REST Jobs in Scotland

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 88 123
Rank change year-on-year -42 +35 -40
Permanent jobs citing REST 172 160 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.56% 3.45% 2.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.50% 11.35% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 59 84 68
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,625 £36,527
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,318 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,664 £75,625
90th Percentile £77,000 £85,000 £84,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,293 1,410 1,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 34.11% 30.44% 34.45%
Number of salaries quoted 643 737 1,107
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,199 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,911 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST in Scotland.

Salary trend for REST in Scotland

REST
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Scotland over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for REST in Scotland

REST
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -61 137 £51,250 -6.82% 2
Edinburgh -19 31 £60,000 -11.29% 5
Aberdeen - 2 £66,250 - 2
Aberdeenshire - 1 £65,000 - 2
West Lothian - 1 £72,500 -
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 21 (12.21%) GemFire
2 17 (9.88%) Cloud Foundry
3 16 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (9.30%) Apache Spark
4 7 (4.07%) IIS
5 4 (2.33%) Apache
5 4 (2.33%) JBoss
5 4 (2.33%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (1.16%) Confluence
7 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.58%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (43.02%) AWS
2 35 (20.35%) Azure
3 21 (12.21%) GCP
4 16 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (5.81%) SaaS
6 8 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (4.65%) Serverless
7 6 (3.49%) BlazeMeter
7 6 (3.49%) GitHub
8 5 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.91%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.33%) IBM Cloud
10 3 (1.74%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.16%) Fivetran
11 2 (1.16%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.58%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.58%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.88%) Kerberos
2 6 (3.49%) WAN
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (22.09%) CockroachDB
2 26 (15.12%) NoSQL
3 24 (13.95%) Relational Database
4 21 (12.21%) Apache Cassandra
4 21 (12.21%) Hazelcast
5 17 (9.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 16 (9.30%) Apache Hive
6 16 (9.30%) Hadoop
6 16 (9.30%) HBase
6 16 (9.30%) MySQL
6 16 (9.30%) SQL Server
7 12 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.33%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.58%) DB2
10 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (13.95%) Jenkins
2 21 (12.21%) Jaeger
3 20 (11.63%) Git
3 20 (11.63%) Maven
4 7 (4.07%) JUnit
5 6 (3.49%) Eclipse
6 5 (2.91%) Selenium
7 4 (2.33%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.33%) JIRA
8 3 (1.74%) Postman
9 2 (1.16%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.16%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.58%) GitLab
10 1 (0.58%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.58%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.58%) Vite
10 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 123 (71.51%) Finance
2 103 (59.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 103 (59.88%) Law
3 51 (29.65%) Banking
4 42 (24.42%) Marketing
5 34 (19.77%) Investment Banking
6 26 (15.12%) Social Skills
7 21 (12.21%) Legal
8 19 (11.05%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.49%) Private Banking
10 5 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.91%) Games
10 5 (2.91%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.16%) Retail
11 2 (1.16%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (59.30%) Software Engineer
2 84 (48.84%) Java Engineer
3 80 (46.51%) Java Software Engineer
4 40 (23.26%) Lead
5 38 (22.09%) Lead Java Engineer
5 38 (22.09%) Lead Software Engineer
5 38 (22.09%) Senior
6 33 (19.19%) Developer
7 24 (13.95%) Full Stack Engineer
7 24 (13.95%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 24 (13.95%) Python Engineer
7 24 (13.95%) Python Software Engineer
8 21 (12.21%) Senior Java Engineer
8 21 (12.21%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 21 (12.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (9.30%) Java Developer
10 12 (6.98%) Backend Developer
11 11 (6.40%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.49%) Engineering Manager
12 6 (3.49%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (67.44%) Spring
2 68 (39.53%) JPA
3 60 (34.88%) Kafka
4 59 (34.30%) Spring Boot
5 45 (26.16%) AngularJS
6 36 (20.93%) JSON
6 36 (20.93%) React
7 26 (15.12%) OAuth
8 24 (13.95%) Web Services
9 23 (13.37%) GraphQL
9 23 (13.37%) XML
10 21 (12.21%) OpenTelemetry
11 20 (11.63%) CSS
11 20 (11.63%) HTML
11 20 (11.63%) SOAP
12 15 (8.72%) JSP
13 12 (6.98%) Java EE
14 11 (6.40%) J2EE
15 9 (5.23%) .NET
15 9 (5.23%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 44 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 30 (17.44%) Public Cloud
3 29 (16.86%) Algorithms
4 21 (12.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 21 (12.21%) Replication
5 9 (5.23%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.49%) Clustering
6 6 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.30%) Unix
2 4 (2.33%) AIX
2 4 (2.33%) Linux
3 1 (0.58%) Windows
3 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (80.23%) Agile
2 114 (66.28%) Software Engineering
3 109 (63.37%) SDLC
4 97 (56.40%) Operational Stability
5 94 (54.65%) CI/CD
6 79 (45.93%) Microservices
7 52 (30.23%) Artificial Intelligence
8 50 (29.07%) Community of Practice
9 49 (28.49%) Decision-Making
10 47 (27.33%) Machine Learning
11 42 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (20.93%) Full Stack Development
13 34 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (16.86%) Visualisation
15 27 (15.70%) Continuous Delivery
16 26 (15.12%) Architectural Design
17 24 (13.95%) Computer Science
18 23 (13.37%) Mathematics
19 21 (12.21%) Content Management
19 21 (12.21%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 146 (84.88%) Java
2 121 (70.35%) SQL
3 38 (22.09%) Python
4 26 (15.12%) C#
5 25 (14.53%) Groovy
6 24 (13.95%) JavaScript
7 20 (11.63%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.23%) C++
9 6 (3.49%) Go
10 5 (2.91%) VB
11 4 (2.33%) C
12 3 (1.74%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.74%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.16%) PHP
13 2 (1.16%) R
13 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.58%) VB6
Qualifications
1 10 (5.81%) SC Cleared
1 10 (5.81%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.91%) Degree
3 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 25 (14.53%) Docker
2 16 (9.30%) HDFS
3 6 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (22.09%) Grafana
1 38 (22.09%) Kubernetes
2 21 (12.21%) HAProxy
2 21 (12.21%) ITRS Geneos
2 21 (12.21%) Kibana
2 21 (12.21%) Prometheus
2 21 (12.21%) Zipkin
3 19 (11.05%) Terraform
4 4 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.16%) Ansible
5 2 (1.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 42 (24.42%) Splunk
2 38 (22.09%) Dynatrace
3 26 (15.12%) Google
4 22 (12.79%) Oracle
5 16 (9.30%) Cloudera
5 16 (9.30%) Databricks
6 11 (6.40%) Microsoft
7 6 (3.49%) VMware
8 5 (2.91%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.33%) Confluent
9 4 (2.33%) ForgeRock
9 4 (2.33%) IBM
9 4 (2.33%) Okta
9 4 (2.33%) Salesforce