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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 69 61
Rank change year-on-year +33 -8 -33
Contract jobs citing REST 37 19 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 4.52% 2.12% 2.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.97% 10.73% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 17
10th Percentile £403 £394 £325
25th Percentile £414 £498 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £750 £475
Median % change year-on-year -33.67% +57.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £512 - £506
90th Percentile £575 - £575
Scotland median daily rate £483 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -3.50% +2.04% +15.29%

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 195 177 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.84% 19.73% 21.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 117 133
10th Percentile £325 £381 £330
25th Percentile £400 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £503 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.52% +5.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £508 £638 £538
90th Percentile £575 £738 £613
Scotland median daily rate £461 £488 £490
% change year-on-year -5.38% -0.51% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £51.50 £16.62 £49.53
25th Percentile £51.88 £21.80 £54.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.45 £64.75
Median % change year-on-year +80.65% -52.98% +55.09%
75th Percentile £57.50 £39.09 £74.81
90th Percentile - £44.27 £80.18
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.00
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.57% +17.50%

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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 31 May 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 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.41%) Cloud Foundry
1 2 (5.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 27 (72.97%) AWS
2 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (10.81%) Azure
2 4 (10.81%) OpenShift
2 4 (10.81%) Serverless
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.11%) CloudFront
3 3 (8.11%) npm
4 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) NAS
1 3 (8.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle Database
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.41%) Apache Hive
4 2 (5.41%) Big Data
4 2 (5.41%) Impala
4 2 (5.41%) MySQL
4 2 (5.41%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Git
2 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.11%) webpack
4 2 (5.41%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.41%) JIRA
4 2 (5.41%) JUnit
4 2 (5.41%) Subversion
General
1 11 (29.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (27.03%) Finance
2 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Banking
3 4 (10.81%) Investment Banking
3 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Developer
2 12 (32.43%) Java Developer
3 8 (21.62%) Full Stack Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Java Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 3 (8.11%) Lead
7 3 (8.11%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Technical Leader
7 3 (8.11%) UI Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Angular Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Database Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Site Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (56.76%) Spring
1 21 (56.76%) Spring Boot
2 19 (51.35%) CSS
3 15 (40.54%) HTML
4 12 (32.43%) AngularJS
5 11 (29.73%) JPA
6 7 (18.92%) Kafka
6 7 (18.92%) React
7 4 (10.81%) Node.js
8 3 (8.11%) GraphQL
8 3 (8.11%) OAuth
9 2 (5.41%) JSON
9 2 (5.41%) Spring Security
9 2 (5.41%) Web Services
9 2 (5.41%) XML
10 1 (2.70%) Hibernate
10 1 (2.70%) RESTful
10 1 (2.70%) SOAP
10 1 (2.70%) Spring MVC
10 1 (2.70%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) CMDB
3 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Unix
3 3 (8.11%) Windows
3 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Microservices
2 19 (51.35%) Agile
2 19 (51.35%) CI/CD
3 16 (43.24%) Full Stack Development
4 13 (35.14%) SDLC
4 13 (35.14%) Software Engineering
5 10 (27.03%) Artificial Intelligence
5 10 (27.03%) Decision-Making
5 10 (27.03%) Machine Learning
5 10 (27.03%) Operational Stability
6 9 (24.32%) TDD
7 6 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (13.51%) Data Protection
9 4 (10.81%) Analytics
9 4 (10.81%) Observability
10 3 (8.11%) Data Deduplication
10 3 (8.11%) Event-Driven
10 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (8.11%) Scrum
10 3 (8.11%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 25 (67.57%) SQL
2 23 (62.16%) Java
3 14 (37.84%) TypeScript
4 6 (16.22%) Python
5 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.81%) Perl
6 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Grafana
3 3 (8.11%) NetBackup
3 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.41%) Ansible
4 2 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) Veritas
3 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.41%) Google
3 2 (5.41%) IBM
3 2 (5.41%) Splunk
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow