REST Contracts in Scotland

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 70 69
Rank change year-on-year +28 -1 -19
Contract jobs citing REST 78 99 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.64% 3.71% 3.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.18% 15.40% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 73 77
10th Percentile £380 £428 £413
25th Percentile £418 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £556 £556 £550
90th Percentile £739 £745 £638
UK median daily rate £521 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.21% -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 £72.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +30.91% -21.43% +55.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 429 643 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.02% 24.06% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 473 574
10th Percentile £325 £400 £394
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £491
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -0.61% +15.41%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £654 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £36.10 £23.53 £36.85
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.09 £42.33
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +12.38% +18.75%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.77 £60.00
90th Percentile - £66.71 £69.55
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +29 32 £492 -34.43% 4
Edinburgh +1 27 £445 -11.00% 11
South Lanarkshire - 7 £750 - 1
West Lothian - 3 £580 - 1
Perthshire - 2 £525 -
Lanarkshire - 1 £460 - 3
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 9 (11.54%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.56%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 45 (57.69%) AWS
2 14 (17.95%) AWS CodePipeline
2 14 (17.95%) OpenShift
3 12 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (14.10%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (14.10%) Serverless
5 10 (12.82%) Amazon S3
6 9 (11.54%) Azure
7 6 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
7 6 (7.69%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.13%) IaaS
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (3.85%) SaaS
10 2 (2.56%) CloudFront
10 2 (2.56%) npm
10 2 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) NAS
1 2 (2.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.79%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (19.23%) Oracle Database
3 6 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.13%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.56%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.56%) Big Data
6 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.56%) Impala
6 2 (2.56%) MySQL
6 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.56%) Power BI
6 2 (2.56%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.28%) GIS
7 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (17.95%) Git
2 10 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.54%) JIRA
4 8 (10.26%) GitLab
5 4 (5.13%) Maven
5 4 (5.13%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.85%) Selenium
7 2 (2.56%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.56%) JUnit
7 2 (2.56%) Subversion
7 2 (2.56%) webpack
8 1 (1.28%) Appium
8 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
General
1 23 (29.49%) Public Sector
2 22 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (10.26%) Back Office
4 8 (10.26%) Finance
4 8 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.85%) Banking
6 3 (3.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.28%) Legal
7 1 (1.28%) Military
7 1 (1.28%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (39.74%) Developer
2 19 (24.36%) Java Developer
3 9 (11.54%) Applications Engineer
3 9 (11.54%) JIRA Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Architect
4 8 (10.26%) Data Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Full Stack Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) Applications Support
5 7 (8.97%) Applications Support Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) AWS Architect
5 7 (8.97%) Full Stack Developer
5 7 (8.97%) Java Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.41%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (6.41%) Senior
6 5 (6.41%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.13%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.13%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (43.59%) Spring
2 31 (39.74%) Spring Boot
3 22 (28.21%) CSS
4 19 (24.36%) SOAP
5 18 (23.08%) HTML
6 17 (21.79%) AngularJS
7 16 (20.51%) React
8 13 (16.67%) AWS CDK
8 13 (16.67%) Web Services
9 10 (12.82%) JPA
10 7 (8.97%) Kafka
10 7 (8.97%) Node.js
11 6 (7.69%) OAuth
12 5 (6.41%) .NET
12 5 (6.41%) Spring MVC
12 5 (6.41%) Spring Security
12 5 (6.41%) Spring Web Flow
12 5 (6.41%) Thymeleaf
13 4 (5.13%) Playwright
13 4 (5.13%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Public Cloud
2 9 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 8 (10.26%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.56%) CMDB
5 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.95%) Linux
2 6 (7.69%) Windows
3 4 (5.13%) Unix
4 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (47.44%) Agile
1 37 (47.44%) CI/CD
2 25 (32.05%) Microservices
3 20 (25.64%) DevOps
4 19 (24.36%) Full Stack Development
4 19 (24.36%) Migration
5 17 (21.79%) Service Management
6 16 (20.51%) Analytics
6 16 (20.51%) SDLC
7 14 (17.95%) TDD
8 12 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (15.38%) Machine Learning
8 12 (15.38%) Test Automation
9 11 (14.10%) Data Migration
9 11 (14.10%) Roadmaps
9 11 (14.10%) Scrum
9 11 (14.10%) Software Engineering
10 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (12.82%) Operational Stability
11 9 (11.54%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (61.54%) Java
2 37 (47.44%) SQL
3 15 (19.23%) TypeScript
4 13 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 12 (15.38%) Python
6 4 (5.13%) C#
6 4 (5.13%) VB
6 4 (5.13%) VB6
7 3 (3.85%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.56%) Perl
9 1 (1.28%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.41%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (6.41%) QA
System Software
1 21 (26.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.54%) Grafana
2 6 (7.69%) Terraform
3 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.56%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.28%) Ansible
5 1 (1.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (28.21%) Oracle
2 9 (11.54%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.13%) Infragistics
4 2 (2.56%) Google
4 2 (2.56%) IBM
4 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.56%) Veritas
5 1 (1.28%) Splunk