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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 80 94
Rank change year-on-year -25 +14 -14
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 42 47 215
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.35% 2.35% 3.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.48% 11.03% 11.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8 38 40
10th Percentile £43,700 £47,050 £52,319
25th Percentile £52,666 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% +1.75%
75th Percentile £89,688 £85,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £146,300 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -11.11%

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 366 426 1,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.73% 21.30% 33.94%
Number of salaries quoted 153 315 613
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £79,648 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

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 24 March 2026.

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 24 March 2026. 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 -7 40 £72,500 +3.57% 4
Glasgow -14 1 £55,000 +29.41% 2
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 (23.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 22 (52.38%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (88.10%) Azure
1 37 (88.10%) Azure DevOps
2 35 (83.33%) GitHub
3 22 (52.38%) OCI
4 16 (38.10%) AWS
5 13 (30.95%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (28.57%) Azure Event Grid
6 12 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 12 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (28.57%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (28.57%) Entra ID
7 10 (23.81%) GitHub Copilot
7 10 (23.81%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.76%) Firebase
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.38%) Dagster
9 1 (2.38%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) Power BI
1 10 (23.81%) Tableau
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 22 (52.38%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (28.57%) Git
4 10 (23.81%) JIRA
5 2 (4.76%) fastlane
6 1 (2.38%) Android Studio
6 1 (2.38%) Crashlytics
6 1 (2.38%) Gradle
6 1 (2.38%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.38%) jMock
6 1 (2.38%) JUnit
6 1 (2.38%) MLflow
6 1 (2.38%) Xcode
General
1 37 (88.10%) Finance
2 3 (7.14%) Games
2 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (52.38%) Applications Engineer
1 22 (52.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (38.10%) Senior
3 12 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 10 (23.81%) Integration Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Java Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Lead
7 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Android Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
8 1 (2.38%) iOS Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Lead Java Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Android Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 1 (2.38%) Senior iOS Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (57.14%) JSON
2 23 (54.76%) OAuth
2 23 (54.76%) OAuth2
3 12 (28.57%) SOAP
3 12 (28.57%) XML
4 10 (23.81%) SAML
5 1 (2.38%) .NET
5 1 (2.38%) Android SDK
5 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.38%) iOS SDK
5 1 (2.38%) Java EE
5 1 (2.38%) Java SE
5 1 (2.38%) NumPy
5 1 (2.38%) OpenCV
5 1 (2.38%) Pandas
5 1 (2.38%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (2.38%) Swing
5 1 (2.38%) UIKit
5 1 (2.38%) Web Services
5 1 (2.38%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 23 (54.76%) Cloud Native
2 22 (52.38%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) BBC
4 1 (2.38%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Android
1 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (95.24%) CI/CD
2 38 (90.48%) DevOps
3 37 (88.10%) Test Automation
4 36 (85.71%) Coaching
5 34 (80.95%) Asset Management
6 28 (66.67%) Agile
7 27 (64.29%) API Integration
8 25 (59.52%) Observability
9 24 (57.14%) Analytics
9 24 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
10 23 (54.76%) Event-Driven
11 22 (52.38%) ERP
11 22 (52.38%) RBAC
12 15 (35.71%) Mentoring
13 14 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
14 13 (30.95%) Data Pipeline
14 13 (30.95%) ETL
14 13 (30.95%) Incident Response
14 13 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (28.57%) AI
Programming Languages
1 27 (64.29%) Java
2 25 (59.52%) SQL
3 23 (54.76%) Python
4 22 (52.38%) PL/SQL
4 22 (52.38%) Shell Script
5 12 (28.57%) Bicep
6 1 (2.38%) C#
6 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.38%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (28.57%) GDPR
2 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.76%) WCAG
4 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 12 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (83.33%) Terraform
2 22 (52.38%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.38%) Grafana
3 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (52.38%) Oracle
2 12 (28.57%) Ab Initio
2 12 (28.57%) Okta
3 11 (26.19%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.76%) Apple
4 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.76%) Google
5 1 (2.38%) Facebook
5 1 (2.38%) Sony
5 1 (2.38%) Yahoo!