REST Job Trends in Scotland

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring REST skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 92 123
Rank change year-on-year +38 +31 -54
Permanent jobs citing REST 98 33 173
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.05% 1.71% 2.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 28.49% 8.07% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8 22 63
10th Percentile £44,100 £42,881 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £49,234 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +15.42% -5.39%
75th Percentile £64,063 £93,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £122,750 £77,715
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -13.60%

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 344 409 2,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.72% 21.18% 34.34%
Number of salaries quoted 152 309 638
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £39,567 £45,000 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.32%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £79,879 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -11.11%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

REST job vacancy trend in Scotland

REST
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing REST.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing REST

REST
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

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 11 April 2026. 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 +8 29 £50,000 -23.08% 6
Stirling - 22 - -
West Lothian - 12 - - 1
Fife - 10 - -
Midlothian - 7 - - 2
Lanarkshire +6 6 - - 4
Glasgow -17 6 £57,500 -39.47% 4
North Lanarkshire -5 4 - -
Falkirk - 2 - -
East Lothian - 1 - -
REST
UK

REST
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (53.06%) Azure
2 33 (33.67%) Entra ID
3 31 (31.63%) Google Workspace
4 21 (21.43%) GitHub
5 20 (20.41%) GitHub Copilot
6 19 (19.39%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (10.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 10 (10.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 8 (8.16%) Salesforce Einstein
9 6 (6.12%) AWS
10 5 (5.10%) Amazon S3
10 5 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.10%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (5.10%) Serverless
11 4 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (4.08%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (4.08%) SaaS
12 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (1.02%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 65 (66.33%) Broadband
2 1 (1.02%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.10%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.04%) MySQL
5 1 (1.02%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 34 (34.69%) Jenkins
2 33 (33.67%) GitLab
3 32 (32.65%) SonarQube
4 4 (4.08%) Git
5 1 (1.02%) Appium
5 1 (1.02%) fastlane
5 1 (1.02%) JIRA
5 1 (1.02%) Postman
5 1 (1.02%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.02%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.02%) TestRail
5 1 (1.02%) Xcode
5 1 (1.02%) XCTest
5 1 (1.02%) Zephyr
General
1 65 (66.33%) Games
2 56 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 42 (42.86%) Marketing
4 33 (33.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (33.67%) Organisational Skills
5 18 (18.37%) Finance
6 4 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.02%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.02%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 38 (38.78%) Architect
2 31 (31.63%) Salesforce Architect
3 25 (25.51%) Senior
4 18 (18.37%) Salesforce Engineer
4 18 (18.37%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 18 (18.37%) Technical Architect
5 16 (16.33%) Developer
6 12 (12.24%) IAM Developer
7 10 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (9.18%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 8 (8.16%) Senior Developer
9 8 (8.16%) Systems Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (4.08%) Informatica Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Senior Architect
10 4 (4.08%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Systems Architect
10 4 (4.08%) Systems Developer
11 3 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
12 2 (2.04%) CyberArk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (90.82%) SOAP
2 51 (52.04%) Lightning Web Components
3 34 (34.69%) GraphQL
4 32 (32.65%) Visualforce
5 31 (31.63%) LDAP
5 31 (31.63%) OAuth
5 31 (31.63%) OpenID
5 31 (31.63%) SAML
6 3 (3.06%) Kafka
7 2 (2.04%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.04%) JPA
7 2 (2.04%) Spring
7 2 (2.04%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.02%) gRPC
8 1 (1.02%) Node.js
8 1 (1.02%) PySpark
8 1 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.02%) React
8 1 (1.02%) Vue
8 1 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (52.04%) Product Ownership
2 33 (33.67%) Cyber Threat
2 33 (33.67%) Cyberattack
3 4 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.02%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.08%) Linux
1 4 (4.08%) Unix
2 1 (1.02%) Android
2 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (66.33%) Roadmaps
2 60 (61.22%) CI/CD
3 54 (55.10%) Agile
4 51 (52.04%) DevOps
5 42 (42.86%) Mentoring
6 40 (40.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (37.76%) Event-Driven
8 36 (36.73%) Scrum
9 33 (33.67%) Cybersecurity
9 33 (33.67%) Programme Delivery
10 32 (32.65%) Community of Practice
10 32 (32.65%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
10 32 (32.65%) Continuous Delivery
10 32 (32.65%) Continuous Integration
10 32 (32.65%) Design Patterns
10 32 (32.65%) PLM
10 32 (32.65%) Static Code Analysis
10 32 (32.65%) Technical Analysis
10 32 (32.65%) Technology Roadmap
10 32 (32.65%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 51 (52.04%) Apex Code
2 33 (33.67%) Bash
2 33 (33.67%) PowerShell
3 32 (32.65%) SOQL
3 32 (32.65%) SOSL
4 31 (31.63%) T-SQL
5 6 (6.12%) SQL
6 5 (5.10%) Python
7 4 (4.08%) C#
7 4 (4.08%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.06%) Java
9 1 (1.02%) C
9 1 (1.02%) C++
9 1 (1.02%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.02%) Embedded C++
9 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (33.67%) NCSC
1 33 (33.67%) NIST
2 4 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.08%) QA
3 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (31.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.08%) Control-M
2 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 51 (52.04%) Salesforce
2 32 (32.65%) Splunk
3 4 (4.08%) Informatica
3 4 (4.08%) Oracle
4 2 (2.04%) CyberArk
4 2 (2.04%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.02%) Databricks
5 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.02%) Talend