REST Jobs in Scotland

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 130 141 98
Rank change year-on-year +11 -43 +28
Permanent jobs citing REST 34 164 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.14% 2.41% 3.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.52% 7.18% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 16 53 61
10th Percentile - £41,250 £40,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £56,318 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.39% -9.89% +2.04%
75th Percentile £99,688 £65,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £132,838 £71,946 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 399 2,283 1,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.40% 33.51% 29.87%
Number of salaries quoted 225 634 693
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £99,500 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +10 19 £76,250 +27.08% 50
Glasgow +72 15 £107,500 +115.00% 60
Lanarkshire - 1 £48,343 - 1
North Lanarkshire - 1 £51,000 -
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 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.88%) Camunda
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (5.88%) WebSphere
1 2 (5.88%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) AWS
2 9 (26.47%) Azure
3 6 (17.65%) GCP
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.88%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (5.88%) GitHub
6 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.88%) SaaS
6 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (17.65%) MongoDB
3 5 (14.71%) NoSQL
3 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.88%) Apache Hive
5 2 (5.88%) Big Data
5 2 (5.88%) DB2
5 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.88%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.88%) HBase
5 2 (5.88%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (5.88%) MySQL
6 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.94%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (2.94%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) JUnit
3 3 (8.82%) Fiddler
3 3 (8.82%) GitLab
3 3 (8.82%) Gradle
3 3 (8.82%) Maven
3 3 (8.82%) Postman
3 3 (8.82%) TeamCity
3 3 (8.82%) Visual Studio
4 2 (5.88%) Checkstyle
4 2 (5.88%) Eclipse
4 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (32.35%) Finance
1 11 (32.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (20.59%) Law
3 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Marketing
4 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Local Government
7 1 (2.94%) Advertising
7 1 (2.94%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Java Developer
3 9 (26.47%) Software Engineer
4 7 (20.59%) Lead
5 5 (14.71%) Java Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Architect
7 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.88%) .NET Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Angular Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Backend Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Java Software Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.88%) Technical Architect
8 2 (5.88%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) Spring
2 8 (23.53%) React
3 7 (20.59%) Spring Boot
3 7 (20.59%) Web Services
4 6 (17.65%) .NET
5 5 (14.71%) CSS
5 5 (14.71%) RESTful
5 5 (14.71%) SOAP
5 5 (14.71%) Swagger
6 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
6 4 (11.76%) CSS3
6 4 (11.76%) HTML
6 4 (11.76%) HTML5
6 4 (11.76%) J2EE
6 4 (11.76%) JSON
6 4 (11.76%) Kafka
6 4 (11.76%) Middleware
6 4 (11.76%) WebSockets
7 3 (8.82%) ADO.NET
7 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 4 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Educational Technology
4 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.88%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.94%) IoT
5 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 14 (41.18%) Agile
2 14 (41.18%) Software Engineering
3 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (29.41%) Microservices
4 10 (29.41%) SDLC
5 8 (23.53%) Mentoring
5 8 (23.53%) Test Automation
6 7 (20.59%) DevOps
7 6 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (17.65%) Machine Learning
7 6 (17.65%) Operational Stability
7 6 (17.65%) TDD
8 5 (14.71%) Distributed Cache
8 5 (14.71%) ETL
8 5 (14.71%) OOP
8 5 (14.71%) Roadmaps
9 4 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (79.41%) Java
2 13 (38.24%) JavaScript
3 9 (26.47%) Python
4 7 (20.59%) SQL
5 6 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 4 (11.76%) C
6 4 (11.76%) C++
7 3 (8.82%) C#
8 2 (5.88%) Groovy
8 2 (5.88%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.94%) Cypher
9 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) GDPR
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) HDFS
3 1 (2.94%) NDS
Systems Management
1 16 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) Terraform
3 2 (5.88%) Grafana
4 1 (2.94%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.94%) PingFederate
4 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Databricks
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) Splunk
3 2 (5.88%) Cloudera
3 2 (5.88%) Curam
3 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.88%) ForgeRock
3 2 (5.88%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.94%) NetIQ
4 1 (2.94%) Okta
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat