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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 160 117
Rank change year-on-year +40 -43 +14
Permanent jobs citing REST 51 109 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.56% 1.69% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.90% 5.63% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 15 38 34
10th Percentile £47,503 £43,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £67,375
90th Percentile £101,000 £70,000 £74,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +7.69%

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 468 1,936 1,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.34% 30.09% 26.05%
Number of salaries quoted 189 600 609
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,529 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £66,375
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.60% +2.12%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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
Glasgow +89 34 £95,000 +90.00% 17
Edinburgh +14 15 £57,500 -4.96% 11
Lanarkshire - 1 £48,343 - 6
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 8 (15.69%) Camunda
1 8 (15.69%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (9.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.92%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.92%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) AWS
2 10 (19.61%) Azure
3 6 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (7.84%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.92%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.92%) GCP
5 2 (3.92%) GitHub
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.96%) Datadog
6 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.96%) HTTP
2 1 (1.96%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.80%) Apache Hive
3 5 (9.80%) Big Data
3 5 (9.80%) Hadoop
3 5 (9.80%) HBase
3 5 (9.80%) MongoDB
3 5 (9.80%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.84%) InterSystems Cache
4 4 (7.84%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.92%) DB2
6 2 (3.92%) IBM InfoSphere
6 2 (3.92%) MySQL
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.96%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (21.57%) Jenkins
1 11 (21.57%) JUnit
2 9 (17.65%) Git
3 8 (15.69%) Maven
4 6 (11.76%) Gradle
5 2 (3.92%) Checkstyle
5 2 (3.92%) Eclipse
5 2 (3.92%) Fiddler
5 2 (3.92%) GitLab
5 2 (3.92%) Postman
5 2 (3.92%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.92%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.96%) Ant
6 1 (1.96%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.96%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.96%) Protractor
6 1 (1.96%) Selenium
6 1 (1.96%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.96%) webpack
General
1 29 (56.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 28 (54.90%) Finance
3 25 (49.02%) Law
4 22 (43.14%) Marketing
5 15 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (7.84%) Banking
6 4 (7.84%) Social Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Local Government
8 1 (1.96%) Advertising
8 1 (1.96%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (45.10%) Developer
2 22 (43.14%) Software Engineer
3 17 (33.33%) Java Engineer
3 17 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 16 (31.37%) Java Developer
5 9 (17.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 9 (17.65%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 8 (15.69%) Lead
7 7 (13.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (13.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (11.76%) Software Developer
9 5 (9.80%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 5 (9.80%) Java Software Developer
10 4 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) Lead Java Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) Site Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 2 (3.92%) .NET Developer
11 2 (3.92%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (45.10%) Spring
2 16 (31.37%) Spring Boot
3 11 (21.57%) React
4 10 (19.61%) Swagger
5 9 (17.65%) .NET
5 9 (17.65%) J2EE
6 8 (15.69%) JDBC
6 8 (15.69%) OpenAPI
6 8 (15.69%) Web Services
6 8 (15.69%) WSDL
7 7 (13.73%) CSS
8 6 (11.76%) HTML
8 6 (11.76%) JPA
8 6 (11.76%) Kafka
8 6 (11.76%) RESTful
9 5 (9.80%) AngularJS
9 5 (9.80%) HTML5
9 5 (9.80%) SOAP
10 4 (7.84%) JSON
10 4 (7.84%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Algorithms
2 7 (13.73%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (9.80%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.80%) Data Structures
4 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (7.84%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.88%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.92%) Educational Technology
6 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.96%) IoT
7 1 (1.96%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Linux
2 7 (13.73%) Unix
3 4 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.84%) Ubuntu
3 4 (7.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (68.63%) CI/CD
2 31 (60.78%) Agile
3 30 (58.82%) Software Engineering
4 25 (49.02%) SDLC
5 22 (43.14%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (41.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 21 (41.18%) Machine Learning
6 21 (41.18%) Operational Stability
7 13 (25.49%) Community of Practice
7 13 (25.49%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (23.53%) Microservices
9 11 (21.57%) ETL
9 11 (21.57%) Test Automation
9 11 (21.57%) Visualisation
10 10 (19.61%) Mentoring
10 10 (19.61%) Workflow
11 8 (15.69%) Continuous Delivery
11 8 (15.69%) Decision-Making
11 8 (15.69%) Distributed Cache
12 7 (13.73%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 44 (86.27%) Java
2 17 (33.33%) SQL
3 15 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 10 (19.61%) Python
5 9 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 5 (9.80%) PL/SQL
6 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
7 4 (7.84%) C
7 4 (7.84%) C#
7 4 (7.84%) C++
8 2 (3.92%) Groovy
9 1 (1.96%) Cypher
9 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (7.84%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.96%) GDPR
1 1 (1.96%) QA
1 1 (1.96%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (25.49%) Docker
2 5 (9.80%) HDFS
3 1 (1.96%) NDS
Systems Management
1 20 (39.22%) Kubernetes
2 14 (27.45%) Terraform
3 5 (9.80%) Grafana
4 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.96%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.96%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Splunk
2 11 (21.57%) Oracle
3 8 (15.69%) Dynatrace
4 5 (9.80%) Cloudera
4 5 (9.80%) Databricks
5 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
5 4 (7.84%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.92%) Curam
6 2 (3.92%) ForgeRock
6 2 (3.92%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.96%) IBM
7 1 (1.96%) NetIQ
7 1 (1.96%) Okta