FastAPI Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

FastAPI
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring FastAPI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FastAPI 19 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.20% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £489 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
Scotland median daily rate £521 - £694
% change year-on-year - - +38.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

FastAPI falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 134 162 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.56% 27.05% 23.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 101 152
10th Percentile £406 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% - -
75th Percentile £600 £538 £552
90th Percentile £642 £675 £636
Scotland median daily rate £500 £469 £480
% change year-on-year +6.61% -2.29% +0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.61%
Scotland median hourly rate £61.36 - £56.40
% change year-on-year - - +148.62%

FastAPI
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FastAPI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

FastAPI job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

FastAPI
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing FastAPI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing FastAPI

FastAPI
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FastAPI in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FastAPI in Edinburgh

FastAPI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (26.32%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (15.79%) Apache
3 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
1 10 (52.63%) Serverless
2 9 (47.37%) Amazon S3
2 9 (47.37%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (42.11%) Amazon ECS
3 8 (42.11%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (36.84%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (31.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (15.79%) Dagster
7 1 (5.26%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) MLflow
2 3 (15.79%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 6 (31.58%) Banking
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Corporate Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Investment Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Retail
2 3 (15.79%) Retail Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Python Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Python Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (10.53%) React Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Backend Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) Pandas
2 9 (47.37%) NumPy
2 9 (47.37%) OpenCV
2 9 (47.37%) PyTorch
2 9 (47.37%) SQLAlchemy
3 8 (42.11%) AWS CDK
4 7 (36.84%) Hugging Face
5 6 (31.58%) JWT
5 6 (31.58%) REST
6 5 (26.32%) boto
6 5 (26.32%) OAuth
7 4 (21.05%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (21.05%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Algorithms
1 4 (21.05%) Data Structures
1 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Agile
1 18 (94.74%) AI
2 12 (63.16%) Machine Learning
3 10 (52.63%) LLM
4 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
4 9 (47.37%) OCR
4 9 (47.37%) Scrum
5 8 (42.11%) Async-Await
5 8 (42.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (42.11%) OOP
5 8 (42.11%) Pair Programming
5 8 (42.11%) TDD
6 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (36.84%) Software Engineering
7 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
8 5 (26.32%) API Development
8 5 (26.32%) API Integration
8 5 (26.32%) Computer Vision
8 5 (26.32%) OO
8 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (10.53%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Grafana
2 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes