REST Jobs in Scotland

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 73 112
Rank change year-on-year -57 +39 -29
Permanent jobs citing REST 176 176 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.62% 3.72% 2.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.71% 11.95% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 63 98 68
10th Percentile £41,750 £36,527 £36,527
25th Percentile £48,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,318 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% -0.79% +20.00%
75th Percentile £68,000 £76,385 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,715 £85,000 £84,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.60% +2.88% +12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,283 1,473 1,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 34.00% 31.10% 34.71%
Number of salaries quoted 645 774 1,109
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +14.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -58 140 £52,500 +5.00% 6
Edinburgh -20 32 £60,500 -10.55% 6
Aberdeen - 2 £66,250 - 2
Aberdeenshire - 1 £65,000 - 2
West Lothian - 1 £72,500 -
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 (11.93%) GemFire
2 17 (9.66%) Cloud Foundry
3 16 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (9.09%) Apache Spark
4 9 (5.11%) IIS
5 4 (2.27%) Apache
5 4 (2.27%) JBoss
5 4 (2.27%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (1.14%) Confluence
7 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.57%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (41.48%) AWS
2 37 (21.02%) Azure
3 21 (11.93%) GCP
4 16 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (5.68%) SaaS
6 8 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (4.55%) Serverless
7 7 (3.98%) GitHub
8 6 (3.41%) BlazeMeter
9 5 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.27%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.27%) IBM Cloud
11 3 (1.70%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.14%) Fivetran
12 2 (1.14%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.57%) Power Automate
13 1 (0.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.66%) Kerberos
2 8 (4.55%) WAN
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (21.59%) CockroachDB
2 26 (14.77%) NoSQL
3 23 (13.07%) Relational Database
4 21 (11.93%) Apache Cassandra
4 21 (11.93%) Hazelcast
5 17 (9.66%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (9.66%) SQL Server
6 16 (9.09%) Apache Hive
6 16 (9.09%) Hadoop
6 16 (9.09%) HBase
6 16 (9.09%) MySQL
7 12 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.27%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.27%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.57%) DB2
10 1 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (15.34%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.93%) Git
2 21 (11.93%) Jaeger
3 20 (11.36%) Maven
4 7 (3.98%) JUnit
5 6 (3.41%) Eclipse
6 5 (2.84%) Selenium
7 4 (2.27%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.27%) JIRA
7 4 (2.27%) Postman
7 4 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.70%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.14%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.57%) GitLab
10 1 (0.57%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.57%) JMeter
10 1 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.57%) Travis CI
General
1 124 (70.45%) Finance
2 103 (58.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 103 (58.52%) Law
3 53 (30.11%) Banking
4 42 (23.86%) Marketing
5 34 (19.32%) Investment Banking
6 27 (15.34%) Social Skills
7 21 (11.93%) Legal
8 19 (10.80%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.41%) Private Banking
10 5 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.84%) Games
10 5 (2.84%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.14%) Retail
11 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 104 (59.09%) Software Engineer
2 84 (47.73%) Java Engineer
3 80 (45.45%) Java Software Engineer
4 40 (22.73%) Lead
5 39 (22.16%) Senior
6 38 (21.59%) Lead Java Engineer
6 38 (21.59%) Lead Software Engineer
7 33 (18.75%) Developer
8 24 (13.64%) Full Stack Engineer
8 24 (13.64%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 24 (13.64%) Python Engineer
8 24 (13.64%) Python Software Engineer
9 21 (11.93%) Senior Java Engineer
9 21 (11.93%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 21 (11.93%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (9.09%) Java Developer
11 13 (7.39%) Backend Developer
12 10 (5.68%) Senior Developer
13 8 (4.55%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 8 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (66.48%) Spring
2 68 (38.64%) JPA
3 62 (35.23%) Spring Boot
4 59 (33.52%) Kafka
5 45 (25.57%) AngularJS
6 38 (21.59%) JSON
7 37 (21.02%) React
8 25 (14.20%) OAuth
9 24 (13.64%) Web Services
10 23 (13.07%) GraphQL
10 23 (13.07%) XML
11 21 (11.93%) OpenTelemetry
12 20 (11.36%) SOAP
13 19 (10.80%) CSS
13 19 (10.80%) HTML
14 15 (8.52%) JSP
15 12 (6.82%) Java EE
16 11 (6.25%) J2EE
17 8 (4.55%) .NET
17 8 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 44 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 30 (17.05%) Public Cloud
3 29 (16.48%) Algorithms
4 21 (11.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 21 (11.93%) Replication
5 9 (5.11%) Private Cloud
6 8 (4.55%) Clustering
6 8 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.27%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.09%) Unix
2 4 (2.27%) AIX
2 4 (2.27%) Linux
3 1 (0.57%) Windows
3 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (80.11%) Agile
2 116 (65.91%) Software Engineering
3 109 (61.93%) SDLC
4 97 (55.11%) Operational Stability
5 95 (53.98%) CI/CD
6 81 (46.02%) Microservices
7 52 (29.55%) Artificial Intelligence
8 50 (28.41%) Community of Practice
9 49 (27.84%) Decision-Making
10 47 (26.70%) Machine Learning
11 44 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (19.89%) Full Stack Development
14 29 (16.48%) Continuous Delivery
14 29 (16.48%) Visualisation
15 26 (14.77%) Architectural Design
16 24 (13.64%) Computer Science
17 23 (13.07%) Mathematics
18 21 (11.93%) Content Management
18 21 (11.93%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 149 (84.66%) Java
2 123 (69.89%) SQL
3 39 (22.16%) Python
4 26 (14.77%) JavaScript
5 25 (14.20%) C#
5 25 (14.20%) Groovy
6 21 (11.93%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.11%) C++
8 6 (3.41%) Go
9 5 (2.84%) VB
10 4 (2.27%) C
10 4 (2.27%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.27%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.14%) PHP
11 2 (1.14%) R
11 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.57%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.57%) VB6
Qualifications
1 12 (6.82%) SC Cleared
1 12 (6.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.84%) Degree
3 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.39%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 27 (15.34%) Docker
2 16 (9.09%) HDFS
3 8 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (22.16%) Kubernetes
2 38 (21.59%) Grafana
3 21 (11.93%) HAProxy
3 21 (11.93%) ITRS Geneos
3 21 (11.93%) Kibana
3 21 (11.93%) Prometheus
3 21 (11.93%) Zipkin
4 19 (10.80%) Terraform
5 4 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.14%) Ansible
6 2 (1.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 42 (23.86%) Splunk
2 38 (21.59%) Dynatrace
3 26 (14.77%) Google
4 23 (13.07%) Oracle
5 16 (9.09%) Cloudera
5 16 (9.09%) Databricks
6 13 (7.39%) Microsoft
7 8 (4.55%) VMware
8 5 (2.84%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.27%) Confluent
9 4 (2.27%) ForgeRock
9 4 (2.27%) IBM
9 4 (2.27%) Okta
9 4 (2.27%) Salesforce