REST Contracts in Edinburgh

Representational State Transfer (REST)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for REST skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited REST over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 44 61
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 -14
Contract jobs citing REST 31 80 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.80% 6.14% 3.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.94% 20.73% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 66 37
10th Percentile £416 £411 £413
25th Percentile £440 £449 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £650 £530 £581
90th Percentile £700 £562 £665
Scotland median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 183 386 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.45% 29.62% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 319 291
10th Percentile £363 £406 £390
25th Percentile £430 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £619 £538 £575
90th Percentile £700 £613 £688
Scotland median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.40%
75th Percentile - - £51.25
90th Percentile - - £52.75
Scotland median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
% change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +15.24%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for REST in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for REST in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (3.23%) Apache
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) AWS
2 12 (38.71%) AWS CodePipeline
3 9 (29.03%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (29.03%) OpenShift
4 7 (22.58%) Serverless
5 6 (19.35%) Amazon S3
5 6 (19.35%) AWS CodeBuild
5 6 (19.35%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 6 (19.35%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (12.90%) IaaS
7 3 (9.68%) iPaaS
7 3 (9.68%) SaaS
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (3.23%) Azure
9 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
9 1 (3.23%) Azure API Management
9 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
9 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (19.35%) Oracle Database
3 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.23%) GIS
6 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.23%) Power BI
6 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) GitLab
1 7 (22.58%) Jenkins
2 3 (9.68%) Cypress.io
3 2 (6.45%) Git
4 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.23%) IntelliJ
4 1 (3.23%) JIRA
4 1 (3.23%) JUnit
4 1 (3.23%) Maven
4 1 (3.23%) Postman
General
1 20 (64.52%) Public Sector
2 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Back Office
3 8 (25.81%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Developer
2 9 (29.03%) Architect
3 7 (22.58%) AWS Architect
4 6 (19.35%) Data Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (12.90%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
7 3 (9.68%) AWS Solution Architect
7 3 (9.68%) Senior
7 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (6.45%) Django Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
9 1 (3.23%) Administrator
9 1 (3.23%) Consultant
9 1 (3.23%) ITSM Consultant
9 1 (3.23%) PHP Developer
9 1 (3.23%) Python Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) SOAP
2 9 (29.03%) AWS CDK
2 9 (29.03%) CSS
2 9 (29.03%) HTML
2 9 (29.03%) Spring
2 9 (29.03%) Spring Boot
3 7 (22.58%) OAuth
3 7 (22.58%) React
4 5 (16.13%) Spring MVC
4 5 (16.13%) Spring Security
4 5 (16.13%) Spring Web Flow
5 4 (12.90%) OAuth2
5 4 (12.90%) Thymeleaf
6 3 (9.68%) Django
6 3 (9.68%) Laravel
6 3 (9.68%) Node.js
6 3 (9.68%) OpenAPI
6 3 (9.68%) PostGIS
6 3 (9.68%) Swagger
6 3 (9.68%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.23%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) CI/CD
2 12 (38.71%) Agile
2 12 (38.71%) Roadmaps
3 11 (35.48%) DevOps
4 10 (32.26%) Containerisation
4 10 (32.26%) Migration
4 10 (32.26%) Service Management
5 8 (25.81%) API Management
5 8 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (25.81%) Storage Management
6 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (19.35%) Inclusive Design
7 6 (19.35%) Microservices
7 6 (19.35%) MVC
8 5 (16.13%) Data Protection
8 5 (16.13%) Data Transformation
8 5 (16.13%) Scrum
8 5 (16.13%) Security Architecture
8 5 (16.13%) Technical Architecture
8 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Java
2 12 (38.71%) Python
3 11 (35.48%) JavaScript
4 8 (25.81%) SQL
5 3 (9.68%) PHP
5 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.23%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (29.03%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (19.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Terraform
2 4 (12.90%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Oracle
2 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow