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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 117 108
Rank change year-on-year +38 -9 -11
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 69 49 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.56% 1.46% 1.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.80% 6.94% 7.49%
Number of salaries quoted 12 25 42
10th Percentile £62,575 - £45,350
25th Percentile £63,250 £52,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -6.40% +15.75%
75th Percentile £82,813 £72,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £105,125 £75,000 £114,706
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 367 706 614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.61% 21.01% 25.89%
Number of salaries quoted 110 400 507
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,813 £40,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £78,640 £71,250 £74,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £88,000
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 23 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 23 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 +11 40 £93,750 +44.23% 7
Glasgow +11 29 £72,500 +7.41% 5
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 12 (17.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 27 (39.13%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (71.01%) GitHub
2 45 (65.22%) Azure
3 44 (63.77%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (46.38%) AWS
5 27 (39.13%) OCI
6 16 (23.19%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (21.74%) Entra ID
8 12 (17.39%) GitHub Copilot
8 12 (17.39%) Power Platform
9 10 (14.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (14.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (13.04%) Azure Event Grid
10 9 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (5.80%) Azure AI
11 4 (5.80%) ChatGPT
11 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (5.80%) SaaS
12 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
12 3 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.39%) Power BI
1 12 (17.39%) Tableau
2 9 (13.04%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.70%) RDBMS
4 5 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.80%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.80%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (4.35%) Big Data
7 1 (1.45%) MySQL
7 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (43.48%) Jenkins
2 27 (39.13%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (17.39%) Git
3 12 (17.39%) JIRA
4 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.45%) Snyk
General
1 56 (81.16%) Finance
2 16 (23.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (23.19%) Law
3 10 (14.49%) Marketing
4 6 (8.70%) Banking
5 4 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Social Skills
6 3 (4.35%) Games
6 3 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Private Banking
7 2 (2.90%) Retail
8 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (39.13%) Applications Engineer
1 27 (39.13%) Cloud Engineer
2 25 (36.23%) Software Engineer
3 23 (33.33%) Senior
4 18 (26.09%) Java Engineer
5 17 (24.64%) Java Software Engineer
6 16 (23.19%) Lead
7 15 (21.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 15 (21.74%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 14 (20.29%) Lead Software Engineer
9 13 (18.84%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 10 (14.49%) Lead Java Engineer
11 8 (11.59%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (10.14%) .NET Software Engineer
12 7 (10.14%) C# Software Engineer
12 7 (10.14%) Developer
12 7 (10.14%) Java Developer
13 6 (8.70%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 6 (8.70%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 5 (7.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (34.78%) JSON
2 21 (30.43%) OAuth
2 21 (30.43%) OAuth2
3 18 (26.09%) SOAP
4 17 (24.64%) Spring
5 15 (21.74%) XML
6 13 (18.84%) Kafka
6 13 (18.84%) React
7 12 (17.39%) SAML
8 11 (15.94%) AngularJS
8 11 (15.94%) Spring Boot
9 9 (13.04%) .NET
10 8 (11.59%) .NET Core
10 8 (11.59%) Blazor
11 6 (8.70%) Hibernate
11 6 (8.70%) Web Services
12 4 (5.80%) Vue
13 2 (2.90%) CSS
13 2 (2.90%) HTML
13 2 (2.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 42 (60.87%) Cloud Native
2 27 (39.13%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (10.14%) Algorithms
3 7 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.35%) Credit Risk
4 3 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (85.51%) CI/CD
2 51 (73.91%) Agile
3 44 (63.77%) DevOps
4 39 (56.52%) Asset Management
5 38 (55.07%) Coaching
6 37 (53.62%) Test Automation
7 30 (43.48%) API Integration
8 28 (40.58%) Microservices
8 28 (40.58%) Software Engineering
9 27 (39.13%) ERP
9 27 (39.13%) Observability
10 24 (34.78%) Analytics
10 24 (34.78%) Root Cause Analysis
11 22 (31.88%) AI
11 22 (31.88%) Mentoring
12 21 (30.43%) Event-Driven
12 21 (30.43%) RBAC
13 18 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (23.19%) Deployment Automation
14 16 (23.19%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 51 (73.91%) Java
2 35 (50.72%) SQL
3 31 (44.93%) Python
4 27 (39.13%) PL/SQL
4 27 (39.13%) Shell Script
5 9 (13.04%) Bicep
6 8 (11.59%) C#
7 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) GDPR
2 1 (1.45%) GRC
2 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 15 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 10 (14.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (56.52%) Terraform
2 27 (39.13%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (23.19%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.35%) Grafana
4 3 (4.35%) Netcool
4 3 (4.35%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 3 (4.35%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 34 (49.28%) Oracle
2 15 (21.74%) Okta
3 13 (18.84%) Microsoft
4 9 (13.04%) Ab Initio
5 3 (4.35%) Dynatrace
5 3 (4.35%) IBM
5 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.35%) Splunk