REST Jobs in Edinburgh

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 76 74
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +32
Permanent jobs citing REST 19 28 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.18% 1.86% 3.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.79% 6.78% 10.44%
Number of salaries quoted 12 25 36
10th Percentile - £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,686 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% -13.60% +20.78%
75th Percentile £92,188 £67,500 £84,292
90th Percentile £136,484 £90,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £76,250 £56,318 £62,500
% change year-on-year +35.39% -9.89% +2.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

REST falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 194 413 699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.27% 27.48% 35.75%
Number of salaries quoted 131 290 403
10th Percentile £31,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,139 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £67,071
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -9.05% +16.64%
75th Percentile £93,778 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £91,543 £97,466
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Edinburgh

REST
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for REST in Edinburgh

REST
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) GCP
3 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
4 2 (10.53%) SaaS
4 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) Datadog
5 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) MongoDB
2 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.26%) MySQL
4 1 (5.26%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) Fiddler
2 3 (15.79%) GitLab
2 3 (15.79%) Postman
2 3 (15.79%) TeamCity
2 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
1 4 (21.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Advertising
3 1 (5.26%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Lead
4 3 (15.79%) Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Angular Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Database Developer
6 1 (5.26%) ForgeRock Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) IAM Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) React Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) React
1 5 (26.32%) Spring
2 4 (21.05%) AngularJS
2 4 (21.05%) JSON
2 4 (21.05%) Middleware
2 4 (21.05%) RESTful
2 4 (21.05%) WebSockets
3 3 (15.79%) .NET
3 3 (15.79%) .NET Framework
3 3 (15.79%) ADO.NET
3 3 (15.79%) CSS
3 3 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (15.79%) Entity Framework
3 3 (15.79%) Kafka
3 3 (15.79%) SOAP
3 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 3 (15.79%) Swagger
3 3 (15.79%) Web Services
4 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
4 2 (10.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Algorithms
1 4 (21.05%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Private Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
1 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
3 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
3 5 (26.32%) Microservices
3 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) Distributed Cache
4 4 (21.05%) Fintech
4 4 (21.05%) TDD
4 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.79%) API Management
5 3 (15.79%) Coaching
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven
5 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (15.79%) Prototyping
5 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Java
2 10 (52.63%) JavaScript
3 8 (42.11%) Python
4 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
5 4 (21.05%) C
5 4 (21.05%) C++
6 2 (10.53%) Groovy
6 2 (10.53%) SQL
7 1 (5.26%) Cypher
7 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) QA
3 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) NDS
Systems Management
1 12 (63.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) CA Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Grafana
2 1 (5.26%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Databricks
1 2 (10.53%) ForgeRock
1 2 (10.53%) Ping Identity
2 1 (5.26%) NetIQ
2 1 (5.26%) Okta