RESTful Contracts in Scotland

RESTful
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for RESTful skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RESTful 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 82 135 113
Rank change year-on-year +53 -22 +1
Contract jobs citing RESTful 43 25 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.00% 0.92% 1.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.79% 3.92% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 33
10th Percentile £343 £439 £414
25th Percentile £380 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% +23.53%
75th Percentile £485 £613 £588
90th Percentile £538 £709 £609
UK median daily rate £503 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -12.61% +5.50% +9.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

RESTful 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%

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 16 May 2024.

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 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 +45 41 £400 -27.27% 13
Edinburgh +24 2 £463 -2.63% 5
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 9 (20.93%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 22 (51.16%) AWS
2 13 (30.23%) Azure
3 9 (20.93%) GCP
4 4 (9.30%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) SaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.33%) Apigee
7 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.33%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) Relational Database
2 4 (9.30%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.98%) MariaDB
3 3 (6.98%) MySQL
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (32.56%) Jenkins
2 13 (30.23%) Git
3 6 (13.95%) Bitbucket
4 5 (11.63%) JIRA
5 3 (6.98%) webpack
6 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.65%) Selenium
6 2 (4.65%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.33%) Gatling
7 1 (2.33%) JMeter
7 1 (2.33%) JUnit
7 1 (2.33%) Maven
7 1 (2.33%) Mockito
General
1 8 (18.60%) Banking
2 5 (11.63%) Finance
2 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (79.07%) Developer
2 20 (46.51%) Java Developer
3 9 (20.93%) Senior
3 9 (20.93%) Senior Developer
4 7 (16.28%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Backend Developer
6 4 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Full Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Java Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Developer in Test
8 1 (2.33%) Full Stack Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Mobile Architect
8 1 (2.33%) React Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (41.86%) Spring
1 18 (41.86%) Spring Boot
2 10 (23.26%) Kafka
3 9 (20.93%) React
3 9 (20.93%) Web Services
4 8 (18.60%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (18.60%) OpenTracing
5 6 (13.95%) CSS
5 6 (13.95%) JSON
5 6 (13.95%) LDAP
5 6 (13.95%) OpenID
5 6 (13.95%) XML
6 5 (11.63%) HTML
7 4 (9.30%) AngularJS
7 4 (9.30%) Redux
8 3 (6.98%) CSS3
8 3 (6.98%) HTML5
8 3 (6.98%) Node.js
9 2 (4.65%) .NET Core
9 2 (4.65%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Data Structures
1 11 (25.58%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
3 6 (13.95%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (6.98%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Unix
2 4 (9.30%) VMS
3 2 (4.65%) Linux
4 1 (2.33%) Android
4 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Microservices
2 21 (48.84%) Agile
3 18 (41.86%) CI/CD
4 16 (37.21%) Test Automation
5 14 (32.56%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (27.91%) SDLC
7 10 (23.26%) End-to-End Testing
7 10 (23.26%) Software Engineering
8 8 (18.60%) Continuous Delivery
9 7 (16.28%) DevOps
9 7 (16.28%) Release Management
10 6 (13.95%) Clean Code
10 6 (13.95%) Data Modelling
10 6 (13.95%) Dependency Injection
10 6 (13.95%) OO
10 6 (13.95%) User Experience
10 6 (13.95%) UX Design
11 5 (11.63%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (11.63%) Front End Development
12 4 (9.30%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (60.47%) Java
2 15 (34.88%) SQL
3 12 (27.91%) Kotlin
3 12 (27.91%) Scala
4 8 (18.60%) JavaScript
5 7 (16.28%) Go
6 6 (13.95%) C
7 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.65%) C#
8 2 (4.65%) Python
9 1 (2.33%) Bash
9 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (32.56%) Docker
2 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (25.58%) Kubernetes
2 8 (18.60%) Prometheus
2 8 (18.60%) Zipkin
3 2 (4.65%) Terraform
4 1 (2.33%) Grafana
4 1 (2.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Cadence
2 3 (6.98%) Adobe
2 3 (6.98%) Google
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle
3 2 (4.65%) Xamarin
4 1 (2.33%) Confluent
4 1 (2.33%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.33%) IBM
4 1 (2.33%) Teradata