REST Jobs in Scotland

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 108 122
Rank change year-on-year -37 +14 -44
Permanent jobs citing REST 137 116 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.00% 2.70% 2.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.36% 9.63% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 49 45 76
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £36,527
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +26.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,715 £76,664
90th Percentile £70,000 £84,622 £81,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +11.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

REST 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 2,153 1,204 2,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 31.41% 27.99% 33.62%
Number of salaries quoted 654 650 1,129
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,527
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,852 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Scotland

REST
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing REST in Scotland.

Salary trend for REST in Scotland

REST
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing REST in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for REST in Scotland

REST
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 June 2024. 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 -59 106 £50,000 -20.00% 2
Edinburgh +4 28 £60,000 -7.30% 12
Aberdeen - 2 £66,250 - 1
Aberdeenshire - 1 £65,000 -
REST
UK

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (15.33%) GemFire
2 17 (12.41%) Cloud Foundry
3 8 (5.84%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (5.84%) Apache Spark
4 6 (4.38%) WildFly
5 5 (3.65%) IIS
6 4 (2.92%) Apache
7 1 (0.73%) Confluence
7 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (40.88%) AWS
2 34 (24.82%) Azure
3 17 (12.41%) GCP
4 8 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (5.84%) Serverless
5 6 (4.38%) SaaS
6 5 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.92%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.19%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.46%) Fivetran
9 2 (1.46%) GitHub
10 1 (0.73%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.73%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.73%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.41%) Kerberos
2 4 (2.92%) WAN
3 1 (0.73%) HTTP
3 1 (0.73%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (27.74%) CockroachDB
2 25 (18.25%) NoSQL
3 21 (15.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 21 (15.33%) Hazelcast
4 17 (12.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (10.95%) MySQL
6 13 (9.49%) Relational Database
6 13 (9.49%) SQL Server
7 11 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (5.84%) Apache Hive
8 8 (5.84%) Hadoop
8 8 (5.84%) HBase
9 4 (2.92%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.92%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.73%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (15.33%) Jaeger
2 17 (12.41%) Git
3 16 (11.68%) Jenkins
4 13 (9.49%) Maven
5 6 (4.38%) Eclipse
6 4 (2.92%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.92%) Selenium
7 2 (1.46%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.46%) JIRA
7 2 (1.46%) JMeter
7 2 (1.46%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.46%) Postman
8 1 (0.73%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.73%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.73%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.73%) webpack
General
1 89 (64.96%) Finance
2 77 (56.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 77 (56.20%) Law
3 31 (22.63%) Banking
4 30 (21.90%) Marketing
5 27 (19.71%) Investment Banking
6 20 (14.60%) Social Skills
7 13 (9.49%) Legal
8 6 (4.38%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.65%) Games
10 2 (1.46%) Retail
11 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (54.74%) Software Engineer
2 64 (46.72%) Java Engineer
3 58 (42.34%) Java Software Engineer
4 40 (29.20%) Lead
5 38 (27.74%) Lead Java Engineer
5 38 (27.74%) Lead Software Engineer
6 32 (23.36%) Senior
7 30 (21.90%) Developer
8 17 (12.41%) Full Stack Engineer
8 17 (12.41%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 17 (12.41%) Senior Java Engineer
8 17 (12.41%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 17 (12.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (9.49%) Java Developer
10 11 (8.03%) Python Engineer
10 11 (8.03%) Python Software Engineer
10 11 (8.03%) Senior Developer
11 10 (7.30%) Backend Developer
12 6 (4.38%) Senior Java Developer
13 5 (3.65%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (63.50%) Spring
2 52 (37.96%) Kafka
3 48 (35.04%) JPA
4 42 (30.66%) Spring Boot
5 37 (27.01%) AngularJS
6 27 (19.71%) React
7 26 (18.98%) OAuth
8 24 (17.52%) JSON
9 23 (16.79%) GraphQL
10 21 (15.33%) OpenTelemetry
11 20 (14.60%) SOAP
12 17 (12.41%) XML
13 16 (11.68%) Web Services
14 13 (9.49%) CSS
14 13 (9.49%) HTML
15 12 (8.76%) Java EE
16 10 (7.30%) J2EE
17 9 (6.57%) .NET
17 9 (6.57%) JSP
17 9 (6.57%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 38 (27.74%) Cloud Native
2 24 (17.52%) Algorithms
3 23 (16.79%) Public Cloud
4 21 (15.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 21 (15.33%) Replication
5 7 (5.11%) Private Cloud
6 6 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.92%) Clustering
8 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.30%) Unix
2 6 (4.38%) Linux
3 4 (2.92%) AIX
4 1 (0.73%) Windows
4 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (75.91%) Agile
2 81 (59.12%) SDLC
3 80 (58.39%) Software Engineering
4 77 (56.20%) Operational Stability
5 68 (49.64%) CI/CD
6 47 (34.31%) Microservices
7 45 (32.85%) Community of Practice
8 37 (27.01%) Artificial Intelligence
9 34 (24.82%) Decision-Making
9 34 (24.82%) Full Stack Development
10 32 (23.36%) Machine Learning
11 31 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (18.98%) Architectural Design
12 26 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (17.52%) Visualisation
14 21 (15.33%) Content Management
14 21 (15.33%) Continuous Delivery
14 21 (15.33%) Data Modelling
14 21 (15.33%) Information Architecture
15 18 (13.14%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 114 (83.21%) Java
2 86 (62.77%) SQL
3 26 (18.98%) Python
4 25 (18.25%) Groovy
4 25 (18.25%) JavaScript
5 21 (15.33%) C#
6 14 (10.22%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.57%) C++
8 6 (4.38%) Go
9 5 (3.65%) VB
10 4 (2.92%) C
11 3 (2.19%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.46%) PHP
12 2 (1.46%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.46%) R
13 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.73%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.73%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (2.92%) SC Cleared
1 4 (2.92%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.73%) Degree
2 1 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.38%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.65%) QA
System Software
1 18 (13.14%) Docker
2 8 (5.84%) HDFS
3 4 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (22.63%) Kubernetes
2 27 (19.71%) Grafana
3 21 (15.33%) HAProxy
3 21 (15.33%) ITRS Geneos
3 21 (15.33%) Kibana
3 21 (15.33%) Prometheus
3 21 (15.33%) Zipkin
4 18 (13.14%) Terraform
5 4 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.73%) Ansible
6 1 (0.73%) Rancher
Vendors
1 31 (22.63%) Splunk
2 27 (19.71%) Dynatrace
3 22 (16.06%) Google
4 21 (15.33%) Oracle
5 9 (6.57%) Microsoft
6 8 (5.84%) Cloudera
6 8 (5.84%) Databricks
7 4 (2.92%) Confluent
7 4 (2.92%) ForgeRock
7 4 (2.92%) Okta
7 4 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.92%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.92%) VMware
8 2 (1.46%) Sybase
9 1 (0.73%) CyberTech