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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 96 103
Rank change year-on-year -29 +7 +2
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 13 58 183
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.39% 2.43% 2.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.24% 12.45% 9.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11 28 27
10th Percentile - £52,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £62,188 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +3.70% +10.20%
75th Percentile £63,750 £104,075 £76,250
90th Percentile - £146,300 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 248 466 1,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.42% 19.54% 30.26%
Number of salaries quoted 161 187 629
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £98,584 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%

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
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 3 July 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
Glasgow -11 8 £55,000 -14.73% 10
Edinburgh -14 2 £62,500 -20.70% 3
Moray - 2 £62,500 -
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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
1 10 (76.92%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Azure AI
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (15.38%) Firebase
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) Google Play
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Dagster
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (46.15%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Burp Suite
2 2 (15.38%) fastlane
2 2 (15.38%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) JMeter
3 1 (7.69%) Android Studio
3 1 (7.69%) Crashlytics
3 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.69%) Gradle
3 1 (7.69%) IntelliJ
3 1 (7.69%) JUnit
3 1 (7.69%) Maven
3 1 (7.69%) MLflow
3 1 (7.69%) Mockito
3 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.69%) Xcode
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) .NET Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Android Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 1 (7.69%) iOS Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Android Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (7.69%) Senior iOS Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) .NET
1 6 (46.15%) .NET Core
1 6 (46.15%) ASP.NET
1 6 (46.15%) ASP.NET Core
1 6 (46.15%) Blazor
1 6 (46.15%) ML.NET
1 6 (46.15%) React
2 2 (15.38%) Android SDK
3 1 (7.69%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
3 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
3 1 (7.69%) Hugging Face
3 1 (7.69%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (7.69%) JWT
3 1 (7.69%) Pandas
3 1 (7.69%) pytest
3 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
3 1 (7.69%) Retrofit
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) BBC
1 6 (46.15%) Social Media
2 4 (30.77%) Mobile App
2 4 (30.77%) Product Ownership
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) DevOps
2 11 (84.62%) Agile
3 9 (69.23%) AI
4 8 (61.54%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (53.85%) Machine Learning
5 7 (53.85%) OO
6 6 (46.15%) Multithreading
7 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
8 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
8 4 (30.77%) Clean Code
8 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (30.77%) Scrum
8 4 (30.77%) User Experience
9 3 (23.08%) API Development
9 3 (23.08%) Kanban
9 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (23.08%) Test Strategy
10 2 (15.38%) Non-Functional Testing
10 2 (15.38%) Resilience Testing
10 2 (15.38%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) Kotlin
5 1 (7.69%) Python
5 1 (7.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) ISEB
1 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (15.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Google
2 7 (53.85%) Apple
3 6 (46.15%) Facebook
3 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 6 (46.15%) Sony
3 6 (46.15%) Yahoo!
4 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace