38% -0.51%
75th Percentile £530 £538 £545
90th Percentile £599 £664 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.62% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £36.10 £23.53
25th Percentile - £51.25 £39.09
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £53.38
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% +13.57%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £61.77
90th Percentile - - £66.71
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +30.30% -26.21% +23.81%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for RESTful in Scotland

RESTful
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for RESTful in Scotland

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RESTful in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RESTful in Scotland

RESTful
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for RESTful in Scotland

RESTful
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 RESTful within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 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
Edinburgh +25 23 £450 +6.51% 6
Glasgow -36 15 £469 +17.19% 12
RESTful
UK

RESTful
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 3 (7.89%) WordPress
2 2 (5.26%) Camunda
2 2 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (2.63%) Apache
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.63%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) AWS
2 12 (31.58%) Azure
3 8 (21.05%) Amazon S3
4 6 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (15.79%) GCP
4 6 (15.79%) Serverless
5 5 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (10.53%) CloudFront
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.89%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (7.89%) Azure AI
7 3 (7.89%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 3 (7.89%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 3 (7.89%) Firebase
7 3 (7.89%) GitHub
7 3 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.89%) Google Analytics
7 3 (7.89%) Route 53
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (21.05%) MySQL
3 7 (18.42%) Relational Database
4 5 (13.16%) MongoDB
5 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (7.89%) MariaDB
6 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
7 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (5.26%) Metadata
8 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
8 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (36.84%) Git
2 12 (31.58%) Jenkins
3 8 (21.05%) webpack
4 4 (10.53%) Cypress.io
5 3 (7.89%) JUnit
5 3 (7.89%) Maven
5 3 (7.89%) Mockito
5 3 (7.89%) Storybook
6 2 (5.26%) Ant
6 2 (5.26%) Artifactory
6 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
6 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (5.26%) GitLab
6 2 (5.26%) Gradle
6 2 (5.26%) JIRA
6 2 (5.26%) SonarQube
6 2 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.63%) Selenium
7 1 (2.63%) Subversion
General
1 12 (31.58%) Finance
1 12 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Banking
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Games
5 2 (5.26%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (71.05%) Developer
2 9 (23.68%) Java Developer
3 7 (18.42%) Senior
4 6 (15.79%) Lead
4 6 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Architect
5 5 (13.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (10.53%) Lead Developer
6 4 (10.53%) React Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Technical Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Applications Developer
8 2 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.26%) GCP Developer
8 2 (5.26%) iOS Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (50.00%) React
2 13 (34.21%) Spring
3 12 (31.58%) CSS
3 12 (31.58%) Spring Boot
4 10 (26.32%) Node.js
5 9 (23.68%) HTML
6 7 (18.42%) CSS3
6 7 (18.42%) HTML5
7 6 (15.79%) AngularJS
8 5 (13.16%) GraphQL
8 5 (13.16%) Redux
8 5 (13.16%) Web Services
9 4 (10.53%) Jest
9 4 (10.53%) JSON
9 4 (10.53%) OAuth
10 3 (7.89%) AWS Amplify
10 3 (7.89%) JSON Schema
10 3 (7.89%) Swagger
10 3 (7.89%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (7.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.63%) CentOS
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 17 (44.74%) Microservices
3 16 (42.11%) DevOps
4 15 (39.47%) Agile
5 9 (23.68%) Clean Code
6 8 (21.05%) API Development
6 8 (21.05%) Front End Development
6 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
7 7 (18.42%) User Experience
8 6 (15.79%) Data Protection
8 6 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
8 6 (15.79%) OWASP
8 6 (15.79%) Service Management
9 5 (13.16%) API Design
9 5 (13.16%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (13.16%) Design Patterns
9 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
9 5 (13.16%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 17 (44.74%) Java
2 14 (36.84%) TypeScript
3 11 (28.95%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.42%) Python
5 5 (13.16%) SQL
6 4 (10.53%) C#
7 3 (7.89%) Bash
8 2 (5.26%) Objective-C
8 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 2 (5.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Accessibility
1 5 (13.16%) WCAG
2 3 (7.89%) NCSC
2 3 (7.89%) PERC
3 2 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (5.26%) QA
4 1 (2.63%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.63%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) Packer
3 1 (2.63%) Puppet
3 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Google
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.26%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.63%) Adobe
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce