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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 104 112
Rank change year-on-year +26 +8 -15
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 67 49 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.42% 1.53% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 18.98% 7.18% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 9 26 42
10th Percentile £61,300 £46,625 £45,350
25th Percentile £63,250 £52,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,250 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% -4.60% +15.75%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,539 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £75,000 £114,706
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% -

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 353 682 636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.75% 21.35% 26.48%
Number of salaries quoted 112 388 505
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £44,250 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £77,703 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £90,000
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

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 30 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 30 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 +20 46 £93,750 +41.51% 7
Glasgow +14 21 £80,000 +18.52% 4
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 14 (20.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 31 (46.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 52 (77.61%) GitHub
2 48 (71.64%) Azure
3 47 (70.15%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (46.27%) OCI
5 30 (44.78%) AWS
6 17 (25.37%) Entra ID
7 16 (23.88%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (20.90%) GitHub Copilot
8 14 (20.90%) Power Platform
9 11 (16.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (16.42%) Azure Event Grid
9 11 (16.42%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (16.42%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (16.42%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (5.97%) SaaS
11 3 (4.48%) Azure AI
11 3 (4.48%) ChatGPT
11 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.90%) Power BI
1 14 (20.90%) Tableau
2 6 (8.96%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.97%) RDBMS
4 3 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.48%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.99%) Big Data
6 1 (1.49%) MySQL
6 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (49.25%) Jenkins
2 31 (46.27%) Oracle Forms
3 14 (20.90%) Git
3 14 (20.90%) JIRA
General
1 56 (83.58%) Finance
2 11 (16.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (16.42%) Law
3 7 (10.45%) Marketing
4 4 (5.97%) Banking
5 3 (4.48%) Games
5 3 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.99%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (46.27%) Applications Engineer
1 31 (46.27%) Cloud Engineer
2 23 (34.33%) Senior
3 18 (26.87%) Software Engineer
4 17 (25.37%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 13 (19.40%) Java Engineer
6 12 (17.91%) Java Software Engineer
7 11 (16.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 11 (16.42%) Lead
8 10 (14.93%) Lead Software Engineer
9 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 7 (10.45%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (10.45%) Lead Java Engineer
11 6 (8.96%) Developer
11 6 (8.96%) Java Developer
11 6 (8.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (7.46%) .NET Software Engineer
12 5 (7.46%) C# Software Engineer
13 4 (5.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 4 (5.97%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (41.79%) JSON
2 25 (37.31%) OAuth
2 25 (37.31%) OAuth2
3 19 (28.36%) SOAP
4 17 (25.37%) XML
5 14 (20.90%) SAML
6 13 (19.40%) Spring
7 10 (14.93%) React
8 9 (13.43%) Kafka
9 8 (11.94%) AngularJS
9 8 (11.94%) Spring Boot
10 6 (8.96%) .NET
10 6 (8.96%) .NET Core
11 5 (7.46%) Blazor
11 5 (7.46%) Hibernate
12 4 (5.97%) Web Services
13 2 (2.99%) REST
13 2 (2.99%) Vue
14 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET Web API
14 1 (1.49%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 41 (61.19%) Cloud Native
2 31 (46.27%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.46%) Algorithms
3 5 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.99%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (89.55%) CI/CD
2 49 (73.13%) Agile
3 47 (70.15%) DevOps
4 44 (65.67%) Asset Management
4 44 (65.67%) Coaching
5 43 (64.18%) Test Automation
6 34 (50.75%) API Integration
7 31 (46.27%) ERP
8 30 (44.78%) Observability
9 28 (41.79%) Root Cause Analysis
10 27 (40.30%) Analytics
11 26 (38.81%) Microservices
12 25 (37.31%) Event-Driven
12 25 (37.31%) RBAC
13 23 (34.33%) Mentoring
14 21 (31.34%) AI
14 21 (31.34%) Software Engineering
15 17 (25.37%) Data Governance
15 17 (25.37%) Migration
15 17 (25.37%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 50 (74.63%) Java
2 37 (55.22%) SQL
3 34 (50.75%) Python
4 31 (46.27%) PL/SQL
4 31 (46.27%) Shell Script
5 11 (16.42%) Bicep
6 6 (8.96%) C#
7 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (4.48%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) GDPR
2 1 (1.49%) GRC
2 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 17 (25.37%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (65.67%) Terraform
2 31 (46.27%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (16.42%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.99%) Grafana
4 2 (2.99%) Netcool
4 2 (2.99%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 2 (2.99%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 35 (52.24%) Oracle
2 17 (25.37%) Okta
3 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
4 11 (16.42%) Ab Initio
5 2 (2.99%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.99%) IBM
5 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.99%) Splunk