REST Job Trends in Glasgow

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 68 58
Rank change year-on-year +17 -10 -3
Permanent jobs citing REST 14 10 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.86% 1.14% 3.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.05% 7.09% 13.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 16
10th Percentile £41,850 £69,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £73,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £81,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -41.54% +54.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £50,000 £88,438 £65,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £92,375 £68,750
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £61,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -22.45% -2.00% +7.66%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 93 141 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 12.33% 16.06% 26.92%
Number of salaries quoted 33 69 109
10th Percentile £28,250 £39,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,750 £77,500 £78,750
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +6.64%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing REST relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

REST job vacancy trend in Glasgow

REST
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Glasgow over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Salary histogram for REST in Glasgow

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 2 (14.29%) Camunda
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Boomi
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) FTP
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
1 1 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Hive
1 2 (14.29%) Big Data
1 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 2 (14.29%) HBase
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (7.14%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Maven
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Gradle
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Ant
3 1 (7.14%) IntelliJ
3 1 (7.14%) Jasmine
3 1 (7.14%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (7.14%) Protractor
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
3 1 (7.14%) webpack
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
1 7 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 7 (50.00%) Law
1 7 (50.00%) Marketing
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Developer
3 5 (35.71%) Java Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Java Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Integration Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Java Software Developer
6 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
7 1 (7.14%) Analyst
7 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Analyst
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
7 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) Spring
2 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 4 (28.57%) Web Services
3 3 (21.43%) JSON
3 3 (21.43%) SOAP
4 2 (14.29%) .NET
4 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 2 (14.29%) HTML
4 2 (14.29%) J2EE
4 2 (14.29%) JDBC
4 2 (14.29%) JMS
4 2 (14.29%) JPA
4 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
4 2 (14.29%) React
4 2 (14.29%) RESTful
4 2 (14.29%) Swagger
4 2 (14.29%) WSDL
4 2 (14.29%) XML
5 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
1 8 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 7 (50.00%) AI
2 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 6 (42.86%) Operational Stability
3 6 (42.86%) SDLC
4 5 (35.71%) Microservices
5 4 (28.57%) Community of Practice
5 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (21.43%) TDD
6 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (14.29%) ETL
7 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 2 (14.29%) Open Source
7 2 (14.29%) Scrum
7 2 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
1 2 (14.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) Cloudera
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Talend