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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 95 93
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -12
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 53 48 173
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.77% 2.02% 4.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.56% 8.84% 12.51%
Number of salaries quoted 6 35 52
10th Percentile £39,500 £49,750 £50,867
25th Percentile £50,875 £52,875 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -13.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £101,563 £87,500 £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 364 543 1,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.17% 22.88% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 145 333 594
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,318 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -6.14% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £86,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,209 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.83% +7.66% -8.89%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +10 52 £82,500 +17.86% 6
Glasgow +4 1 £55,000 - 6
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 15 (28.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.89%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 33 (62.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (92.45%) Azure
2 48 (90.57%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (88.68%) GitHub
4 33 (62.26%) OCI
5 22 (41.51%) AWS
6 18 (33.96%) Entra ID
7 15 (28.30%) GitHub Copilot
7 15 (28.30%) Power Platform
8 14 (26.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (26.42%) Azure Event Grid
8 14 (26.42%) Azure Logic Apps
8 14 (26.42%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (26.42%) Azure Service Bus
8 14 (26.42%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.89%) Azure AI
9 1 (1.89%) GCP
9 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.30%) Power BI
1 15 (28.30%) Tableau
2 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (62.26%) Jenkins
1 33 (62.26%) Oracle Forms
2 16 (30.19%) Git
3 15 (28.30%) JIRA
4 1 (1.89%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.89%) jMock
4 1 (1.89%) JUnit
General
1 50 (94.34%) Finance
2 3 (5.66%) Games
3 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (62.26%) Applications Engineer
1 33 (62.26%) Cloud Engineer
2 20 (37.74%) Senior
3 18 (33.96%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 10 (18.87%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Java Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Lead
6 2 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) .NET Developer
7 1 (1.89%) Java Developer
7 1 (1.89%) Junior
7 1 (1.89%) Junior Developer
7 1 (1.89%) Junior Java Developer
7 1 (1.89%) Lead Java Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (60.38%) JSON
2 29 (54.72%) OAuth
2 29 (54.72%) OAuth2
3 18 (33.96%) SOAP
3 18 (33.96%) XML
4 15 (28.30%) SAML
5 2 (3.77%) .NET
5 2 (3.77%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.77%) React
6 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.89%) Blazor
6 1 (1.89%) CSS
6 1 (1.89%) HTML
6 1 (1.89%) Java SE
6 1 (1.89%) Kafka
6 1 (1.89%) Swing
6 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (62.26%) Cloud Native
1 33 (62.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.89%) BBC
2 1 (1.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (94.34%) CI/CD
2 49 (92.45%) Coaching
3 48 (90.57%) DevOps
3 48 (90.57%) Test Automation
4 47 (88.68%) Asset Management
5 37 (69.81%) Agile
6 36 (67.92%) API Integration
7 33 (62.26%) ERP
8 32 (60.38%) Observability
8 32 (60.38%) Root Cause Analysis
9 29 (54.72%) Analytics
9 29 (54.72%) Event-Driven
9 29 (54.72%) RBAC
10 21 (39.62%) Mentoring
11 18 (33.96%) Business Strategy
11 18 (33.96%) Data Governance
11 18 (33.96%) Identity Access Management
11 18 (33.96%) Migration
11 18 (33.96%) Translating Business Requirements
12 16 (30.19%) AI
Programming Languages
1 37 (69.81%) Java
2 35 (66.04%) SQL
3 33 (62.26%) PL/SQL
3 33 (62.26%) Python
3 33 (62.26%) Shell Script
4 14 (26.42%) Bicep
5 2 (3.77%) C#
5 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.42%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 18 (33.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (88.68%) Terraform
2 33 (62.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (62.26%) Oracle
2 18 (33.96%) Okta
3 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
4 14 (26.42%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.89%) Apple
5 1 (1.89%) Facebook
5 1 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) Sony
5 1 (1.89%) Yahoo!