RESTful Job Trends in Scotland

RESTful
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring RESTful skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 109 112
Rank change year-on-year +29 +3 -20
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 68 42 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.50% 1.29% 1.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.38% 6.41% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 41
10th Percentile £62,575 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,250 £53,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,250 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% -4.60% +20.78%
75th Percentile £82,813 £73,539 £91,934
90th Percentile £105,125 £75,000 £117,236
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% +3.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

RESTful 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 370 655 617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.58% 20.19% 25.53%
Number of salaries quoted 100 365 510
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £38,975
25th Percentile £45,938 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £58,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.64% -7.20% +8.70%
75th Percentile £78,790 £70,000 £73,938
90th Percentile £85,830 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

RESTful job vacancy trend in Scotland

RESTful
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing RESTful.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing RESTful

RESTful
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing RESTful in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Salary histogram for RESTful in Scotland

RESTful
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 November 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 +17 34 £93,750 +50.00% 27
Glasgow +11 34 £72,500 +7.41% 8
RESTful
UK

RESTful
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 10 (14.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 23 (33.82%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 44 (64.71%) GitHub
2 39 (57.35%) Azure
3 38 (55.88%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (48.53%) AWS
5 23 (33.82%) OCI
6 14 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (19.12%) Entra ID
8 10 (14.71%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (14.71%) Power Platform
9 8 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (10.29%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (10.29%) Azure Event Grid
10 7 (10.29%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (5.88%) Azure AI
11 4 (5.88%) ChatGPT
11 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 10 (14.71%) Power BI
2 10 (14.71%) Tableau
3 8 (11.76%) RDBMS
4 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (7.35%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (7.35%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (5.88%) Big Data
7 1 (1.47%) MySQL
7 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (39.71%) Jenkins
2 23 (33.82%) Oracle Forms
3 10 (14.71%) Git
3 10 (14.71%) JIRA
4 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.47%) Snyk
General
1 55 (80.88%) Finance
2 21 (30.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (30.88%) Law
3 13 (19.12%) Marketing
4 8 (11.76%) Banking
5 4 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Private Banking
5 4 (5.88%) Social Skills
6 3 (4.41%) Games
7 2 (2.94%) Retail
8 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (44.12%) Software Engineer
2 23 (33.82%) Applications Engineer
2 23 (33.82%) Cloud Engineer
2 23 (33.82%) Java Engineer
3 22 (32.35%) Java Software Engineer
3 22 (32.35%) Senior
4 19 (27.94%) Lead
5 17 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 17 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 15 (22.06%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 13 (19.12%) Lead Java Engineer
7 13 (19.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 9 (13.24%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (11.76%) Developer
9 8 (11.76%) Java Developer
10 7 (10.29%) .NET Software Engineer
10 7 (10.29%) C# Software Engineer
10 7 (10.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (10.29%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (30.88%) Spring
2 20 (29.41%) JSON
3 17 (25.00%) Kafka
3 17 (25.00%) OAuth
3 17 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 17 (25.00%) SOAP
4 14 (20.59%) React
4 14 (20.59%) Spring Boot
5 13 (19.12%) XML
6 12 (17.65%) AngularJS
7 10 (14.71%) SAML
8 9 (13.24%) .NET
9 8 (11.76%) .NET Core
9 8 (11.76%) Blazor
9 8 (11.76%) Web Services
10 7 (10.29%) Hibernate
11 5 (7.35%) Vue
12 2 (2.94%) CSS
12 2 (2.94%) HTML
12 2 (2.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 43 (63.24%) Cloud Native
2 23 (33.82%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (13.24%) Algorithms
4 7 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.88%) Credit Risk
5 4 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 52 (76.47%) Agile
3 38 (55.88%) DevOps
4 34 (50.00%) Asset Management
5 33 (48.53%) Software Engineering
6 32 (47.06%) Coaching
7 31 (45.59%) Test Automation
8 28 (41.18%) Microservices
9 26 (38.24%) API Integration
10 24 (35.29%) Observability
11 23 (33.82%) ERP
12 22 (32.35%) AI
13 21 (30.88%) Analytics
13 21 (30.88%) Mentoring
13 21 (30.88%) SDLC
14 20 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
14 20 (29.41%) Root Cause Analysis
15 17 (25.00%) Event-Driven
15 17 (25.00%) RBAC
16 16 (23.53%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 52 (76.47%) Java
2 32 (47.06%) SQL
3 28 (41.18%) Python
4 23 (33.82%) PL/SQL
4 23 (33.82%) Shell Script
5 8 (11.76%) C#
6 7 (10.29%) Bicep
7 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (4.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) GRC
2 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 13 (19.12%) Active Directory
2 11 (16.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (50.00%) Terraform
2 23 (33.82%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (27.94%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.88%) Grafana
4 4 (5.88%) Netcool
4 4 (5.88%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (5.88%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 32 (47.06%) Oracle
2 13 (19.12%) Okta
3 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
4 7 (10.29%) Ab Initio
5 4 (5.88%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.88%) IBM
5 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.88%) Splunk