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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 127 123
Rank change year-on-year -35 -4 -36
Permanent jobs citing REST 91 85 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.60% 2.24% 2.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.55% 8.65% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 34 39 88
10th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £36,527
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.38% +23.68%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £81,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +9.24%

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 1,640 983 2,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 28.78% 25.91% 34.25%
Number of salaries quoted 522 598 1,213
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,678 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,306 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £72,137 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -54 67 £50,000 -20.00%
Edinburgh +12 18 £60,500 +21.00% 5
Aberdeen - 3 £65,000 -
Stirling - 1 £47,500 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 £65,000 - 1
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 (23.08%) GemFire
2 17 (18.68%) Cloud Foundry
3 9 (9.89%) WildFly
4 4 (4.40%) Apache
5 1 (1.10%) Confluence
5 1 (1.10%) IIS
5 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.10%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.16%) AWS
2 30 (32.97%) Azure
3 17 (18.68%) GCP
4 5 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (5.49%) SaaS
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.30%) Serverless
6 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.20%) Fivetran
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.10%) GitHub
7 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.68%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.10%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (41.76%) CockroachDB
2 22 (24.18%) NoSQL
3 21 (23.08%) Apache Cassandra
3 21 (23.08%) Hazelcast
4 17 (18.68%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (12.09%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (10.99%) SQL Server
7 7 (7.69%) Relational Database
8 5 (5.49%) MySQL
9 4 (4.40%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.10%) Power BI
10 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (23.08%) Jaeger
2 10 (10.99%) Git
2 10 (10.99%) Maven
3 7 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.59%) Eclipse
5 5 (5.49%) Cucumber
5 5 (5.49%) Selenium
6 2 (2.20%) JMeter
6 2 (2.20%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.20%) Postman
7 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.10%) Gatling
7 1 (1.10%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.10%) JIRA
7 1 (1.10%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.10%) Vite
7 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 51 (56.04%) Finance
2 44 (48.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 44 (48.35%) Law
3 22 (24.18%) Banking
4 21 (23.08%) Investment Banking
5 18 (19.78%) Marketing
6 10 (10.99%) Social Skills
7 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.40%) Games
9 2 (2.20%) Legal
10 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (50.55%) Java Engineer
2 44 (48.35%) Software Engineer
3 41 (45.05%) Java Software Engineer
4 40 (43.96%) Lead
5 38 (41.76%) Lead Java Engineer
5 38 (41.76%) Lead Software Engineer
6 25 (27.47%) Senior
7 24 (26.37%) Developer
8 17 (18.68%) Senior Java Engineer
8 17 (18.68%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 17 (18.68%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (10.99%) Java Developer
10 8 (8.79%) Senior Developer
11 6 (6.59%) Backend Developer
11 6 (6.59%) Software Developer
12 4 (4.40%) Architect
12 4 (4.40%) Full Stack Engineer
12 4 (4.40%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 4 (4.40%) Senior Software Developer
12 4 (4.40%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (61.54%) Spring
2 47 (51.65%) Kafka
3 33 (36.26%) Spring Boot
4 24 (26.37%) JPA
5 23 (25.27%) OAuth
6 22 (24.18%) SOAP
7 21 (23.08%) AngularJS
7 21 (23.08%) GraphQL
7 21 (23.08%) OpenTelemetry
8 15 (16.48%) Java EE
9 14 (15.38%) JSON
9 14 (15.38%) Web Services
10 11 (12.09%) XML
11 10 (10.99%) .NET
12 8 (8.79%) OpenJDK
13 7 (7.69%) J2EE
14 6 (6.59%) OpenID
14 6 (6.59%) React
15 4 (4.40%) LDAP
15 4 (4.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (41.76%) Cloud Native
2 21 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 21 (23.08%) Replication
3 17 (18.68%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.49%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.20%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.79%) Linux
2 4 (4.40%) AIX
2 4 (4.40%) Unix
3 1 (1.10%) Windows
3 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (74.73%) Agile
2 52 (57.14%) SDLC
3 49 (53.85%) Software Engineering
4 44 (48.35%) Operational Stability
5 33 (36.26%) CI/CD
6 27 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (28.57%) Architectural Design
7 26 (28.57%) Community of Practice
8 23 (25.27%) Microservices
9 21 (23.08%) Content Management
9 21 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
9 21 (23.08%) Data Modelling
9 21 (23.08%) Information Architecture
10 20 (21.98%) Decision-Making
11 19 (20.88%) Computer Science
12 17 (18.68%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (18.68%) Mathematics
12 17 (18.68%) Tech Ops
13 14 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
14 13 (14.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 75 (82.42%) Java
2 58 (63.74%) SQL
3 22 (24.18%) Groovy
4 18 (19.78%) JavaScript
5 15 (16.48%) C#
6 10 (10.99%) Python
7 8 (8.79%) C++
8 7 (7.69%) TypeScript
9 5 (5.49%) Go
9 5 (5.49%) VB
10 4 (4.40%) C
11 2 (2.20%) R
11 2 (2.20%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.10%) VB.NET
12 1 (1.10%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (2.20%) Degree
2 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.10%) PMP
2 1 (1.10%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 14 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (26.37%) Kubernetes
2 21 (23.08%) Grafana
2 21 (23.08%) HAProxy
2 21 (23.08%) ITRS Geneos
2 21 (23.08%) Kibana
2 21 (23.08%) Prometheus
2 21 (23.08%) Zipkin
3 17 (18.68%) Terraform
4 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (27.47%) Splunk
2 21 (23.08%) Dynatrace
3 19 (20.88%) Google
4 11 (12.09%) Oracle
5 4 (4.40%) Okta
5 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.40%) Sybase
6 3 (3.30%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.20%) Confluent
7 2 (2.20%) CyberTech
8 1 (1.10%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.10%) IBM