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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 129 118
Rank change year-on-year +39 -11 -33
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 56 76 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.21% 1.74% 1.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.97% 6.63% 7.55%
Number of salaries quoted 12 21 48
10th Percentile £61,375 £52,500 £44,625
25th Percentile £63,063 £55,000 £46,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,905 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,886 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,725 £75,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -11.11% +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 374 1,146 702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.78% 26.23% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 98 440 566
10th Percentile £39,200 £35,900 £39,125
25th Percentile £49,063 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,938 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing RESTful as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for RESTful 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +53 38 £65,000 -7.14% 5
Edinburgh +19 18 £78,810 +21.25% 14
RESTful
UK

RESTful
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 6 (10.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 12 (21.43%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (50.00%) AWS
1 28 (50.00%) GitHub
2 26 (46.43%) Azure
3 22 (39.29%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (21.43%) OCI
5 9 (16.07%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (10.71%) Entra ID
6 6 (10.71%) GCP
6 6 (10.71%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (10.71%) Power Platform
7 4 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (7.14%) Azure AI
7 4 (7.14%) ChatGPT
7 4 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (7.14%) SaaS
7 4 (7.14%) Serverless
8 2 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) Relational Database
2 9 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 8 (14.29%) RDBMS
4 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
4 6 (10.71%) Power BI
4 6 (10.71%) Tableau
5 5 (8.93%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (7.14%) Big Data
6 4 (7.14%) MySQL
7 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 13 (23.21%) Git
3 12 (21.43%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (10.71%) JIRA
5 5 (8.93%) Maven
6 4 (7.14%) JUnit
7 3 (5.36%) Gradle
8 2 (3.57%) GitLab
8 2 (3.57%) Mockito
8 2 (3.57%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.79%) Snyk
General
1 39 (69.64%) Finance
2 21 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (37.50%) Law
3 13 (23.21%) Marketing
4 12 (21.43%) Banking
5 6 (10.71%) Social Skills
6 4 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 4 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (7.14%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (55.36%) Software Engineer
2 21 (37.50%) Java Engineer
3 20 (35.71%) Java Software Engineer
4 19 (33.93%) Senior
5 18 (32.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 17 (30.36%) Lead
7 16 (28.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 16 (28.57%) Lead Software Engineer
8 12 (21.43%) Applications Engineer
8 12 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (21.43%) Developer
8 12 (21.43%) Lead Java Engineer
9 11 (19.64%) Java Developer
9 11 (19.64%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
10 8 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
10 8 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 7 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (10.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (46.43%) Spring
2 19 (33.93%) Kafka
2 19 (33.93%) Spring Boot
3 17 (30.36%) React
4 15 (26.79%) AngularJS
5 12 (21.43%) Hibernate
6 10 (17.86%) .NET
6 10 (17.86%) SOAP
7 9 (16.07%) .NET Core
7 9 (16.07%) Blazor
8 8 (14.29%) OAuth
8 8 (14.29%) OAuth2
8 8 (14.29%) Web Services
9 7 (12.50%) JSON
10 6 (10.71%) SAML
10 6 (10.71%) XML
11 5 (8.93%) Vue
12 3 (5.36%) JPA
12 3 (5.36%) REST
13 2 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 12 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (16.07%) Algorithms
4 8 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (7.14%) Credit Risk
5 4 (7.14%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
1 2 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (76.79%) Agile
2 42 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 34 (60.71%) Software Engineering
4 32 (57.14%) Microservices
5 29 (51.79%) DevOps
6 23 (41.07%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (37.50%) SDLC
8 18 (32.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 17 (30.36%) Asset Management
10 16 (28.57%) Containerisation
10 16 (28.57%) Operational Stability
11 15 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (26.79%) Test Automation
12 13 (23.21%) Analytics
12 13 (23.21%) Coaching
13 12 (21.43%) API Integration
13 12 (21.43%) Community of Practice
13 12 (21.43%) ERP
14 11 (19.64%) Computer Science
14 11 (19.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 43 (76.79%) Java
2 26 (46.43%) SQL
3 21 (37.50%) Python
4 12 (21.43%) PL/SQL
4 12 (21.43%) Shell Script
5 9 (16.07%) C#
6 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.57%) Go
8 1 (1.79%) Bicep
8 1 (1.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) GDPR
2 1 (1.79%) GRC
System Software
1 17 (30.36%) Docker
2 6 (10.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (44.64%) Kubernetes
2 19 (33.93%) Terraform
3 12 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (7.14%) Grafana
4 4 (7.14%) Netcool
4 4 (7.14%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (7.14%) Tivoli
5 2 (3.57%) Istio
Vendors
1 21 (37.50%) Oracle
2 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.71%) Okta
4 4 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 4 (7.14%) IBM
4 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.14%) Splunk
5 1 (1.79%) Ab Initio