REST Contract Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire requiring REST skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing REST 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in South Lanarkshire 4.17% - 20.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £750
Scotland median daily rate £423 £465 £438
% change year-on-year -9.14% +6.29% -10.26%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 16.67% - 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £750
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -1.04%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing REST relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire.

REST job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

REST
Daily Rate Trend in South Lanarkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing REST.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing REST

REST
Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the South Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 2026. 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
East Kilbride - 1 - -
REST
Scotland

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IKE
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) IPv4
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible