REST Jobs in Scotland

Representational State Transfer (REST)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 101 126
Rank change year-on-year -34 +25 -45
Permanent jobs citing REST 157 122 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.30% 2.80% 2.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.98% 9.94% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 52 51 74
10th Percentile £41,500 £41,250 £36,527
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,375 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,318 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% - +26.32%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,715 £77,221
90th Percentile £72,433 £85,000 £80,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +4.48% +14.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

REST is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,248 1,227 2,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 32.88% 28.20% 34.13%
Number of salaries quoted 644 659 1,109
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,882 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £64,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%

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 1 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 1 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 -56 126 £50,000 -16.67% 3
Edinburgh -4 28 £60,000 -13.60% 10
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 (13.38%) GemFire
2 17 (10.83%) Cloud Foundry
3 14 (8.92%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (8.92%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.18%) IIS
5 4 (2.55%) Apache
6 3 (1.91%) WildFly
7 1 (0.64%) Confluence
7 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (43.95%) AWS
2 33 (21.02%) Azure
3 19 (12.10%) GCP
4 14 (8.92%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (5.10%) SaaS
5 8 (5.10%) Serverless
6 5 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.55%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.55%) BlazeMeter
7 4 (2.55%) GitHub
8 3 (1.91%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.27%) Fivetran
9 2 (1.27%) IBM Cloud
9 2 (1.27%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.64%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.83%) Kerberos
2 4 (2.55%) WAN
3 1 (0.64%) HTTP
3 1 (0.64%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (24.20%) CockroachDB
2 25 (15.92%) NoSQL
3 22 (14.01%) Relational Database
4 21 (13.38%) Apache Cassandra
4 21 (13.38%) Hazelcast
5 17 (10.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (9.55%) MySQL
7 14 (8.92%) Apache Hive
7 14 (8.92%) Hadoop
7 14 (8.92%) HBase
8 13 (8.28%) SQL Server
9 11 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.55%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.55%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (13.38%) Jaeger
2 19 (12.10%) Jenkins
3 17 (10.83%) Git
4 16 (10.19%) Maven
5 6 (3.82%) Eclipse
6 4 (2.55%) JUnit
6 4 (2.55%) Selenium
7 3 (1.91%) JIRA
8 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.27%) JMeter
8 2 (1.27%) LoadRunner
8 2 (1.27%) Postman
8 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.64%) Gatling
9 1 (0.64%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.64%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.64%) Vite
9 1 (0.64%) webpack
General
1 112 (71.34%) Finance
2 97 (61.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 97 (61.78%) Law
3 43 (27.39%) Banking
4 40 (25.48%) Marketing
5 32 (20.38%) Investment Banking
6 23 (14.65%) Social Skills
7 19 (12.10%) Legal
8 15 (9.55%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.18%) Games
10 4 (2.55%) Private Banking
11 2 (1.27%) Retail
11 2 (1.27%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (59.24%) Software Engineer
2 76 (48.41%) Java Engineer
3 71 (45.22%) Java Software Engineer
4 40 (25.48%) Lead
5 38 (24.20%) Lead Java Engineer
5 38 (24.20%) Lead Software Engineer
6 32 (20.38%) Senior
7 29 (18.47%) Developer
8 22 (14.01%) Full Stack Engineer
8 22 (14.01%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 22 (14.01%) Python Engineer
8 22 (14.01%) Python Software Engineer
9 17 (10.83%) Senior Java Engineer
9 17 (10.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 17 (10.83%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (8.28%) Java Developer
11 11 (7.01%) Backend Developer
11 11 (7.01%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.82%) Senior Java Developer
13 4 (2.55%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (65.61%) Spring
2 59 (37.58%) JPA
3 56 (35.67%) Kafka
4 52 (33.12%) Spring Boot
5 39 (24.84%) AngularJS
6 33 (21.02%) React
7 28 (17.83%) JSON
8 26 (16.56%) OAuth
9 23 (14.65%) GraphQL
10 21 (13.38%) OpenTelemetry
11 18 (11.46%) CSS
11 18 (11.46%) HTML
11 18 (11.46%) Web Services
11 18 (11.46%) XML
12 17 (10.83%) SOAP
13 14 (8.92%) JSP
14 10 (6.37%) J2EE
15 9 (5.73%) .NET
15 9 (5.73%) Java EE
15 9 (5.73%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 42 (26.75%) Cloud Native
2 29 (18.47%) Algorithms
3 28 (17.83%) Public Cloud
4 21 (13.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 21 (13.38%) Replication
5 8 (5.10%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.55%) Clustering
8 4 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.55%) Unix
2 5 (3.18%) Linux
3 4 (2.55%) AIX
4 1 (0.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (78.98%) Agile
2 102 (64.97%) SDLC
2 102 (64.97%) Software Engineering
3 93 (59.24%) Operational Stability
4 87 (55.41%) CI/CD
5 70 (44.59%) Microservices
6 50 (31.85%) Community of Practice
7 48 (30.57%) Artificial Intelligence
8 45 (28.66%) Decision-Making
9 43 (27.39%) Machine Learning
10 36 (22.93%) Full Stack Development
11 35 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (20.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (18.47%) Visualisation
14 26 (16.56%) Architectural Design
15 25 (15.92%) Continuous Delivery
16 22 (14.01%) Computer Science
17 21 (13.38%) Content Management
17 21 (13.38%) Data Modelling
17 21 (13.38%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 133 (84.71%) Java
2 109 (69.43%) SQL
3 36 (22.93%) Python
4 26 (16.56%) C#
5 25 (15.92%) Groovy
6 24 (15.29%) JavaScript
7 18 (11.46%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.73%) C++
9 6 (3.82%) Go
10 5 (3.18%) VB
11 4 (2.55%) C
12 3 (1.91%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.27%) PHP
13 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.27%) R
13 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.64%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.64%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (2.55%) SC Cleared
1 4 (2.55%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.91%) Degree
3 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.01%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 21 (13.38%) Docker
2 14 (8.92%) HDFS
3 4 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (22.93%) Grafana
2 35 (22.29%) Kubernetes
3 21 (13.38%) HAProxy
3 21 (13.38%) ITRS Geneos
3 21 (13.38%) Kibana
3 21 (13.38%) Prometheus
3 21 (13.38%) Zipkin
4 19 (12.10%) Terraform
5 4 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.27%) Ansible
6 2 (1.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 40 (25.48%) Splunk
2 36 (22.93%) Dynatrace
3 24 (15.29%) Google
4 21 (13.38%) Oracle
5 14 (8.92%) Cloudera
5 14 (8.92%) Databricks
6 9 (5.73%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.55%) Confluent
7 4 (2.55%) ForgeRock
7 4 (2.55%) Okta
7 4 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.55%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.55%) VMware
8 2 (1.27%) IBM
9 1 (0.64%) Sybase