The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited REST over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing REST 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-11.11% -
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
444 466 498
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 42.01% 34.78% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 284 368 369
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £29,950 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £43,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
REST
Scotland

REST
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing REST across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Edinburgh REST Jobs Demand Trend

REST
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing REST across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh REST Salary Trend

REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing REST also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited REST.

1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Phone
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Symbian
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) LAMP
2 1 (50.00%) Cocoa
2 1 (50.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Drupal
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) iPhone
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) iPhone SDK
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Facebook
2 1 (50.00%) Twitter

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing REST also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited REST. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
1 1 (50.00%) Cocoa
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) iPhone SDK
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (50.00%) iPhone
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Symbian
1 1 (50.00%) Facebook
1 1 (50.00%) Twitter