The first table below looks at the demand for REST skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited REST over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Rank 142 153 152
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -1
Permanent jobs citing REST 19 3 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.575% 0.088% 0.167%
As % of the Application Development category 1.422% 0.251% 0.480%
Number of salaries quoted 17 3 5
Average salary £40,500 £34,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+19.11% -15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,500 £32,800 £33,400
10% offered a salary of more than £43,750 £40,800 £43,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -5.55%
All Application Development
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1336 1196 1251
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 40.42% 35.07% 34.78%
Number of salaries quoted 869 923 924
Average salary £37,500 £37,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.35% +2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £29,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
REST
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REST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland REST Salary Trend

REST
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing REST across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Scotland REST Salary Histogram

REST
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Glasgow 0 18 £40,500 -4.70%
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REST
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 24 (92.31%) Java
2 21 (80.77%) SOAP
3 16 (61.54%) Web Services
4 14 (53.85%) Web Development
5 13 (50.00%) Java EE
5 13 (50.00%) Subversion
5 13 (50.00%) PHP
6 11 (42.31%) Android
7 10 (38.46%) Spring
8 9 (34.62%) Content Management
8 9 (34.62%) InterSystems Cache
8 9 (34.62%) Retail
8 9 (34.62%) Alterian
8 9 (34.62%) Maven
8 9 (34.62%) iBATIS
8 9 (34.62%) Marketing
8 9 (34.62%) WebSphere
8 9 (34.62%) Information Architecture
8 9 (34.62%) WebSphere Application Server
8 9 (34.62%) Internet
8 9 (34.62%) HTTP
8 9 (34.62%) Agile Software Development
9 8 (30.77%) SQL
9 8 (30.77%) OO
10 7 (26.92%) HTML
10 7 (26.92%) CSS
10 7 (26.92%) Objective-C
10 7 (26.92%) Cocoa
10 7 (26.92%) Eclipse
11 6 (23.08%) Servlets

REST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 21 (80.77%) SOAP
2 16 (61.54%) Web Services
3 13 (50.00%) Java EE
4 10 (38.46%) Spring
5 9 (34.62%) WebSphere
5 9 (34.62%) iBATIS
6 7 (26.92%) HTML
6 7 (26.92%) CSS
6 7 (26.92%) Cocoa
7 6 (23.08%) jQuery
7 6 (23.08%) Ajax
7 6 (23.08%) Servlets
8 5 (19.23%) JSP
8 5 (19.23%) XML
9 4 (15.38%) ASP
9 4 (15.38%) DHTML
9 4 (15.38%) WCF
10 3 (11.54%) J2EE
10 3 (11.54%) JSON
11 2 (7.692%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 9 (34.62%) WebSphere Application Server
2 6 (23.08%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.846%) CMS
3 1 (3.846%) Drupal
3 1 (3.846%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) HTTP
1 9 (34.62%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) InterSystems Cache
2 4 (15.38%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.692%) MySQL
4 1 (3.846%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.846%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (3.846%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (50.00%) Subversion
2 9 (34.62%) Maven
3 7 (26.92%) Eclipse
4 6 (23.08%) Xcode
5 4 (15.38%) Git (software)
6 1 (3.846%) NetBeans
6 1 (3.846%) Dreamweaver
General
1 9 (34.62%) Retail
1 9 (34.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Web Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Mobile Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Applications Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
7 2 (7.692%) iOS Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Mobile Tester
8 1 (3.846%) Applications Support Engineer
8 1 (3.846%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.846%) Tester
8 1 (3.846%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Support Engineer
8 1 (3.846%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Mobile App
2 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
3 3 (11.54%) Digital Media
4 1 (3.846%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.846%) iPhone
4 1 (3.846%) Open Source
4 1 (3.846%) N-Tier
4 1 (3.846%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.846%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Android
2 6 (23.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (7.692%) Windows
3 2 (7.692%) Linux
4 1 (3.846%) Mac OS X
4 1 (3.846%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Web Development
2 9 (34.62%) Content Management
2 9 (34.62%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (34.62%) Information Architecture
3 8 (30.77%) OO
4 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 4 (15.38%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (7.692%) UML
6 2 (7.692%) Asset Management
7 1 (3.846%) Automated Testing
7 1 (3.846%) Load Balancing
7 1 (3.846%) Unit Testing
7 1 (3.846%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.846%) Workflow
7 1 (3.846%) TDD
7 1 (3.846%) Pair Programming
7 1 (3.846%) OOD
7 1 (3.846%) RDF
7 1 (3.846%) Benchmarking
7 1 (3.846%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) Java
2 13 (50.00%) PHP
3 8 (30.77%) SQL
4 7 (26.92%) Objective-C
5 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
6 3 (11.54%) C#
7 2 (7.692%) Python
7 2 (7.692%) Perl
8 1 (3.846%) VB.NET
8 1 (3.846%) Ruby
8 1 (3.846%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) SLA
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Alterian
2 6 (23.08%) JBoss
3 2 (7.692%) Oracle
4 1 (3.846%) Symbian
4 1 (3.846%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.846%) Facebook
4 1 (3.846%) Twitter
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